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by Mike Woitalla
Worldwide search for player gold mine led Austrian Josef Schulz to South Florida. Josef Schulz once spent two years traveling the world scouting young soccer talent. But on this day, nine years ago, he was just taking a walk with his wife, Barbara, in their Boca Raton, Fla., neighborhood. They ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
Only five Designated Players were signed in 2007 to varying degrees of success, yet many teams acquired players by more traditional means who have contributed greatly in their first MLS seasons. The tale is told in MLS offices of how skittish were Chicago Fire officials to herald the arrival of ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
The name of American-born Giuseppe Rossi has arisen once again as U.S. head coach Bob Bradley scours the globe for players to restock his player pool. Rossi's career is steaming along as he scores goals for Spanish club Villarreal and the Italian under-21 team, for which he may play next ...
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by Mike Woitalla
Interest from foreign clubs in teenage American players is at an all-time high and an increasing number of youngsters are considering leaving their homes to pursue their soccer dreams aboard. One day Francisco Lletget noticed something slightly odd about the way his son, Sebastian, was eating breakfast, so he approached ...
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by Mike Woitalla
How a small-town U.S. boy ended up on the Mexican national team. Even when Edgar Castillo was only 4 years old, he watched soccer games on television. "He'd come over to our house to play with my boys," says Linda Lara. "If I turned on the television for a soccer ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
Fueled by the new Designated Player rule and an influx of foreign players, competition for roster spots forced rookies into the toughest situation of any group coming to MLS out of college since its launch in 1996. Several players who emerged started more than 20 games and played invaluable roles ...
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by Paul Kennedy
1 The long road to respect Women's soccer has come a long way in the last half century since the DFB, the powerful governing body of German soccer, attempted to ban a group of women from forming a national league in 1955. "Irreparable damage" would come to their bodies and ...
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