With the English Premier League season starting this weekend, you might be asking yourself where a good place to catch an EPL game with a few other soccer fans might be. While I must admit that my living room sofa and a DirecTV setup that gets Setanta, FSC, and GolTV keeps me fairly satisfied, every now and then I like to catch a game with other footy fans at the different bars around the Triangle. Click to continue reading...

Argentina's Olympic soccer coach Sergio Batista had a bit of a mix-up in an interview recently. The translation came out that they were playing Siberia instead of Serbia.

But he's easily forgiven once you hear how the interviews go...

Argentine journalist asks question. Batista answers.

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Yesterday the Toronto Globe reported that the CFL Toronto Argonauts are asking their season ticket base if the team should move to BMO Field, home of Toronto FC of MLS.

Understandably, the soccer fans of Toronto, who have sold out every single home match at the two year-old downtown stadium , are mighty upset that the Argos, who have been around since 1930 and have a smaller season-ticket file than TFC, are considering painting "football" lines on the soccer field. Click to continue reading...

This post is still necessary. Call me the cranky feminist of the soccer blogosphere, but things like the comments on this post are fucking vile, and disrespectful of all women, let alone soccer fans. If y'all wanna have a frat party, is the internets really the best place for it? Much harder to tap a good keg online, I have to say. Click to continue reading...

The potential for overseas sign-ups for the Canberra and Region A-League team is, I believe, significant.

Overnight Razif Bahari from Singapore, left Canberra 5 years ago, only failed to sign-up as he got an error message. But the email he sent to his friends, (see below) all ex-Canberrans, from other countries is interesting. Click to continue reading...

I would like to be the first to welcome everyone to sonsofsoccer.com. Sons of Soccer consists of 7 relatively intelligent and passionate soccer fans. This space will be ours to talk about, share, and bring together our small soccer community. Whether it be international games, top flight leagues or just the recent soccer news in our [. Click to continue reading...

The transfer saga of the summer has suddenly come to an end. Cristiano Ronaldo has finally done what soccer fans have been begging him to do all summer, deliver a concrete answer to the question of his future. Ronaldo has confirmed to Publico that he will stay at Manchester next season.  He said, "Ferguson heard my arguments, I heard his, and in fact, it was settled that the best for both Click to continue reading...

With the memory of the Euro 08 tournament behind us, soccer fans have another tournament to look forward to this summer, the 2008 Olympic games in China! First off let me say this: Soccer is in a different position then other sports in the Olympics. For many sports such as swimming or track and field, the Olympics is the ultimate tournament and test for the athletes to see who is the best. Click to continue reading...

August 4, 2008 - As the media machine has undoubtedly made you aware, the Opening Ceremonies in Beijing will take place on August 8, 2008.  For women's soccer fans, however, the Games commence Wednesday when first-round group-play action kicks off. With all eyes on Beijing, there's plenty being written about the Golden Girls - the U. Click to continue reading...

The Toffees pulled of a win in the 87th beating the Rapids on Sunday and leaving the US with a 1-1 record. They looked much fitter then they (reportedly) did against Chicago, so I guess they adapted to the air quicker than I hoped they would.

The turnout was good (about the same as any other midseason Rapids game) and was surprisingly non-Everton.

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Admit it, you probably gave up on ever seeing the answers to the last SBI Q&A session. It's okay, I don't blame you.

More than month has passed since readers submitted the last bunch of questions, but after a very busy July, I was able to knock out at least half of the record-setting batch of questions.

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Everton have arrived in Colorado for this weekend's game against the Rapids. It will be an intriguing game, not least because of the many subplots emerging. Just as manager, David Moyes, appears on the verge of agreeing a GBP 60,000 a week contract -yes, that's right, he will be earning about four times as much in one week as Bouna Coundoul does in a whole year -Everton's CEO has resigned. Click to continue reading...

This is a bit of a shocker. According to goal.com (A warning: knowing this site, this story could've been made up entirely), Lippi may use Cassano as his first choice striker during WC 2010 qualifying and beyond. Now, as Italian soccer fans, you may be sitting there thinking "This Julian guy's nuts.

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For soccer fans in the United States, it's the $179.88 question. That's the cost* for the next 12 months for hundreds of live football matches on Setanta Sports. But in these tough economic times, should you splash the cash? And, if not, what Premier League matches featuring your favorite club will you miss? Click to continue reading...

Andrei Arshavin is world-class material. He deserves a better club and greater recognition than to spend his entire career languishing in the Russian League.To many soccer fans, this name may not ring a bell, that is, until the European Championships which concluded last month. Arshavin caught the eyes of soccer pundits and bigwigs with his [. Click to continue reading...

The BMO Fields in Toronto, Canada have announced today that their controversial FieldTurf artificial grass has acquired a two-star FIFA certification. The grass-like turf was installed on the Toronto FC home pitch back in April, 2008. Since then it has been the centre of criticisms for Canadian soccer fans who say that nothing can replace [. Click to continue reading...

The BMO Fields in Toronto, Canada have announced today that their controversial FieldTurf artificial grass has acquired a two-star FIFA certification. The grass-like turf was installed on the Toronto FC home pitch back in April, 2008. Since then it has been the centre of criticisms for Canadian soccer fans who say that nothing can replace [. Click to continue reading...

The BMO Fields in Toronto, Canada have announced today that their controversial FieldTurf artificial grass has acquired a two-star FIFA certification. The grass-like turf was installed on the Toronto FC home pitch back in April, 2008. Since then it has been the centre of criticisms for Canadian soccer fans who say that nothing can replace [. Click to continue reading...

Injured USWNT star Leslie Osborne spent yesterday in Chicago promoting the Chicago Red Stars and Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). She flew in from LA ridiculously early and was picked up by Red Stars Head Coach Emma Hayes who took her to the IWSL Fall Seeding Meeting in Schaumburg, which started at 7:30 am. Click to continue reading...

With the news that Steve Nash and Greg Kerfoot are seriously pushing an upcoming MLS slot for the Vancouver Whitecaps', Canadian soccer fans must be wondering what year it is. After all, it was 1978 when Vancouver saw a record crowd of 30, 811 fans arrive at Empire Stadium to watch a first-round NASL playoff game against the Toronto Metro-Croatia. Click to continue reading...

Here's a link to an interesting survey on the Sideline Views Blog. I would encourage all who are interested to respond and please post your responses here to and maybe we can get some dialogue going. My answers are listed below.

# Is U.S. Soccer on the right track in attracting potential fans? Click to continue reading...

Someone is working on a U.S. Soccer project (it's not the federation, it's a scholarly venture), focusing on the men's team and sent me a list of questions, wanting my perspective. I know what I think, and usually people don't have to ask twice for my opinion, but I'm well aware that there's a world of different thoughts out there. Click to continue reading...

In the spirit of covering our North American brethren, I had been working on a few articles on Canadian soccer including one on ace Julian De Guzman who is making quite a name for himself at Deportivo La Coruna. That was until I saw the incredible display of poor sportsmanship shown by Canadian fans before the MLS All Star Game last night. Click to continue reading...

ESPN's broadcast of Euro 2008 was the best production ever of a soccer tournament for TV viewers in the United States. While it wasn't perfect, it was clearly evident that ESPN had listened to the past criticism and corrected the annoying habits that had previously distanced diehard soccer fans from its network. Click to continue reading...

Edgar Castillowas profiled in the New York Times on Wednesday.

If you're a regular reader of this blog, there may be little new information in there that you haven't already come across here. But his story is clearly of interest to more than just soccer fans as a whole new audience has now been exposed to his tale. Click to continue reading...