The 3,165,000 million were the most ever for a soccer broadcast outside of the network’s coverage of the men’s and women’s World Cup.
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U.S. Soccer proposes another Americas tournament in 2020
The 2016 Copa Centenariocelebrated the 100th anniversary of the Copa America, but it was conceived by South American federation presidents and Conmebol and Concacaf leaders in conjunction with Datisa, a consortium of SouthAmerican marketing agencies, as a scheme to line the pockets of these soccer executives to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. […]
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The windfall that's changed U.S. Soccer's financial landscape
U.S. Soccer’s filing of its Federal income taxstatement (Form 990) for its tax year ending March 31, 2018, gives us a glimpse into the financial condition. It shows, as is required, the compensation — salary, benefits, bonuses andsettlements — to its highest-compensated employees. As a testament to the state of the men’s national team program, […]
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Takeaways from U.S. Soccer tax filing: 2016 Copa Centenario is windfall
U.S. Soccer recently filed its income tax form 990 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017. Asusual, it contained lots of insights into the federation’s business. Copa Centenario boost. Program revenues went down from$122.6 million in 2016 to $97 million in 2017 but net revenues increased from $16.6 million to $46 million thanks to […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]
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Discussions 'beyond preliminary' on another joint Copa America
Concacaf and Conmebol are discussing the organization of another joint event like the 2016 Copa America Centenario in the USA that averaged 46,000 fans. Concacaf president Victor Montaglianisays talks were “beyond preliminary” though the earliest another tournament could take place is 2020.
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U.S. Soccer and governing in the 21st century
As U.S. Soccer has grown into a $100 million business with a huge influence on the sport, both domestically and internationally, how it approaches business relationships and developsstandards of good governance becomes increasingly important. U.S. Soccer doesn’t just train and field national teams and develop programs for the development of the sport at the youth […]
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Jurgen Klinsmann, the U.S. years
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) After retiring as a player in 1998, Jurgen Klinsmann moved toSouthern California — an area he had visited many times while on vacation — to live and start a family with his American wife, Debbie. He played for a PDL club team, OrangeCounty Blue Star, in 2003 under a pseudonym […]
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Klinsmann's promises of progress are not to be found
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Two games and two depressing defeats into the Hexagonal, the USA is still in a good position toqualify for Russia 2018. And therein lies the problem, and the problem is not the Concacaf allotment of three automatic qualifiers plus a playoff spot. The problem is that the Americans,while not as good […]
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Scouting Report: Ticos ride momentum into U.S. match
As it turns out, USA keeper Tim Howard isn’t the only starter who can’t play Tuesday in the second Hexagonal game against Costa Rica. Ruled out of the game at EstadioNacional are defenders Francisco Calvo and Cristian Gamboa, who set up the first goal in Costa Rica’s 2-0 defeat of Trinidad & Tobago on Friday. […]