8.15.14
ASN Morning Read: The Week of DeAndre Yedlin
We are running out of photos of this dude. Just kidding, we have a million. Would you like to read about him? Or Freddy Adu? Or the United States' next opponent? Or thoughts about the World Cup?
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
August 15, 2014
9:54 AM
Oh hey there. Let's get a little more quality writing about DeAndre Yedlin: "Playing time is the most important consideration in any young athlete’s transfer destination, and there are several factors at work here. Tottenham’s starting right back is England international Kyle Walker, who has played virtually every league game when fit since the beginning of the 2011-12 season. Fellow right back Kyle Naughton is also still at the club, though most Spurs fans would be quick to assert that he is not up to Tottenham standards. Expect him to make way whenever Yedlin arrives in North London. While Naughton may not represent a huge roadblock for playing time, it’s hard to see Walker, just 24-years old, going anywhere anytime soon, both in terms of leaving the club and in leaving the starting lineup."
Speaking of starlets, Freddy Adu: "Why, on a baking day in what is essentially a crossroads on Serbia's north-south highway, is a player, who was tipped for world domination a decade ago, jogging around a modest, light blue-seated stadium? His new manager, Mladen Dodic, an affable and hospitable man, sets the scene while Adu and his team-mates prepare to train. 'We didn't ask for Freddy to come here—we had no idea it would be possible,' he says."
The Americans will play Ecuador in East Hartford on October 10. “We are really excited to get our first chance to play at home after the World Cup,” said U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
Hard to disagree with those conclusions but also, like way to go for the most obvious stuff, FIFA:
I missed this earlier in the week (whoops), but ASN friend Nick Firchau went long on the Eddie Johnson conundrum and it's excellent: "So what comes next? Precedent indicates Johnson could face a suspension for the incident with Salcedo. And despite his apology tweet, there are still clearly some reparations to be done with the fans. But at least he seems inclined. Johnson doesn’t think much of his reputation in the press—“I don’t care about how the media thinks of me,” he said in February—but he still cares about his fans, or he wouldn’t have spent Monday re-tweeting the supportive comments from those still in his camp. Of course he’ll have to perform better on the field – more goals and a United playoff berth should help – but his bigger challenge continues to be finding the balance in his head between the person he wants to be and who people expect him to be. Don’t expect it to be easy."
