Over at SoccerLens, Dan Leo has an excellent, albeit sobering, look at the state of US Soccer. It’s easy for suffering US Soccer fans to get euphoric over even the smallest successes, but it’s good to have a reality check once in a while.
I think Dan probably sells the MLS a bit short recently, primarily [...]
You’d think one of my most popular posts would be some genius nugget about coaching, some funny story, a story where I might have typed ‘hot soccer moms’, stuff like that.
Nope. It’s was ‘Christmas Gifts for Soccer Fans‘. So with Black Friday just around the corner, I figured I’d come up with an updated list [...]
You can’t be serious. Jonathan Mahler has an article in the New York Times today (HT Moulin) that starts out with this gem:
With the 2006 World Cup building toward its climax, soccer has reasserted its claim as the most popular sport on the planet. But in most of America, interest in the game remains – [...]
I’ve seen a number of comments on various forums where people think the flood of cards in this World Cup will turn off ‘new’ US fans who tuned in for the first time, reaffirming it as a ’sissy’ sport. I just don’t buy that. American Football? The flag flies constantly. Basketball? Players spend a whole [...]
Over at Strategy or Soccer, Yan feels that yesterday was a disaster because new fans who saw the match would be turned off to soccer as a whole. I’m not sure I agree with that – I think it helped … a lot. Yan notes:
[...] with many [...]
How cool is that. Put the big screen in the middle of a river and fans can watch from both banks. This is in Frankfurt. Too bad the BBC had to pull the plug on their big screen efforts. Things got a bit too rowdy.
With all the writing going on in the Soccer Blogosphere, it’s [...]
The BBC decides the fervor of US fans or lack thereof is a sign soccer in the US is still ignored. Please.
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