1. I’ve stayed silent for way too long By Lauren Holiday (Players Tribune) 2. Start of prep football season could be in jeopardy due to extension of coronavirus state of emergency declarations By Stephen Hargis (Chattanooga Times Free Press) 3. Theater of the absurd and the immoral: College football 2020 ByAndrew Zimbalist (Forbes.com)
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Start to NWSL Challenge Cup is overshadowed by focus on who did or didn't kneel during anthem
Positioned as the first professional sports league in North America to return to play after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down sports around the country, the National Women’s Soccer League was alwaysgoing to be in the spotlight on Saturday. That it was the first U.S. pro league to return to play since the killing of George […]
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A day of extreme emotion at NWSL Challenge Cup
The NWSL became the first U.S. pro league to return to play when the Challenge Cup kicked off Saturday in Utah. The opening game between the 2018 and 2019 champion North Carolina Courageand 2017 champion Portland Thorns wasn’t decided until the fourth minute of stoppage time when Lynn Williams scored to give the Courage a […]
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Sunday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. Our Pride from your supporters (Bigger Than Soccer) 2. Soccer needs to break this link By Rory Smith (New York Times) 3.Galaxy prodigy Efrain Alvarez returns from shutdown a new man. ‘Quarantine helped me’ By Dylan Hernandez (Los Angeles Times)
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Soccer America's 2020 Interview Archive
Our archive of 2020 Q&As includes interviews with men and women who play a variety of roles at several levels of the game. Chris Henderson The USA’s Italia ’90 youngsterrecalls the profound World Cup impact Mike Noonan, Michael Singleton, Geoff WheelerThe new era of college recruiting:COVID changes the process for coaches and players Bryane HeaberlinAmerican […]
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GLT and the national anthem
The readers will be wondering about the title. What is the relation between GLT and the National Anthem? None. In these extraordinary pandemic days of our generation, there was notmuch of any soccer action, at least until now. So I find it difficult to identify topics to write about. In the past, I had written […]
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Black Players Coalition of MLS formed to address the racial inequalities in MLS
More than 70 black players in MLS have come together to form the Black Players Coalition of MLS. The organization, announced on Juneteenth, will address the racial inequalities in MLS,work with those fighting racism in the world of soccer and work on positively impacting black communities across the United States and Canada. The Black […]
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Tony Sanneh's extraordinary post-playing career: 'I knew I had to give back'
Years before retiring from a 17-year pro soccer career in 2009, Tony Sanneh had planned out his next chapter. He would return to the Twin Cities of Minnesota and expand theSanneh Foundation for underserved children that he launched in 2003. That work has become ever more crucial. In early March, the teachers’ strike in St. […]
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Nicole Hercules leads Black Coaches' Advocacy Group amid strife and hope
United Soccer Coaches’ Black Coaches’ Advocacy Group was on a roll. They dramatically increased the number of presenters and clinicians at the national coaching organization’s annualconvention, held this past January in Baltimore. Black coaches received several important awards there. Young coaches were joining the group, being mentored, and being heard. But in the aftermath of […]
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Tweet du jour: Donald Trump
“I won’t be watching much anymore!” — President Donald Trump in response to Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz, who says he isdrafting legislation compelling U.S. Soccer to reverse the decision of its board on Tuesday repealing Policy 604-1, which requires players and staff to stand respectfully for the national anthem.(@realDonaldTrump)