-
Substitution and beyond
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, October 11, 2018
The Laws of the Game allow three types of substitution. In American ...
-
VAR: The World Cup, and beyond
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, September 27, 2018
Since the performance of the VAR system was so good at the ...
-
Players, coaches and team's performance
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, September 13, 2018
Coaches are an important part of the pro game, but their successes ...
-
Governance structure and Its implication to soccer development
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 30, 2018
Governance structure of soccer federations can either be detrimental in the development ...
-
Croatia, Europe and beyond
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 16, 2018
The success story of Croatia may be explained by subjective concepts like ...
-
From World Cup 2018 to World Cup 2026
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 2, 2018
Diversity brought European soccer a different vision in the last 20 years; ...
-
World Cup: 99.3 Percent Perfection
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, July 19, 2018
This was the only World Cup in my personal history that was ...
-
Arigato Gozaimasu and Sayanora, Japan
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, July 5, 2018
Japan panicked a lot in defense, but when it had possession it ...
-
The footprints of Collina
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, June 21, 2018
Although it might be a bit premature to say it, but the ...
-
Islands of hope for underprivileged talented kids
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, June 7, 2018
There are islands of hope in Texas soccer otherwise dominated by the ...
-
World Cup 2026 race: Sporting merit vs. world politics
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, May 17, 2018
If you look at the United Bid's sporting merit, there should be ...
-
Today's refereeing at the highest level
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, May 3, 2018
What are the necessary and sufficient attributes that define the best referees ...
-
Referee is a Homo-sapiens: A look at the Michael Oliver penalty decision
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, April 20, 2018
Last week an incredible miracle in the Champions League was about to ...
-
Race, class and soccer stars
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, March 31, 2018
The USA has excellent human resources for the design of the development ...
-
UEFA vs. U.S Soccer -- what there is to learn from Europe
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, March 16, 2018
Are we comparing apples and oranges when we compare U.S. Soccer and ...
-
How to remove the burden from the referees -- three suggestions to Laws of the Game
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, March 2, 2018
There should be two sets of the Laws of the Game: one ...
-
Soccer's numbers game -- big registration numbers don't always yield great national teams
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, February 16, 2018
The opposite is also true. Japan (women) and Iceland (men) have had ...
-
The first 100 days: Advice to the next U.S Soccer president
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, February 1, 2018
What the winner of the election should expect and some of the ...
-
'Things' in a suburban garage
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, January 11, 2018
Some advice to parents so that the money they spend on their ...
-
Soccer in the inner cities, the missing link between recreational and competitive soccer
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, December 29, 2017
U.S. Soccer should take the responsibility of the organization pillar of the ...
-
Battle of Stamford Bridge, a case study of how soccer would not want or expect a game to be officiated
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, December 14, 2017
Recently, refereed Mark Clattenburg stated that he allowed Tottenham to self-destruct against ...
-
If I were the President, Part II
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, November 30, 2017
Part 1 was on youth development. Now, I will talk about what ...
-
If I were the president of U.S. Soccer ...
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, November 16, 2017
Christian Pulisic nailed it when he said the path to winning a ...
-
The future of VAR
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, November 2, 2017
When the talk of VAR surfaced out a few years ago, a ...
-
Post-mortem: Will the USA Americanize soccer or globalize it completely?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, October 19, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, I said that it will take a ...
-
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, ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
