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Editor in Chief, @SoccerAmerica . 2016 Hall of Fame Colin Jose Media Award recipient. On Ballon d’Or jury since 2007. Proud husband and father. Weeknight cook.
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View from an airplane landing in Buenos Aires as River Plate and Boca players entered the stadium last night.
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FIFA just released the viewing figures for final. Largest audience wasn’t in USA. It was in Brazil where almost 20 million viewers watched. Globe TV’s share was 41.7, blowing away Fox’s 27.
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Retiring French second division referee Yoann Rouinsard goes out writing a big thank-you and giving away his cards.
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Landon Donovan on his response to those who asked, "What's the big deal" about a racial or homophobic slur directed at a player in a game.
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Christen Press wrote 50 columns for SA over 3 years while she was in Sweden. As her editor, I can say she is one of the most thoughtful & sensitive players I've ever known. A *brilliant* writer, too. Playing so well tonight means so much to her. The Pitch:
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First two
#USWNT
games in
#SheBelievesCup
have averaged 522,000 (Spain game on ESPN) and 387,000 (England game on ESPN2). They rank 1-2 among viewers of any MNT or WNT game on U.S. English-language TV since July 7, 2019.
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Luca de la Torre on finally getting to start in
#USMNT
's 3-0 win over Honduras: "I feel like I deserved an opportunity for a long time. I've been in good form from my club and every time I got the chance with the national team in the substitute appearances I felt I did well."
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Megan Rapinoe gets red card for dissent (second yellow) from bench in 2nd half of
@OLReign
match with
@weareangelcity
(1st game she's started in 2022). First red card in 176 games over 14 seasons with 6 teams in 4 leagues. She's never been ejected in 187
#USWNT
matches.
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It’s taken only 9 months under Berhalter for
#USMNT
to hit bottom. Only difference between 4-0 loss to Costa Rica — low point of last cycle — and tonight’s 2-0 loss to was Canadians didn’t finish. Everything else was same. Lack of ideas, lack of inspiration. Shockingly bad.
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New MLS schedule: All games (except perhaps linear and stadium conflicts) will be on Wednesday & Saturday nights.
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New Gallup poll: No sport has ever come as close to catching the big three U.S. sports in terms of popularity as soccer has today.
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I generally don't wade into logo or jersey critiques -- I am not a brand guy and definitely not a fashion guy -- but this is embarrassing. How on earth did it get through multiple levels of an approval process?
San Diego’s MLS expansion team, which is set to take the field in 2025, has officially selected a brand identity in addition to its name: San Diego FC.
More details:
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This is one of the toughest days ever in the soccer media business with the news of SB Nation. It has been like this for more than 50 years, an uphill battle for soccer journalism. Soccer America was started by Clay Berling in 1971. It was tough work then, and is today. 1/ 🧵
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Extraordinary scenes of Moroccan players and staff huddled around watching the end of Germany game and then celebrating with tears of joy. The most emotional is their French coach Reynald Pedros, the former Nantes star.
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Tim Weah, 18, expected to start on opening day Sunday for PSG alongside Neymar and Angel Di Maria against Caen.
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Bravo to Tab Ramos & Dave van den Berg for talking on the record about U.S. Soccer decision-making and policies. The absolute fear many coaches and more generally those involved in and around the federation have about talking publicly underscores how fucked up things are.
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The 4 largest crowds in
@NWSL
playoff history came in the last week:
1. San Diego-Chicago (2022 QFs), 26,215
2. Portland-San Diego (2022 SFs), 22,035
3. OL Reign-KC Current (2022 SFs) 21,491
4. Houston-KC Current (2022 QFs), 21,284
....
5. Portland-NC Courage (2018 final), 21,144
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The most important number regarding Sunday’s sports viewerships is this: In the 18-49 demographic, the one advertisers most covet, World Cup final drew 10.2 million viewers on Fox & Telemundo. The most-watched NFL game in same demo: only 6.4 million.
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Dan Flynn says U.S. Soccer will soon announce deal with media partner to cover U.S. Open Cup with "unprecedented access" for fans.
