Neil Blackmon on the year that was in US Soccer. “There is no other sport like football. It is beautiful and it imitates life because it is a game of failure. Americans have baseball, and it is beautiful and there you have failure too—but football is different because it is epistemological. You can have failure [...]
Archive for December, 2011
28 Dec
If Tim Ream Goes Bolton…
Smoldering kindle around a possible sale of the New York Red Bulls’ Tim Ream to Bolton. While nothing is confirmed and Ream’s wedding–to a US bride, not to a new team–has been cited as the reason he is not in Jurgen Klinsmann’s January Camp, the move would seem to make a lot of sense and [...]
24 Dec
Happy Holidays from The Shin Guardian!
Our 3rd year with a holiday card–in fact, we may actually have two! ——– This one a popular play on the original “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” was done, superbly, by Robert Kammel of kammel+morgan design group. Great work, Robert. Thank you. ….and, of course, Happy Holidays and and a very Merry Christmas from The Shin [...]
22 Dec
Jurgen Klinsmann With 20 Names For Camp Cupcake
And the invites are in…or out rather. Jurgen Klinsmann will undoubtedly run a different January camp than his predecessor Bob Bradley did. That, and the US goes on the road for not one but two matches against Venezuela and Panama. (Really looking forward to that Panama affair.) Klinsmann’s roster to train in Carson, CA: GOALKEEPERS [...]
21 Dec
For Man United: What Happens When Ryan Giggs Retires?
This time the chalkboards do tell the tale. Fulham played a 4-2-4 defense and engaged Manchester United’s “back-six” with their “front-six.” It was a good strategy despite the ending scoreline of 5-0. Sir Alex Ferguson recognized it as such, pulling off a woozy Phil Jones (from an early Clint Dempsey elbow) and adding in another [...]
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