USMNT

• Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know by now that Bob Bradley has been replaced as the USMNT coach. With everyone and their mother writing about it, I give you … Fake Sigi: Juergen Klinsmann to replace Bob Bradley as coach of USMNT
• Steve Davis:
  U.S. players that may be helped, and hurt, by Klinsmann’s hiring

MLS

• A Fun Series from Houston: Be the GM, What would you do? – Part 1 – Part 2
• CONCACAF Champions League: Dallas with rare MLS CCL away win

Interesting Reads

• Steve Davis: Shifting calculus of the summer friendly season
• Seth Vertelney: Major League Soccer’s summer sideshow problem
• Simon Bird: Cutting edge gizmos that show how much pain footballers suffer during pre-season fitness drills
• ESPNSoccernet: Argentinian league to change
• Raphael Honigstein: Europe’s top clubs threaten FIFA revolt
• Guardian: Should European clubs revolt against FIFA?
• Guardian: Six key questions on why top clubs could stage a European revolt
• Independent: Click and buy: How scouting embraced the 21st century
• Soccermetrics: CONCACAF Club/League Coefficients: 2011-07-26 version
• FIFA: Mohamed bin Hammam banned from football for life by FIFA
• Africa: Soka Afrika sews together a string of issues to uncover the world of African football trafficking
• Turkey match-fixing: Season postponed until September
• Spain: Trouble in Paradise as Spanish league turns into two-horse race, just like the Old Firm
• Run of Play: Reenchanting The World
• Dexy’s Den: Expensive price for home grown talent

Tourneys

• Copa América: Luis Suárez and Diego Forlán shoot Uruguay to record 15th Copa América
• WC14: Thailand through, Palestine out of World Cup
• WC14: Burkino Faso among top African seeds
• CONCACAF Champions League: The CCL preliminary rounds get underway