If things go as planned, you'll be seeing a new look for US Soccer Players as early as this week. We're changing the formatting and the navigation of the site to match our main coverage areas: The US National Team, American Abroad, and Major League Soccer. We're also making it easier to follow us on social media. We would like to thank Six Apart for helping us bring you what we hope is an improved experience on US Soccer Players. As has been the case since the site was founded in the summer of 2002, the point of USSoccerPlayers.com is to promote the game in the United States through the members of the US National Soccer Team Players Association. For us, that means covering what the players are doing for club and country as a media outlet.
Our main goal is to be worth your time. We want to tell you stories that you won't see anywhere else and give you our take on what's happening with the National Team, Americans playing in Europe and Mexico, and Major League Soccer. To help us do that, we have a staff of writers.
If you've followed the site for awhile, you should know Andrew Dixon and Clemente Lisi. Both have been with USSoccerPlayers for years. While Andrew focuses on editorials and his unique take on events, Clemente goes in-depth with whoever the National Team is playing along with his expertise on the World Cup. Clemente's new 10 Questions With... series runs on Thursdays. Look for his interviews from around American soccer. So far, he's talked to Philadelphia Union coach Peter Nowak and US Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati.
L.E. Eisenmenger joined the site in August. So far, her work has centered on issues relating to American soccer such as refereeing, broadcasting, and marketing along with articles on topics like SuperLiga and the agent side of the MLS SuperDraft.
Stefan Bondy and Michael Lewis joined the site in December. Both are newspaper writers, Lewis at the NY Daily News and Bondy at the Bergin Record. Bondy is focusing on getting at a deeper understanding of events along with interviews and Lewis has already done a lot of work making sure all angles of the big events are covered. Specifically, an in-depth treatment of what foreign coaches face in MLS and explanations of the issues with the SuperDraft.
For those of you wondering about Graig Carbino, he's no longer writing for the site. Graig was a big part of US Soccer Players over the last couple of years, and, judging from the emails, a favorite of a lot of readers. Hopefully, we get him back at some point.
One last thing: as part of the revamp, we're discontinuing our social network. For those of you that were using it, our apologies for any inconvenience.
FWIW, this is the first site I check every morning. Thanks, and keep up the good works.
I cannot say enough what a great job all of you are doing on this website, which is this is the first website I check every morning. I am sure many others feel that same exact way.
I could not agree more that the site has been run and set up very well. it is very easy to navigate and I get all the information I am looking for extremely quickly. I used to visit 2 US Soccer sites. Now I only visit 1 because the other (not to promote them but ussoccer.com) revamped its site and I cannot stand how its set up now. So, this is my one stop shop for US Soccer news. I hope the revamp is as simple to use as this one is.
If it’s not as simple, feel free to let us know.
Love the site, read it for years. I hope the design doesn’t become too busy. Content is king, not fancy graphics.
well done! just as simple as before. The revamped site is as simple to navigate as before and adds a touch of class as well.
I just checked out the revamp and it looks good. It’s just as easy to get the info I am looking for and the new look is great. Good job, keep up the good work!
The revamp and layout look great. Its also nice to see Im not the only one checking this website first thing in the morning… and maybe once or so at night haha. Ive been following this site since the internetsoccer days and things just keep getting better. Good job guys!!