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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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October 28, 2013
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2014 World Cup Preview Possibly the four best teams on earth today -- Brazil, Germany, Argentina and Spain -- are intent on providing more attacking thrills than we've seen in many a tournament. |
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July 31, 2013
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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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December 1, 2013
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5 Big Questions To Prepare You For The World Cup Draw However, even that might not be enough to match Maradona in legend. What the older man did in 1986 is essentially unrepeatable: to win a World Cup with a minimum of help from his teammates, hardly any of whom is still remembered today. |
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Euro 2012 Preview Despite the wide-open nature of this tournament, there's no doubt about the three best teams going into the tournament: Spain, Holland and Germany. |
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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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October 20, 2014
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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 3, 2010 |
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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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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January 6, 2014
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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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Lionel Messi: Copa America Lionel Messi will continue to prove his skills at the Copa America against Colombia today. |
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December 5, 2012
Simon Kuper |
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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Paul Watson |
Champions League Final 2015 The biggest competition in club football celebrates its 60th birthday in style in Berlin's Olympiastadion as Spanish giants Barcelona take on Italy's Juventus this Saturday. |
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David Stoll |
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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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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June 23, 2014
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World Cup Roundup: What's Eating Messi? We thought, in short, that this was a golden Argentine generation. But it has turned out to depend on Messi. |
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May 22, 2013 |
Greatest Soccer Matches In the spirit of personal fandom, here is Simon Kuper's list of the moments in soccer he'll never forget. |
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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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Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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July 2, 2012
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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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May 27, 2006
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World Cup Preview: Group C Aside from tournament contenders Argentina and the Netherlands, both Serbia and Montenegro and the Ivory Coast have the talent to get out of this deep group. |
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Mark Simmons |
Is Zidane REAL-ly Worth It? The past couple of weeks saw an interesting event take place: Real Madrid agreed to pay 46 million pounds (roughly US$65 million) to Juventus for Zinedine Zidane... |
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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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July 2, 2002
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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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Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
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Simon Kuper |
The Optimal Age To Be An Athlete Athletes, the general manager at one sports club told me, are like "blocks of ice." All players are melting. What the club needs to establish is how fast they're melting, and it must get rid of them before only a puddle of water remains. |
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Soccer Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional soccer. |
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June 16, 2014
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Why We're Seeing The Return Of Attack Soccer (And Why It's Better For The Fans) We know what viewers want: stars playing attacking soccer. |
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Rob Fox |
Thierry Henry Won't Save Soccer In America Beyond the money, it's difficult to see why a player of Henry's stature would want to compete in a league that's seen by many outside of North America as a golden retirement home for European and South American pros. |
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Simon Kuper |
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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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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Rob Fox |
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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Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Teams Which five squads were the most profitable sports teams in major professional sports during the 2005-06 seasons? Hint: it's not the Yankees or the Red Sox. |
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Simon Kuper |
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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Simon Kuper |
Guardiola's Coaching I have just found an anecdote that helps explain what makes Barcelona's coach, Josep Guardiola, special. |
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July 19, 2004
Jack Ewing |
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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July 13, 2010
Bill Hazell |
World Cup Final: The Beautiful Ugly Game After 40 years, and 120-plus agonizing minutes of waiting, the euphoric fans of Spain could care less if the final was ugly. |
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October 1, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
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July 23, 2003
Mark Simmons |
Soccer's New Dream Team Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Ronaldo, David Beckham. This quartet of footballers represents the most potent starting lineup to be assembled in any sport, at any time. When it soccer, this year's edition of Real Madrid is in a stratosphere of its own. |
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November 8, 2012
Simon Kuper |
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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Mark Simmons |
soccer betting What do we think about when high-budget sporting franchises come to mind? Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? Although all of these might be valid answers to the question, soccer should also be added to the list. |
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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. |
Sports Central
May 2, 2007
Will Tidey |
Reina Takes Liverpool to Athens Liverpool reached the Champions League final for the seventh time after a dramatic penalty shoot-out decided a night of unrelenting tension in the second leg of the all-English semifinal. |
Reason
April 2005
Michael Young |
Wide World of Sports A book review of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, by Franklin Foer: Soccer mirrors globalization and its discontents. |
