Honduran fan as well as South Florida soccer historian Robert Scorca gives us a great foundation regarding one of the pillars of our footballing history.
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Part IV: NASL is Gone, What's Next
By Robert Scorca - The Fort Lauderdale Strikers moved to Minnesota because there was no suitable indoor facility here. Click to continue reading...

...and I like it!
Following my weird and wacky vision for a new kind of MLS, which garnered some suprisingly positive reactions, the Canadian Stretford End is pushing the idea for an interim Canadian Soccer League (no, not that CSL) now that Vancouver and Montreal, the two USL-1 finalists, are homeless. Click to continue reading...

Self-consciously similar to the CFL Logo
Yes, among Canada's oldest professional league competitions, it's the Canadian Soccer League. Toronto FC fans will know it for providing TFC a simulacrum of youth development (TFC Academy), and the rest of us know it from stumbling onto it late on a Sunday evening on cable access television. Click to continue reading...

Now THAT's a rivalry
How can it be?
It's not like the Impact will get promoted to MLS anytime soon. And you can't graft on rivalries from other sports—the grudge match between the Maple Leafs and the Canadiens has its own glorious history in the NHL. You'd have to go back to the Carls-Rite Cup matches between Toronto and Montreal soccer all-stars (1914-1931) for a proper Quebec-Ontario rivalry. Click to continue reading...

Due to popular demand, I'm going to milk this thing for all its worth, and then when people get bored or I really miss the mark I'll try and come up with some sort of intelligent analysis or something.
Number 2. Conspicuous Use of the Term 'Football.'
"Football" is one of the North American Football Fan's favourite words, because it serves multiple social uses. Click to continue reading...

When Canada qualified for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, many journalists, football administrators, players, coaches, and fans wondered aloud how a country without a competitive domestic professional league could produce players capable of beating the world's best. Hence, in an effort to give homegrown players a chance to play at home rather than toddle off overseas to ply their wares (I'm Click to continue reading...

A terraced stadium, uniformed police, partisan chants, and an Everton scout. No, this wasn't Millwall at the Den circa 1985, this was Lamport Stadium in Toronto, site of the Canadian Soccer League's (formerly the National Soccer League of which I've written here before) largest local derby -- Serbs v. Click to continue reading...