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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Ed Garza: The former mayor who changed San Antonio's youth soccer landscape
Ed Garza’s affinity for soccer became well known when he served as the Mayor of San Antonio in 2001-2005 and nearly landed an MLS franchise in Texas’ second largest city.When Garza termed out, his successor scuppered the Alamo City’s effort, but Garza’s soccer advocacy continued. Garza, now a San Antonio Independent School Board Trustee, focused […]
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The new era of college recruiting: COVID changes the process for coaches and players
“College recruiting is not a cycle,” says Clemson University soccer coach Mike Noonan. “It’s a cyclone.” But after the coronavirus blew in, winds of change swept through the men’s collegesoccer world. The cancellation of showcase tournaments, campus visits and ID camps upended the traditionally long, sometimes awkward dance between coaches and athletes. Though most attention […]
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Instagram du jour: Mario Bittencourt
“Game day was always the best day of my week. But today, for the first time, I’m leaving home sad to watch my ‘Tricolor.’ Players in masks, an empty stadium, a championship that rushes back withoutknowing whose interests it serves. Thousands of people are dying in Brazil while we are forced to play football without […]
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Monday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. Quarantine Randomness: Casey Short, Julie Ertz display the heart that’s needed By Marcus Thompson II (The Athletic) 2. How this ‘true pioneer’ helped bring the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup to AustraliaBy Nick Baker (SBS News) 3. Young people, bars and the coronavirus. What did we expect?By Mitch Albom (Detroit Free Press)
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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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Tweet du jour: Alex Morgan
“If you would have told me a year ago that I’d be home breastfeeding while watching a @NWSL season consolidated into a tournament sans @ORLPride during a global pandemic I’d have said, you’re crazy.But here we are.” — Alex Morgan, who gave birth last month to her first child, daughter Charlie Elena Carrasco, on the […]
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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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What They're Saying: Tommy Thompson
“It took a little bit to get used to, but we have all our own rooms, so that’s been a real positive. Everyone spends their time differently. I actually had the opportunity to run a couple Zoomtraining sessions with some youth soccer teams in California yesterday, which was a lot of fun. It’s been good, […]
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COVID-19: Surge in Texas cases forces cancellation of UWS National Cup
Two weeks after announcing the UWS National Cup, a cup competition for its teams seeking summer competition, United Women’s Soccer was forced to cancel the tournament scheduled to be held inRound Rock, Texas, because of the the rise of COVID-19 cases in the area. “Due to the increase in cases in our area and the […]