About our next author: In a painstakingly researched piece, USC master’s candidate Ryan McCormack authors this treatise on the current moment in time for US Youth Soccer. Ryan grew up playing soccer in California’s Coast Premier League and served as a youth coach for three seasons and is presently with the Arizona Hammers in a [...]
Archive for September, 2011
19 Sep
Nabbed: Whatcha Doodling There, TT?
We love to poke fun at Taylor Twellman. This pic by of course Matt Mathai at the USA-Costa Rica game at HDC a few weeks back. Twellman pleads agonizingly for the 4-4-2, he loves to talk (and hashtag) in the third person and he’s prone to RT’ing in bunches. But he’s also a fantastic guy, [...]
19 Sep
Shaken And Stirred: The Muddled MLS Playoff Cocktail
This piece contributed by John Nyen. It’s all to play for at the end of the season. Deride the league and the format for the MLS play-offs as much as you want, but the fact remains that with five to seven matches left for most teams, there are still 13 teams trying to climb over [...]
19 Sep
Weekend Review: Five Quick Observations
And….quickly: 5. La Liga: Oops, Wrong Scoreline Levante took down Mourinho’s Madrid in an unexpected win at home. Bigger? Granada with its first win–in 35 years in La Liga by beating reeling Villarreal–in a chippy affair that saw the recently-promoted El Graná survive seven yellow cards without a red attached. On-loan Villarreal striker Ikechukwu Uche [...]
16 Sep
Spanning The Weekend Soccer Globe……….. Point Break Edition
This piece by the TSG staff collective News of a Point Break remake hit TSG like someone telling you Curt Onalfo was taking over your favorite footie club. We wretched, screamed “dear god, no” and then immediately pulled out our tattered DVD case holding a copy of Keanu’s finest hour with Mr. Roadhouse Patrick Swayze [...]
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