Zlatan Ibrahimovic turned provider as Paris St. Germain thrashed Dinamo Zagreb 4-0 on Tuesday to knock the Croatian team out of the UEFA Champions League. The big Swede, playing ina deeper playmaking position, assisted on all four goals, scored by Alex, Blaise Matuidi, Jeremy Menez, and Guillaume Hoarau. After the game, PSG coachCarlo Ancelotti was […]
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Klingenberg, Marta and Company win Swedish title
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Olympic alternate Meghan Klingenberg won Sweden’s Damallsvenskan when Tyreso beat LdB Malmo, 1-0, onthe final day of the season and beat out Malmo on goal difference. Spaniard Veronica Boquete had the winning goal for Tyreso with eight minutes toplay. Tyreso’s multinational team was led by Brazilian star Marta, one of five foreigners in […]
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The Little Prince(ss)
“If you can dream — and not make dreams your master…” — Rudyard Kipling [THE PITCH: Blog 33] When I was 14 years old, Iplayed this game with myself. On the spur of the moment, I would come up with a personal challenge — if I can stop that ball before it crosses the line […]
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Klingenberg in top-of-the-table clash for title
[AMERICANS ABROAD: Damallsvenskan] U.S. international Meghan Klingenberg will look to win Sweden’s DamallsvenskanSaturday when Tyreso travels to LdB Malmo in a top-of-the-table clash for the title. LdB Malmo takes a three-point lead into the game, but Tyreso has a huge edge in the tiebreaker. Six Americans started in Wednesday’s FC Gothenburg-Fortuna Hjorring match in the […]
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My Fear Blog
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave.Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for […]
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Ibra's Autobiography Up for Literary Award
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s best-selling autobiography, “Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimovic” (I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic), has been shortlisted in Sweden for a prestigious literary awardcalled The August Prize, AFP reports. The book, which the Paris Saint-Germain striker authored with the help of Swedish journalist David Lagercrantz, is among six finalists selectedto compete for the award. The winner will […]
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My Fair Trade Blog
[THE PITCH: Blog 31] A season has many highs and lows, wins and losses. The waves of energy, waves of wins, waves of goals come coupled with exhaustion, losingstreaks, and dry spells. Over the course of a season, an athlete can lose a lot. I shudder thinking about how my body has deteriorated. The muscles […]
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What They're Saying
“I don’t know how to explain it. Normally, we would not waste a four-goal lead.” — Germany coach Joachim Loew on his team’s stunning collapseagainst Sweden, which rallied from four goals down after an hour to earn a 4-4 tie in World Cup qualifying. (AP)
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My Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Blog
[THE PITCH: Bog 29] On October 1st, I woke up in the morning and my first thought was, “Rabbit rabbit.” … In college, one of my friends held firmly to the superstition that if the first thing you say on the first day of the month is, “Rabbit Rabbit,” good luck wouldensue for the next […]
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To Build Me Up, Break Me Down
[THE PITCH: Blog 28] How often is smaller actually better? Hmm maybe with puppies and prices, but most of the time, the old cliché, “The bigger… the better” holds true. However, one important lesson that I have learned in a whopping two-year-career as a professional soccer player is thatthe “bigger-is-better” mentality does not apply when […]