I've made a couple of new ones. A great way to kill some free time!

• MLS Players Off The Pitch - How familiar are you with the off the field activities of past and present MLSers? Includes both well-known and obscure examples.

• First MLS Game - Name the players and more from the April 6, 1996 clash between San Jose and DC United.

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I'm writing this post in order to bring some hope to you men (mostly), whose partners for life give them a hard time over their fascination with the beautiful game. I'll start at the end:

In May 2009, a business trip "forced" me to go to Barcelona. The trip happened to coincide with a home match against Villareal, and I hoped that the game would be the championship game.

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Raise your hand if you've worried about how much your kids do in a given year and if you are ruining their lives. Come on you over there. As soccer season kicks off and schedules get busier, it's a common concern. Joel Maners passed on a recent article in the Wall Street Journal that debunks the common belief that our kids are over scheduled:

we have some data about how kids spend their hours.

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Working as a freelance journalist has its perks but one of the drawbacks is having free time when the rest of the world is out there earning a crust. This time must be filled somehow and today I found myself perusing the BBC website checking the scores from the early kick offs in the Europa League qualifiers.

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Real Madrid players were given a two day break from preparing for the La Liga season, so Kaka did what most footballers would do with the free time go visit his former club at their training ground.

The new Galactico and card-carrying member of the Real Madrid fan club surprised his former teammates at the Milanello training facility and had a long talk with new manager Leonardo before making a curious statement to the public in reference to the club's Trofeo Berlusconi match against Juventus tonight:

"We hope to beat Juventus," he said to the fans.

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Bachelors - watch out! Fatherhood has gone all modern and you will be expected to do things your father probably only had a vague understanding of: cleaning, cooking, childcare, the list goes on. You will still be required to work full time, and because you are not likely to be any good at cleaning or cooking you won't get full credit for your efforts there. Click to continue reading...

Dynamo helping out during last year's blood drive.
If you have some free time this week, stop by one of the area Community Blood Center locations to donate blood and help save a life. This is the 3rd year we've teamed up with the CBC, and our fans are always very supportive. Check out the details at kcwizards. Click to continue reading...

From the Evansville Courier Press, July 12, 2009
Having dedicated so much of my free time to reading books authored about great coaches, managers, and leaders, what originally had started as a hobby of a literature major in college became an obsession. I was eager to learn more and more about what made each of these coaches successful, what motivated them and what they was like away from the field of competition. Click to continue reading...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be the happiest man alive once he has completed his move to Barcelona from Internazionale, the Swedish striker said.

Ibrahimovic arrived in the Catalan capital and was due to undergo a medical on Monday before signing his new contract with the European champions.

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Iker Casillas is in Mali, Africa doing a bit of charity work with the children there and apparently a dance party broke out right in the middle of it. Iker shows off his "diabetic jitters" style dance moves before taking on a few penalty kicks and playing some football with the kids.

All in all, for Iker to be doing this with the very limited free time he has after the Confederations Cup and before Real Madrid's training begins is pretty impressive.

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Louis van Gaal decided to introduce some unconventional measures at the start of his reign at Bayern and this is unlikely to have a welcoming reception from the players. He has forbidden his players nights out during the entire season even though similar actions made him very unpopular with Barcelona players.

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by Matt Besler - Kansas City Wizards
Well, the traveling continues this week as we headed off to Seattle for a US Open Cup game against the Sounders on Tuesday. After the game we head back to KC for just a day and then fly out to Boston to play New England in an MLS league game on Saturday. Click to continue reading...

I mentioned earlier how I used to live near Tha Reua Stadium in the past. Not that I ever went there. I never realised this before but I also lived close to the Chulalongkorn Stadium as well. In fact my box in Thung Mahamek was midway between the two.
Meaning that the clashes between Thai Port and Chula United has all the makings of a classic derby. Click to continue reading...

Every few months the Economist compares the prices of Big Macs round the world to see if currencies are over or under valued in relation to PPP, GDP and bar.
Now I'm no economist, I'm a very poor mathematician and I really do have way too much free time. But allow me to introduce scarf-onomics. Click to continue reading...

UPDATE:

The hoochie in the club/chica in question has been ID'd as Luisana Varacalli. Something about Luisana's winning personality has left most in the media unsure about whether she's an attention seeking story-teller or if her take on the matter is kosher, but here it is:

- Luisana says she had sex with Sergio at the club behind a partition and then headed back to his hotel at 7am for more.

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UPDATE:

The hoochie in the club/chica in question has been ID'd as Luisana Varacalli. Something about Luisana's winning personality has left most in the media unsure about whether she's an attention seeking story-teller or if her take on the matter is kosher, but here it is:

- Luisana says she had sex with Sergio at the club behind a partition and then headed back to his hotel at 7am for more.

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It's summertime and that means footballers have way too much time on their hands. So what do they do with all that free time? Well lets take a look inside their day planners and find out. This week: ...The Continental...

10:00 am Wake up under a stranger's bed, covered in sticky.

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Congratulations are in order for Ana and Nemanja Vidic who welcomed their second son, Stefan, on May 27th.

