[MY VIEW] Once the only pro game in town, second division soccer appears to be on its way out in the United States. And it’s too bad. D2 leagues propped up U.S.pro soccer in the lean years after the North American Soccer League folded in 1985 and before MLS launched in 1996. Without D2 soccer, […]
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Cantona signing puzzles
[MY VIEW] The New York Cosmos’ announcement that Eric Cantona was joining the prospective club as director of soccercertainly had its effect. I was awoken early in the morning here in California to calls from French radio stations wanting to know what I thought about Cantona and the “nouveau Cosmos.” I would havesooner expected to […]
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The case for switching seasons
[MLS] Commissioner Don Garber‘s statement that MLS will examine the possibility of switching to summer-spring season hasbeen lambasted as pandering to FIFA President Sepp Blatter in an effort to win his support for the USA’s World Cup 2022 bid. But there are some very goodreasons to adopt the move … THE CASE FOR … The […]
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Women's soccer gets wakeup call
[MY VIEW] One loss in 36 games is certainly no reason to panic, but the USA’s 2-1 loss to Mexico Friday in Women’s World Cup qualifying is a wake-up call. Moretroubling than the result was the manner of the U.S. performance. Unless there’s an overhaul in the women’s development program, the USA runs the risk […]
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'Jitterbug' Beasley has chance to bounce back
[MY VIEW] DaMarcus Beasley has joined Germany’s Hannover 96, his fourth club in four different countries since he left the Chicago Fire for theNetherlands PSV Eindhoven in 2004. After he enjoyed a stellar start in Europe, the tricky dribbler’s career went into an injury-plagued decline and we saw only 10 minutes of him 2010 World […]
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History doesn't favor Bob Bradley
[MY VIEW] Should Coach Bob Bradley stay or go? As U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati ponders this difficult decision, not tobe ignored is history’s demonstration that a long tenure as national team boss isn’t a reliable formula for World Cup success. However exciting the USA’s 2010 run in SouthAfrica may have been, it ended unsatisfactorily […]
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Mexico is where the action is
[MY VIEW] The most intriguing matchup on the opening weekend of play in Mexico’s Torneo Apertura is Saturday’s game between Pachuca and Club America. It’sindicative of the importance the Mexican league is to the U.S. national team that as many as four Americans — three for Pachuca and one for America — could be in […]
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Soccer goes mainstream at Fenway
[MY VIEW] Listening all last weekend on the Red Sox telecasts to the promos of Wednesday’s friendly between Celtic and Sporting Lisbon at Boston’s famed FenwayPark hit home just how mainstream soccer has become. It was one thing to see the “Football at Fenway” ads on NESN. It was an entirely another thing to hear […]