A few videos to get you pumped for this afternoon’s game…

Love to see Benny score another one like this!

Freddy has been talking on the Twitter about balling out today.  Looking forward to seeing him play with the confidence he showed in that corner of the above clip!

US plays Spain at 2:25pm eastern this afternoon on ESPN!  Any score predictions?  I am saying US 1 Spain 0!!!

Let’s Go USA!!

JM

Wow!  The boys got the result they needed and Brazil helped us out a bit and now we are in the Confederation Cup Semi Finals on Wednesday!

Believe in it!

JM

Go on you Yanks!

JM

The U.S. Men’s National Team will be taking on Costa Rica in a World Cup Qualifier Wednesday June 3rd at 8pm mountain time.  The game will be played in Costa Rica but it will be live on ESPN.  So definitely put that in your schedule and watch it!

Below are a few of the videos US Soccer has been putting out leading up to the game.  Mike Kammaraman and his crew do a great job with the media coverage of the National team and keeping the fans in the loop!  Thanks!

*If you want to watch in the order they came out I would start at the bottom and work your way up.

If you want to see even more good coverage of the U.S. team be sure and head over to their regularly updated blog.

Are you excited for the game?  Do you think the U.S. will get the win on the road?  Any score predictions?  Thoughts on who will get the goals?  Please feel free to share your thoughts and comments in the comments section below?

JM

People that Believe In It

Tim Howard
Goalkeeper
Everton FC
U.S. National Team

Video gave me goosebumps thinking about some of the big games he plays in on a regular basis.  I am a huge Tim Howard fan and so happy to see him living the dream!  He is representing the United States and himself in a world class manner.  I was lucky enough to have lunch with him one day in Chicago and he was as down to earth as could be.

Big props to Robert Steffeck in Chicago whose son Adam is in my Online Soccer Academy for sending me the link.

JM

Below are the pics Crocs and I took at the Beach Soccer event in Oceanside, California on Sunday!

If you see your picture feel free to right click on it, then save it to your computer.  It’s free so have at it!

“Wait, your finger is covering the lens!”

Crocs and I got the pleasure to meet Mike Herman in person.  Mike and I had spoke a few times on Twitter and he is the founder and president of Compton United Soccer Club.  He helps provide soccer training and real life character building for his players that mostly need scholarships to afford the cost to play.  He is a super nice guy and we are in talks to have me sponsor his club and set all his players up with Online Soccer Academy accounts for free so they can learn some soccer stuff from me too but mainly to teach them how to use computers and give them the real life skills they can apply in the class room and for future jobs.

Team PUGG pose for a photo before the the finals in the pro division.

After the finals my boy Ronnie Silvia and I gave Beach Soccer a thumbs up!  Ronnie plays for the US Beach Soccer National Team and is a very good player!

Team Senegal celebrates and signs autographs with the fans after they won the Pro beach soccer tournament.  They were a very good team and it was a well deserved win.

Meet Eddie Soto, the US National Beach Soccer Team Head Coach.  He was a great guy and also coaches at U.C.L.A.  I tried to slip him a $20, like I said I would in my Cajun Beach Soccer video, to see if he could come put on a free beach soccer clinic in Louisiana but he kindly said he can not accept bribes but thanks for the offer.  Can’t blame a guy for trying right!! LOL!

Team PUGG receives their 2nd place medals after a great weekend!

Gino Rossi, a partner in Beach Soccer Tournament, hands over the 1st place trophy for the pro division to the captain of Senegal!

All in all it was a great weekend and Crocs and I barely got any sleep!  We had a blast and can’t wait to go back next year!  Enjoy the pictures and as I said earlier feel free to save them to your personal computer.

If your in a photo or wish you could have been at the beach that weekend be sure and post a comment in the comment section and say hello and let me know what you think about the pictures.

If your on Facebook then send me a friend request and I can tag you in the photo that is yours.

Be sure and check back in a week or so and I should have all my video from the weekend edited and ready for you to check out!

Keep livin the dream!’

JM