Btw, we were away when this happy news broke, so apologies for the late update. (Of course, those who follow us on Twitter got the news the minute we had it in.) (Do you like our subtle plugs?

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Congratulations are in order for Ana and Nemanja Vidic who welcomed their second son, Stefan, on May 27th.

Btw, we were away when this happy news broke, so apologies for the late update. (Of course, those who follow us on Twitter got the news the minute we had it in.) (Do you like our subtle plugs?

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By: Paul-Denys Calixte
Soccer City FC is honored to present our summer series -- Fútbol In Costa Rica. Harvard student, Paul-Denys Calixte, graciously agreed to offer up some cultural insight regarding how the game impacts the people, from the individual to the nation as a whole. In 2009, he spent time studying abroad at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Click to continue reading...

It's been going on for a while now.India's soccer icon Baiching Bhutia got a nasty show cause notice from his club questioning his commitment to their cause.It was probably sent by some overenthusiastic member of the Bagan politburo who had too much free time on his hands.Bhutia's reply was a brief and courteous "I quit".

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Italy's most-loved gangsta' is back and ready to play a full match! Futbolita Betsy reminded us about the Milan tour in USA in July, so all of you who're attending the game must remember to bring napkins for Gattuso when you see him.

Anyway, poor Paolo Maldini has to spend his final season fending off rants about his team's injury misfortunes.

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Did you know in 1995 that a player from the Ukraine juggled a ball for over 24 hours straight to set a world record? It's a pretty amazing feat, but it shows what you can do when you have complete mastery of controlling a soccer ball (and a lot of free time). Odds are that you will never have to dribble (or do anything else) for 24 hours straight, especially since soccer matches only last. Click to continue reading...

After the recent arrest of Ledley King outside of a nightclub, Harry Redknapp plans on instituting a new policy for next season that the Tottenham players shouldn't drink alcohol. It is an interesting idea, and he is correct that professional athletes should be focused on their conditioning and drinking alcohol does not help this, but how does Redknapp plan to enforce this? Click to continue reading...

Due to a family emergency I will actually be in Los Angeles this week, but not writing about the Galaxy. Fortunately, we will have some free time while there so we can show the girls around our old stamping grounds. I wish the Galaxy had a home game this weekend because I would actually have a chance to go.

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Persiwa v PSIS 6-0 (Boakay Eddie Foday 4, Redouane Barkaoui 2) 7,000
Persiwa, nicknamed the Highlanders, climb to second with this win making it a Papua one-two at the top of the ISl. Their home record this season makes interesting reading
13 13 0 0 29-6
Compare with their away form
13 3 2 8 12-23
This is their third season in the top tier of Indonesian football and their home record over that time also makes interesting reading
2006
13 10 2 1 23-7
2007
16 15 1 0 41-7
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Episode 21: "Where Sandra Finally Falls for One of Erik's Traps"
Host: Scott
Panel: Erik, Zach, Sandra
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Another week and another heart pounding, ear pleasing episode of Winning Ugly is ready for to be consumed by our loyal listeners. Click to continue reading...

For those of you who don't know me personally (if that's anybody anymore), I am moving to Chicago next week. This is the reason why I have barely posted since mid-August. Most of my free time over the past three months has been spent trying to find an apartment (check), a job (not yet), and dealing with some very important personal stuff (check).

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Do you have an incredible amount of free time on your hands? Do you not care if you ever [insert verb of your choice here] a girlfriend? Are you indifferent about bathing frequently? If so, then pay attention: Football Manager, the game which allows you to pretend you're Rafa Benitez, Carlo Ancelotti or The Voyeur, [. Click to continue reading...

The ISL returned last night with a whimper as Persik Kediri hosted PSM Makassar at the Brawijaya Stadium under the lights.
Budi Sudarsono, fresh from an impressive Independence Cup, scored after 16' but Julio Lopez equalised for the visitors on 74'.
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Hey folks. Work has decided that it is going to eat up more of my free time then I'd like, so posting may be sparse for the near future. I'll pass on some quick things before I grab dinner at 9 o clock at night. - Kyle from BTB brought it to my attention [...] Click to continue reading...

I've had less free time than anticipated and a few technical difficulties with the wireless in... Click to continue reading...

Tomorrow sees the start of the ASEAN Under 16s being held at Lebuk Bulus Stadium in South Jakarta.
This warm up tournament for the AFC Under 16s being held later in the year in Tashkent features Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Bahrain.
As part of Jakarta Casual's drive to bring the best of South East Asian football to the world*, I will be covering the tournament from Day One, tomorrow. Click to continue reading...

I'm timid to post this because I really have no news to report beyond what's on the Rapids website, but the Rapids seem to be adding a third kit to their closet. According to the Rapids' website, the new kit will debut in the friendly against Tigres next Wednesday, the 9th. They have a little teaser picture with just the shoulders of the shirts showing and then the rest shadowed out, and those look to be white with burgundy stripes, but who really knows?

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! As anyone involved in youth soccer will tell you, while we have PLENTY to be thankful for, the #1 thing most soccer parents with kids on travel teams are thankful for on Thanksgiving is the Fall season just ended the weekend before! Our first free weekend in a LONG time is coming [. Click to continue reading...