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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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