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/ 5923 days ago

USA World Cup Away Soccer Shirt: New Photos Revealed

New photos of the United States away soccer shirt for the 2010 World Cup have been revealed featuring action shots of Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey. Designed and manufactured by Nike, the USA World Cup away soccer uniform is navy blue in color with a white diagonal stripe across the shirt and red trim. In […]

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/ 5923 days ago

NASL Stepping Up to Fill Important Gap

Professional Soccer has often been a spottingly available product across North America, and MLS, as a Premier Division, cannot fill the gaps by itself. This is where USL has often filled in, in the past, although USL has often been perceived as small market, for good reason in many cases. The reformed NASL aims to […]

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/ 5923 days ago

Fox Soccer Plus Reveals Weekly Programming Schedule

Fox Soccer Plus, scheduled to debut on March 1, has released TV schedules for the first three weeks of its programming, giving soccer fans a glimpse of what they can expect on the new soccer network. Fox Soccer Plus will show two live Premier League games each weekend as well as two on delay in […]

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/ 5923 days ago

Jack Rodwell Puts Himself In Shop Window Again

If you can't beat them, buy them. That has often been Manchester United's strategy when the club has lost pivotal league games against smaller English clubs and/or have been embarrassed by Premier League players who display incredible raw skill. United has often gone on to purchase many of those footballers. Examples include Everton (Wayne Rooney), […]

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/ 5923 days ago

ESPN2 Will Televise Man United v Chelsea in April

ESPN2 received some good news Friday when the Premier League announced the list of games that have had their kickoff times moved to be shown during key television times. During April, ESPN2 will televise what many believe will be the Premier League title decider between Manchester United and Chelsea on Saturday, April 3 at 7:45am […]

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/ 5923 days ago

MLS Facing Unmitigated Disaster

Major League Soccer is a niche league, perhaps the largest niche league in North America (depending on your view of hockey and the NHL). It lacks a lot of the tradition, and strength that can be found in older leagues such as the National Football League, or Major League Baseball. Even the NHL has strong […]

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/ 5924 days ago

Charlie Davies Heads Back to Football

If he is on the plane to South Africa this summer, Charlie Davies will be the story of the tournament. It was only four months ago that Davies was in a horrific car accident that killed one passenger and savaged Davies’ body. His face was smashed, leg and arm broken, and bladder lacerated. There […]

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La Liga Preview and US TV Listings for Jornada 23: Feb. 20 – Feb. 22

The obvious surprising result of the previous round was Atlético Madrid's 2-1 victory over Barcelona to hand the Catalunyan champions their first loss in La Liga this season. If analyzed deeper, however, Barça's defeat at the hands of Los Colchoneros becomes less of a shocker. Historically, Atleti had a respectable record against Barcelona in Madrid, […]

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/ 5924 days ago

Can Freddy Adu make the World Cup team?

The 2010 World Cup is 111 days away and, at the moment, the U.S. national team has its share of questions. Will Clint Dempsey, Oguchi Onyewu and Charlie Davies be healthy enough to contribute? Will there be room on the roster for Brian Ching, Jose Francisco Torres or Edgar Castillo? Will Jermaine Jones get healthy […]

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/ 5924 days ago

The FA, Paul Gascoigne and Help

A Lion who's seen better times. Will it all end in tears? Yet again, Paul Gascoigne has been in the English media headlines in recent weeks for all the wrong reasons. The 42 year old midfield maestro of yesteryear who looks the worst part of 60 was arrested twice in a week, once for public disorder and […]

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/ 5924 days ago

Should Milan Replace Leonardo?

Fans of AC Milan have suffered through a bad four weeks, beginning by losing to short-handed rival Inter and most recently suffering a devastating defeat in their Champions League match versus Manchester United. This comes the same week that Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi criticized Leonardo's managerial style and encouraged him to allow his team to […]

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Fox Soccer Channel Promotes TV, Web and Mobile Capabilities With New TV Ads

Fox Soccer Channel has released two new TV commercials that promote the channel being available to soccer fans via the Internet, mobile and television. The ads, entitled "Work" and "Chores," show a passionate Barcelona supporter looking for ways to watch his favorite team in his busy life. Both are well produced, feature great music and […]

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Shaka Hislop Interview: EPL Talk Podcast

Shaka Hislop currently works as an analyst for ESPN, but before that he was a goalkeeper for Newcastle United, West Ham United, Reading, and Portsmouth. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, the Trinidand and Tobago international – who represented that country at the 2006 World Cup – joins The Gaffer during ESPN's Super […]

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/ 5925 days ago

The Issue With Manchester City's Midfield

Along with the recent dip in form at Manchester City has come an unrest amongst the fans who have began to question as to why virtually the same team as the one that began the season so brightly currently appears to lack energy, creativity and flare. It seems as though one way or the other, the […]

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Premier League Preview – Feb. 20-21

Until the Premier League institutes a playoff for the fourth Champions League, we’ll have to settle for matches like Sunday’s clash between Liverpool and Manchester City to decide the fate of the league’s final golden ticket into Europe’s glamour competition. City is a point ahead of the Reds with a game in hand – and […]