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Hank Steinbrecher on legacy of the '90s, moving national team forward, youth development and training compensation
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, October 5, 2017
As secretary general of U.S. Soccer (1990-2000), Hank Steinbrecher was my colleague, ...
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Soccer needs two sets of Laws of the Game
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, September 21, 2017
I taught a re-certification referee course this weekend. My students were mostly ...
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American soccer's 13 unique applications
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, September 7, 2017
I decided to write this article the moment I finished watching Costa ...
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Soccer for kids: getting them to 10,000-hour mark
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 24, 2017
We sometimes walk in the neighborhood. We see fathers playing football or ...
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Soccer, luck and VAR
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 10, 2017
Recently I started reading a book "The Numbers Game." The authors of ...
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England, Japan and the USA -- the relationship between league and federation
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, July 27, 2017
In my last article, Soccer Made in Germany, I have discussed the ...
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Soccer made in Germany and the reality
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Could the recent FIFA Confederations Cup championship coupled with UEFA U-21 championship ...
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Deliberate handling -- just what does that mean?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, June 29, 2017
Many years ago - more than 30 to be exact - I ...
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The Development Academies: The saga ends
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, June 15, 2017
Well, actually, the Development Academies (DA) saga does not end here, but ...
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Development academies: the saga continues
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, June 1, 2017
After my last article, some of the readers correctly stated that I ...
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The Development Academy -- is it time for more than one division?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, May 18, 2017
Since its inception in 2007, the U.S. Soccer Development Academy (DA) had ...
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Leagues and MNTs, any correlations to success in Europe and with MLS?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, May 4, 2017
Is there a correlation between the business success of a professional soccer ...
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Food for thought: refereeing and data
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, April 21, 2017
As an engineer and a computer scientist, I am comfortable with numbers. ...
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MLS and the global practices
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, April 6, 2017
Before you can compare MLS to other pro soccer leagues, you have ...
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LOTG and 'What football wants'
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, March 23, 2017
A couple of years ago, I started hearing from top level referee ...
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Can MLS ever be a global league?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, March 9, 2017
In 1964, Walter Neale wrote his famous article "The Peculiar Economics of ...
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The Goalie
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, February 23, 2017
I started my organized adventure with the beautiful game of soccer at ...
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The mandate: A couple of megabytes of memory?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, February 9, 2017
U.S. Soccer's Youth Development Initiative is a mandate to crack down on ...
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Nostradamus of soccer
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Monday, January 30, 2017
In the early 2000s, Senes Erzik, then the chairman of the FIFA ...
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No pain, no risk, no gain
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, January 12, 2017
After I wrote my article about the obstacles to the development of ...
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Video replay in soccer: suggestions for its better implementation
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, December 29, 2016
With the industrialization of soccer, the Laws of the Game (LOTG) started ...
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Soccer must get around obstacles to its fifth pillar without poking the bee hive
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, December 13, 2016
I witnessed the blooming of soccer in this country during my stay ...
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The Fifth Pillar, and what's missing from American soccer
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, December 1, 2016
The first American players I encountered in the late 70's early 80's ...
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The Possession Game: End of an Era?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Monday, November 14, 2016
Recently, I watched the Europa League game between Fenerbahce and Manchester United ...
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U.S. players in Europe, a quality problem, not quantity problem
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Sunday, October 23, 2016
With Christian Pulisic's recent success in Borussia Dortmund and the USMNT, more ...
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More officials do not necessarily mean less mistakes by officials
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Sunday, October 9, 2016
It is a well acknowledged fact that soccer has the fewest number ...
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The 'Field of Play' and the U.S. reality
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, September 22, 2016
The first Law in the Laws of the Game is the "Field ...
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Aiming to end Pay to Play and Play to Win
Youth Soccer Insider, Ahmet Guvener - Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The USA is the strongest nation on earth; nobody questions this fact. ...
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Making Industrial soccer happy: 'What does football expect?'
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 18, 2016
The new Laws of the Game were distributed in April by the ...
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Is making a profit everything in pro sports?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 4, 2016
As a young engineer when I learned that the best product was ...
