a life toward soccer, pt 4
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The TIAS Diary Project continues with the 4th 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 ...
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Two days after the culmination of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, another FIFA championsip kicks off. It is the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Germany starting today and running until August 1. The host cities for the tournament are Boc...
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The U.S. soccer team’s run at the World Cup came to end on Saturday as they were defeated by Ghana 2-1 in overtime. Things weren’t looking good for the American team in the first half. Then down 1-0, Landon Donovan scored on a penalty kick in the 62nd minute to ... ...
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Landon Donovan’s 91st minute strike saved the United States from elimination and assured them of top spot in Group C of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The USA will now meet lone African Round of 16 qualifier Ghana in Rustenburg on Sunday. Algeria was e...
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Here are three people with accents discussing the "massive Group C clash between the United States and England." Two of them I have never heard of and appear to be English so in the spirit of the joke that is #HateEnglandWeek I will completely ignore w...
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If you bleed red, white & blue, and want to be BFF's with the old boy SF you will do me this favor: if you are near a computer during the U.S.-England match on Saturday Tweet, blog and/or Facebook status update this clip every time the U.S. socres....
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Resurgent Los Angeles Galaxy forward Edson Buddle scored his first two international goals on Saturday to lead the United States to a 3-1 win over Australia in a World Cup warmup match. Substitute forward Herculez Gomez added a third in extra time whil...
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You need this. Period.
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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...
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Landon Donovan assisted on second-half goals from starting forwards Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey to give the United States a 2-1 comeback win over Turkey on Saturday. The match at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field in front of 55,407 vocif...
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In which we revisit the absolute whackness that was the Honduran pay-per-view debacle. Y'know I've never been the biggest Conor Casey fan but when I look back on this match --a game in which he had two goals and drew the foul that resulted in Landon Do...
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"Hi, I'm Danielle Fornarell and I'm going to show you my fancy footwork and a few other things." Um, OK.
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Since last autumn we’ve been enjoying the English Premier League and Spanish La Liga on the networks of ESPN in the USA for the first time in years. That means you can get view high definition EPL and La Liga games without paying your cable or satellite provider extra for sports packages that include...
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Lots of chatter on the Twitters and message-boreds* about the this SFW Playboy photo, right? Soccer folk are talking all kinds of noise about how it's wrong and disrespectful and in poor taste and a shame and lame and not cool and offensive and yadda y...
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Here's the the full, 12" mix version of the Clint Dempsey ESPN E:60 piece that aired last night. Previously, on the the teaser was available online. It's 10 minutes long so save it until lunch time or shut your door so it's not so obvious that you are ...
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Part One of the OneGoal documentary series just hit Youtube and you need to check it out. Unless you support Mexico, then perhaps you'll want to do something else with your time. But if you bleed red, white & blue this is some USDA Grade A supporte...
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Ranked number 1 in the world by FIFA, the United States Women’s National Soccer Team recently opened their 2010 domestic season with a couple of wins over regional rivals Mexico. Up next for Team USA is a friendly with defending FIFA Women’s World Cup and UEFA Women’s Euro 2009 champions Germany in Cleveland, OH...
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Here’s a look at the new U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Nike home kit. It was seen for the first time during last month’s 2-0 win over Sweden in the Algarve Cup and made its home debut during Sunday’s 3-0 win over Mexico.While we haven’t seen any type of official launch ceremony or announcement...
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USsoccer.com just dropped their behind the scenes video for the Yanks recent match in Amsterdam versus the Dutch. It's got it all: traveling support (including some camera-time for Monty of the Midnight Riders), talking heads, some intense locker room ...
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greenwich village resident outlines a major league vision for manhattan’s pier 40In just ten days, the brand new and beautiful Red Bull Arena will finally open to soccer fans with a sold-out exhibition between Red Bull New York and Brazil’s famed Santos football club. New Yorkers will hop on the PATH train and in...
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