[OBITUARY] Dan Borislow, the controversial owner of franchise MagicJack in defunct Women’s Professional Soccer, diedTuesday night of a heart attack at the age of 52 after playing in a pickup soccer game. Borislow, owner of the telecom product MagicJack and a soccer dad, bought the Washington Freedom in2011 and moved it to Florida, where he […]
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Veteran college coach Logan Fleck passes away
[OBITUARY] Logan Fleck, a longtime men’s and women’s college head coach who startedprograms at USF and Arkansas-Little Rock, died on Monday at the age of 54. The son of pioneering youth coach Tom Fleck was the men’s coach at Stetson at thetime of his death. “He was a wonderfully caring person, committed to family, friends […]
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Longtime UMass coach Sam Koch dies
[OBITUARY] Longtime University of Massachusetts men’s coach Sam Koch died on Sunday athis home in Hadley, Mass., following a two-year battle with cancer. Koch, 59, had taken over the program in 1991 for what was to be the final year of the program, but he not only savedthe program but built into a respected national […]
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Pioneering soccer photojournalist Phil Stephens dies
[OBITUARY] Phil Stephens, whose pioneering coverage of soccer touched many in the American soccer community for more than40 years, passed away on Thursday morning at the age of 65 in Rowlett, Texas, following unexpected surgery. Stephens chronicled the rise of Dallas soccer from the early days of the DallasTornado and the youth soccer boom in […]
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Alfredo Di Stefano remembered as trailblazer and legend
[OBITUARY] Alfredo Di Stefano, considered one of the greatest players in the history of soccer, died Monday at the age of88. The Argentine has most often been associated with Real Madrid, the club at which he won five straight European Cup titles, scoring in each final. The Argentine never won the World Cup– indeed he […]
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Pedro DeBrito dies following car accident
[OBITUARY] Pedro DeBrito, one of the top players just as the college game started to take off in the early 1980s, died onSaturday in Miami, Fla., of injuries resulting from an automobile accident he was involved two days earlier. DeBrito, who starred at the University of Connecticut, played for Team America in the NASLin 1983 […]
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Soccer groups support family of John Bieniewicz
[OBITUARY] The soccer family is rallying around the family of John Bieniewicz, the 44-year-old Michigan referee who diedTuesday at a Detroit hospital from injuries suffered two days earlier in what police said was an unprovoked attack at an adult league match. BasselAbdul-Amir Saad, 36, was arrested and arraigned Monday on a felony charge of assault […]
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Gene Chyzowych dies at age of 78
[OBITUARY] Gene Chyzowych, who coached boys soccer at New Jersey’s Columbia High School for 50 years and served as the U.S.national team coach in 1973, died at the age of 78 on Saturday following a lengthy illness. Born in Ukraine, Gene moved to Philadelphia at the age of 13 from war-torn Europe with hisparents and […]
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“I just always remember Vilanova as a very studious player of the game. And someone in particular who loved Barcelona. Life has these difficult turns, but in the end he was able to coach Barcelona andthat was his ultimate dream.” — U.S. under-20 national team coach Tab Ramos, who (along with Sporting Kansas City manager […]
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Union fans mourn death of original supporter
[OBITUARY] Major League Soccer is not yet so big that the death of a fan is not felt around the league. Expressions of sympathy have come pouring in to the familyand friends of Philadelphia Union supporter Eric Shertz, who died in his sleep on Sunday. More so than at just about any other MLS club, […]