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Christian Pulisic’s dad is every U.S. soccer fan right now

Christian Pulisic is the closest thing to he who was promised for American soccer fans who have been pining for a legitimate star. I’m not sure what’s the equivalent to being brought onto Chelsea after a successful start to a career at Dortmund, but the closest approximation I can think of is going from a […]

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FIFA doesn’t want to ask itself the hard questions [Updated]

It is so simple, at least to anyone not entangled in the middle of the mess. All of Poland, Czechia, and Sweden have said they will refuse to play Russia in World Cup qualifiers at the end of March. While a ban from FIFA isn’t going to end Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, there is no […]

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Olivier Giroud continues to just do the work

It is hard to look at Olivier Giroud and think “grafter. ” Because it’s not hard to look at Giroud at all. Ask Leslie Jones . It would be silly to suggest that people don’t make conclusions based on how a player looks. It’s difficult to reconcile him as a pure, old-school center forward. Strong, […]

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Man City is running away with the Premier League title, so what can the rest of the EPL teams still win?

Slow starts, midseason swoons, and collapses are ways soccer clubs can blow a title race, but if you’re Man City, those don’t happen. Pep Guardiola’s team beat Chelsea for the second time Saturday, 1-0, plus are now 13 points clear of the second place Blues in addition to 14 points clear of third place Liverpool. […]

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It’s fine if Sergiño Dest and Weston McKennie move in January

There was a feeling of triumph when USMNT fans first heard that American players had landed at some of the biggest clubs in the world in 2020. It was something of an arrival, not just for the players themselves but the US program as a whole. When you can place players at Barcelona and Juventus, […]

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The Jose Mourinho cycle has gotten ruthlessly efficient

Life is about evolving, and economy of motion is one of those things we strive for. How do we do the things we have to do every day in the cleanest way possible? Mostly it’s about financial budgeting, but there comes a part in everyone’s life when you decide what you really need in your […]

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Messi survives despite it all at the Copa

It’s been weird whenever I check in on Copa America. With the Euros taking place in front of fans and the mess that the Copa was before it even kicked off, it kind of feels like it’s taking place in some sort of dungeon club that you need a password to get into and you […]

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A most Spurs-y summer

You have to hand it to Tottenham. While they certainly haven’t come anywhere close to curing their basketcase ways, they’ve at least learned to shroud it in bigger happenings in the soccer world to avoid attention. When they fired Jose Mourinho, essentially admitting to and correcting a gargantuan mistake all at once,… Read more…