You don't see that headline very often in professional sports, a team dropping their ticket prices for season tickets, but that's just what the Wizards are going to be doing next year. As Wizards president Robb Heineman said in the article, "We understand that these are tough economic times". That's certainly a good reason to drop prices on tickets. Click to continue reading...

What an absolute wanker. I know I'm a day or two late on this but I'm busy sometimes too. This man, who somehow weaseled his way into the job of Uefa President just because he used to be a great player, should be removed from the game. If you haven't heard, Platini went on a rant attacking our manager Arsene Wenger. Click to continue reading...

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NEW YORK -- Major League Soccer and its Japanese counterpart, the J.League, continued to develop their relationship this month, as a J.League delegation toured several MLS markets during the month of September. The 33-person delegation included representatives from 28 of the J. Click to continue reading...

Sorry i've taken a break from posting lately. Am in the middle of a very busy stretch. In the meantime, check out the first blog post ever by Chicago Red Stars Director of Ticket Sales Greg Zaskowski.

Greg and i worked together for 4+ years at the Chicago Fire and i'm very excited to be working with him again. Click to continue reading...

Red Stars Director of Ticket Sales Greg Zaskowski is as human as the rest of us - but his knack for sales is like nothing I've ever seen.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Senior Zaskowski's A Nom De Plume", url: "http://www.amandavandervort.com/blog/2008/09/senior-zaskowskis-a-nom-de-plume/" }); Click to continue reading...

Whilst thumbing through The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer in bed the other night, I wondered to myself "when is someone going to do the first book about Becks in America?". With Europe's bookshelves already rammed full of books about our David it was only a matter of time before someone got in the act over on this side of world. Click to continue reading...

Alexi Lalas was let go yesterday and it reminded me of an email exchange we had when he was first named general manager of the San Jose Earthquakes in 2004.

i offered him some unsolicited advice about running an MLS team, because the front office side of MLS was new to him and we both were under the AEG umbrella. Click to continue reading...

Andrew Jennings explains. Many in the 24 member executive council responsible for awarding the World Cup have been tainted by kickbacks and illegal ticket sales. Some were courted by England in their unsuccessful 2006 bid, giving the FA a bit of a black eye when the ISL investigations began.

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The most unexpected thing to happen while I was on holiday last week was not Blanco's freak out, nor was it Sepp Blatter's slavery comments, or the Superliga share-cropping revelation. It was the long overdue return of Not Doug Logan. Before there was MLS Underground and The Blog Who Shall Not Be Linked to, there was Logan's Revenge spilling beans and dropping scoop all over a Blogspot page. Click to continue reading...

Tomorrow sees Indonesian football enter a(nother) new era with the much heralded Super League. But will the 18 clubs who reached the holy land finish the season?

Now I guess it's too late to replace any late withdrawals but this is Indonesia and anything can happen.

PSMS were threatened with the boot but, like a cat, they seem to have endless lives and keep hanging on in there. Click to continue reading...

If Spain wins Euro 2008 tomorrow, they take €23 million in prize money. If Germany wins, thy take €22m (one million less because they lost a group game to Croatia.) Not too shabby, eh? But according to the Financial Times (who know a thing or two about money) whichever nation wins Euro 2008 will actually enjoy a nice €110 million windfall.

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It takes a lot to get me mad, but I am absolutely fuming (when I should be enjoying my golf holiday.) I've been trying to purchase a ticket to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's testimonial at Old Trafford on August 2. The official club site announced two days ago that the tickets were now available for general sale to the public, and to order via the provided online link or by telephone. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards have currently sold over 20,000 tickets for their game against the LA Beckhams on September 27 of this year. The Wizards have stated that they want to break 40,000 for this game, or at least want to break the record for largest crowd for a soccer game in Kansas City. The record is currently 37,319 for the US-Costa Rica World Cup Qualifier back in 2001. Click to continue reading...