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When we hear the name Carlos Valderrama, we all think of his long blond hair playing for Columbia in the 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups, sauntering around the midfield pinging passes all over the pitch. He is Colombia’s all-time leader in caps with 111, scoring 11 goals, and had a successful career not just […]
A soccer federation is the most political entity outside of an actual political entity. Around the world, the one thing that unites all countries, races, and nationalities is the shared experience of the angst of figuring out what exactly a football federation stands for. All nations undergo this soul searching and some (Germany currently for […]
New England Revolution v Minnesota United In an entertaining game at the Gillette Stadium, it was the Revolution who came out winners with a 5-2 win against the Loons. It was always going to be a tough game for Minnesota with nine players out through either injury, suspension or on international duty. The Loons now […]
America’s Major League Soccer has become notorious for being a retirement home for former superstars at the end of their career, with many clubs choosing money over identity but, one side has decided to do things differently. Since 2008, American businessman Arthur Black, owner of NFL side Atlanta Falcons, has been working to set up […]
Predrag Radosavljevic is an MLS legend. For those wondering who this is, let’s use his better known nickname, Preki. Preki had played his early career in the American Soccer indoor leagues becoming an indoor legend in a career of 370 games, scoring 399 times and assisting in 384, before being signed by Everton after successfully […]
Will he be a great signing for Chicago Fire and the MLS? Time will tell but the news is Bastian Schweinsteiger has signed for the MLS club for a reported £70,000 per week. This will make the World Cup winning German one of the ten best paid players in the league. Schweinsteiger is due to […]
NYC FC v Montreal In cold conditions, New York City and Montreal played out a 1-1 draw at the Yankee Stadium. It took until the 43rd minute for the deadlock to be broken and it was NYC who scored first after a scramble in the Montreal goal with Rodney Wallace squeezing the ball into the […]
The second round of matches in the new season of MLS captured many people’s imagination. We start at Toyota Park where Chicago Fire took on Real Salt Lake in front of 13,024 fans. Chicago took the lead on 11 minutes, Nemanja Nikolic ran through with some suspicion of offside to slot the ball home. Nikolic […]
This weekend begins Major League Soccer’s 22nd season. The U.S. league which was created to help land the 1994 World Cup bid has gone through growing pains and a number of awkward phases. This is after all the league that used to settle matches with penalty kick shoot outs. Now, as it tries to assert […]
