By Clemente Lisi – NEW YORK, NY (May 16, 2012) US Soccer Players -- Guy Newman is one of those who played in both the outdoor and indoor version of the sport in this country throughout the 1970s and ‘80s. Like many who played in the original North American Soccer League, Newman had to transition and play indoors when the outdoor pro league folded.

The launch of the new Liverpool home kit has prompted an angry response from a number of the families of those killed in the Hillsborough disaster.
The club's home shirt for the 2012-13 season, designed by American company Warrior, was revealed on Friday.
Fans have welcomed the design, but the decision not to consult some families over the decision to move the symbol honouring the dead, has angered many.

Flight delay? No problem for Joanna Boyles and Maddie Bauer
The U.S. Under-17 Women's National Team has arrived in Guatemala to prepare for the 2012 CONCACAF U-17 Women's Championships and even though Guatemala City is only 1,800 miles from Dallas, Texas, where the team met up for its international flight, it wasn't a short trip.

Former New York Cosmos and Lazio legend Giorgio Chinaglia has died due to complications from a recent heart attack. He was 65.

Chinaglia was a star among stars on the New York Cosmos, having joined the NASL after a storied career with Italian club Lazio. He finished his NASL career with a league-record 243 goal.

If you think back to your childhood, Saturday mornings were an idyllic time, watching cartoons and other children's programming on television. When I lived in the United Kingdom in the late 70s and early 80s as a child, my Saturday ...
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It is hard not to have sympathy for Zambia's football team: in the 80s and early 90s they were an important part of the African football awakening that was to take the world by storm right until 1993, when the entire team was killed in an air disaster when heading to a World Qualifier. While in 1994 they made it to the African Nations Cup final, they still never fully recovered from the

By Mark Burke

Editor's Note: Mark is an ex-professional footballer who played at Aston Villa, Wolverhampton, and Middlesbrough in the late 80s/early 90s, as well as abroad in Holland, Japan, Romania, and Sweden. He provides deep, unique insight into the game and its surrounding business and tactics.

CU's soccer future just got a lot brighter.

On Monday, the University of Colorado lured Danny Sanchez back to the Front Range to take over an underachieving Buffs team that stumbled badly in its first season in the Pac 12.

Sanchez, who spent the past several years turning the University of Wyoming into a winning program, has a history of winning at every level.

How would Kenny Dalglish's superb team of 1987-1991 stack up against the current Barcelona team? Liverpool legend John Barnes was recently asked that question, and despite being a huge fan of Pep Guardiola's team, he questioned whether the likes of Messi and Iniesta would be able to cut it in an era where players hardly got any protection at all from referees.

Ian Rush played alongside Kenny Dalglish in the 1980s, and was later worked under him during the King's first spell in charge at Anfield. Clearly, Rushie is in a unique position to know exactly what Kenny brings to the club.
Rush, who doesn't appear to have any management ambitions of his own, is happy to see that one of Liverpool's key principles is being upheld:
"What Kenny brings to the club is the thought that no one is bigger than the team, but he does that without hurting any of the players' sentiments".

The story of The End: James Brown on the first football and music fanzine

James Brown, the man who launched Loaded magazine, reveals why he's reprinted a cult magazine from Liverpool of the 80s ... The End. Click here to order your copy of The End compilation When I launched Loaded magazine in 1994 there had only really been one magazine that had combined football and music before and that was The End from Liverpool.

Got Not Got Extract 6: When the Kangaroo Kid was king of the Scorcher comic underdogs

New book Got Not Got: The A-Z Of Lost Football Cultures, Treasures and Pleasures, by MirrorFootball contributors Derek Hammond and Gary Silke, is brilliant and it's available to buy now.

By Chris Wright

"Jurr Curl's scurred a gurl"

Those good people over at hirsute charity Movember have started a petition to get four 80s sporting heroes and one-time top-lip topiary aficionados namely Nigel Mansell, Barry McGuigan, Ian Botham and Mark Lawrenson to re-grow their resplendent Mo's for charity next month.

The disturbances on the night of August 6th following a vigil for local man Mark Duggan, allegedly shot by police three days earlier, became the spark that ignited the most widespread and sustained civil disobedience in Britain since the early 80s. Yet Tottenham remains the area that has suffered the most.

Stan Kroenke has given an interview to offer his full support to Arsenal boss manager Arsene Wenger. American billionaire Kroenke became the club's majority shareholder this year and insists AW has earned the right to decide how long he stays in charge at the Ems.

He said: "With Arsene, it's his decision and only he will know that.

Why I want a blood-and-thunder Mersey derby just like the bad old days

The Merseyside derby was once known as the friendly derby. God knows why. The other day I watched a replay of an encounter between the old enemy from the early 80s, which was supposed to be a decade of friendly rivalry between the two great clubs.

