[FIFA] By almost any standard, the United States should be a cinch to land one of the World Cups up for bid: 2018 or 2022. It has everything: stadiums,infrastructure, organization and a home market of soccer-crazy fans. The United States could be awarded the World Cup tomorrow and put on the most spectacular World Cup […]
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Fox Soccer Plus to have … rugby
[TELEVISION WATCH] The Fox Soccer Channel debuted as Fox Sports World in 1997 for a reason. It offered more than soccer. Now that Fox Soccer Plus — Fox SoccerChannel 2 if you will — will air, beginning on March 1, it will return to its roots. Rugby will be among the offers on the new […]
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Beckham Academy closure is surprise to Canadian kids
Fallout from the closure of the David Beckham Academy in Carson, Calif., continued. A Canadian under-12 team — 10 boys and seven relatives from Calgary’s Foothills Soccer Club — booked aweek-long trip to Southern California in April only to learn by chance recently in a Daily Breeze story online that the camp had beenclosed last […]
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Soccer America Classifieds
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Gulati: 2010 very, very important for American soccer
By Paul Gardner The election of Sunil Gulati as President of the United States Soccer Federation four years ago was unquestionably one of the most important events inthe history of the sport in this country. It brought to the office, for the first time, someone who combined all the vital qualities necessary — an American-reared […]
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Hartman left in limbo
[MLS] If not for a strained hip flexor suffered by goalkeeper Zach Thornton, counterpart Kevin Hartman would truly bemarooned. The veteran Hartman, a native of Southern California, came into the U.S. national team camp last week at Home Depot Center to replace Thornton, ending several weeks of anxious inactivity.Despite him playing every minute in goal […]
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Portsmouth woes signal EPL trouble
Rob Hughes writes that, “If England’s Premier League is the barometer of financial health at the top of the international sport, then soccer in 2010 isliving a lie like some of the world banks up to 2009.” Manchester United is saddled with debt, Chelsea is totally beholden to its Russian owner, Roman Abramovich, who says […]
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In The Game: Pioneer Gordon Jago Still Going Strong
Three years ago, Gordon Jago returned to his native England to meet Queen Elizabeth II at her palace. He was given specific instructionsfor the encounter: When she extends her right hand, that’s the signal it’s over. Shake her hand, back off four paces, bow, turn to your right, go off. Jago first came to the […]
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Get Out From Under Your Soccer Rock
(Editor’s Note: Please share your thoughts on this column of Soccer Business Insider and read comments from other SBI readers. Click on the blog links at the bottom of the article.) By John Hooper As if you didn’t have enough New Year’s resolutions, here is a relatively pain-free one: get out from under your soccer […]
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"I'm a volunteer — You Can't Make Me Do Anything!"
(Editor’s Note: Please share you thoughts on this column of Grassroots Soccer Biz and read comments from other GSB readers. Click on the blog link at the bottom of the article.) By Jim Paglia I hope you saw Phyllis Riedler’s two excellent columns in Grassroots Soccer Biz on finding and keeping volunteers ( I found […]