Lawrence Cohen

As soon as the final whistle blew Wednesday night in Montevideo, Puma launched one of their most ambitious marketing campaigns of the last few years. The German sportswear company had the perfect client to be able to mix history and football with in the Uruguayan national team as many were going to be feeling ghosts of […]

The Independent newspaper recently published an article about the forthcoming announcement of David Beckham opening a MLS franchise in Miami. The author spewed lazy stereotypes that many US soccer journalists, bloggers and fans have hurled at Miami for years. They recite the reasons why the market is a failure, a “soccer graveyard” as the author […]

If you've heard managers of European players complain a lot about their grueling schedule, spare a thought for the managers and players in Brazil. The hosts of next year’s World Cup have arguably the most grueling club soccer schedule in the world.  Between the state and national tournaments, there are at least 60 matches that […]

After a decade-long absence, Brazil returns to Miami. The Brazilian national team is scheduled to face Honduras at Sun Life Stadium on November 16th as part of their World Tour. The Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) as well as promoters Kics International made the announcement on Saturday as there was talk of a stop in South […]

With the middle of the Argentine Inicial upon us, Newell's Old Boys are showing that a system is more important than the sum of all parts. More importantly, when those parts are functioning well within a system, things can change and they will remain the same. In soccer, we always talk about how one person is […]

Two of the world's great football clubs, Real Madrid and AC Milan, met Wednesday evening at a very sticky and humid Yankee Stadium as part of the World Football Challenge. The match was the second played this summer at the famous baseball stadium in The Bronx, New York, and offered a much more entertaining show […]

On a picture perfect summer night in The Bronx, two of the world's bigger football clubs met at Yankee Stadium as part of this year's edition of the World Football Challenge. In the first soccer match played at the ‘House That Steinbrenner Built,’ Chelsea FC and Paris Saint-German battled to a 1-1 draw before 38,000 […]

Here's a selection of photographs from the Chelsea against Paris Saint-Germain match Sunday from Yankee Stadium in New York City. As you can see from the images, it seemed that everyone had a great time.

Miami will be part of the summer international soccer scene outside of the Gold Cup this summer. Some of Europe's big stars and their Caribbean counterparts will convene there in order to raise money for the development Haitian youth soccer. Various stars from European leagues will be present including Barcelona defender and French international Éric […]

When stepping on to the pitch at Mestalla, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao will both have 24 conquests in the Copa del Rey. In an effort to begin the campaign to become once again the undisputed Cup King, the Basques presented an exclusive jersey that will be exclusive to the Copa final. Below the illustrations explains […]

For nth time this season the Madrid press have come out with cover pages stating how Barcelona were once again aided by referees. For the nth time this season, the Catalans respond by saying that Juande's Madrid won with coma-inducing style. The word of the month for As and Marca was chorreada. In simple English […]

Numbers seemed down this week in La Liga mostly due to the Easter holiday, but that did not reduce the excitement in the league. Barcelona continue their ways en route to their 19th league title. The Blaugrana Ballet showed offense, yet they were not as sharp when it came time to define the game. Andrés […]

Last week it was Santi Cazorla that was being lamented prior to Villarreal's away leg match against Arsenal. News got worse for Manuel Pellegrini when Spanish international Marcos Senna would be ruled out of the return leg of the Champions League quarterfinals in London. Senna left the pitch limping late Saturday night after he suffered […]

José María Gutiérrez was always a players with a temperment. Now that same temperment has him on the outside looking in with Madrid coach Juande Ramos. This rivalry has become part of the subplots in the Madrid media as the team now sees the weeks pass by and their six-point deficit on Barcelona not budge. […]

Who said that there was nothing in the political arena that was going to be more heated than the US presidential elections.  Well it has finally been met.  Real Madrid has a tendency to upstage any news in Spain in recent years, but this one seems to be the king of all upstagers.  Accroding to […]