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2013 Soccer The seven most powerful European clubs -- Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain -- start the season with a new manager.   |
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Who's Going To Win The 2014 World Cup? A surer prediction for the World Cup: plenty of protests. Before past tournaments, host countries worried about hooligans or terrorists. This time, the bogeymen are demonstrators. |
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3 Big Questions (And Answers) For Soccer In 2011 Question One: Will Jose Mourinho leave Real Madrid if he fails to take the Spanish title from Barcelona? |
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Soccer In 2012 The year's highlight should be the European Championship, team for team a considerably stronger competition than the World Cup. Spain hopes to become the first side to complete the treble of Euro, World Cup and then Euro, and judging strictly by personnel, it should do it. |
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Soccer Managers The American owners of Liverpool, United and Arsenal know that GMs make sense. They come from a country where GMs run sports clubs. These owners are successful businessmen who prefer their English teams to be run like mini-corporations rather than like nineteenth-century amateur clubs. |
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Soccer Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional soccer. |
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Edwin Van Der Sar's Retirement The real lesson in soccer's Edwin van der Sar's retirement is to go out on top. |
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Brazil Soccer Soccer players once fled Brazil for a better life; now, they're returning to play for home teams. |
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Journalism In Sports Let's start with the great built-in advantage of sports journalism over, say, business journalism, political journalism or science journalism. In sports, you can see the most important events with your own eyes. |
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Champions League Your best chance of scoring in modern soccer is within three seconds of winning the ball. That's when your opponents are still in disarray and haven't yet occupied all their defensive positions. |
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December 5, 2012
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Do Ex-Players Make Worse Coaches? For decades, it was an article of faith that only someone who had played professional soccer himself knew how to manage a team. Players who had been leaders on the field were particularly favored. |
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Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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Top 20: Soccer Players Of All Time Basically, a footballer who is a national hero or a club legend must obviously be considered one of the greatest. Read these players' biographies and decide for yourself whether they would be included in your top 20. |
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Jack Doyle |
USA Soccer Has No Chance Against England With a runner-up finish in the 2009 Confederations Cup still fresh in the minds of U.S. soccer fans, expectations for World Cup success have never been higher. |
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Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
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The Cream of the Crop The world's best -- and some of its richest -- soccer players will be competing for a wealth of pride next week |
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In Defense Of Manchester City: Fox On Football Manchester City's long-suffering fans have endured a roller-coaster history and now finally have success within their grasp and a first top-division title in their sights. And they might just be right. |
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Cristiano Ronaldo: 6 Reasons Why He's The World Cup's Biggest Star As incredible as Argentina's Lionel Messi is, he's not the event's most valuable player; that title belongs to Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo. |
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An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
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Ronaldo Headed To Madrid Manchester United accepted a world-record transfer offer for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid on Thursday, clearing the World Player of the Year to negotiate personal terms with the Spanish club. |
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Spain And Soccer When you think of Spain's brilliance at soccer, you don't immediately think of Bilbao. But even Spanish provincial towns have a lot to celebrate nowadays. |
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June 1, 2007
John Goff |
Pitch Fever American investors spend it like Beckham -- and borrow heavily, too -- to buy UK soccer teams. The big lure: global branding. |
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July 2, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Data Analysis And Soccer Just two years ago, data analysis was still not very widespread in international soccer. Penalties are the most obvious piece of data to analyze, yet big teams like England and Argentina entered their knockout games in 2010 with barely any statistics on their opponents' penalties. |
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July 19, 2004
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Can Football Be Saved? In Europe, football is more popular than ever -- but the losses keep mounting. What can be done to fix the business? |
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September 20, 2015
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Holland's Soccer Woes It's a rough time to be a fan of Dutch soccer. Here's how Holland sank so low. |