Why Scottish caps 'didn't count' at Bayern Munich in the '90s

I fulfilled a dubious ambition on Monday night by going to the Munich Oktoberfest. Those of us from the press corps who raised a few steins in the Weinzelt owe a debt to Bayern Munich officials who obviously recognised kindred spirits and swung entry for us.

Embrace it. Feel it. Dance it. The definitive song of the Madchester scene of the "80s". Given extra juice by the late Kirsty MacColl.

80s day on LFC TV

We continue our 80s themed weekend with some more fantastic programmes for your enjoyment right here on LFC TV.

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Today: Relive the 80s on LFC TV

It's 80s weekend on LFC TV as we look back on some truly defining and wonderful moments from a glorious era.

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10.30pm: Managing the Liverpool Way

They revolutionised British football on the pitch during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, but how did our stars of the past fare when it came to life in the hot seat? We attempt to find out in our new series 'Managing the Liverpool Way' tonight at 10.

My favorite type of goals are not usually the stunning ones, but the skillful ones, especially with high imagination and vision or a combination of foot and mind skills,
This goal from Sao Paulo got my attention a lot. If it was a normal player, he would kicked it so hard, and the keeper saved it, then he curse his luck
This goal from unknown league or game is wonderful great combination of imagination and skills
I think Ronaldinho in Brazil is now reaching the phase where he plays for the fun and joy of the game and not for money.

Funny old football photos: Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United, Spurs and more players with bad mullets and moustaches

Click on the arrows to see a gallery of '80s and '90s pen pics from the decades style forgot

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By Chris Wright

Presenting: Olympique de Marseille's brash new European kit for 2011/12 'the future's bright' and all that jazz...

Apparently, L'OM's new retina-searing togs are orange (to the Nth degree) as a nod back to the inside of the bomber jackets that their fans used to display in the '80s as a sign of their collective 'rejection of intolerance' which is a worthy sentiment, even if my eyes are still refusing to un-cross themselves.

New Liverpool coach Kevin Keen says he is "privileged, proud and honoured to be part of such a fantastic club."
And the 44-year-old former West Ham midfielder is even prepared to forgive Kenny Dalglish for spoiling his Football League debut 25 years ago!
Dalglish appointed Keen as first team coach yesterday following Sammy Lee's departure, with Steve Clarke moving up to assistant manager.

The USA's 90-minute training session today was held under intermittent sunshine and clouds, but the squad is looking sharp and extremely anxious to get this tournament underway. The competition starts tomorrow with two games in Group A and then the tournament will be off and running with matches on eight straight days.

By Chris Wright

Lord knows we like a simple shirt, but it looks like Puma are taking 'pared down' to the Nth degree if this really is the new Tottenham home shirt for 2011/12...

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Now, Pies are official, card-carrying advocates of the 'less is more' approach to kit design, but even we have to admit that we preferred last season's 80s-infused Puma strip.

Former Liverpool striker David Hodgson believes Kenny Dalglish is the sort of father figure who can bring the best out of Jordan Henderson.
Hodgson, who played for the Reds 49 times in the early 80s, arrived at Anfield from a north-east club as an England U21 international, just as Henderson has.

The U.S. WNT has been training in (what they tell us) are unseasonably warm weather in New Jersey (80s and 90s), but that should be good preparation in Germany where it could be quite hot during the Women's World Cup. The squad has been taking some long drives to training, which means the players have had to find things to occupy their time.

With Paul Scholes retirement we are invited again to confront the nature of footballing greatness. Over on TiFF someone has made the point that Best and Charlton are legends, not Scholes. But surely this is incorrect.

Footballing history as we know it is based on 120 or so years of competitive play.

My business is prone to hyperbole. It's like the troublemaker you once ran with in high school; you try to stay away from him, but he's your pal, and he still gets you in trouble every now and then.

Seriously, it's just part of the human condition, I think. We all enjoy the thought that we might be living an important moment of history.

Hello there, it doesn't really feel like summer's upon us yet despite the raft of transfer stories that abound. I blame the lack of sunshine. And summer breeze. The jasmine of my mind needs a good blowing through.

Let's start with possible ins. Today's main story is about Karim Benzema and some quotes from Arsene Wenger about the player.

Here's an awesome video find: highlights of an (original) MISL broadcast from January 1985 as the Cleveland Force take on the Pittsburgh Spirit. Not everyone knows that the dean of American soccer broadcasters, my man JP Dellacamera, got his start with the Spirit. Check out the first half of play and the halftime with highlights and features and enjoy a trip back to the mid-1980s.