A couple of interesting reads:
First, I watched Eric Wynalda on the Fox Football Fone-in show, but didn’t understand the context. It sounds like the US had it’s own scandal analogous to the one that England is going through with the situation where Captain John Terry has been reported to have had an affair with the girlfriend of teammate Wayne Bridge. It seems that the US dealt with a similar situation for the 1998 World Cup:
Breaking more than a decade of silence, former U.S. soccer coach Steve Sampson said Tuesday he dropped John Harkes from the national team roster two months before the 1998 World Cup because the American captain was having an affair with the wife of teammate Eric Wynalda.
Second, Match Fit USA has an interesting proposal for setting 8 fixed locations for the US to play CONCACAF opponents in order to maximize home field advantage.
Jamaica- Sandy, Utah: An overwhelming majority of the Jamaican population in the United States is split between Florida and New York. So, let’s go a couple of thousand miles west of both of those places and play the Reggae Boyz in picturesque Sandy. The fans in Utah have supported the Yanks well in the last two qualifiers there (though their showing at Rice-Eccles Stadium in 2005 was much more impressive than last year’s match), and the location would make it very difficult for hordes of Jamaican fans to support their team in person.
