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Coming off of a decisive 3-1 victory over last year’s Premier League runners up Liverpool, Manchester City will look to continue their perfect start to the early season with a lineup that will feature only a couple of changes. The most likely changes will be at fullback with Sagna in line to make his first […]

Now that the World Cup is over, you may be wondering where you can watch the best players in the world for the next four years. Here's our guide to the leagues that had the most number of players at the World Cup: 1. Premier League (England and Wales) — 105 World Cup players US […]

The second semifinal of the 2014 World Cup was an opposite of the first. Where the first match had precision, space, and inventiveness the second was tight, tentative, and largely predictable. The first forty five minutes of the first semi final saw five goals in the net, the second semifinal had zero goals in 90 […]

Similar to a parent who knows his or her child is smarter than the C’s on the report card, most soccer fans will be somewhat disappointed with the performance of the Albiceleste today. While they did score three goals they also gave up two goals and could’ve easily found themselves on the losing end in […]

For the first half of the match, the Colombia and Ivory Coast players not on the field were just as important as the players on the field. Colombia played a bit of “route 1” football even though Radamel Falcao is a spectator for this tournament. Had he been fully fit you might’ve expected Colombia to […]

The opening round Group C match between the Ivory Coast and Japan is a very difficult match to predict as both teams are loaded with question marks. Is this going to be the Japanese team that beat Belgium and held the Netherlands to a draw? Or is this the Japanese team that lost to Belarus? […]

When I was asked to review a book about “Subbuteo,” I thought I had been the victim of some sort of autocorrect. From there, my mind searched for memories of perhaps some Brazilian or Argentine defensive midfielder from the sixties or seventies. Failing to find anything, I simply looked it up. Subbuteo is a table […]