Joe Cole signed a four-year contract with Liverpool today. It’s been rumored that he will be making about 90k pounds per week. The transfer, however, was free. He’s 28 years old and in the last 18 months has been injury-prone. Often thought of as the most creative English midfielder in the past 8 years, his [...]
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21 Apr
Forbes List Of The Most Valuable “Football” Clubs
Two comments from this annual article by Forbes: “The Nike swoosh will continue to adorn the shirt as well thanks to a 13-year pact with the apparel maker that pays the team $470 million plus a 50% share of profits on specific merchandise through 2015.” • Make way for the influx of big clubs both [...]
5 Apr
Some “Wow” Stats from US Soccer on Growth
TSG learned something new last week when we talked to US Soccer about a growing part of the USMNT fan base. That segment? The Hispanic fan who roots for a Mexico, a Honduras or a Costa Rica and the United States. More than interesting to us. USSF sent us a few more stats here that, [...]
24 Mar
US Soccer & TSG: On Soccer Growth USA
Always kind of US Soccer to take TSG’s calls. We had a chance a few days ago to chat with them for a bit on a variety of topics. One topic that we brushed on more from a conversational perspective and less from an official statement of USSF is how the growth of soccer manifests [...]
16 Mar
ESPN Offers The Why On Tyler & Dellacamera
TSG was able to reach out to ESPN today on changes occurring in their soccer coverage (the television broadcast & the web site, Soccernet). We’ll be aggregating some feedback over this week and throwing down a column or two next week as soon as we get some time from ESPN. TSG also reached out to [...]
15 Mar
Questioning Nike Soccer….
Thank you to all who helped contribute to our questions for Nike Soccer. Here are the questions that TSG and you submitted to Nike: TSG Proper: 1) What role does Nike Soccer feel they inhabit–both in their eyes and in the eyes of the American sports fan–in growing and developing the sport in mainstream America? [...]
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