Bob Bradley's Five Favorite Words

With some high- and medium-profile players in the USMNT moving to lower divisions in the January transfer window specifically so they could get more playing time, I've been paying closer attention from some of the weekend wrap-ups for Americans playing abroad. The key words I'm looking for are "started and played 90 minutes."

What's encouraging, in particular, is that 18 players out of the 46 listed here (I excluded the two playing on Monday) went the distance, compared to 16 who either did not dress, or dressed but didn't play -- not counting the four guys listed with injuries. If there's any quick metric to see how American players are doing, I think having a ratio of those two numbers that's bigger than one seems like a good rule of thumb out of the gate.