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One of images of Paris attacks will be France LB Patrice Evra looking toward sound of SdF suicide bomb as he passed.
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Christian Pulisic is Gazzetta hello Sport's top-rated player for the second straight game. Commanding performance, as the pink paper put it. Two wins against two teams AC Milan should beat, but he has looked good, complementing Giroud and Leao up front. (Musah: 6.)
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Same day at Women’s World Cup final in Décines-Charpieu! Did someone forget to do calendar check?
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Federico Higuain: "
#SaveTheCrew
movement was important for the culture of American soccer and will be remembered for a long time."
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Last time USA and England they met was at 2010 World Cup. 1-1 tie. Since then, the two NT programs have moved in opposite directions. What was a gap is now a gulf. Respect to FA. Shame on U.S. Soccer.
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An emotional Nualphan Lamsam, 53, known to many as Madam Pang, after Thailand scores against Sweden. She's basically the Thai FA as far as women's soccer goes. Her insurance company employs the WNT.
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Eric Wynalda is running for U.S. Soccer president and very encouraged by support he's received from members. "They want change." 1/
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Quite a week for soccer on TV.
Here are combined viewers for these four games,
-- Euro 2020 final, 9.4M (ESPN/Univision)
-- Copa America final, 5.3M (FSI/Univision)
-- Gold Cup Mexico-T&T, 2.7M (FSI/Univision)
-- Cup Cup USA-Haiti, 1.7M (FSI/Univision)
That's more than 19M.
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FIFA payments to U.S. teams for players at World Cup 2022 as part of Club Benefits Program.
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The scene of MLS Cup weekend took place Friday night at half-empty Westin lobby bar. While everyone else was off at party, Sunil and Eric Wynalda sat for what had to have been two hours over dinner and debated soccer. Intense, yes, but this isn’t knives & pitchforks.
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Remember, T& T has lost:
-- 6 straight Hex games;
-- 7 straight games overall;
And is winless in:
-- 9 straight games.
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Robbie Gould, the son of a former college soccer star, with the winning field goal for the
#49ers
. His father with the same name won the 1980 NCAA D2 title for Lock Haven and went on to be a three-time All-American. He was drafted by the MISL's St. Louis Steamers.
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Barbra Banda has tied the Olympic women’s soccer record for goals in a tournament (6) with her second hat trick for Zambia and the match is still going on. No player has ever scored two hat tricks in a single tournament, WWC or Olympics.
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Alex Morgan: four WSL appearances, two goals (both PKs) for Spurs but an “everlasting” influence on the English women’s game.
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Hugo Perez has done a great job finding Salvadoran-Americans:
Eriq Zavaleta (IN, Greg Vanney's nephew)
Joshua Pérez (CA, his nephew)
Walmer Martinez (CA, CSU Monterey Bay)
Joaquin Rivas (NV, Las Vegas HS, UNLV)
Alex Roldan (CA, Cristian's brother)
Amando Moreno (NJ, NYRB academy)
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Gazzetta dello Sport, the Milan-based sports daily, has Weston McKennie as the player of the match in Barca vs. Juve. “McKennie levels up.”
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Since Jan. 1, 2020, 13 coaches, all foreigners, without previous pro coaching experience in USA or Canada have held MLS head coaching jobs. Only one has a winning record during that time frame: Ronny Deila.
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Liga MX Femenil matches account for five of the six largest announced women's crowds in the world in 2018.
@TigresFemenil
played in all five games.
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.
@MLS
breaks record for most fans in single day: 283,807 on
#DecisionDay
. And breaks record again for average attendance in season: 21,690.
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U.S. Soccer’s Chicago-or-the-highway policy is one of the worst decisions ever made. You can debate policy’s pros/cons but YNT coaches were conduit to all levels below, not just players in their pools, and it was lost. Larger disconnect is single biggest issue federation faces.
