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USA, Belgium and 'Something' (Part 1)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, October 11, 2019
Belgium has done "something" to be ranked No. 1 in the world. ...
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Referee assessment, coaching and mentoring
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, September 28, 2019
Recently, U.S. Soccer merged the positions of instructor and assessor into coaching ...
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Forty years in the LOTG: Grassroots vs. the professional game
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, September 13, 2019
The 2019-20 version of the LOTG is 222 pages long. Excluding the ...
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Mandates and beyond, and a self-criticism (Part 2)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 29, 2019
To circumvent obstacles facing U.S, Soccer, we have to look at the ...
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Mandates and beyond and a self-criticism (Part 1)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Thursday, August 8, 2019
Mandating anything - forget about soccer - by a centralized authority in ...
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USWNT and women's soccer in the world
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, July 6, 2019
The U.S. women's dominance may be compared to the basketball Dream Teams ...
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The requirements of modern soccer officiating (2)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, June 21, 2019
All the resources that can be helpful and advice you need to ...
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The requirements of modern soccer officiating (1)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Saturday, June 8, 2019
The officiating of Michael Oliver in the Ecuador-Uruguay U-20 game was a ...
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Immigrants, Latinos and Our Soccer Landscape (3)
Soccer America Daily, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, May 17, 2019
The economic issue might not be the only and major explanation of ...
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Immigrants, Latinos and our soccer landscape (2)
Off The Post, Ahmet Guvener - Friday, May 3, 2019
The lack of direct study done to address the question of the ...
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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 ...
