By Paul Gardner It has occurred to me at regular intervals during the past decades that one of the problems that entangle FIFA is this: its location. Switzerland. Is that a goodplace to be for an organization in charge of a sport that can lay claim to being the most global activity that the world […]
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Leicester Signs Inler
Leicester City on Wednesday signed Switzerland midfielder Gokhan Inler from Napoli on a three-year deal, subject to international clearance. The 31-year-old moves the King Power Stadium foran undisclosed fee and is the undefeated club’s sixth summer signing. Inler, the Switzerland captain, has won 84 caps and played at the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. He […]
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Report: Shaqiri to Join Stoke
Xherdan Shaqiri on Monday passed a medical and agreed personal terms ahead of a 12 million-pound ($18.7 million) move from Inter Milan to Stoke City, sources told ESPN FC. Shaqiri, 23, wasin the stands for the Potters’ 1-0 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday and will complete his move in the next 24 hours. The Switzerland […]
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ICYMI | MLS: Pirlo debut in doubt, Jones close to return
NYCFC head coach Jason Kreis is noncommittal about Andrea Pirlo‘s status this weekend. Jermaine Jones is nearing a return at New England following a second sports-hernia surgery. Sheanon Williams, the longest-tenured player at the Philadelphia Union, was traded toHouston. 1. Pirlo trains but debut is iffy Two training sessions into their working MLS partnership, midfielder […]
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U.S. Abroad: Tall moves to Switzerland
Maki Tall, who started the first game of the Under-20 World Cup for the USA, joined Swiss Super League FC Sion on a three-year contract following his transferfrom French club Lille. Tall scored the first goal in the USA’s opening win, 2-1 over Myanmar, but missed the remainder of the tournament with a broken toe. […]
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Ecuador women defend the honor of their country
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) My sentimental favorite at the Women’s World Cup has been aminnow, a debutant, and ultimately — at least statistically — the worst team in the competition. Ecuador went home with three losses, one goal scored, and 17 conceded, a disaster in everycompetitive sense. No team fared worse: Ivory Coast wound up […]
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WWC Today: What's at stake on Tuesday
As expected, Canada and Germany won their groups at the Women’s World Cup and are joined by China and Norway in the final 16 of the expanded second round. A late goal by Kirsten van de Ven, formerly of Quinnipiac and Florida State, gave the Netherlands a 1-1 tie with Canada that revived Dutch hopes […]
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WWC Today: What's at stake on Day 3
With one game to play in the group stage, just two teams — Brazil and Japan — have clinched berths in the second round and no team has been mathematically eliminated. Despite its 0-0 tie withSweden, the USA is all but assured of reaching the second round and well placed to win its group. Of […]
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Twenty for Canada 2015: Switzerland's Lara Dickenmann
(Soccer America continues its countdown to the 2015 Women’s World Cup with the second of 20 profiles of the women to watch in Canada.) Lara Dickenmann was already a star on the Swiss national team in 2004 when she left home to enroll at Ohio State, a university with twice the enrollment (57,000students) of the […]
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Klinsmann, ever the optimist, refuses to buckle
A worrying trend of conceding late goals continued, yet while tying Switzerland, 1-1, in Zurich on Tuesday, the U.S. national team generated more good play than it has in most of its recent matches. Though outshot, 12-6, the Americans used their possessions effectively and several times were presented clean looks at goal they couldn’t convert. […]