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Colorado Caribous 1978 jersey. Can't wait to see this brought back!
“Party Like It’s 1979″, says the usually stone cold sober Kenn Tomasch . “The future of American soccer appears to be the past of American soccer.”
Kenn writes this because news broke today ...
Soccer
Seattle Sounders FC
Vancouver Whitecaps
Portland Timbers
Wembley Stadium panorama, pre-game, England-Slovenia, September 9th 2009.
Photo credit: _ToMick_ on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool .
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Wembley Stadium
England
South Africa
World Cup
Argentina
The Dayton Dynamo were, I now realize, far from a high-quality team. But in Southwest Ohio in early 1990s, there were few better options. European soccer on television would come later that decade, but growing up the only live option was the Dynamo.
The Dynamo did not even play the true ...
Soccer
Houston Dynamo
Costa Rica
Columbus Crew
Big Story
UEFA yesterday revealed more information about investigations into over 200 individuals alleged to have fixed matches in nine different countries with a press conference . This revealed that the vast majority under suspicion are domestic matches, with the German ...
Soccer
Sheffield Football Club vs. Queen's Park, Centenary Celebration
This match, the world’s first ever club centenary celebration, marked 100 years from the day of the founding of Sheffield Football Club, generally recognised as the world’s oldest club who still play today.
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Arsenal
China
Finland
Nottingham Forest supporters.
Photo credit: madrid1980 on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool .
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Big Story
He did it, we all know he did it, some think it was normal , some think it was the devil’s work , and Ireland want a replay even though FIFA have already ruled it out .
This brings us, of course, to the tricky question of justice in football. Some point out ...
Soccer
Thierry Henry
France
We’ve focused on the demolition of Ninian Park, formerly Cardiff City’s stadium, a couple of times before. Here are the latest photos of a sad end for a historic stadium, taken by Flickr Pitch Invasion Pool contributor joncandy today.
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Wales
Last week I wrote about the bottom half of my personal top 20 stadia (out of 31 total) in MLS history. This week I share with you my top 10. My b0ttom seven were all larger stadia with capacities of 30,000+ and the next three were each smaller stadia. Today’s list reveals eight ...
Soccer
Toyota Park
Red Bull Arena
Home Depot Center
Rio Tinto Stadium
Big Story
There is an excellent debate going on at the pages of A More Splendid Life about the future of soccer journalism (or really, the future of journalism in general), with his post yesterday on the impending doom for us all as the “so-called “newspaper ...
Soccer
Donbass Arena opened on August 29th, 2009, and this week will host its first international and one of the biggest game’s in Ukraine’s history: the second-leg of their World Cup 2010 qualifier playoff against Greece. Ukraine are in great shape to qualify after a 0-0 draw in Athens ...
Soccer
Ukraine
World Cup
Zalaegerszeg Ultras, Hungary
Photo credit : Rasiermesser Kalle on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool .
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Soccer
Big Story
Detroit hasn’t exactly been on everybody’s lips as the next great MLS market (Don Garber announced that was likely Montreal in his S tate of the League address yesterday ).
But news from the Free Press at least potentially puts the city back on the table: ...
Soccer
Major League Soccer
Graffiti at Estadio Jose Alvalade by Directivo Ultras, Sporting Lisbon supporters' group.
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Portugal
It wasn’t supposed to end that way. We were hosting the Conference Final at home for the first time in six years, after losing on the road to Columbus last year and in New England two years ago when also 90 minutes away from the MLS Cup Final, and everything seemed to be in the ...
Soccer
Chicago Fire
The African teams are mostly set. After last weekend’s final qualifiers, we know that Cameroon, Nigeria, and either Egypt or Algeria will join hosts South Africa, the Ivory Coast, and Ghana as Africa’s representatives at the first African World Cup. But those qualifiers also served to ...
Soccer
Angola
China
AFC Wimbledon supporters tuck in.
Photo credit: mattcr on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.
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Guatemala
Big Story
While FIFA’s decision to seed the European group playoff match-ups—basically a mulligan for underachieving powerhouses Portugal, France and Russia— worked according to plan , along came Egypt to remind us all why football is a sport like no other. Deep into injury ...
Soccer
World Cup
Egypt
Big Story
The American soccer blogosphere has been getting very hot and bothered in the past week, prompted by Jason Davis at Match Fit USA’s tongue-in-cheek post questioning Columbus’ suitability for remaining in MLS , following poor attendance in their last playoff ...
Soccer
Columbus Crew
Major League Soccer
The FC United of Manchester radio crew.
Photo credit: FCUM photography on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool .
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