So your mission today is to call your local oldies station and request a dedication. When the guy doing his best Wolfman Jack impression answers the phone, you tell him you want to request Gerry And The Pacemaker’s “Ferry Cross The Mersey” and dedicate it to your favorite on again off again man crush, Landon [...]
On Thursday’s episode of Inside the Six, ITS comes back from a brief break to analyze the end of the domestic season in Brazil. This weekend will be the 38th and final round of the season. To talk about it, Goal.com contributor Tim Sturtridge joins the show from Buenos Aries to talk [...]
David Beckham, the England international and LA Galaxy midfielder, is set to be forced into a decision to choose between his club and country. If the Los Angeles reach the quarterfinals of the MLS Playoffs, the Galaxy will face either the Houston Dynamo or Seattle Sounders FC on November 14th in Los Angeles, California.
The [...]
One week removed from the last week’s international qualifying, I’m finally ready to post a special edition of the World Soccer Reader Top Ten. Tomorrow, we will get back to the club list, but today, we want to take inventory of international competition as we roll closer to South Africa.
Whereas this list is normally [...]
Diego Maradona campaigned to have the match moved from Buenos Aires. El Monumental had no atmosphere, he said. The track around the pitch kept the fans too far from the players, with the stands themselves laying on the slow incline you expect from a multi-purpose facility. For River Plate, the stadium is [...]
Except for the UEFA Champions League final in Rome, no match this calendar year will be bigger, yet you’ve probably only tangentially heard that Brazil is going to Argentina this weekend for World Cup qualifying.
“That’s cool,” you might say (you don’t mind if I quote you, do you). “Big match, but why’s this one [...]
You know him from his contributions Goal.com, Examiner.com, and his site Mad About Fútbol, and for Episode #10 of Inside the Six, Juan Arango is also “podcast guest” as he joins host Richard Farley to talk about all things Argentine football: domestic league and national team. Juan’s also asked about another passion of [...]
Two tournaments, two second-place finishes, and more noteably two second-half collapses.
But is that how American supporters should remember this summer’s U.S. soccer campaign?
The U.S. failed to hold a 2-0 lead at halftime against Brazil, then after outplaying Mexico for the first 50 minutes of the Gold Cup final; they were embarrassed to the tune of [...]
WSR expert Dave Topp weighs in on the shocking Gold Cup final. Then, we catch up with Jared Dubois in Los Angeles to get an update on the drama that is Los Angeles Galaxy football. And this week’s special guest, one of the more recognizable Serie A fans in the blog-o-sphere, Anna Italia [...]
Tonight, Estudiantes and Cruzeiro enter the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final coming off an uninspiring opener in La Plata. Cruzeiro was notably less ambitious than they had been in the knock-out stage’s preceding matches, a sign of respect for an opponent that posted a 4-0 victory the last time Cruzeiro went to [...]
