1. How MLS and its clubs are getting creative in order to sell more players abroad By Sam Stejskal (The Athletic) 2. NASL seeks Summary Judgment against U.S. Soccer, MLS in Antitrust lawsuitBy Miki Turner (socceresq.com) 3. Inside Leicester City’s cutting-edge plan toavoid injury amid this season’s fixture blizzard By Doug McIntyre (Yahoo Sports)
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Tuesday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. George Best in the U.S.: A reality more unbelievable than the myth By Pablo Maurer (TheAthletic) 2. Sent off for a cough? FA issues guidelines to referees By Shrivathsa Sridhar (Reuters) 3. El Paso Strong — How soccer and friendship helped a girls’ team heal from amass shooting By Chris Connelly (ESPN)
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Jim Fryatt, star on 1973 NASL champion Philadelphia Atoms, dies at age of 79
Jim Fryatt, who starred for the 1973 NASL champion Philadelphia Atoms, died at the age of 79 at his home of Henderson, Nevada. Fryatt was playing for Southport when it won promotion from the Emglish Fourth Division to Third Division in 1973. In the summer, hemoved on loan to the expansion Atoms along with Southport […]
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Monday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. College sports teams cut nears 100; critic says there’s ‘a ton of fat’ elsewhere By Eric Olson (AP) 2. Frustration (and illicit workouts) grow as youth sports remain sidelined By MarkZeigler (San Diego Union-Tribune) 3. Cruyff in D.C.: When the game’s greatestmidfielder played in the U.S. capital By Pablo Maurer (The Athletic)
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Former NASL and Cornell coach Dan Wood dies at the age of 73
Dan Wood, who took Bruce Arena‘s Cornell University to the NCAA final four at the age of 26 and later coached in the NASL and ASL, died on Thursday at the age of 73 in Port St. Lucie,Florida, from heart failure following a long illness. His college coaching career spanned five decades, from five years […]
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In SA 40 years ago: Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, George Best, Americans in the NASL, and women's soccer
In May of 1980, we covered Johan Cruyff in Washington, George Best in San Jose, Franz Beckenbauer with the Cosmos, Americans in the NASL, and a toprecruit by the Princeton women’s team.
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Former U.S. national team defender Dan Canter dies at the age of 58
Former U.S. national team player DanCanter died recently at his home in Las Vegas at the age of 58. Canter, a defender, played nine times for the USA in 1983-85, including every minute of all six games in 1984-85 duringthe unsuccessful 1986 World Cup qualifying campaign that ended with a 1-0 loss to Costa Rica […]
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Pro soccer pioneer Robert Hermann dies at the age of 97
National Soccer Hall of Famer Robert Hermann died recently at the age of 97. Hermann was one of the driving forces in getting the outlaw National Professional Soccer League off theground in 1967 as its president and was the owner of the St. Louis Stars in the NPSL for its one season and then in […]
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Peter Wilt: Fans must be included in the process of steering soccer through a huge unknown
Throughout his career, soccer exec Peter Wilt has been well known for communicating and connecting with fans. The pandemic has interrupted his latest quest. Wilt was furloughedby the USL as it suspended play for its three leagues. For the last six months, Wilt had been working for the USL’s new market development task force on […]
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Oregon soccer community mourns loss of ex-Timbers captain Jimmy Conway
Former Irish international Jimmy Conway, a soccer legend in thestate of Oregon, has died according to family members. For nearly a decade, Conway, 73, had suffered from trauma-induced dementia. He passed away Friday morning in Portland, Oregon, from multiplecomplications of the disease. . James Patrick Conway was born August 10, 1946, in Dublin, Ireland, […]