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The 22-Year-Old Soccer Phenom Who Ditched Iceland To Join The US Team Had A...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina—After making his debut in Wednesday's 4-3 win over Bosnia, Aron Johannsson feels he “belongs” in the U.S. men’s national team, adding that he hopes a partnership with Jozy...
View ArticleWhy Six Of The 20 English Elite Soccer Clubs Are Now Owned By Americans
American business moguls are buying up English soccer team. Currently, six of the 20 teams in the world's richest and most prestigious league have U.S. owners.Last month, billionaire Shahid Khan, who...
View ArticleLiverpool Scores The First Goal Of The Premier League Season
Daniel Sturridge of Liverpool has scored the first goal of the 2013-14 Premier League Season.The goal, Sturridge's 11th for Liverpool in the Premier League, was a well-struck ball through the legs of...
View ArticlePremier League Uses Goal-Line Technology For First Time
The Premier League used their new goal-line technology for the first time in their opening match of the 2013-14 season.The system, officially called the "Goal Decision System," is similar to the replay...
View ArticleAn MLS Player Scored An Incredible Backheel Rainbow Kick Goal Last Night
New England Revolution forward Juan Agudelo scored what might be the MLS goal of the year last night against Chicago Fire.After overrunning a long aerial pass, Agudelo flicked it over his head with a...
View ArticleMario Balotelli Gave Away His $250,000 Camouflage Bentley To A Teammate
Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli is on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week.Balotelli is known for doing outlandish things on and off the field, and the SI cover story by Grant Wahl is full of...
View ArticleProtest At Soccer Match Became Scary When Hundreds Of Flares Were...
Prior to the second leg of a Champions League match, hundreds of Legia Warsaw supporters lit flares simultaneously engulfing half of their stadium in what looked like a giant fireball (see video and...
View ArticleThis Chart Shows The Incredible History Of Rising European Soccer Transfer...
A record was shattered in the world of European football (soccer) this weekend, when Real Madrid paid $144 million to acquire star player Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur.This chart the long history...
View ArticleFC Barcelona's Leo Messi Teaches A Dance Class In The Latest Qatar Airways Ad
Qatar Airways put its sponsorship of Spanish soccer champions FC Barcelona to good use in a delightful ad about an imaginary country entirely devoted to the Catalan squad.The spot, created by 180...
View ArticlePremier League Clubs Spent A Historic $980 Million On Transfer Payments This...
The teams from Europe's top five leagues combined to spend $2.3 billion on payments during the summer transfer window, Rob Harris of the AP reports.Premier League clubs alone spent a record $980...
View ArticleThis Chart Shows The Incredible Financial Power Of The English Premier League
The European summer transfer window — the three-month period where the world's top clubs are allowed to buy and sell players — ended on Monday.Teams in the English Premier League were the biggest...
View ArticleThere's A Rumor That Taxi Drivers Are Plotting A Traffic Jam To Make The US...
Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl wrote a story about all the ways Costa Rica is trying to mess with the U.S. men's national team before tomorrow's big World Cup qualifier.The craziest nugget: There's a...
View ArticleBrazilian Soccer Player Beats Three Defenders With Spin Moves To Score A...
Little-known striker Hyuri scored two goals in Botafogo's 3-1 win over Coritiba yesterday in the Brazilian league.On his first goal he cut in from the wing, unleashed a crazy series of spins and fakes,...
View ArticleDog Scores Goal After Interrupting Pick-Up Soccer Game In Argentina
We've seen cats, squirrels, and even martens invade soccer pitches in recent years.But this is the first time we've seen a wild animal score a goal.Deadspin found this video of a great one-time finish...
View ArticleLandon Donovan Played The USA-Mexico Game With Some Sort Of Nasty Eye Infection
Landon Donovan has played brilliantly since rejoining the U.S. men's national team this summer.But he's fought through some type of eye infection in tonight's huge World Cup qualifier against Mexico in...
View ArticleDOS A CERO: USA Beats Mexico 2-0 Again, Qualifies For The 2014 World Cup
The U.S. men's national team is going to the 2014 World Cup after beating Mexico tonight in Columbus, Ohio.The final score was 2-0 ("dos a cero," in Spanish), which is becoming a freakishly common...
View ArticleUS Men's Soccer Team Celebrates World Cup Qualification With Columbus Supporters
The U.S. men's soccer team beat Mexico by yet another 2-0 score. But it wasn't until Honduras earned a draw with Panama about 30 minutes later that Team USA was officially in the 2014 World Cup in...
View ArticleManchester United Legend Sir Alex Ferguson Reveals 8 Secrets To Building...
Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse has been studying the leadership methods that Sir Alex Ferguson used to become the most successful manager in the history of English soccer.This week,...
View ArticleThis Map Shows Which Countries Are Going To Make The World Cup, According To...
Here's a cool interactive map from ESPNFC that shows you every country's current odds of advancing to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.The odds are based on SPI — an advanced metric created by Nate Silver...
View ArticleESPN's Broadcast Of The USA-Mexico Soccer Match Was Over-The-Top For Good Reason
If ESPN's production of the World Cup qualifying match between the U.S. and Mexico seemed a bit grandiose, that was because it was. With the U.S. playing its biggest rival on U.S. soil, ESPN chose to...
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