Kartik Krishnaiyer

Kartik Krishnaiyer

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A lifelong lover of soccer, the beautiful game, he served from January 2010 until May 2013 as the Director of Communications and Public Relations for the North American Soccer League (NASL). Raised on the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the old NASL, Krishnaiyer previously hosted the American Soccer Show on the Champions Soccer Radio Network, the Major League Soccer Talk podcast and the EPL Talk Podcast. His soccer writing has been featured by several media outlets including The Guardian and The Telegraph. He rejoins World Soccer Talk as a senior writer, and podcast co-host.

latest articles by Kartik Krishnaiyer

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/ 6007 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: Chelsea-Manchester United Review

Richard Farley, the host of the Inside the Six podcast joins us to breakdown the top of the table matchup between Chelsea and Manchester United. Be sure not to miss a single episode of the EPL Talk Podcast, the only Premier League interview show on the Internet. We have a long list of high-profile guests […]

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/ 6010 days ago

Jason Kreis: Houdini or Under Performer?

Jason Kreis and RSL are the most frustrating duo in MLS. Former listeners to the American Soccer Show on CSRN will know that I have a soft spot for the club, not because of any geographic tie, but because of the presence of former Miami Fusion players up and down the organization, starting with GM […]

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/ 6010 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: Champions League Matchday Four Review Show

Kartik Krishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna break down all the midweek Champions League action. Hear Kartik's very sharp opinions on UEFA's seeding process and Laurence's views on Jose Mourinho and Rafa Benetiz. We also preview this weekend's headline top of the table clash between Chelsea and Manchester United. The EPL Talk Podcast is the number one […]

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/ 6010 days ago

Legends of MLS Series

As I mentioned on Monday with the release of our latest podcast, we are making some exciting changes at MLS Talk. One of these changes will be our new "Legends of MLS" series on both our podcast and website. Often times, MLS History is unknown or hardly written for the new fan. We seek to […]

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/ 6011 days ago

Seattle meet Houston: American Soccer, Meet Both

Houston and Seattle have struck up a nice little rivalry in the Sounders first season in MLS. It’s not surprising given the Sounders fans propensity to create a rivalry with just about every opposing side when they were in USL. Now the Sounders have created rivalry tinged with a certain degree of envy among other […]

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/ 6012 days ago

US 1 – Italy 2 : FT

We'll have live commentary of the US-Italy U-17 World Cup knock out stage match beginning at 10 am ET/7 am PT. SECOND HALF US with a great chance that goes off the crossbar early in the 2nd half! GOAL! USA Palodichuk comes free on a corner, and Danny Gil finds him in the air and […]

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/ 6012 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: Martin Chivers

Spurs and Southampton legend Martin Chivers joins us on the podcast. Among the topics discussed are: His new autobiography His current hospitality work with Spurs His thoughts on Spurs potential new stadium What it took get noticed by Southampton Did the move to White Hart Lane help his prospects for making Alf Ramsey's England squad? […]

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/ 6013 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: The Wenger Way

Brant Parsons of the Orlando Sentinel, and the Orlando Sentinel.com stops by to talk about Arsene Wenger's impact on Arsenal and English Football. Wenger recently collected his 1,000the Premiership point and broke the record for the longest tenure as an Arsenal manager. Among the topics discussed on this show are Wenger's training techniques, his ability […]

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/ 6014 days ago

MLS Outperforming EPL on American TV

The Barclays Premier League may be the most popular sports league in the world, but it is not the most popular football league in the United States. That distinction would fall to the Mexican League. But now, we have empirical data that the EPL is trailing our own top flight domestic league, Major League Soccer […]

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/ 6014 days ago

MLS Talk Podcast #118: Simon Kuper

After a three week hiatus, Kartik Krishnaiyer returns to host the show with some excerpts from our EPL Talk interview with critically acclaimed and best selling author, Simon Kuper. Brian Zygo also catches up with Rico Clark to get his thoughts on scoring for the US in front of his father and World Cup qualification. […]

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/ 6014 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: Paul Armstrong from Match of the Day

Paul Armstrong the editor of the iconic BBC production, Match of the Day joins us to answer everything you want to know about the show. Topics discussed include the theme music from the program, the running order of highlights, why certain matches have more highlights, why some weeks have midweek MOTD and others do not, […]

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/ 6015 days ago

Cross Border Thoughts: Mexico and Canada

I understand this is a website dedicated to MLS and US Soccer, but please indulge me in this moment of personal privilege about our neighbors to the south and our neighbors to the north. Guille Franco opened his Premier League account yesterday, playing for a less competitive West Ham side than former Mexican striker Jared […]

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/ 6017 days ago

Quick Friday Thoughts

Houston and Seattle played a classic match last night on national television. The unsporting Freddy Montero was unable to hand the physical pounding Dom Kinnear and the Houston defenders had in store for the much hyped, but little regarded (at least in Colombia) forward. Montero’s solution: whine and go to ground easily. Montero has not […]

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/ 6017 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: Simon Kuper On His New Book

Simon Kuper, bestselling and critically acclaimed author joins us on the EPL Talk Podcast to discuss his new book. the book, titled "Why England Lose" in the UK and "Soccernomics" in the US is a comprehensive look at all aspects of the game and evaluates insight from economics, statistics, business and psychology to evaluate the […]

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/ 6018 days ago

The USMNT's European November Features Big Tests

With US qualification to the World Cup secure, the USSF has scheduled two interesting friendlies for the international break in November. The US was relatively impressive in CONCACAF qualifying, recording improbable wins at Port of Spain against Trinidad & Tobago as well as in San Pedro Sula versus Honduras, and also knocking Costa Rica out […]