Ah, Friday. MLS players supposedly voting to strike, the league talking about progress, nothing at all happening, pre-season matches continuing as usual. Gotta love it. None of us over here are expecting a work stoppage. I think it’s just some last minute hardball before some signature pages get executed. But what do I know. Fans are excited about new teams, new arenas, and the energy is palpable. So let’s just wrap up. Okay?
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Colombianitos is a Colombian non-profit created to help child victims of armed conflict in Colombia. Founded in Atlanta by a group of Colombian professionals in 2002, Colombianitos started in one of the poorest parts of Bogota, and has since expanded into four other Colombian cities, Cartegena, Puerto Tejada, Barbosa, Sincelejo, and Medellín.
Through the Colombianitos Football School, the organization uses football to tempt children away from drugs and crime that plague their communities. Continue Reading »
Ian Wright may have been a legend on the pitch, but he lacks the same fine touch off of it. Wrighty is at it again, giving misguided career advice to his son Shaun Wright-Phillips. It was Wright who steered his son towards a massive payday at Chelsea, even though Wright-Phillips consistently found himself firmly planted on the bench. The Chelsea move was so detrimental to Wright-Phillips’ development that he went from being in contention for the England squad to ultimately being nowhere close to the plane that left for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
You would think father and son would have learned their lesson, but no. Continue Reading »
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Anything you can do with your hands, they can do better with their feet. Check out the behind the scenes footage from a Kasabian video shot in West London that shows a slightly different way to play Guitar Hero. The team of programmers and football freestylers were brought together to create a music video to promote Kasabian’s single, Underdog. I thought Guitar Hero was hard, how sick is this? Continue Reading »
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Nigeria has appointed Swede Lars Lagerback as their new national team coach on a five-month contract. I’m still trying to figure out why. I wrote an earlier piece about African nations’ perpetual need to hire foreigners to lead African teams. With the firing of Nigerian Shaibu Amodu, there’s only one remaining African coach poised to lead a side at Africa’s first World Cup, Algeria’s Rabah Saadane.
This isn’t about xenophobia. It is about understanding why African FAs always end up paying so much money to foreigners who, more often than not, end up turning in the same results as local coaches.
Over the past few decades, the Nigerian coaching job has been just about as stable as the Nigerian Presidency. Continue Reading »
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With so much drama in the Premiership, I couldn’t resist pontificating on this weekend’s games. So here we go … Continue Reading »
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