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New Coaching Trend: Punching players

The Offside 20 September @ 04:30 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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The football world is focused on managers today. In addition to Jose Mourinho leaving Chelsea, Gheorghe Hagi has decided he has spent enough time working for a lunatic owner at Steaua Bucharest. The stress of being a manager must be great. Not only do you have to please your boss, but you [...]

Should we inject your toe or give you a stem cells transplant?

The Offside 05 September @ 02:30 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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For reasons that I can hardly explain, the powers that be in the football world always insist on playing international matches mere weeks after the leagues in Europe get underway. Talk about a buzzkill. We wait all summer for the leagues to resume and once they all do we are forced to spend [...]

Kosuke Kimura, The Only Japanese Player in MLS

Culture of Soccer 26 September @ 09:57 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Note: This is the ninth and final part of my American Soccer Road Trip, which will involve me traveling across the country, finding stories that exemplify the diversity that exists in American soccer. Check back soon for further updates. If I had to choose one word to describe Kosuke Kimura, it would have to be [...]

Sepahan go through in AFC Champions League

Last Kick 26 September @ 10:13 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Sep 26, 2007
PA Sport

KAWASAKI - Sepahan punished a profligate Kawasaki Frontale to progress to the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League with a 5-4 penalty shoot-out win over the J.League side after the second leg of the quarter-final finished goalless on Wednesday.

Hiroyuki Taniguchi missed Frontale's fourth penalty before Jalal Akbari slotted home Sepahan's final spot-kick to take the Iranians through to a last four meeting with either Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia or Al Wahda from the United Arab Emirates.