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Immigrants, Latinos and our soccer landscape (1)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, April 18, 2019
One of the most challenging issues is whether the U.S system is ...
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Purists vs. Pragmatists
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, April 4, 2019
A look at soccer's new rule changes shows that "What football expects" ...
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Comfort Zone (II)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, March 21, 2019
Could it be that most U.S. soccer players are in a comfort ...
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Comfort Zone 1
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, March 1, 2019
The U.S. men's national team needs to be taken out of its ...
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'League refereeing' vs. 'International refereeing'
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, January 24, 2019
Gordon Hill -- the legendary English referee in the 1970s -- admitted ...
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What it takes to be a world-class referee
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, January 3, 2019
U.S. Soccer was represented at FIFA tournaments by Mark Geiger and Jair ...
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The nuclear scenario explained
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, December 20, 2018
A system -- Training Compensation and Solidarity Payments or something else -- ...
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What is next for USMNT?
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, December 6, 2018
Like all the European countries that have shown a steady jump in ...
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Under threat: USA's unequaled domination in women's soccer
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, November 22, 2018
Early exits at the Under-20 and Under-17 Women's World Cups are disturbing ...
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What the future might bring for U.S. pro leagues
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, November 8, 2018
U.S. Soccer should intervene more in the molding of the structure of ...
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A snap shot of professional leagues
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, October 25, 2018
The correlation between the population of a country and its number of ...
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Substitution and beyond
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, October 11, 2018
The Laws of the Game allow three types of substitution. In American ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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; ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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'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 ...
