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Something's Goin' On In Harlem
Something's Goin' On In Harlem
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.
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Red Bulls In Central Park
Red Bulls In Central Park
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 ...
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Soccer Better for you than Jogging
Soccer Better for you than Jogging
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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Harlem Renaissance Picks Up Steam (and Beckham)
"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 ...
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Something's Going On in Harlem, cont'd
Something's Going On in Harlem, cont'd
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. ...
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This Is American Soccer: The World Cup We Might Actually Win
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...
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Vehicular Aspirations: amplifying a beat
Vehicular Aspirations: amplifying a beat
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 ...
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European Roster for America
from ThisIsAmericanSoccer.com today (Tuesday)
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Sanctimonious Soccer Balls
Sanctimonious Soccer Balls
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 ...
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The First Boy Scout (London Calling)
The First Boy Scout (London Calling)
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 ...
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This Is American Soccer: Baby Steps in Switzerland
This Is American Soccer: Baby Steps in Switzerland
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...
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Pay to Play, even at the New York Times
Pay to Play, even at the New York Times
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 ...
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Bringing People Together
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 ...
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The Barometer: Deep Impact Edition
The Barometer: Deep Impact Edition
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...
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This Is American Soccer
(Some) Youngsters get their shot...

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Bring The Boys Back Home
“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...
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Soccer comes to Tribeca
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 ...
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This Is American Soccer: Sorry Mom: i know, if I can't say something nice...
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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Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
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, ...
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Diary Project Call For Entries
Diary Project Call For Entries
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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