Danielle
a life toward soccer, pt 3
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The TIAS Diary Project continues with the 3rd part of a series put together by Los Angeles artist Noe Valladolid. This is his life story, his soccer story in words and pictures. For the first installment, I referred to it as a stab at a TIAS comic...
dolphin days
Hating On Kickers: One Fan - Two Sports
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The TIAS Diary Project returns with an essay that hits close to home for me. Home–I should say head, as it was my head and long hair the American football coaches at my high school would grab during gym class when they called me a pussy, called me...
phantom points
“Pity comes too late, turn around and face your fate: An eternity of this before your eyes!”
Last Saturday’s draw felt like a win. Yesterday’s felt like a loss, which isn’t to take anything away from the unbelievable comeback orchestrated by the USMNT against Slovenia.
It’s just to say that when, after a wonderful date, a date...
sixty years and 24 hours later
I think even less than 24 hours after the game, you’ve read enough about USMNT v England. And really, if you’re reading this website, you don’t need someone else to tell you what you saw.
So simply here to help take you there…
Overheard in Rustenburg… “Don’t call it a comeback. Or a miracle. And don’t be...
the opener
caught in the grip of the (soccer) city madness
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A new Azteca. That’s what it felt like–the beehive atmosphere, the passion, the patriotism–albeit without the built-in American worry of being drenched with beer and who knows w...
why do we care what they think?
The TIAS Diary Project returns.
While mainstream America media fawns over the game for the next month (not that there is anything wrong with that), I thought it important to return to the people who are always there, no matter no four-year cycle.
First up teenager Shaj Mathew, who found himself not so much questioning his national...
we’ll see about sacha
this is all five parts of the story.
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Sacha Kljestan throws up his hands. He did his best and doesn’t know what else to do. Maybe it’s time to quit. He’s thought about it before. One guy can only do so much. So many factors go into success or create failure. The opponent...
we’ll see about sacha pt5
This is part 5. Here is part 4. Here is part 3. Here is part 2. Here is part 1.
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Sacha is in line for a spot in the American midfield, but where exactly he stands only Bob Bradley knows. The American coach deals in elusive simplicity, which he projects to the media and, sometimes it...
we’ll see about sacha pt4
This is part 4. Here is part 3. Here is part 2. Here is part 1.
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The dream team. Not The Dream Team. The Hulking NBA players walked next to the soccer team at the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Oylmpics, but for an U-23 American soccer team, this was the best yet. Dreaming...
we’ll see about sacha pt3
This is part 3. Here is part 2. Here is part 1.
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Sacha played every minute of every game his freshman year as an attacking central midfielder. He finished second on the team in points, with 6 assists and 4 goals and was just one of three freshman to earn all-conference honors in the Big...
we’ll see about sacha pt2
This is Part 2 - Here is Part 1.
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He is Sacha’s father. He was his first coach. He taught his boys to play soccer a certain way. He battled to become an American citizen, lost his mother in war, and damned if he isn’t going to have his say. With carpenter hands, a bartender’s mouth,...
we’ll see about sacha pt.1
Sacha Kljestan throws up his hands. He did his best and doesn’t know what else to do. Maybe it’s time to quit. He’s thought about it before. One guy can only do so much. So many factors go into success or create failure. The opponent is only of them.
Sacha sizes up his pre-teen cousin Moselle,...
