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/ 5978 days agoEPL Talk Podcast: Steve McManaman on the World Cup Draw
Former Liverpool, Real Madrid and Manchester City great Steve McManaman shared his thoughts on the World Cup draw with the assembled press in Bristol, CT, USA. including EPL Talk host Kartik Krishnaiyer. This is part one of two podcasts that will be released with some of McManaman's public thoughts. Part two will feature Efan Ekoku's […]
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/ 5978 days agoMLS Talk Podcast #123: Jamie Trecker on the USMNT
Jamie Trecker, senior soccer writer at Fox Sports joins us to discuss the USMNT's World Cup draw and other topics. Included in the discussion – How accessible is the US draw? – How strong is this US Team? – What are the other interesting matchups in the group stage of the World Cup? – Which […]
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/ 5979 days agoSlovenia Poses Danger to England
England got the draw of dreams on Friday facing off with three weaker sides, and avoiding any Sub-Saharan Africa or South American competition at least at the Group Stage. The Three Lions who under the seeding criteria were close to being knocked off in favor of France, now is an overwhelming favorite to win the […]
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/ 5980 days agoUSMNT in the World Cup: Don't Sleep on Slovenia
The United States drew a potentially positive group for next summer’s World Cup on Friday. The group as described by some European papers “is wide open” below the runaway favorite, England. This group creates more possibilities of going forward for the United States than any of the potential draws that naysayers, so blatantly shouted on […]
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/ 5981 days agoReporters Notebook: Interview With ESPN VP For Content, John Skipper
In our continued quest to make the EPL Talk Network, a one stop shop for all your football analysis, I am going to depart from the typical type of commentary you normally find on this site from me to share with our readers my reporter’s notebook from a private briefing with ESPN’s leading soccer programmer. […]
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/ 5982 days agoFIFA's European Favoritism
In 2006, an outcry led by certain elements of the British Press was directed towards CONCACAF. The theory stated that the United States and Mexico had been ranked too highly under the FIFA World Ranking formula of the time. Reacting to this public pressure, FIFA changed its formula towards new criteria which surprise, surprise benefit […]
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/ 5983 days agoWorld Cup Draw Could Favor United States
Two days ahead of the World Cup draw, the United States and Mexico learned they would not be seeded and placed in Pot One. Also surprisingly, given the established formulas for previous seeding, Holland was placed in Pot One, instead of France. MLS Talk Reader Phillip, whose understanding of world football is among the best […]
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/ 5984 days agoEPL Talk Podcast: Declan Hill
Declan Hill, the author of the critically acclaimed 2008 book, The Fix joins us on the EPL Talk Podcast to discuss recent events related to corruption in the game. Among the topics discussed with Hill include how the UEFA Champions League and Europa League early rounds are susceptible to match fixing, the plight of smaller […]
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/ 5984 days agoUSL's Legacy Will Continue into the Future
With yesterday’s announcement that the Rochester Rhinos will be joining the yet to be officially sanctioned (new) North American Soccer League (NASL), further gloom undoubtedly spread over Tampa about the future of the United Soccer Leagues (USL). The Rhinos are a classic franchise and should they and the other NASL sides not participate in USL for the […]
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/ 5988 days agoMLS and its Players: Third Party Ownership? Player and Club Rights Non Existent?
Major League Soccer owns the registration of all its players excluding DPs. This has allowed MLS to maintain an (ostensibly) level playing field for many years within the league. From a competitive standpoint, MLS, due largely to this practice has become in the eyes of this writer, more compelling than the English Premier League which […]
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/ 5989 days agoProject 2010 Look Back: Part II, National Youth Structure
In our ongoing look back at Project 2010 as we enter 2010, this seemed an appropriate time to look back at Carlos Quieroz’s recommendations regarding the structure of club soccer in the United States. Given the labor troubles brewing in the top flight MLS, the possible complete collapse of USL-1 (which was called the USL […]
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/ 5990 days agoCBA Negotiations: FIFpro
Yesterday, FIFpro the federation of international football players got involved in MLS' increasingly messy labor dispute by issuing a strongly worded statement which among other things, referred to MLS as a cartel. Do you agree with the MLSPU's decision to engage FIFpro, who has a strong relationship with FIFA as evidenced by many player related […]
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/ 5990 days agoPoll: Will MLS Players Cost the US World Cup Bid?
The United States Men’s National Team is only months away from competing in its sixth consecutive World Cup. At the same time The US is submitting a bid to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cups. As has been discussed in many articles on this website, the MLS Players Union has several grievances against […]
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/ 5990 days agoMLS Talk Podcast #122: MLS Cup Review
Robert Jonas and Kartik Krishnaiyer break down MLS Cup weekend from every angle.
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/ 5991 days agoQuestions for Rodney Wallace
MLS Talk's Chris Riordan will be speaking with the DC United man. Leave your questions here.