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Guillermo Barros Schelotto is a very popular man in Argentina right now. Eight months ago, he left
Boca Juniors, where he'd become one of the most succesful players in the club's history, to move to
Columbus Crew of the MLS in the United States. On Tuesday it emerged that his boyhood club Gimnasia
La Plata [.
Recently, thanks to Chicago's Windy City Wanderers F.C., I went to my first ever indoor soccer
match. In America, indoor soccer has at times been big business, using aggression and scoring and
showbiz to attract considerable crowds. It's got a rich and long history, at times the only way to
see some of the best [.
Over at Chicago Sports Weekly, I take a look at a Chicago-based organised pickup soccer club (Windy
City Wanderers F.C.) who have grown from nothing to over 1,000 members in a little over a year.
Their founder, Matt Rosine, discusses their plans for the future, which includes a partnership with
Calle Soccer out of Utah, [.
MLS Underground has decided to shift focus and start covering MLS supporters in all their glory or
lack thereof. The site also wants to create a sort of directory of all things MLS support. A great
project in the works for American fans.
Ivan Gazidis, Major League Soccer's Deputy Commissioner, was interviewed by USSoccerPlayers.com
this week, and there were lot of interesting nuggets in there. His views about changing the
development of American youth soccer chime with what we've been discussing here recently as well.
And in fact, the problems he address are shared with numerous countries, including [.
Most of the soccer media's coverage about the Bay Area recently has focused on the impending return
of MLS there in 2008, as the San Jose Earthquakes are reborn. But they've been ignoring an
inspirational showing of grassroots passion a few dozen miles to the north in San Francisco. Mike
Alonso and other supporters of the [.
