Tiss the season...

With the holiday season fast approaching, we look back on all that we can be thankful for as US fans, and in larger part, soccer fans as a whole. 

• We now have more top American players not just playing, but starting and significantly helping their clubs in Europe.
  
• MLS is flourishing (even with the economic downturn).  Seattle was an EPIC success and Philadelphia, Vancouver, and Portland will add to to the fire.
  
• We qualified for the World Cup by beating Honduras in their house (something that everyone else failed to do).
• We made it to the final of the Confederations Cup and gave Brazil all they wanted and more.  
• Forget the disappointment of the Gold Cup and losing in Mexico City.  Our time will come in Mexico, we know we're the better team now and the victory there is coming soon enough. 
• We've actually acquired players who want to play for the US (Torres, Castillo, Jones) as opposed to abandoning it (Rossi, Subotic).
• The injury chaos of recent seems has finally turned as Maurice Edu has returned to full training with Rangers, Jay DeMerit is eying a quicker return than first thought (you liked that pun, admit it), Kenny Cooper DID NOT tear his ACL, only sprained it and will only be out 3 weeks, Gooch has said he will be ready to go in four months tops and Charlie Davies' doctors are saying that he is making a fantastic recovery and could be ready to go by June (just awesome).  The final piece of the puzzle seems to be Jermaine Jones, who is eying a January return timetable.  

All in all it has been a wonderful year and while there were certainly results we would've liked to have come out differently, we can all be proud American fans this time.  So, it is with hungry hearts and full voice that we march on to South Africa.  In three days we learn our opponents victims.  With that, I post this in an effort to get you pumped for games that are only seven months away.  Disclaimer:  Foul language warning.