Author Archives: Soccer America

There were seven red cards in three Major League Soccer games last Saturday, but were they all necessary? Andrew Hush picks up on the “innocuous” spat between D.C. United’s Marcelo Gallardo and Chicago’s Brandon Prideaux as an example of at  least two cards that could have been avoided with a little common sense.   “Television […]

Remember when people were talking about Rochester as a viable location for a Major League Soccer franchise? This year has seen the United Soccer Leagues Division One team experience insolvency, the loss of its stadium to the city and a rebirth with a shortened name. On Tuesday, the Rhinos barely edged past an amateur team […]

It’s not the first time in soccer history that the world has been seduced by a wonderful Dutch team. Monday’s 3-0 victory over Italy has prompted many to recall the Dutch team featuring its current coach, Marco van Basten, and LA coach Ruud Gullit, that won the European Nations’ Cup 20 years ago. Or, on […]

English Premier League Chairman Sir David Richards’ position may be in some doubt after he admitted in Dubai that England’s failure to qualify for the current European Championship was because “we’ve been a bit lazy in the Premier League over the years. We created a system of academies and every club spends about £3 million […]

The United States already had little to fear from its World Cup 2010 qualifying round games against Barbados over the coming two weekends. Now that its opponent has lost twice to lowly Bermuda these past few days, it should have even fewer concerns about progressing to the semi-final group phase.   In the first game […]

The Global Game is one of the internet’s most interesting soccer sites, and specializes in the kind of full-length features that other outlets rarely bother with in the fast-moving online world of quick quotes and one-sentence paragraphs. But you should take the time to read John Turnbull’s latest piece about the Ukrainian soccer Diaspora in […]

All soccer reporters know that cheering in the press box is considered bad protocol, but that’s not to say it doesn’t happen. Reporting from the European Championships in Vienna, John Doyle found that when Croatia scored against Austria Sunday, “the reporter to my left just leapt into the air and did a little dance, fists […]

The huge crowd at the Meadowlands Sunday for the USA’s 0-0 tie with Argentina had Frank Giase contemplating all the great soccer occasions the stadium has hosted as its demolition date nears. “Giants Stadium has been a Mecca of soccer for the past three decades,” he writes, and says that to the people of New […]

It’s a shame that post-game discussion of one of the great European Championship encounters of all time has been dominated by a goal that too many people wrongly thought was offside. But if you look through the English-language press for an analytical appreciation of the Netherlands’ 3-0 victory over Italy Monday, you’ll be disappointed to […]

The spectacle of the Netherlands against Italy helped most soccer fans forget the dire 0-0 draw between France and Romania that preceded it. It also meant the question of what was wrong with the lackluster French was either avoided or overlooked. According to Paul Doyle, the Romanians played for the single point by stifling Franck […]