Category: Section 2 Around the Net

The Clint Dempsey story is the quintessential American Dream story: boy grows up in a trailer park in the middle of nowhere, Texas, learns to play with his immigrant neighbors, joins the only soccer team in the area (three hours away from home), and finally progresses to a level where he now plays professionally for […]

For a largely skeptical and impatient American public (and press corps), the opening game of the World Cup could not have gone off any better. Most papers are harping about the excitement of six goals in an opening game the most of any opening game in World Cup history. Others talk about the impressive start […]