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How Key Stakeholders Can Mitigate Damage from the United States’s Failure to Qualify for the 2018 World Cup and Enhance the Development of Soccer in the United States
Introduction For the first time since 1986, the United States will not be playing in the World Cup. After an embarrassing qualifying campaign — which culminated in the U.S. Men’s National Team finishing below Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and Honduras in the CONCACAF table — the Stars and Stripes faithful will be watching other…
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¿Qué habría pasado sin el Cruyff entrenador?
¿Qué habría pasado sin el Cruyff entrenador? Es una pregunta que no nos hacemos, una pregunta compleja que tiene varias respuestas. Pero sin el Cruyff entrenador, hoy nuestro paladar futbolístico no estuviera tan educado, muchos técnicos seguirían pensando en entrenar sin darle importancia al balón, el fútbol en espacios reducidos no sería importante en la…
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Fabio Quagliarella Rediscovers the Meaning of Football Paradise at Sampdoria
Dealing with a stalker and then suffering a serious knee injury would affect anyone, not just a footballer or any other professional athlete. Former Italian international Fabio Quagliarella experienced those things in nearly 20 years as a professional career, but at the age of 35, he has been able to overcome those ordeals and he…
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Mané Garrincha – The Joy of Brazil
“In the end, all that matters is what you are remembered for” The quote above describes Mané Garrincha most accurately. Most of us won’t know who Mané Garrincha is because football was not as global as it is now and he played during an age where the internet simply did not exist. Mané Garrincha is…
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The Peculiar Case of Maksim Shatskikh
September 17, 2002. It was one of those rare times in Malaysia where I would get to watch Dynamo Kiev in action. The opponent of the day was Newcastle United, managed by the late Sir Bobby Robson. A friend of mine was skeptical of my choice, noting that there were far more star-studded Champions League…
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A look back at the 2015 MLS SuperDraft and Cristian Roldan
The MLS SuperDraft is always a crazy day with a lot of craziness happening. For one, the draft usually features less “standout players” than most other American sports and the top prospects often turn out to have the most success. Every now and again you get the Chris Wondolowski’s of the world who turn out…
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History of Designated Players in MLS
Major League Soccer is one of the quickest growing leagues in the history of the sports world. The league began in 1996 with just ten teams and a hockey-style shootout which fans now look back and laugh on. With some 1994 American World Cup Heroes returning to their homeland to grow a league in the…
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Fuel for the Burning Fire: How the Rivalry between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid Fans the Flames of Catalan Independence
Foreword I wrote this two years ago for my Senior Independent Project. A lot has changed, a lot has stayed the same. As the topic of Catalan independence continues to dominate the headlines, I think it’s appropriate to publish this project, a project that I spent months toiling over, and that still holds relevance to…
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The Post-Modern Fullback
Evolution is a necessary element of our world. A faster cheetah catches more antelope, and a faster antelope escapes more cheetahs; this dynamic relationship between the two animals creates two of the fastest animals on our planet. You have to adapt to stay alive, and the traditional fullback is having to do the same with…
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Top Five Portuguese Imports To Play in Serie A
Over the course of its existence, the Serie A has welcomed a fair share of Portuguese internationals to come ply their trade on the Peninsula – 54 if I’m correct. Included in this list are plenty of who settled for a brief time, sampling only a teaser of Italian ‘calcio.’ However, a select group spent…
