US triumvirate

Soccernet has a good article about what it sees as the three rising stars of the USMNT: Eddie Johnson, Clint Dempsey, and Oguchi Onyewu. I think Bobby Convey might be a little ticked to be left off the list, especially since he's looking as likely to start as any of these guys. The writer gets the situation basically dead-on, pointing out that each of these players have it in them to explode on the World Cup and transfer to a big European team, but that each of them have an achilles' heel (EJ's current scoring slump; Clint's mercurial nature; Gooch's questionable skills on the ball). It's nice to finally see the US getting some serious press instead of ignent fluff pieces about how a non-soccer nation's team is really quite respectable.