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How To Win Penalty Shootouts Few know about the statistical analysis of soccer, and it can be used for financial advantage. |
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May 30, 2002
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The greatest show on earth It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer... |
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November 8, 2012
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Race And Soccer Management There's still a curious absence at the heart of English soccer: black managers. England has done a great job of tackling racism on the pitch and in the stands. Now it needs to do the same in the head offices of its clubs. |
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October 20, 2014
Simon Kuper |
Can Luis Suarez Return To Glory After Becoming The World's Most Infamous Biter? Suarez is about to make his debut for Barcelona, most likely in the "clasico" against eternal rivals Real Madrid after his four-month ban for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. |
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June 8, 2014
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Meet The Man Who Made The Belgium Devils A World Cup Force To Be Reckoned With The new money pouring in is changing the Belgian game. |
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David Hellier |
British Soccer In Foreign Hands In their different ways, the recent, and sometimes controversial, foreign takeovers of soccer clubs Chelsea and Manchester United have changed the face of England's "beautiful game" forever. |
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April 25, 2001
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August 10, 2013
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David Moyes And Glasgow Soccer Glaswegian managers have dominated English club soccer. Why has the west of Scotland bred managers? And what does this tradition tell us about perhaps its final exponent, Moyes? |
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June 14, 2012
Jimmy Burns |
Spanish Soccer A cursory glance at Spain's current national team, who play Ireland in the Euro Cup today, tells us a thing or two about how much soccer -- and the men who play it -- have changed in the country. |
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July 2, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian. |
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November 7, 2012
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HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson -- Managing Manchester United For almost three decades, Sir Alex Ferguson has developed the Manchester United soccer club into one of the most recognized sports brands in the world. The keys to Sir Alex's long-time success are discussed. |
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Simon Kuper |
The Decline Of Drinking In English Soccer Drinking on pro soccer teams was a carryover from the British military, but these days athletes' bodies are treated as finely tuned machines. |
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December 17, 2010
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Arsenal Tops in the Business of English Football The Gunners still top the table in one respect. |
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June 17, 2014 |
After Yesterday's Win, Is Soccer Back? Alexi Lalas Remembers Its Golden Age In America The summer of 1994 changed my life. I experienced the power of what a World Cup can do to an individual, and I milked it for all its worth. |
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July 14, 2014
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How Germany Created A Lean, Mean Unbeatable World Cup Machine It takes a country to create a team like this. And not many countries could manage that project. |
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Edwin van der Sar A reflection on the retirement of Edwin van der Sar, the man who changed soccer. |
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May/Jun 2000
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Soccer meets economics Pele and Kissinger highlight seminar on sports and development |
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April 24, 2014
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There's A Simple Secret To Getting The Body Of A Soccer Player - And It's Not What You Think The average English Premier League footballer covers about 12km (7.5mi) per game. But it ain't a 90-minute jog. |
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Simon Kuper |
Russian Soccer Times have changed since the days when players only worried about breaking a leg on the field. FIFpro plans to publish its complete "black book" of bad clubs in January. |
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May 23, 2002
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Top 10: Soccer Stadiums Seeing as there are so many enormous stadiums scattered across the world, I had to take more than size into account when honing them down to a Top Ten list... |
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April 4, 2013
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Welcome Back, Landon Landon Donovan has held the weight of United States soccer on his shoulders for a very long time. It has been almost 15 years since he earned tryouts with soccer giants like Manchester United and Arsenal. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Mark Hyman |
Young Athletes, Big-League Pain Year-round play and dreams of going pro are side-lining kids with serious sports related injuries. |
Sports Central
March 1, 2007
Kevin Beane |
English Premier League Picks and Pans Opinions on soccer teams in the English Premier League. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2009
Adrian Rush |
Does This Economic Goal Fall Short? A new book, Soccernomics, by Stefan Szymanski and Simon Kuper, examines some of the monetary myths about soccer. |
Sports Central
October 25, 2007
Kevin Beane |
Where the Yankees Would Be Loved By All The Boston Red Sox's are giving us more reasons to be a Yankee fan. |
