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In this, the final edition of my interview with Inside Minnesota Soccer’s Brian Quarstad, we continue our discussion of the role of citizen journalism in U.S. soccer media. Where main stream sports outlet have yet to fully develop their editorial voice for soccer, how does citizen journalism help augment meeting the demand for coverage.

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Jeff Kassouf, Johnathan Starling and myself were on Wednesday’s Set Piece Analysts’ podcast. Amongst the topics: Women’s Professional Soccer and Tobin Heath, Clint Dempsey getting a “decent” diagnosis, and whether Manchester United should have kept Carlos Tévez.

Kevin McCauley and myself are doing a daily African Cup of Nations podcast for Set Piece Analysts. Today’s show talks about Ghana advancing into the quarterfinals and previews coming action in Groups C and D.

On this episode of Russian Football Now, Chris Riordan and myself talk about the viability of Guus Hiddink staying as coach of the Russian Men’s National Team. We also discuss recent transfer news, including the move of Aleksander Kerzhakov to Zenit St. Petersburg, before I sign-off.

This was my last show as co-host [...]

In the second of a three-part interview, I talk to Inside Minnesota Soccer’s Brian Quarstad about the role of citizen journalism in U.S. soccer coverage.

Over the last year, Brian has led the coverage of the USL-1’s break-up, with many of the clubs who competed in the 2008-09 season’s second division breaking-off to form the new [...]

This weekend, I had Brian Quarstad back on the show. Brian is the owner of Inside Minnesota Soccer, a web site that came to prominence over the last year for it’s coverage of the saga in the second division of United States soccer that eventually led to a United States Soccer Federation-run league [...]

On the Tuesday edition of the Set Piece Analysts’ daily podcast, Brian Zygo, Kartik Krishnaiyer, and Richard Farley continue considering Clint Dempsey, whose World Cup remain in doubt pending definitive diagnosis of a knee injury that forced him from Sunday’s Fulham match with Bolton.

Then, the trio discuss the culture biases contributing to continued scrutiny of [...]

Richard Farley and Kevin McCauley are back for their daily Cup of Nations podcast. Today, your hosts look back at an anticlimactic end to Group A, where hosts Angola were accompanied by Algeria into the next round thanks to a nil-nil that played out as a tacit agreement between the sides.

Then, the hosts look [...]

The Set Piece Analysts’ weekly women’s soccer podcast is back.

This week, hosts Jeff Kassouf and Richard Farley are joined by Atlanta Beat General Manager Shawn McGee, who joins the podcast to talk about drafting Tobin Heath, the task of marketing her and the new team, the rest of the Beat’s draft, and the diversity [...]

Set Piece Analysts’ daily Cup of Nations podcast ponders the future of the tournament now that Egypt has asserted themselves as the ACN’s best team. The future: Either one of the more talented nations step-up, or the reign of the Pharaohs will continue.

This is the response of hosts Richard Farley and [...]