• Meatpacking towns teem with soccer talent striving for opportunities
    by Mike Woitalla on Jul 7, 11:17 AM
    Latino migration to Midwest and Southern states created communities such as the one in Lexington, Nebraska, where soccer is the children's predominant pastime.
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  • Lesle Gallimore: The Girls Academy will listen to players
    by Dan Woog on Jul 6, 4:11 AM
    The highly regarded leader is the new (and first) commissioner of the national, 67-club league that arose from the ashes of the ill-fated Development Academy.
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  • '2012: The Year That Saved Women's Soccer' -- when the WPSL Elite League set a stage for the stars
    by Beau Dure on Jul 4, 12:00 AM
    Another league had folded, but this time, the U.S. women's soccer community refused to go back into the professional wilderness.
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  • What is handball? Nobody knows any more
    by Ian Plenderleith on Jul 3, 1:10 AM
    There was a video question in my online refereeing exam concerning a possible penalty for a handball offense.
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  • The USA's Italia '90 youngster Chris Henderson recalls the profound World Cup impact
    by Mike Woitalla on Jul 2, 3:08 AM
    Upon the 30th anniversary of the USA's 1990 World Cup appearance, we're checking in with the players from Coach Bob Gansler's team.
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  • Ed Garza: The former mayor who changed San Antonio's youth soccer landscape
    by Mike Woitalla on Jun 29, 9:06 PM
    More than 90% of San Antonio's USLA players come from economically disadvantaged or poverty-level households.
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  • Salary caps in Europe -- is Schalke making the first move?
    by Ian Plenderleith on Jun 29, 2:56 PM
    Schalke, through high transfer fees and salaries, has sought to buy success in recent years in an attempt to establish itself as a Champions League regular.
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  • The new era of college recruiting: COVID changes the process for coaches and players
    by Dan Woog on Jun 29, 3:59 AM
    The cancellation of showcase tournaments, campus visits and ID camps upended the traditionally long, sometimes awkward dance between coaches and athletes.
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  • Steve Gans on youth soccer's Wild West and the need for safeguards
    by Dan Woog on Jun 25, 3:00 AM
    The alphabet soup of competing leagues, even entire associations, means there is little oversight.
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  • NWSL's return: A unique chance to grow the fan base and for new stars to rise
    by Beau Dure on Jun 23, 9:09 PM
    Is this the year women's soccer develops more hard-core fans? Not just the kids who want Alex Morgan's autograph.
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  • American goalkeeper Bryane Heaberlin on playing in Germany's Frauen-Bundesliga amid the pandemic
    by Arlo Moore-Bloom on Jun 23, 1:01 AM
    The Floridian starts for FFC Frankfurt, one of the oldest and most decorated women's teams in the Frauen-Bundesliga.
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  • Investigations closing in on FIFA boss Gianni Infantino
    by Ian Plenderleith on Jun 22, 1:15 AM
    FIFA President Gianni Infantino came to power in 2016 on the heels of Sepp Blatter, who eventually stood down after multiple FIFA officials were arrested.
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  • Varsity Blues' scandal and COVID-19 force universities to rethink priorities
    by Beau Dure on Jun 20, 3:26 AM
    So the stereotype of athletes ignoring academics often doesn't apply. But neither does the notion that sports pay the bills.
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  • College club soccer provides well-balanced option for competitive players -- plus management experience
    by Arlo Moore-Bloom on Jun 17, 4:46 PM
    Students schedule their games, design their own jerseys, fund their own travel -- and compete for regional and national titles.
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  • Tony Sanneh's extraordinary post-playing career: 'I knew I had to give back'
    by Mike Woitalla on Jun 16, 2:36 AM
    Years before retiring from a 17-year pro soccer career in 2009, Tony Sanneh had planned out his next chapter.
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