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Now landing in your inbox and not mailbox, Soccer America's strengths remain true
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Friday, April 9, 2021
It was back near the start of the century, and I'd call ...
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Pele, the brutal dictator, and the 1970 World Cup
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Saturday, April 3, 2021
What does Pele have in common with the Beatles? They are bo ...
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Again and again, soccer lets bigotry off the hook
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
One major frustration for referees is not just that we have ...
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'I'm With the Cosmos: The Story of Steve Hunt': English winger reflects on his days with Pele and Co.
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Arriving at age 20, he was among the young players to count ...
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European fans demanding a stop to Champions League greed
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, March 15, 2021
Once more the richest clubs have been pressing Europe's soccer governing bo ...
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IFAB wastes another year on handball and offside
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, March 8, 2021
Ever since the introduction of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), there ha ...
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What soccer can do to pressure Qatar ahead of the World Cup
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, March 1, 2021
It is suspected that many of the otherwise healthy young men di ...
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Beating Bayern is more than just winning a game of soccer
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, February 22, 2021
Bayern's entitled conduct, its persecution complex and its spoiled, whiney tone imp ...
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Why fans of sports are loving Leeds United
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, February 15, 2021
Here's a simple question with no easy answer. Is the idea ...
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Understanding Nicolas Anelka: Netflix documentary takes on the complex career of 'Le Sulk'
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, February 8, 2021
His family, his advocates and his former colleagues, and even Nicolas Anel ...
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Write the reviews, start a discussion, but abolish the numbers
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, February 1, 2021
Even if you count a given player's accurate passes, shots on goal ...
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Lavender oils and left foot first -- at home with the Lewandowskis
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, January 25, 2021
Like millions of soccer-playing kids, I dreamed of becoming a pro. N ...
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Remembering Geoff Barnett: 'I'm not driving a ****ing Chevette!'
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, January 18, 2021
I was very saddened to hear that former Arsenal and Minnesota Kic ...
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Hoppe's serene hat trick makes the case for giving youth a chance
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short/Youth is nimble, a ...
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Saudi 'sportswashing' shows why more players must take a moral stance
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Why should high-profile sport stars, whose words reach so many, not spe ...
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2020 rewind: Silent stadiums and hot debates on anthems, coaching, soccer's rules and urgently needed reform
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Below is a selection of columns from 2020 that have provoked most ...
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Searching for solutions to the global problem of referee abuse
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Tom Webb and his colleagues identify the importance of training and mentorin ...
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Wise and witty 'Farther Corner' takes us back to England's Northeast
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
The very character of non-League soccer in England is a lure f ...
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What are soccer's standards for 'unsporting behavior'?
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, December 7, 2020
There was a curious incident during stoppage time of VfB Stuttgart's Bundesli ...
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Who were the real cheats when Maradona beat the English?
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, November 30, 2020
U.S. soccer fans used to tell me how hard it was findi ...
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Making the case for a shootout revival
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, November 23, 2020
When I lived in the USA, I used to love being ask ...
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Scotland finally breaks the hard-luck narrative
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, November 16, 2020
Following abject failure in qualification group play, a good run in th ...
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Soccer's biggest flaw is its TV rights-based economic model
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, November 10, 2020
The vacant stadium restart has yet again helped soccer to swerve arou ...
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Why German amateur soccer has been suspended again
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Thursday, October 29, 2020
Having refereed close to two dozen games here since August following t ...
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When you forget the meaning of soccer results
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Her soccer-loving husband can no longer process the information in scorelines su ...
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Black player history in England: Who broke through first at the 92 clubs and the prejudice they had to overcome
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Wednesday, September 30, 2020
The authors list the first Black players at each of the curre ...
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What happened to the conversation about the future of soccer?
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Paris St. Germain's star ego Neymar has left Nike after 15 yea ...
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'Thanks, ref' -- two simple words to boost the game
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Tuesday, September 15, 2020
When that basic human interaction doesn't happen, you start to feel resentme ...
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London, loneliness and a long, hot World Cup summer
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, September 7, 2020
The prose is as understated as his presence at the back ...
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Knockout soccer for Europe's top competitions? Only if we go the whole way
Soccer America Confidential, Ian Plenderleith - Monday, August 31, 2020
All of a sudden, the single-game format was "more exciting" than gam ...
