a season in ‘Little Mexico’
Woodburn High School, located in Woodburn, Oregon just outside of Portland, consistently produces hugely talented soccer players--most of them children of immigrants or immigrants themselves--who have grown up playing the sport "in the street"--that is...
a season in ‘Little Mexico’
Woodburn High School, located in Woodburn, Oregon just outside of Portland, consistently produces hugely talented soccer players--most of them children of immigrants or immigrants themselves--who have grown up playing the sport "in the street"--that is...
my teutonic ephiphany
We here at apm have oft noted amongst ourselves a rather (to us) odd-seeming phenomenon among American football novices: they turn into Germany supporters. As someone who's always been attracted to the elegant passing game and grace of La Liga and Spa...
my teutonic ephiphany
We here at apm have oft noted amongst ourselves a rather (to us) odd-seeming phenomenon among American football novices: they turn into Germany supporters. As someone who's always been attracted to the elegant passing game and grace of La Liga and Spa...
where to watch the World Cup in Athens, Georgia: update 1
We've had some great feedback in comments and email on other places in town to watch the World Cup and are happy to report there are more of us soccerheads than we thought out there in Athens. Here's what we've learned so far. Original post on where ...
where to watch the World Cup in Athens, Georgia: update 1
We've had some great feedback in comments and email on other places in town to watch the World Cup and are happy to report there are more of us soccerheads than we thought out there in Athens. Here's what we've learned so far. Original post on where ...
where to watch the World Cup in Athens, Georgia
I did this in 2006 for Portland, so here's another round for Athens. That's Georgia, not Greece.Portland is a football-mad city--more than 10,000 people turned up for the Italy v. France 2006 final shown on a giant screen downtown in Pioneer Square. ...
The Boys From Little Mexico
So how's everyone doing in the last breathless run-up to World Cup? Checking out some of those friendlies? Obsessively filling out wall charts, making predictions? Chewing your own arm off in crazed anticipation?One of the ways we here at a pretty m...
materazzi and mourinho: a tearful farewell
Whoa. Does this mean the hearts of Jose Mourinho and Marco Materazzi aren't two sizes too small? This may force me to recalibrate my entire worldview.
Expect to hear word of Mourinho's appointment as Real Madrid manager any day now, natch.
a few thoughts on the confederations cup, part four (and the end): New Zealand and Iraq
And now we come to the two teams I saw the least of in this tournament. (It was a scheduling issue, not deliberate avoidance!) New Zealand. You know, as a sometime-supporter of the US team and an always-supporter of the Portland Timbers, I have an in...
a few thoughts on the confederations cup, part three: Brazil and Italy
Brazil. To anyone who follows world soccer, it's not news that Brazil doesn't samba across the pitch any longer, and hasn't for a long time. These days they look like a talented team, but not one with a style that sets them significantly apart from o...
a few thoughts on the confederations cup, part two: Spain, South Africa
Spain. Spain started out cool, calm, and collected, tiki-taka-ing right on over poor New Zealand with a 5-0 blowout. Here I confess that it really never occurred to me that they wouldn't be in the final. They entered the tournament with a winning st...
