The Best in Soccer Writing...Archives
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- Midfielder Yael Averbuch helped lead Sky Blue F.C. to the championship of Women's Professional Soccer in their first season. A standout at the University of North Carolina by way of New Jersey, she will be filing reports for the NY Times Goal Blog during the defending champions' 2010 season, beginning with "A Day in the Life of a W.P.S. Player".
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- All right, history buffs, a brief overview of US World Cup Soccer (ahem...mens), Part 1.
- Here is Part II..
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- A complete listing of pre-world cup friendlies, for your convenience...enjoy!
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- Do we really want to add technological advances to the game of soccer? Let's assume video replay was instituted by FIFA. Thought experiment: How long do you think it would take for American advertisers to "take up the slack" in a break in the action for a video reply, or goal line technology review? Discuss...
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- Ouch! American youth soccer gets dinged. Everybody, get back to work!
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- Is too much talent ignored at the upper levels of amateur soccer? A young African-American tells his story of club soccer and ODP and ponders if too many are left behind. An incredible journey through the American system.
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- Sixty years after scoring the winning goal for the US men's team in the 1950 World Cup final to defeat the mighty English side, and 45 years after his likely execution, the story of an unlikely hero from Haiti slowly emerges...