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If you read one story about Jonathan Gonzalez's decision and the bigger picture, this interview w/ SA's
@MikeWoitalla
is it. Brad saw Jonathan as recently as New Year's Eve. (And yes, Brad is Alan's son.)
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Infantino's proposals for women's soccer ...
1. Club World Cup. "ASAP."
2. World League (Nations League concept).
3. Increase teams from 24 to 32).
4. "Prize money": Double. He referred to current $50M (which is prize money+expenses+money to clubs).
5. Investment: Double to $1B.
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On Thursday, SA turns 50. Here's its history going back to the first 8-page issue of Soccer West.
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Tim Lincecum throws no-hitter. Changes into
#USMNT
uniform. He believes.
http://t.co/FYXigTcIzd
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Some good news on
#USMNT
injury front, Tim Weah, injured in training on Aug. 28, should be ready to go Saturday for Lille in its derby at Lens, reports L’Equipe in its Thursday edition. It needs him. He was Lille’s best winger before he was hurt, and it faces 6 games in 20 days.
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Sunday's Mexico-El Salvador game averaged 3.79 million viewers on Univision, making it the most-watched Gold Cup group-stage match on U.S. television in a decade.
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Today's high in Doha was 96 degrees. World Cup moved to November due of summer heat. 2026? Highs today in 6 candidate cities forecast to he higher: Dallas 100, Houston 99, KC 98, Monterrey 98, Denver 97, Nashville 97. Ten of 16 U.S. cities will be 90+. Miami 88 ("feels like" 97).
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Tale of two programs ...
Mexico U-23s (21+ games):
5-6/18 Toulon (5)
7/18 Central American & Caribbean Games (3)
9/18 Germany (2)
11/18 Chongqing (2)
1/19 DF camp
2/19 DF camp
3/19 Spain (2)
5-6/19 Toulon (4+)
7-8/19 Pan-Am Games (3+)
USA U-23s (2 games):
3/19 Spain (2)
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It didn't take Weston McKennie long to impress Gazzetta dello Sport: 'instant cult figure" for Juventus tifosi. (His 7.5 rating was tied with two other Juve players for highest in 3-0 win.)
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The $9.5 million
@SportingKC
is reported to have spent on Pulido is more than double the amount it previously spent on transfer fees in its entire 24 years.
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Friday's Tigres-Monterrey game (Liga MX Femenil) set a modern record for the largest crowd at a domestic women's match. Seven of the top 10 crowds have been registered in last year: four in Mexico, one in England, Colombia and Brazil.
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Five Americans, all 2000s, have joined Bundesliga clubs this summer after they turned 18. At least a half a dozen other Americans, most about to turn 18, have been testing German waters. Most will likely leave MLS academies for free.
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NWSL breaks record for average attendance on opening weekend for second year in a row. This time by a lot.
2013: 3,321.
2014: 4,133.
2015: 7,632.
2016: 7,880.
2017: 5,978.
2018: 5,659.
2019: 4,488.
2022: 10,150.
2023: 15,002.
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It will be
@TheMiamiFC
(NASL) vs.
@FCCincinnati
(USL) in quarterfinals. ESPN, are you up for it?
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2021
#BallondOr
male rankings:
1 Messi (record 7th time)
2 Lewandowski
3 Jorginho
4 Benzema
5 Kante
My ballot:
1 Messi
2 Lewandowski
3 Benzema
4 Cristiano Ronaldo
5 Jorginho
Period covered: Jan. 1-Oct. 24.
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Amazing scenes in Lille’s Grand-Place, where fans celebrate Ligue 1 title. (This despite curfew still in effect in France.) Team will be honored with parade on Monday afternoon.
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🧵MLS faces a no-win situation. It needs more and better players to be viewed as competitive, so to pay for them teams must play more games and charge more money for tickets to generate more revenues, but they are understandably getting big-time pushback on all fronts. 1/
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By our estimates, NWSL clubs and U.S. youth clubs could share $478,575 & $374,175, respectively, as rewards in FIFA's new $8.4M WWC club benefits program. Only problem: U.S. Soccer never told the youth clubs about the application.
