[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 […]
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Yanks win Finnish Cup, Averbuch, Spencer score twice
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Liz Bogus scored the first goal and fellow Americans CaseyBerrier and Megan Chapin also started for PK-35 in its 2-1 win over Pallokissat in the final of Finnish Cup. U.S. international Yael Averbuch scored two goals as FC Gothenburg beat Jitex, 3-1, to win its fifth game in a row in the Sweden’s […]
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The Player Analysis Blog
[THE PITCH: Blog 27] To get into the heart of a team, you have to let your teammates into your heart. That’s what I have been trying to do here in Sweden.And that’s exactly why this experience has been so meaningful to me. Perhaps it doesn’t seem like such a feat … becoming friends with […]
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My Pursuit of Happiness Blog
[THE PITCH: Blog 26] If you follow my blogs then you already know that, pretty much, I have nothing in life figured out. I don’t know exactly who I aspireto be, nor do I understand fully who I am right now. I’m trying to flush out the ways of the world, but I know that, […]
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Press and Averbuch score in Sweden
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Christen Press and Yael Averbuch scored to give fourth-placeFC Gothenburg a 2-0 win Sunday at last-place Djurgarden in Sweden’s Damallsvenskan. Americans were also winners in France and Germany, where the women’s seasons are just beginning. Pressnow has 14 goals in 14 games to rank second behind German Anja Mittag of leader LdB Malmo […]
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Ibrahimovic toys with opposing keeper
It took four games, but big-spending Paris St. Germain finally got its first win of the season after three ties with a 2-1 win at Lille. Swede ZlatanIbrahimovic, the center piece of PSG’s massive spending spree, scored within the first 27 seconds and adding a second goal in the 21st minute. Lille’s Mickael Landreau was […]
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What They're Saying
“She’s been very successful … a terrific coach. We’re going to be very supportive of her winning every silver medal out there.” — U.S. Soccer presidentSunil Gulati on U.S. women’s national team coach Pia Sundhage leaving after five years to return home to Sweden, whereshe is being pursued to take over its women’s national team […]
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My Story Blog
[THE PITCH] To Torbjörn Nilsson, who is both my head coach and my Swedish liaison/mentor, soccer is a game of numbers. He explains the field in geometricterms. He talks of decision-making based on probabilities. In meetings he demonstrates how to break each situation down to a solvable equation. As I scribble down his lessons in […]
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Sundhage is going to be missed
[USA WOMEN] After leading the USA to back-to-back Olympic gold medals and second place at the 2011 Women’s World Cup, U.S. women’s national team head coachPia Sundhage has decided to return home to pursue opportunities in Sweden. In her five seasons as head coach, she had a 89-6-10 record. Her last game incharge of the national […]
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My Fresh Perspective Blog
[THE PITCH] I am a world traveler. I like the sound of that, and more importantly, I like the truth in it. I think it implies not only that I have visited manyplaces, but also, I am on a course, a processof discovery; one that soccer has afforded me. While I am not a negative […]