http://correira.com Dedicated to news and analysis of the US National Soccer team and its players. Wed, 07 May 2008 17:55:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim Howard will leave Manchester United and join his current on-loan side Everton permanently. Howard has signed a five year deal to stay with Everton. This is really good news...Howard continues (hopefully) getting consistent playing time and improves his game, while getting out of the destructive microscope that is being a ... http://correira.com/2007/02/14/howard-to-everton-officially Boy did that feel good or what? Last night's 2-0 (yes) win over Mexico helped me to excise some demons from last summer. It felt good to celebrate a goal again. Yes, there was that match against the Danes, but who cares about them. This was Mexico. And they brought ... http://correira.com/2007/02/08/oh-what-a-night Hopefully we can get back into the swing of things with a post game, um, post. http://correira.com/2007/02/07/big-game-tonight A game between Palermo and Catania go out of control and a police officer was killed along with 150 people injured. Play was suspended for a half hour when tear gas from outside the stadium impeded play. Fights between rioters and the police lasted for hours after the game. During ... http://correira.com/2007/02/03/italian-soccer-explodes Oguchi Onyewu has finally moved on from Belgian side Standard Liege...at least temporarily. Onyewu has joined English Premier League side Newcastle on loan for at least the remainder of the 2006-2007 season. Recently, Onyewu was close to a deal to bring him to top French club Marseille. Let's see if ... http://correira.com/2007/01/30/onyewu-to-newcastleon-loanfinally I was in the middle of writing up a heartfelt rant about some MLS teams not participating in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup when I saw this on the top of the LHUSOC webpage. Apparently the idea that only 8 teams will participate in the Open Cup was not ... http://correira.com/2007/01/18/us-open-cup-news Stop me if you have heard this one before...after rumors upon rumors, it appears more likely that Oguchi Onyewu will remain with Belgium club Standard Liege for the rest of the 2006-2007 season. When the transfer window opened at the turn of the calendar year, it seemed a done deal ... http://correira.com/2007/01/17/onyewu-to-stay-in-belgium I just wanted to clarify something for those who may visit this site in the wake of the David Beckham news. There seems to be quite a bit of confusion about his contract. I wanted to clarify that the MLS and AEG will NOT be paying him $250 million dollars ... http://correira.com/2007/01/12/beckhams-contract CONFIRMED!!! Superstar English midfielder David Beckham (and his wife Victoria, aka Posh Spice) has announced he will be coming to the U.S. to play in MLS starting in August. Beckham will finish the season with Spanish club Real Madrid, probably take a short summer break, and join the Los Angeles Galaxy ... http://correira.com/2007/01/11/david-and-victoria-beckham-are-coming-to-america As the noise gets louder and louder, shouldn't we take notice? If it sounds like a train is bearing down on you, you're not just going to stand there and see if it hits you (unlike Winston in Ghostbusters)...you're going to get the hell out of the way. Well, America, ... http://correira.com/2007/01/11/more-beckham-trumors