Um, you should probably read this, especially if you have any interest in US Soccer or Major League Soccer. Basically, former USMNT player and Fox Soccer analyst Eric Wynalda gets all out of character and speaks his mind and pulls his punches at the recent NSCAA Convention in a lecture cleverly titled “Why Not US.” Go ahead. Don’t be embarrassed. As you’ll soon see, he isn’t.
If you love perms or Didier Drogba, you’ll love the Les Éléphants shirt …
Spain is trying to conquer the world again. This time, they might succeed.
The NFL is dying. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. For decades, the National Football League has been the big draw in American sports. Team owners rarely worry about losing audiences as they are well aware that the general public has been reared on a steady diet of American football and, therefore, is conditioned to need it. We need American football like we need reality television and super-sized portions of anything resembling food. That’s what they think. The smugness floating around the owners projects an unwavering confidence that their iron grip on the throats of the American sporting audience will continue into perpetuity. But the NFL didn’t see this coming.
Welcome to the National Soccer League (NSL), the new, North American soccer league poised to take over where the NFL has slipped. To call this a magical moment in the world of sports would be a massive understatement. This is going to be epic. People are probably going to get injured just from the press releases. Continue Reading »
Close your eyes and imagine Jay-Z is talking about soccer. Well, you can open them if you want to watch the video too, but open your mind to the parallels between the journeys of musicians and soccer players …
“I am a footballer. And am attracted to monkeys. If I perform as a footballer, then I do not think it matters if I like humans or monkeys.”
Now that would be something. But it’s pretty amazing that in 2011, a soccer player saying that he is attracted to another human being is news. While we tend to consider ourselves an enlightened species, it’s a sign of how far we still have to go as humans.
Swedish footballer Anton Hysén, a defender for Utsiktens BK, told Offside magazine that he is gay; that is, he is attracted to, not monkeys, but men.
Hysén decided to be pretty straight-forward with his disclosure, telling the magazine:
“It’s so weird when you think about it. It’s so fucked up, the whole thing. Where the hell is everyone else?”
I’m not sure what else there is to say. But let’s give it a go. Continue Reading »
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Today Brazil v. Chechnya. Tomorrow Argentina v. Myanmar. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov along with Terek Grozny, Lothar Matthaeus and Oliver Kahn will take on Brazil’s 2002 World Cup winning team in Grozny later tonight.
You might remember Kadyrov from previous episodes such as being a militia leader and leading the slaughter of numerous innocents during his rise to power. He declared himself to be in excellent health and ready to lead Terek Grozny as captain.
“Ramzan Kadyrov himself will be the team’s captain,” Khaidar Alkhanov, the republic’s sport minister, said this week. “This will be a powerful stimulus for [the] players and a huge present for Chechen supporters.”
Dunga, Roberto Carlos and Romario will line up for Brazil. Bebeto, Cafu, Denilson and others from the World Cup winning team are expected to play as well.
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