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For those who didn’t know Grant, the outpouring of thanks for acts of support or kindness is 💯 true and they remind all of us to share what we are good at with others and most of all be kind to each other.
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Official: Mexican women’s league final is sold out. Tigres vs. Monterrey. 42,000 fans.
Gracias afición, boletos agotados. Todos mañana apoyando a
@TigresFemenil
#QueRetumbeElUni
#VamosTigresFemenil
#EstoEsTigresFemenil
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COVID is horrible. And isn’t going away. I don’t want to hear any bullshit from anyone speaking about it in the past tense. You know who you are. My sympathy goes out to anyone affected by COVID. And I thank all the front-line workers for their work. You have my prayers. RIP Eva.
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After just two appearances — both starts — Konrad de la Fuente has already made a big impression in France, where he is featured in Saturday’s L’Equipe. Says Ousmane Dembele taught him a lot when he was at Barca. Now has been taken under Hispano wing at OM.
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First American referee in the middle for a World Cup final. And two American ARs. Quite an accomplishment. USA will be well represented in final after all!
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In last 24 hours, there have been reports/updates about teams moving/possibly folding in:
MLS (Columbus).
NASL (SF Deltas);
USL (Rochester);
NWSL (FC Kansas City)
Bad news all around.
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The idea that USSF didn't know what it was getting with its law firm makes no sense. As I've tweeted several times, Seyfarth Shaw is a notorious anti-union firm. Some cases: Vegas casinos, California farm growers, Yale clerks, WaPo pressmen.
@turneresq
@ussoccer
When I was in law school at UR (1978-81), I took labor law. Reading up on Seyfarth Shaw, the federation’s firm in USWNT suit, they were involved in many of the cases we studied. They literally wrote the law (and tactics) for union-busting management in 1960s and ‘70s.
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From Univision Deportes: It accounted for 53% (!) of U.S. soccer TV viewership in Q4. Sunday's Cruz Azul-America Gran Final (2.5M viewers) was most-watched game on U.S. TV in 2018 other than World Cup.
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As a nation, we have failed on so many fronts. In this presidential campaign season, I’ll throw out a stat: during four 2016 debates, the number of questions related to climate change: 0.
BREAKING: Authorities say about 500,000 have been forced to evacuate due to Oregon wildfires — roughly 10% of state's population.
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How hard is it to qualify for the World Cup from Europe? Ukraine’s loss to Wales was its first and only defeat of the 2022 qualifying campaign.
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I’m so saddened & shocked to hear of Grant’s passing. I was awakened an hour ago (middle of the night here) by a text about him and was very confused. Just saw him a week ago at US game & had read his tweet about tying Dutch goal last night. My sincere condolences to his family.
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Someone else has probably said this already, but taking away simultaneous games on the final day of group play at the World Cup, like the two we're watching now, in 2026 will be, if confirmed, one of the dumbest things FIFA, a very dumb organization, has ever done.
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MLS Cup attendance record: 73,019. Previous record: 61,316 in 2002 when Revs hosted and lost to LA Galaxy.
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Here’s voting for Kopa Trophy (U-21 Ballon d’Or). Christian Pulisic finished second behind Mbappe. Mbappe got all 22 first-place votes of former Ballon d’Or winners. Pulisic got 10 2nd-place votes, including Messi’s, one 3rd-place vote. Not on other 11 ballots.
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Today, April 8, marks
@SoccerAmerica
's 49th birthday. We begin our 50th year! Clay Berling started SA on 4/8/71 as Soccer West, working out of the basement of his church, Albany Methodist Church (across the street from my house!). Cost: $4.50 for 26 issues. 1/3
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David Villa: Pro/rel not needed in MLS. All 22 teams have chance to win. In Spain, 15 teams don't. "Pro/rel is their league."
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Top 10 announced U.S. soccer crowds so far this week: 7 in
@MLS
, 2 in
@USL
, 1 in
@NWSL
. Notable: A preseason
@NPSLSoccer
game in
@ChattanoogaFC
draws 5,248.
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