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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
