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/ 5332 days agoMLS Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer, September 1, 2011
On the latest edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer, your hosts (the Chris and Chris of American soccer) bring you a view of the beautiful game from an American and regional perspective. The crew starts off with an array of MLS and Yanks Abroad news, before analyzing […]
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/ 5340 days agoMLS Talk Podcast : This Week In US Soccer, August 24, 2011
On the latest edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer ... your hosts Chris Webb and Chris Riordan bring you a view of the beautiful game from an American and regional perspective. As always of late, it's another jam – packed show ... after running through a relatively […]
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/ 5346 days agoMLS Talk Podcast, This Week In US Soccer, August 18, 2011
On the latest edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast : This Week In US Soccer, your hosts Chris Webb and Chris Riordan bring you a view of the beautiful game from an American and sometimes regional perspective. It's another long show this week, as the US soccer world keeps having big things happen. […]
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/ 5355 days agoMLS Talk Podcast : This Week In US Soccer, August 9, 2011
On the latest edition the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer, your hosts Chris Webb and Chris Riordan bring you a view of the beautiful game from an American and sometimes regional perspective. Top billing this week continues to go to the United States Men's National Team. First the crew […]
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/ 5360 days agoMLS Talk Podcast : This Week In US Soccer, August 4
On the latest edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer ... your hosts Chris Webb and Chris Riordan provide a view of the beautiful game from an American and sometimes regional perspective. Top billing on the show is of course devoted to the revolving door of US Soccer […]
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/ 5367 days agoMLS Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer, July 27
On the latest edition edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer ... your hosts Chris Webb and Chris Riordan take you on a tour across North America as their is much to discuss. The MLS All Star Game essentially serves as the midway point of the long MLS […]
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/ 5371 days agoMLS Talk Podcast: This Week In Soccer, July 21
On the latest edition of the MLS Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer, your hosts Chris Webb and Chris Riordan bring you a view of the beautiful game from an American and sometimes regional perspective. The opening segment is dedicated to discussion of the vast array of moves over the last 2 weeks, […]
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/ 5417 days agoUSA 2-0 Canada: Gold Cup Win Settles Nerves After Loss to Spain
Fifteen minutes. That is all it took for the U.S. Men’s National Team to turn Saturday’s embarrassment at the hands of Spain into nothing more than a bump in the road during an international friendly. When Jozy Altidore found the back of the net 15 minutes into the Americans’ game against Canada in Tuesday night’s opening […]
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/ 5417 days agoWhatever Happened to Earning Success? Mark Hughes, Ashley Young And the Lure of the Established Order
Brian Clough dragged Derby County from the depths of the second tier to Championship success in the early seventies and gifted Nottingham Forest a similar fate later that same decade. Blackburn Rovers were not a byword for silverware when Kenny Dalglish (and Jack Walker’s millions) spirited them to the Premier League title in 1995. And […]
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/ 5418 days agoCould the NFL Lockout Impact Aston Villa?
The bloom may be off the rose for Randy Lerner at Aston Villa, and the ongoing NFL lockout could cause more problems for the Premier League squad. Lerner earned praise from Villa fans when he took over the team in 2006, but after three consecutive sixth-place finishes in the league, Aston Villa dropped to ninth […]
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/ 5430 days ago3 Problems With The Europa League: A Fulham Fan’s Perspective
As the black sheep of the European Football family, the Europa League has been treated to more cold shoulders than a boob tube convention in December. But it wasn't always this way. In a doomed re-branding exercise the erstwhile UEFA Cup has become a bloated, convoluted, energy sapping chore of a competition that only retains […]
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/ 5518 days agoInterview with Dr. Dieter Gudel, RB Leipzig General Manager
The Berlin Wall has long since been torn down, friends and family reunited. Germany is a country unified and has been for some time now. While the west and east of this land are connected now and equal, the east is still lagging behind in at least one important cultural aspect … football. While reunification […]
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/ 5520 days agoMLS '11 Preview : Can the Black and Red Unite Under the Fiery Olsen?
Team: DC United Coach: Ben Olsen Last Year's Finish: 8th Eastern Conference, 16th Overall, 6-20-4 This year's seemingly annual retooling of DC United carries much more weight than usual. After finishing not only the worst season in club history, but likely the worst in MLS history, United had holes to fill all over the place. But […]
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/ 5784 days agoDespite Injury Setbacks, US Team Building Confidence Heading Into Mammoth Showdown
It has seemed at times that every moment the U.S. Men's National Team begins to get a glimpse of what their squad will look like come the first group match of the World Cup, the injury bug strikes. At the Confederation's Cup, Charlie Davies became a household name and the U.S. finally had a much […]
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/ 5822 days agoUnited Back on Course for Another Open Cup Run
A sparse crowd at chilly RFK Stadium (2,804 announced) wednesday evening witnessed the pieces finally fall into place for a struggling DC United. On a night when the cold weather, local playoff hockey and having an Open Cup match midweek brought only the most hardcore of fans out, those who did make the journey were […]