Steely and strangely divisive, Michael Bradley’s playing career cut to the id of US soccer fandom

US Soccer will belatedly honor one of its most accomplished players on Saturday - as good a time as any to re-assess his groundbreaking career

In a sense, the real surprise isn't that it took almost six years for Michael Bradley to get his flowers for his long and laureled United States men's national team career. It's that he agreed to receive them at all.

That sort of thing is, after all, extremely un-Michael Bradley.