A former pharmacist, longtime Soccer America columnist Paul Gardner’s journalism career began in the medical field. He worked for the London-based Pharmacy Digest before moving to the USA in 1959 and becoming medical news magazine MD’s managing editor, a position he held through 1964 while free-lancing as a sports reporter and photographer.

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Soccer America Executive Editor Mike Woitalla has written freelance articles about soccer for more than 30 media outlets in nine nations. The winner of eight United Soccer Coaches Writing Contest awards,...