It’s been a while since we took inventory of the world’s best clubs.
Between winter breaks and some changes within this team, the World Club Top Ten needed a revamp. Gone are the days of the collaborative ranking. I’m taking over, for better or worse, as I fully expect my fellow World Soccer Reader [...]
In this, the final edition of my interview with Inside Minnesota Soccer’s Brian Quarstad, we continue our discussion of the role of citizen journalism in U.S. soccer media. Where main stream sports outlet have yet to fully develop their editorial voice for soccer, how does citizen journalism help augment meeting the demand for coverage.
Over [...]
In the second of a three-part interview, I talk to Inside Minnesota Soccer’s Brian Quarstad about the role of citizen journalism in U.S. soccer coverage.
Over the last year, Brian has led the coverage of the USL-1’s break-up, with many of the clubs who competed in the 2008-09 season’s second division breaking-off to form the new [...]
This weekend, I had Brian Quarstad back on the show. Brian is the owner of Inside Minnesota Soccer, a web site that came to prominence over the last year for it’s coverage of the saga in the second division of United States soccer that eventually led to a United States Soccer Federation-run league [...]
Ray Curren and I have a respectful, ongoing discussion.
Ray is a big fan of the English Premier League. He writes about it for Set Piece Analysts and listens to the site’s podcast, on which I am a regular.
Last week, I got an email from him in which he mentioned that I was [...]
Once Major League Soccer gets beyond its current labor problems, the league faces a series of marketing challenges that are currently holding back some of its oldest franchises. Red Bull New York, for example, continues to struggle penetrating a fractured New York market.
To talk about that and the other challenges facing Red Bull New York [...]
His place within United States’s soccer culture has made him a lightning rod for praise and criticism, but no matter the side of the divide on which you fall (or if you fall through the middle), Landon Donovan’s loan to Everton FC in England represents a landmark moment in United States soccer history.
Whether [...]
It’s been almost exactly one month since we last released an episode of Inside the Six. Call it a holiday or call it a point of personal privilege. Regardless, call it over.
Inside the Six is back, with its first show of the week, and from here forward, we are officially daily.
To help start [...]
On this, the Thursday edition of ITS, we re-welcome WSR’s La Liga correspondent Mark Goodman for a breakdown of the three surviving Champions League sides from Spain. Looking at Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Sevilla, Mark and I assess the current form of the clubs, where their weaknesses lie, and the likelihood of those deficiencies [...]
To talk about the closing of the Brazilian Serie A and the impending closing of the “opening” in Argentina, I welcome back Goal.com’s Tim Sturtridge, who joins us from Buenos Aireas, Argentina. Tim talks to us about Flamengo’s title in Brazil, the battle between Banfield and Newell’s Old Boys in Argentina, LDU Quito’s second [...]
