• Kaz Tambi's perspective on the USA's struggles at the U-17 Women's World Cup
    by Mike Woitalla on Nov 29, 10:45 PM
    A decade ago, Kaz Tambi coached the USA to a runner-up finish at the inaugural U-17 Women's World Cup.
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  • 'How Football (Nearly) Came Home: Adventures in Putin's World Cup' -- a bracing breeze of a book
    by Ian Plenderleith on Nov 26, 11:22 PM
    If there's one thing you can love about the World Cup, then it's the opportunity that the tournament offers to escape reality for over a month.
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  • Anson Dorrance on the USA's U-17 Women's World Cup failure, the missing piece, youth turf wars, and futsal
    by Mike Woitalla on Nov 26, 3:02 AM
    In the wake of the USA failing again to reach the knockout stage of the U-17 Women's World Cup, we checked in with Anson Dorrance
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  • Why Jill Ellis is still testing options heading toward 2019 World Cup
    by Beau Dure on Nov 21, 6:51 PM
    There's been a greater degree of experimentation than we usually see from the U.S. women, a team that is infamously glacial in changing tactics and players.
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  • Hiring of a new men's national team coach can't lead us astray from what is wrong
    by Paul Kennedy on Nov 21, 1:07 AM
    Was 2018 a complete waste? How it ended may have been the best thing that has ever happened.
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  • Infantino's scurrilous plan to sell FIFA down the river
    by Ian Plenderleith on Nov 19, 12:28 PM
    First of all, I'd like to apologize for my column three weeks ago taking FIFA President Gianni Infantino to task for harboring a surfeit of bad ideas.
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  • U.S. rising star Sebastian Soto on leaving Real Salt Lake for Hannover 96, U-20 World Cup qualifying, and hoping to play against Mexico
    by Brian Sciaretta on Nov 19, 12:23 AM
    Sebastian Soto has had quite a year. After a breakout performance in the Development Academy with Real Salt Lake, he signed with Hannover 96.
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  • Rating American players in Europe: More are struggling than excelling
    by Brian Sciaretta on Nov 14, 11:45 PM
    As recently as the summer, there was plenty of optimism for Americans abroad for the 2018-19 season. The season is clearly off to a disappointing start.
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  • U.S. Youth Soccer's Pete Zopfi on the USSF's new task force, unifying the factions, and ODP's future
    by Beau Dure on Nov 14, 2:47 PM
    In his day job, Dr. Pete Zopfi is a trauma surgeon. He took on another difficult job in August, when he was elected chair of U.S. Youth Soccer.
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  • U.S. Soccer's Mark Carr on girls' soccer progress, the U-17 World Cup challenge, and his London childhood
    by Mike Woitalla on Nov 13, 1:19 AM
    The USA hasn't reached the knockout stage of the U-17 Women's World Cup since the biennial tournament's first edition in 2008, when it finished runner-up.
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  • Anger is the new normal, but there's no excuse for abuse
    by Ian Plenderleith on Nov 12, 1:12 PM
    While refereeing a youth game this past weekend I sent a player out for a five-minute time penalty following his second hefty foul of the afternoon.
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  • Glaring errors in the VAR-less EPL prove the value of video referee
    by Ian Plenderleith on Nov 8, 3:06 PM
    That goals are such a rare commodity in soccer is arguably one of its most attractive features. It can also be one of its most frustrating.
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  • Adam Behnke on how new USL club Loudoun United will impact D.C. area soccer
    by Beau Dure on Nov 7, 12:46 AM
    Adam Behnke, a former college runner at Columbia and Indiana and a former sales executive with the New York Yankees, is Loudoun United's chief operating officer.
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  • If Europe's top clubs really want a 'Super League,' let them go
    by Ian Plenderleith on Nov 5, 12:41 PM
    "They stuff their bellies with tomorrow's ache," the Canadian poet Edmund Vance Cooke wrote almost 100 years ago.
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  • Aaron Long arrives: USL play leads late-bloomer to Red Bull stardom and U.S. national team
    by Brian Sciaretta on Nov 2, 3:31 PM
    Over the last year, U.S. interim head coach Dave Sarachan has introduced a new core of players into the team.
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