Effects of the World Cup on Grass Roots Soccer in the US

By Steve Crane The World Cup was a huge event, watched by millions, perhaps billions of people worldwide. For a month, every part of our planet was overtaken by World Cup fever. Even in America! It really helped that the US teams made their games exciting by waiting to the last minute to score against [...]

The English Delusion

By David Hall The English national team is nowhere near good enough to win the World Cup. This tournament made that clear and so did the last one. What concerns me chiefly in this article is the quadrennial failure of the English to see this. A society’s inability to look reality squarely in the eye [...]

Why I Loved The World Cup

By Stephanie Gardner Unlike most American women, my husband has shown me the truth about soccer. It is a perfect, beautiful sport. It unites people from all over the world, and represents unity in many war-filled countries. In Cote d’Ivoire, soccer stopped a civil war. The sport itself is like no other. It can end [...]

Serbia coach Radomir Antic punished by FIFA for inappropriate behavior

By Milos Kosic Serbia coach Radomir Antic received a four-game ban from FIFA, a news that will have a significant influence on the team’s chances of qualifying for the Euro Cup. After the game Australia – Serbia, Antic verbally attacked referee Jorge Larrionda for denying Serbia a late penalty that could have helped the team [...]

An Everyday World Cup Final

By Trevor Kew The World Cup Final just doesn’t come along every day. In fact, other than the Olympics, it is difficult to think of a major sporting event that does occur less frequently. The Super Bowl lumbers by each winter, the Stanley Cup laces up its skates (some would say inexplicably) well into spring, [...]

MARK’ S MAYHEM: World Cup Aftermath…What Now for the United States?

By Mark Vincent Lincir The best moment in my entire life was watching Landon Donovan score the game winning goal in stoppage time against Algeria during group play of the World Cup. My second greatest moment was watching Landon Donovan and Bob Bradley appear on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I especially loved Bob’s [...]

Can USA win the World Cup!

By Ryan Smith Watching the USA bow out of the 2010 world cup was bitter and painful, especially after the relatively easy path to a semi-final match that generated, as compared to the rest of the 2nd round teams.  Team USA had strengths in this World Cup that it could play off and use to [...]

World Cup Super Flops

By Steve Crane, Where did all the Superstars go? This world cup was due to be lit up by the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, Rooney, Torres, Henry and Kaka, but in truth, they hardly got going. Granted, every time Messi gets on the ball, the anticipation is enormous, and the talent that he possesses is not [...]

Germany defends third place

By Eike Zwicker, The Germans defeat Uruguay in a thrilling game 3:2 The coach of the German selection changed his team on five positions; these modifications had a lot of reasons, for example Philipp Lahm suffered a flu and Tim Wiese, Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski had injury problems. Despite the big change, the German [...]

A MONTH OF MAYHEM: Spain Wins First World Cup Title

By Mark Vincent Lincir You know its back when you offer free food and drink and people are still angry. That’s what happened today at my house as I hosted a World Cup party that I hoped would turn into a celebration. Instead it turned into a scene of utter discontent as the dozen or [...]

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