Give up comparing soccer to the nation's dominant sports. Baseball and Football don't do comparisons they exist alone. No point in soccer warriors climbing the walls of their impenetrable castles chanting,we're going to be bigger than you one day!Forget it. They'll throw their balls at you and knock you off.
An Atlantic Cup match is always a show. The dueling cheering sections always cheer a little louder,
the players are a bit more physical, and the soccer world is reminded that league rivalries can be
just as fierce on the ...
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Landing a rover on Mars is CHILD'S PLAY compared to figuring out who's really helping a soccer
team win. ... Yeah, we said that.
What happens when TSG reaches out to a bunch of nerds in high places who like numbers, triangle
passes, Barcelona analogy misappropriations, Dax McCarty data, Roger Espinosa heat maps and deal in
things called "machine learning" & "regression analyses?
Landing a rover on Mars is CHILD'S PLAY compared to figuring out who's really helping a soccer
team win. ... Yeah, we said that.
What happens when TSG reaches out to a bunch of nerds in high places who like numbers, triangle
passes, Barcelona analogy misappropriations, Dax McCarty data, Roger Espinosa heat maps and deal in
things called "machine learning" & "regression analyses?
Javi Martinez is officially a Bayern Munich player.
After an on-again, off-again transfer saga, the Spanish international has completed his move
from Athletic Bilbao to the German giants for a €40 million fee that was necessary to trigger a
buy-out clause in his contract.
The NASL club landed Toyota as a sponsor for its new soccer-specific stadium, which is slated to
open in time for the 2013 season. It will be the second soccer-specific stadium in America with the
Japanese car company's name branded on it, joining the Chicago Fire's Toyota Park in Bridgeview,
Ill.
Emmanuel Adebayor is returning to White Hart Lane to inject some much-needed life into
Tottenham's attack.
Adebayor, who scored 17 goals last season while on loan with Tottenham from Manchester City, has
completed a permanent transfer to the club after a drawn-out transfer saga has finally concluded
with his departure from Etihad Stadium for a reported £5 million fee.
If Mexico is to capture Olympic gold, it will have to do so without attacking star Giovani Dos
Santos.
Dos Santos has been ruled out of the final with a muscle injury, leaving El Tri without one of
its most lethal options in a game that features two of the more explosive teams in the Olympic
field.
The high-spending French power swooped in to sign rising Brazilian star Lucas Moura, outbidding
the likes of Manchester United and Inter Milan for the Sao Paulo attacking midfielder. Reports
Tuesday had PSG making a €45 million move for Lucas, who is currently on the Brazilian Olympic
team that is vying for the gold medal in London.
The gold medal favorites are within one win of fulfilling their lofty expectations.
Brazil's men's Olympic team got two goals from Leandro Damiao and escaped a controversial
no-call on a penalty shout to rout South Korea 3-0 and advance to the Olympic gold medal match
against Mexico.
A new option has presented itself in Mix Diskerud's quest to leave Stabaek for greener
pastures.
Diskerud is training with Norwegian side Rosenborg, one of the country's most storied teams,
this week as he eyes a move before the close of the summer transfer window at the end of the
month.
Kaka may not be on his way out of the Bernabeu just yet.
Speaking after Real Madrid's 5-1 thrashing of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Madrid coach Jose Mourinho
claimed that he wanted to keep the Brazilian playmaker this season, this despite rampant reports
that he was headed elsewhere.
Having missed out on Euro 2012 due to manager Roy Hodgson electing John Terry over him,
Ferdinand is now being chagred by the English Football Association over remarks he made on Twitter
following the conclusion of Terry's recent trial.
It will be at least three international matches before Samir Nasri represents France again.
The Manchester City star was suspended there games, and French teammate Jeremey Menez was
suspended one for their conduct at Euro 2012. Nasri was punished for his comments made after the
team's ouster at the hands of Spain, going into a curse-laden tirade at journalists.
Sporting Kansas City centerback and MLS All-Star starter Aurelien Collin will miss the next
1-to-2 weeks after suffering a facial fracture at PPL Park Wednesday night.
Collin suffered the injury in the first half of the All-Star Game after a clash with Chelsea's
Michael Essien in the center circle.
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Gareth Bale raised more than a few eyebrows when the midfielder, who denied a call up to Great
Britain's Olympic team due to injury, took the field for Tottenham against the LA Galaxy on
Tuesday. Now the authorities are beginning to ask questions.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter added to the controversy this morning when he said Bale could be
banned for the duration of the Olympics should the Football Association lodge a formal
complaint.
What has been expected for years was confirmed on Wednesday.
After a Swiss court ordered that FIFA could make the documents detailing business withÂ
marketing partner ISL public, the world's governing body of soccer did so, outing some of the
biggest names in the organization for taking kickbacks.
