The city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland; has everything you want in a fabulous downtown area. The seafood in the marina, historic buildings and museums, the Aquarium and of course their great history in their professional sports teams like the Oriorles of Major League Baseball & currently the Ravens of the National Football League.

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It's Friday, so must be time for some shameless podcast related self-promotion. Taylor from Man Utd Offside and myself have been hosting the Total Football Soccer Show on WRIR, and posting the show as a podcast on Podcast Offside. This week's show (first broadcast on Thursday, October 22) was completely lacking in professionalism. Click to continue reading...

The FSSL season starts today and I am going to give you a heads up on the clubs who will be battling it out for the Premier Division title. The division grows by two sides this season to a total of eight clubs. Of the six teams in the division last season, last place Valrico SC is not returning. Three new clubs join for 2009-10 including OFK United Serbs, Largo United, and Real Sarasota. Click to continue reading...

We've not been able to do our extremely popular Mexican Soccer Cheerleaders / Porristas feature for a couple of weeks now because of the safety measures imposed in Mexico due to the swine flu outbreak that has occurred over there. Nevertheless, we have found a series of amateur soccer babe pictures for your viewing please on [. Click to continue reading...

Inside Minnesota Soccer had learned through regular reader Lighting Striker, AKA Neal, that Minnesota has an entry to the amateur side of the US Open Cup and that game will be played today at NSC. According to Ben O'Brien, Vice President of the Minnesota Soccer Association, the parent organization of all adult amateur soccer played in the State, that team is a 4th division MASL team called the Minnesota Hawks (not the Blackhawks).

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Inside Minnesota Soccer had learned through regular reader Lighting Striker, AKA Neal, that Minnesota has an entry to the amateur side of the US Open Cup and that game will be played today at NSC. According to Ben O'Brien, Vice President of the Minnesota Soccer Association, the parent organization of all adult amateur soccer played in the State, that team is a 4th division MASL team called the Minnesota Hawks (not the Blackhawks).

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The Third International Amateur Soccer Tournament- aka The Challenge for the Tiffany Trophy Cup - is going down in Washington, DC until April 11th for a select group of 17-year-olds. This year's roster includes the D.C. United Academy Team, Blackburn Rovers FC of England, El Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica, Chivas de Corazón of Mexico, Real Madrid CF of Spain, Pachuca FC USA Internationals (Potomac, Maryland), Freestate Soccer Alliance Elite (Bowie, Maryland), and Great Falls A ‘91 Elite (Great Falls, Virginia).

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Ladies and gentlemen, looking for a tournament out there where you can all play together? Well, in a press release from U.S. Soccer, I just came across the 2008 Coed Cup put on by United States Adult Soccer Association. The tournament, scheduled for October 24-26 in Dallas, features Open, Over-30 and Over-40 age brackets. Click to continue reading...

It was recently announced that MLS hopes to bring two more new teams to the league in 2011. Seattle is coming on next season and Philadelphia the following year. Now all the talk of expansion teams is in Canada. I do still think that St. Louis will probably get one and likely Vancouver could get the other.

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It's amazing how people who've grown up watching and playing this sport can be so bloody ignorant - you kick a ball, at point-blank range, into the guys arm (which is plastered against the side of his body), it's not a freakin' hand-ball! Nor is it a handball when you kick it against someone's arm, when his back is turned and couldn't see it coming! Click to continue reading...

Below is a list of all of the Adult leagues, both outdoor and indoor, in the greater Atlanta area that I know of. By all means, email me with the leagues I've missed.
I'm looking for any feedback you guys have here. Thing of interest to readers might be cost, travel distances, competitiveness, referee quality, field quality, league integrity (do you get your promised number of games, etc. Click to continue reading...

ADASL 2007-2008 Season Final First Division Results
The Atlanta District Amateur Soccer League wrapped its 2007-2008 season with 40 teams in the league, across four divisions, playing 18 regular season matches stretching from October to June.
The Atlanta Silverbacks Reserves finished at the top of the first division table, winning the double in Atlanta football as they also bested the newly promoted first division side, Sting Gold, in the Perrin Cup final. Click to continue reading...

The hosts will be firing on all barrels for this live online and radio commentary World Cup 2010 qualifier between Uruguay and Peru live as they have wasted too many home games without getting maximum points and they know that continued wastage will eventually lead to elimination from the race for a place in the next World Cup finals. Click to continue reading...

Last summer's Galaxy/Chivas match was fun to watch, even if it wasn't the most beautiful version of the beautiful game. It was a 0-3 routing – an uncharacteristic result, as the Galaxy have won most of the matches played against Chivas USA, the team with which they share the stadium. But Galaxy/Chivas USA is the best rivalry in MLS – Beckham's arrival merely turns up the heat, letting Chivas USA Click to continue reading...

It's a misty and cool January Sunday - nearly a year ago - and I'm wending my way from downtown Los Angeles to Palos Verdes – a gorgeous and very exclusive coastal region south of the city (not far from Carson, home of Chivas USA & LA Galaxy). The landscape changes from the flat freeway-crossed grid of south LA to the open, breezy boulevards of Lomita (I think), and after an hour I'm lost in a Click to continue reading...

This is the team I play with on Fridays:
2007 League and Cup Champions.
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I normally don't write about my own games here, because I figure that if you're not actually on the team, it's not that interesting. But I wanted to take a moment to brag about the fact that my Friday team clinched the league title this week, with a decisive 4-0 victory over the second-place team. That puts our record at 14 wins and 2 losses, with one game to go. Click to continue reading...