Along with Kartik Krishnaiyer over at The Kartik Report, Inside Minnesota Soccer’s Brian Quarstad has been doing yeoman’s work keeping the United States’ football-following public up-to-date on what’s happening with the United Soccer Leagues (USL).
If you don’t know the backstory, Brain has a page set up to track “United Soccer Leagues at a Crossroads.” You [...]
Do matches only shown over the internet actually exist? More than the implications of this match, that is the story being discussed in the English-language media. How dare they take our footy out of our pubs?
A better question to ask: Should games involving a team with no stakes exist? Of course, [...]
Episode #29 of Inside the Six features my full conversation with Ata Dizdar, who was on Episode #28 talking about Turkish football. He is a fellow writer at The Kartik Report.
You can listen at World Soccer Reader, on iTunes, or below.
Episode #28 of World Soccer Reader’s Inside the Six will be distributed on that site later today. On it, you will hear my detail analysis of the Sevilla-Real Madrid match-up as well as the Chelsea-Liverpool match. Along with updates on all our favorite leagues in Europe, South and North America, I talk [...]
We really should be talking more about the United States’ U-20. They posted a 4-1 win over a very good Cameroon team on Tuesday. Granted, they need the win because they had a disappointing opener – a 3-0 loss to Germany – but that just gives us more to talk about!
But because of [...]
Nice to have you back, Karim. The Madrid striker had a brace today against Tenerife.
Watching Karim Benzema’s brace (with an assist) against Tenerife gave me a huge sense of relief. Why am I – a dude from San Diego who’s never met Benzema – relieved that he’s scoring goals?
I go into that [...]
Three articles, each with a slightly different feel, all about this weekend’s action in the Mexican Primera División.
First, at Man About Fútbol there is a general overview – a concise (well, as concise as I get) way of getting everybody up-to-date for this weekend’s matches.
You can find it here.
At my Examiner site, the attempt to [...]
Juande Ramos’s hire at CSKA merited a bit of an introduction, which I did here. And here. Well, also here.
Here’s a glimpse:
Ramos’s aggressive approach might cost CSKA in Champions League, where the talent of the opponent could lead to more results like today’s 3-1 loss to VfL Wolfsburg, but it will also push [...]