Say it ain’t so! Tim Howard calling it quits? http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2014/7/25/5937423/tim-howard-usmnt-retire-everton USMNT playing Ecuador in October? Reports suggest so. http://www.soccerbyives.net/2014/07/ecuador-october-friendly.html Julian Green makes Bayern Munich first team and coming to Portland for MLS All-star game. (The man who scores on his first touch in the World Cup!) http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/21/report-bayern-munich-confirms-julian-green-on-first-team-for-us-trip/?utm_source=FB+-+NBC+Sports+-+NBC+Sports+Soccer&utm_network=facebook&utm_post=2872879&utm_tags More youth players committing to U.S. soccer: http://www.americansoccernow.com/articles/fernando-arce-jr-17-chooses-u-s-over-mexico Kansas City to be the home of U.S. Soccer national training center: https://www.facebook.com/SportingKC/posts/10152569368542042 & Let’s keep Uniting & Strengthening through 2014 and beyond! Clint Dempsey: “To now, playing at a World Cup in Brazil and feeling like you are playing a home game in terms of the number of fans that were at the stadium and chanting is such a turnaround because I’ve been playing with national team for 10 years. To see that’s happened only in 10 years, imagine what will happen in the next 10.” Via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/22/clint-dempsey-world-cup-fifa_n_5603893.html Upcoming Games: USWNT vs. Switzerland (Aug. 20, Cary, NC) USMNT vs. Czech Republic (Sept. 3, Prague) USMNT vs. Ireland (November 18, Dublin) USWNT CONCACAF Championship (http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/07/24/10/06/140724-wnt-concacaf)