US soccer Archives - Sibling Rivalry https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/tag/us-soccer/ How Mexico and the US Built the Most Contentious, Co-Dependent Feud in World Soccer Wed, 13 May 2026 18:32:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Envy & Scorn Furnish this Rivalry with Curiously Intimate form of Codependence https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/#respond Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:42:08 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4085 See below a brief excerpt from Chapter 1 of Sibling Rivalry, 400-odd words that help explain what 200 years of envy and scorn can do to a sporting rivalry. But first, a shout-out to photographer Tony Quinn, whose work is featured throughout the book. This image above captures the unalloyed bliss produced by yet another [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/feed/ 0 Lee Nguyen, Still a Great Story. But I Had it First! https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/4078/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/4078/#respond Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:55:05 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4078 Sometimes, when a fellow journalist publishes or posts a story one wanted for himself, the knee-jerk response is annoyance. But Tom Hindle’s fine September piece on former U.S. Men’s National Team luminary Lee Nguyen, for goal.com, brought a genuine smile to my face — despite the fact that I was poised to write Nguyen’s [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/4078/feed/ 0 The Canonization of Graham Zusi, Patron Saint https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:36:01 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4171 Sibling Rivalry Excerpt: From Chapter 3: That morning of the October 2024 friendly down in Guadalajara, we weren't thinking about Graham Zusi, Patron Saint of the North American Derby. Still full of optimzism for US fortunes, my posse of New Englanders headed out for another outdoor brunch on a tropical terrace. Our stomachs well [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/25/the-canonization-of-graham-zusi/feed/ 0 Why Mainstreaming U.S. Soccer & The Dream Team Share a Movement https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2024/02/16/mainstreaming-of-u-s-soccer-paralleled-the-internationalization-of-american-sport/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2024/02/16/mainstreaming-of-u-s-soccer-paralleled-the-internationalization-of-american-sport/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:32:25 +0000 https://genzero.halphillips.net/?p=3848 During the late 1980s — when super powers went mono, mullets were fashionable, and iconic walls came crashing down — it was easy to miss the internationalization of American team sport. Yet this phenomenon took shape all through the first Bush Era, step by step, forever changing big hunks of the U.S. sporting landscape. The [...]

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