Goals in each half from Takuma Asano and Yosuke Ideguchi gave Japan a 2-0 win over Australia and Asia’s Group B title, clinching a place in the World Cup finals for the sixth straighttime.
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Soccer for kids: getting them to 10,000-hour mark
We sometimes walk in the neighborhood. We see fathers playing football or baseball with their kids in the street. We see parents shooting at the hoop in front of the garage with their kids. We neversee fathers or mothers playing soccer with their kids in the neighborhood. We never see kids playing soccer in the […]
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England, Japan and the USA — the relationship between league and federation
In my last article, Soccer Made in Germany, I have discussed the success story ofGerman MNT and the lessons we can learn from them. Now let us have a look at a three other countries and the associated professional men’s leagues, namely England, Japan and USA, three countriesfrom three different continents. I should note that […]
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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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NWSL: Japanese star Nagasato lands at Chicago
The Chicago Red Stars signed Japanese midfielder Yuki Nagasato, a veteran of three Women’s World Cups and twp Olympics. She has spent the last seven years at clubs in Germany (FFC TurbinePotsdam, Wolfsburg and FFC Frankfurt) and England (Chelsea). Japanese in NWSL: Yuri Kawamura, North CarolinaNahomi Kawasumi, Seattle Yuki Nagasato, Chicago Rumi Utsugi, Seattle Nagasato, […]
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Datebook: U.S. women to host new international tourney
The USA will host Australia, Brazil and Japan July 27-Aug. 3 in a four-team women’s tournament. The Tournament of Nations, which will consist of three doubleheaders in Seattle(CenturyLink Field), San Diego (Qualcomm Stadium) and Carson, Calif. (StubHub Center), will be held every year there isn’t a Women’s World Cup or Olympics. The same four teams […]
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Asian World Cup qualifying will go down to wire
The USA is in much better shape after its 6-0 win over Honduras and 1-1 tie with Panama, but if form held through the remainder of World Cup 2018 qualifying in Concacaf — every team won itsremaining games at home and lost on the road — it would still finish in fourth place in the […]
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WCQ: Japan and Saudi Arabia pull clear
Japan and Saudi Arabia opened up a three-point lead in Group B of Asia’s World Cup 2018 qualifying tournament after recording wins over the United Arab Emirates (2-0) and Thailand (3-0), respectively.Iran leads Group A by four points over South Korea after its 1-0 win over last-place Qatar. The two two teams in each group […]
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Video Pick: 'Kazu' bests Stanley Matthews' mark
Japanese striker Kazuyoshi “Kazu” Miura, 14 days after his 50th birthday, scored for Yokohama FC in a 1-0 J-League 2 win over Thespa Kusatsu on Sunday, surpassing the feat ofStanley Matthews, who scored his last professional goal at age 50 and five days in 1965 for Stoke City.
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PRO hires Howard Webb to manage VAR program
It’s official. Veteran English referee Howard Webb has been hired to join the Professional Referee’s Organization (PRO) as its Manager of Video Assistant Referee Operations. News reports in late November identified Webb as the likely candidate to oversee implementation and evaluation of video-referee technology in North America. Webb, 45, retired as an English PremierLeague and […]