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Video: Shop with a Player event

Behind the Badge 17 November @ 03:03 PM EST

On September 22, 25 youth soccer players from United Soccer Club's THEARC site had the opportunity to participate in Dick's Sporting Goods 'Shop with a Player' event. Dick's Sporting Goods 'Shop with a Player' was held at the Bailey's Crossroads location where each USC athlete received a $100 gift card to spend at Dick's, dinner provided by Papa John's, and the opportunity to shop and spend time with D.

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harder work than it needed to be

Dinamo & everything else 15 November @ 01:58 PM EST
Friday night and we're on our second LAPL game in 5 days, back at Crossroads we're 2-0 down to Penmar at half-time. We're really not concentrating, or working anything like as hard as we need to, and though we're a couple of first-choicers light (Nick, Jeff, Mike, David, Theo all out) credit to Penmar - they capitalize. Click to continue reading...

Team Owners Association Update 11/4/09 with “Inside The Six”

Inside Minnesota Soccer | Inside Minnesota Soccer - Uniting Soccer Fans in the S 04 November @ 10:04 AM EST

Richard Farley from "Inside the Six" interviewed yours truly to bring you up to date with the latest news on the Team Owners Association (TOA).

"Inside the Six" is part of the World Soccer Reader network and Richard Farley is well versed in football from around the globe as well as the US.

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Team Owners Association Update 11/4/09 with “Inside The Six”

Inside Minnesota Soccer | Inside Minnesota Soccer - Uniting Soccer Fans in the S 04 November @ 10:04 AM EST

Richard Farley from "Inside the Six" interviewed yours truly to bring you up to date with the latest news on the Team Owners Association (TOA).

"Inside the Six" is part of the World Soccer Reader network and Richard Farley is well versed in football from around the globe as well as the US.

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Should supporters be involved in running their own clubs?

Pitch Invasion 19 October @ 11:58 AM EST

When a conference on supporter involvement in English football includes speakers from Barcelona, UEFA, the F.A. and non-league football clubs, you know something unusual is going on.

This isn't the Leaders in Football conference of a couple of weeks ago, but it might have been just as important: Supporters Direct's annual conference concluded last week in Birmingham, and it seems to have cut to the heart of the question of how and why supporters should be involved in the governance of their clubs.

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Supporters Direct Arrive At The Crossroads

Twohundredpercent 17 October @ 09:21 AM EST

This year's annual Supporters Direct conference found the organisation at something of a crossroads. The high profile failure of Supporters Trusts at Notts County and Stockport County have caused a deal of unwanted attention to be cast upon SD (even though they are obviously not for responsible for the goings on at specific trusts) and, with continuing concerns about the credentials of some of the owners coming into the game, this year's conference was always going to carry an underlying theme about two subjects: foreign ownership and the question of whether supporter ownership of clubs is always a good thing.

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Major League Soccer at the Crossroads?

A More Splendid Life 25 September @ 06:55 AM EST
There is a scene in an otherwise exceptional documentary, The History of Football, that discusses the formation of Major League Soccer following the 1994 World Cup. A smug Clive Toye pops up to tell us how MLS "may never be as successful as the NASL, because they didn't have the money we had," but in the very next sentence bemoans MLS's "tremendous advantage" wrought from a generation of kids grew up watching the North American Soccer League. Click to continue reading...