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Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United?   |
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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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July 31, 2013
Simon Kuper |
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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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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January 26, 2014
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Man U's Problem: Not David Moyes An 18-point decline is horrible. Yet it can be largely accounted for by one simple fact: the absence through injury of United's striker, Robin van Persie. |
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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 |
Soccer Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional soccer. |
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Simon Kuper |
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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Sir Alex Ferguson "David, you're not going to start tonight. You'll be on the bench," Manchester United's manager Alex Ferguson told David Beckham. It was April 23, 2003. |
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Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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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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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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October 1, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
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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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January 6, 2014
Simon Kuper |
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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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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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. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
April 25, 2001
Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
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May 30, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
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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June 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
IDB America
May/Jun 2000
Peter Bate |
Soccer meets economics Pele and Kissinger highlight seminar on sports and development |
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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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Simon Kuper |
Race and European Soccer International soccer has been a place of diversity from the start, and despite the wistful musing of some in France, it's becoming ever more so. |
Sports Illustrated
March 7, 2000 |
Scorecard: Joe-Max Factor Moore is doing U.S. soccer proud overseas |
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May 24, 2002
Allen Barra |
Soccer may be the world's sport, but it will never be America's Every four years soccer officials assure us that if the U.S. men's team makes a run for the World Cup, their sport will finally break through in America. Dream on. |
