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The new Major League Soccer season kicks off around the country this weekend, and while it may be unfair to liken it to the more established sports here in the US, soccer should prove this summer that it is very much an emerging market. The key to the sport's development is the younger generation, who are all soccer players, both boys and girls, and as a result have a desire to go to games and ... [link]

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Shaka, Brah!
Published 3/28/2008 by Zach Dundas at Eleven Devils : A Football Blog
We have a new arrival in the soccerblogosphere: Shaka Hislop.

EPL Daily 3.28: Hislop has a blog? and it’s all drama.
Published 3/28/2008 by Breton at Center Holds It
... Hislop calls the Houston Dynamo the favorites for the upcoming 2008 MLS Season. I love it. He writes well, he analyzes well, and people will read him. He actually barely talks about the Dynamo, but focuses mainly on his former team Dallas and Beckham’s Boys. ...

Shaka Hislop blogs MLS
Published 3/28/2008 by Lynda at a pretty move
Dear to me for his service with the Trinidad & Tobago squad in 2006 (and to some readers and my fellow apm contributors for his West Ham goalkeeping), Shaka Hislop will blog weekly on the Guardian throughout the upcoming MLS season. I'm happy to report the vast majority of comments so far are of the pleasantly-surprised-and-anticipating variety as opposed to the tiresome "blah blah blah Americans can't play footba..." God, I got so bored thinking about it I couldn't even finish the sentence. ...

We Cover Most Regions News
Published 3/28/2008 by brucio at du Nord
... Galarcep at Soccernet gives us previews of all 6 games this weekend and also writes about the new foreigner players in the league. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Jeff Carlisle at Soccernet with a full MLS season preview. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Soccernet gives us their preseason Power Rankings. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Like a bolt of beautiful sunlight Shaka Hislop debut's on the pages of the Guardian with a MLS season preview. Yessir!. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Frank Dell'apa of the Boston Globe on the new group of ...

(The rest of) Your Questions Answered
Published 4/18/2008 by Ives Galarcep at Soccer By Ives
... Just spotted that Shaka Hislop is the new MLS correspondent for Guardian Football: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/03/28/dazzling_dynamo_the_team_to_be.html ...

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