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Beckham and other players in NYC for Saturday's
match conducted a clinic today to benefit FC Harlem
in Harlem. Players from the Galaxy and Red Bulls co-hosted. They will play each other at Giants stadium in front of the largest ever crowd there for an MLS match.
RBNY players with Steve Nash (standing, 4th from
left) and one of his several summer soccer teams
Well, it was the Central Park Conservancy employees that were bullish on Tuesday in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, but the Red Bulls couldn't say ...
From Science Daily : "A new scientific experiment
shows that soccer is better for your health than
jogging. Researchers believe that soccer can be used to actively fight obesity. Soccer is not just a game of fun. The research shows that a game of ...
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"Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham and defender
Ty Harden along with New York Red Bulls forwards
Juan Pablo Angel and Jozy Altidore will conduct a (invite-only) youth soccer clinic on Friday, August 17 at 3:30 pm at Jacob Schiff Field ...
From Irv Smalls (back, center, with the shaved
head in the above photo), Director of FC Harlem:
On Saturday Dutch soccer star Edgar Davids and his street soccer team from the Netherlands, Monta , paid a visit to FC HARLEM’s travel teams. ...
Move Over, Mia: I know, it’s blasphemy, or
maybe it now goes without saying, but Abby Wambach
might be better than Mia Hamm. Who’ve heard the phrase ‘a man among boys,’ well, Abby is a woman among girls. She towers over most opponents, outweighs most opponents, out-muscles most opponents, and out-skills them. At 5-foot-11-inches, there is no avoiding her physicality...
Ives at the helm during last year's World
Cup opening match between Germany and Costa Rica After
lunch at a brew pub, which has become my soccer office of late in Times Square, New Jersey Herald Red Bulls beat reporter Ives Galarcep expressed ...
from ThisIsAmericanSoccer.com today (Tuesday)
Kabul, Afghanistan, 2006. Credit: Rodrigo Abd for the
AP. That road to hell, as they say, is
paved with good intentions. And along the road today, are seemingly endless poppy fields , a soccer field or two if you look hard enough. BBC reported ...
A few weeks ago - if you didn’t
know before – we were all reintroduced to a
certain American soccer player when reporter Steven Sandor of Sun Media noted an Arsenal scout in the press box at a recent Toronto FC game. The report alluded to ...
He delivered what I thought was the best
game preview written in the last few days. And
now Michael J. Agovino is back, reporting from the US MNT's 1-0 win over Switzerland in Basel. But this might have to be it for Michael. Or people are going to start to expect this kind of sharp, concise writing all the time at TIAS...
New York Times' Jack Bell with FC Barcelona's
Ronaldinho. If a publication came to you and said
you could write a story about Ronaldinho but you’d have to pay your own way to Barcelona, what would you say? Ok, easy question. What if you had ...
Under the guise of allowing the youngsters to
play and letting Bradley look at his boys, I'm
not addressing Copa America today. I think I said everything I needed to say in the last post (Keller starting? Players playing their way off the team). So ...
August 10: If every action has an opposite
and equal reaction (TK’s law) than Freddy Adu’s story
evened out this week after its meteoric jump the last month...
(Some) Youngsters get their shot...
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“Ultimately, Beckham's stint in MLS will only be
a true asset to the league if, once he
leaves, the divide between his compensation and that of his peers is not so stunningly wide. The longer he remains the great exception in terms of impressive...
Abbas Suan of B'nei Sakhnin two radically different
documentary films premier at the Tribeca Film Festival in
New York Sons of Pigs. Just one of countless derogatory names spit at the players and fans of the professional soccer team of ...
Don't let the above photo fool you, Captain
America cannot fly. Claudio Reyna missed his second game
this season with his second injury, and looking from the crowds, nobody is coming out to see this over-the-hill hometown kid as was expected, and ...
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The mainstream media is always a step behind
when it comes to soccer, so it should come
as no surprise the New York Times came to Harlem FC a few weeks after I did, highlighting the burgeoning club’s search for fields. Updating the story, ...
photo credit: Zaki Raheem. Taken 7/2006 in livingston,
Guatemala Harlem's Soccer Savior - or at least one
of them - Irv Smalls sent me the above photograph a few weeks ago, and it's sat as my computer wallpaper ever since. I've been wanting ...
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Something's Goin' On In Harlem