1. Russ Sauer, who has served as U.S. Soccer’s chief outside counsel for many years, is retiring from Latham & Watkins,the California law firm where he has worked since 1980. He made the announcement in filing a motion to withdraw as U.S. Soccer’s counsel in the NASL’s antitrust suit that has entered its third year […]
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Top 10 U.S. soccer stories of the 2010s
American soccer experienced a decade ofunprecedented growth, along with new highs and lows. Here are our top 10 stories of the 2010s. 1. U.S. women win back-to-back WorldCups. The USA won the Women’s World Cup in 2015 and 2019, never trailing in 14 games over the two competitions. It almost won a third title, losing […]
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Pioneering NASL player and youth coach Wolfgang Suhnholz dies at 73
German Wolfgang Suhnholz, who starred in the NASL in the 1970s andlater became an influential youth coach in Central Texas and on the national level, passed away on Friday at the age of 73. Suhnholz’s Bundesliga career included two seasons at BayernMunich, alongside the likes of Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Mueller, before he moved to […]
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U.S. Soccer's Carlos Cordeiro on the mounting cost of legal fights, workplace issues and the CEO search
The Blackstone Hotel in Chicago has along history, dating back to the beginning of the last century. The term “smoke filled room” comes from an Associated Press reporter’s account of a meeting of Republicanleaders in a suite on the 9th floor of the Blackstone where they broke the deadlock at the 1920 Republic Convention and […]
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What They're Saying: Rocco Commisso
“It’s a tough decision. I have not made up my mind yet. Clearly, if nobody let’s us play, how can we play? NISA doesn’t want us, the NPSL doesn’t want us and I’mjust not going to field a team of amateurs. That’s not the Cosmos.” — Cosmos owner Rocco Commisso, undecided about the next step […]
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Saturday morning: What's in the news …
1. FC Cincinnati hired Larry Sunderland away from the Portland Timbers to serve as its first director of player development. Sunderland hasserved as the Timbers’ youth technical director since December 2015. He previously worked for the Chicago Fire. At FC Cincinnati, Sunderland will oversee the launch of FC Cincinnati’s academy andmanage FCC’s relationship with the […]
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Fernando Clavijo (1956-2019): Forty years of contributions as a player, coach and executive
Like so many soccer fairy tales, Fernando Clavijo’s soccer careerbegan in a park. Only for Clavijo, it was his second soccer career. He was 22 when he quit soccer in his native Uruguay, tired of the soccer politics that had tied him down, and he andhis wife, Martha, moved to the United States. Clavijo took […]
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In Soccer America 45 years ago: St. Louis and UCLA products in high demand
Our last January issue of 1974 covered the NASL’s college draft. The No. 1 pick won the NASL title his rookie year while his UCLA teammate opted for the NFL. NASL Commissioner Phil Woosnam and AdministrativeAssistant Ted Howard oversaw the draft in which a third of the picks hailed from the St. Louis area. The […]
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NASL vs. Gulati: New York civil suit against U.S. Soccer board members dismissed
The NASL’s civil lawsuit against U.S. Soccer board members in the Supreme Court of the State of New York has been dismissed after Judge Andrea Masley ruled that the case, filed in February2018, overlapped with the NASL’s antitrust suit against U.S. Soccer and MLS, which is in the discovery stage in U.S. district court in Brooklyn. […]
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Al Miller: Pioneer's soccer path from a one-room schoolhouse near Hershey to coach of NASL champion Philadelphia Atoms
The original NASL — the league that brought Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff to America — lasted from 1968 to 1984. Of the 17 NASLchampions, only one was led by a USA-born coach — Al Miller, who guided the Philadelphia Atoms to the 1973 title. Miller’s team was also unique in that it was […]