SPA Podcast (Part 2, 11/13/2009): Costa Rica-Uruguay and Another Option for the Scottish Premier League

By Richard Farley, on November 13th, 2009

Part 2 of today’s Set Piece Analysts podcast starts with a discussion of the Costa Rica-Uruguay playoff: the challenges of Saprissa; the veterans Costa Rica’s recalled; Uruguay’s inconsistency; and the somewhat fragile state of Uruguay’s squad.

To close the show, we start by talking about the news that the English Premier League has closed [...]

November 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Other Content, Podcasts | Leave a comment

Inside the Six, Ep. #49: Uruguay-Costa Rica, African WCQ Previews

By Richard Farley, on November 12th, 2009

Thursday’s edition of Inside the Six features WSR’s Mark Goodman joining me to talk about the upcoming playoff between Uruguay and Costa Rica. Winner goes to South Africa. Mark and I talk about what Costa Rica has to do to overcome the talent deficit to the Uruguyans.

In the second half of the show, [...]

November 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Other Content, Podcasts | Leave a comment

RF On Major League Soccer Talk Podcast #115

By Richard Farley, on October 9th, 2009

I was happy to join host Kartik Krishnaiyer and guest Brian Zygo on the 115th edition of the Major League Soccer Podcast. We talked about the Honduran national team, some the issues the United States will face in defence, as well as get on very interesting tangents about Milan and the States’ inability to [...]

October 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Other Content, Podcasts | Leave a comment

Examiner.com: United States, Mexico National Teams on Track for South Africa

By Richard Farley, on September 10th, 2009

As I said earlier today, there is one more content stream I’m opening up, and that’s a place as at Examiner.com providing content targeted at San Diego sports fans. I will be writing mostly about football, and I’m going to take the opportunity to cover the Mexican Primera Division. I imagine I will [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Other Content | Leave a comment

Wednesday’s Qualifiers: A Quick-Hit Guide

By Richard Farley, on September 8th, 2009

Quickly, I wanted to prime everybody for a big day tomorrow, one of the last in this World Cup qualifying cycle. Here are the critical matches – the matches I will be tracking – along with some very brief thoughts:

September 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Matches | Leave a comment

Still in Crisis, United States Back on Track for South Africa

By Richard Farley, on September 6th, 2009

Two days ago, I would have put the United States’ odds of making the World Cup are less than even money. I was the pessimist, though. Most of the colleagues I talked to saw the same dangers but took a more optimistic view than I.

After last night’s match at Saprissa, where a resurgent [...]

September 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: News | Leave a comment

Inside the Six, Episode #18: WCQ/CONCACAF Preview

By Richard Farley, on September 3rd, 2009

I get the feeling people are not going to like this one, but there are a lot of things about the United States’ World Cup chances that people are not talking about.  At least, until now.

Kartik Krishnaiyer joins me to talk about something we’ve been talking about for a while: The U.S. missing out on [...]

September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Podcasts | Leave a comment