Arsenal have been left shaken by the news that Robin Van Persie does not intend to sign a new
deal with the club, and now they have a decision to make.
Van Persie's current deal runs through the end of next season, but Arsenal may want to cash in
on him now before he is able to leave on a free transfer next summer.
If Germany is to defeat Italy in the Euro 2012 semifinals and advance the the tournament finale,
they might have to do it without one of their key midfielders.
Bastian Schweinsteiger is questionable for Germany's semifinal bout on Thursday against Andrea
Pirlo and the rest of the Azzurri with an ankle injury.
Fulham's supporters just put the icing on the cake for Clint Dempsey's historic season.
The club announced Thursday that Dempsey has been voted Fulham's Player of the Season by the
club's fans for the second straight year. The honor comes as no surprise for the 29-year-old, who
scored 23 goals in all competitions despite logging most of his minutes in the Cottagers'
midfield.
Given his history, track record and vision, Manolo Preciado seemed like the perfect man to be
tasked with getting relegated Villarreal back to Spain's top flight. After a tragic event
overnight, though, Preciado will never get that chance.
Preciado, a beloved long-time Spanish coach and player, died suddenly of a heart attack, a day
before he was set to be introduced as Villarreal's next coach.
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez may have missed two quality chances, but he came through in the
clutch to give Mexico another friendly win on Thursday.
Hernandez made up for two missed shots in the 80th minute by scoring a winner in stoppage time
of a 2-1 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina at Solder FIeld in Chicago, Ill.
With the United States Men's National Team set to take on Mexico at the Azteca, the whole
American soccer world is abuzz as the region's greatest rivalry is about to get serious in a way
that it only does once every few years. Normally, only World Cup Qualifying forces these two
continental giants to face off in Mexico City; traditionally, the US only wanted to travel there if
forced, anyway.
Doesn't it feel great to wake up Monday morning and have it be the day after a win?
Especially a comprehensive, dominant victory over a team from New York? The New England Revolution
put in a classic performance to crush the Red Bulls, although poor finishing kept it from being the
rout it probably should have been.
Jon Levy We humble writers here at The Yanks Are Coming have always been proponents of infusing the
soccer world with both logic and reason, less common elements within the game than you might think.
So it should come as no surprise that we're big fans of the book Soccernomics. Written by Simon
Kuper and [.
Jon Levy We humble writers here at The Yanks Are Coming have always been proponents of infusing the soccer world with both logic and reason, less common elements within the game than you might think. So it should come as no surprise that we're big fans of the book Soccernomics. Written by Simon Kuper and [.
The long-discuscced special Copa America is no longer just a rumor.
New CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb revealed on Wednesday that the confederation is in talks
with CONMEBOL about a possible 2016 Copa America that would include teams from both regions.
Many of us in life are frequently tempted by the old ruse of "the grass is always greener on the
other side of the fence", only to find after a while that things were not what they appeared. This
seems to occur often in the soccer world as clubs constantly strive to improve only to find later
that the change was for the worse rather than the better.
For the last decade, the English national team has followed a comfortable and somewhat regular
pattern. First, aside from 2008, qualify for an international soccer tournament. Second, assemble a
roster of the EPL's top goalscorers. Third, optimistically (or naively or unreasonably) set the bar
high.
It is time for us to talk all things soccer in the latest SBI Live Q&A.
It has been a while since our last Q&A, but with so much going on in the soccer world now seems like the perfect time to catch up and discuss everything. Want to talk U.S. national team or MLS or international soccer, or college soccer?
Of course, this being the final week of the summer transfer window, there will be rumours flying
around the soccer world like flies round, well you know. Arsenal are today being linked with
20-year old Danish defender Nicolai Boilesen from Dutch club Ajax. Southampton are rumoure to have
already enquired about the youngster, with The [.
Barcelona's influence in the soccer world is not just about the aesthetic quality produced by the
La Masia nurtured technicians. They have reopened the eternal debate of how the game should be
played. Their mystical football has given us pleasure,...
With most leagues a week away from starting. There was still plenty going on around the soccer
world from the Olympic Gold Medal game to the FA Community Shield to the German Super Cup. Here are
some thoughts on each game.
Olympic Gold Medal Game
• As a United fan, not surprised by the mistake by Rafael.
"I have never believed that something needs to be achingly popular for it to be interesting, and
for a soccer fan born in the wrong country at nearly the wrong time, few things are more
fascinating than the peculiar roller coaster the game in America has ridden across the decades.Â
As near as I can tell it's story has never really been told.
With much of the Soccer world focused on Euro Cup and the sports world in general still focused on
the NBA Finals, one MLS game this past week providing unusual intrigue.
A team went down by two goals and came back to win.
During the Euro 2012 tournament the languagecaster team will be looking at some of the words and
phrases that emerge from the competition. Today we explain the phrase 'to silence the
critics'.
