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Pitch Fever American investors spend it like Beckham -- and borrow heavily, too -- to buy UK soccer teams. The big lure: global branding. |
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David Beckham and the Selling of European Football The transfer of Beckham from Manchester United to Real Madrid is part of a deliberate management strategy aimed at transforming football into a world-class marketing machine. The message is clear: "It is no longer enough to score goals," says one observer. "You also have to sell jerseys." |
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July 19, 2004
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Football's Finances Need a Kick European clubs tend to carry too much debt and have loose controls. Governing bodies have to provide stricter oversight. |
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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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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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December 12, 2005
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ManU Gets Kicked In The Head--Again Losing Vodafone's sponsorship is yet another blow to Manchester United's owner Malcolm Glazer. |
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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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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. |
AskMen.com
October 2, 2002
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Italy's Soccer Situation Italy's football problems are structural and deep-rooted in a system that failed to be held accountable. Maybe, just maybe, if Italy's lack of business philosophy does not change, the once-proud Italian league may need to take a lesson or two from that other Italian institution. |
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Why The EPL Is The Best: Fox On Football If you're anything like me, you currently have a huge World-Cup-size gap in your schedule. A football vacuum, if you will. |
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Adidas' Big Money Defense Against Nike With Nike closing in, Adidas hopes sponsorships will preserve its lead. |
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An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
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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. |
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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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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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Simon Kuper |
Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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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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Least Profitable Sports Teams A club will lose money when it overspends on high-priced players who don't deliver or because of flat-out mismanagement. Here are the five major pro sports teams that were the least profitable in 2005-06. |
Sports Central
October 29, 2008
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An English Perspective on the NFL This year's NFL International Series game was clearly the perfect advertisement for offense, while last year's was an advertisement for British weather. |
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March 11, 2010
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Can Manchester United Kick Its Debt Habit? England's most storied team is winning on the field, but like most other Premier League clubs it is deep in hock. |
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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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November 26, 2007
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Bend It Like...Blanco Cuauhtemoc Blanco, like Beckham, has amped up pro soccer's star power. Plus, he's pulling in Latino fans. |
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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. |
Salon.com
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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September 22, 2003 |
Shakeup in British Soccer Roman Abramovich, the wealthy Russian businessman who bought control of Chelsea Football Club in July, has pulled off another shocker. On Sept. 9 he lured away Peter Kenyon, CEO of Manchester United PLC, Britain's best-known and best-managed sports business. |
Salon.com
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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July 15, 2008
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Going for the Gold Can a savvy finance strategy propel Women's Professional Soccer to post-Olympic glory? |
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Simon Kuper |
Brazil Soccer Soccer players once fled Brazil for a better life; now, they're returning to play for home teams. |
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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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Least Profitable Sports Leagues Many pro sports leagues are running in the red. Here's a look at some of the least profitable pro sports leagues in recent years. |
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Arsenal Tops in the Business of English Football The Gunners still top the table in one respect. |
Wired
October 2009
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Stefan Szymanski and Stephen Ross: Bust Up Big League Sports In the current system, major league team owners are rewarded for mediocrity. How can we demand better? Make teams compete for a spot in the majors. |
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Simon Kuper |
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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Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
Salon.com
May 30, 2002
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Get your World Cup scorecard! Everything you need to know about the players and teams... |
AskMen.com
July 23, 2003
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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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R.I.P. Brazilian Flair: The Real Reason Brazil's Style Dried Up, As Told By The Locals Don't just criticize Luiz Felipe Scolari for suddenly taking the Cachaca out of the country's footballing Caipinrinha. The modern game and its day-to-day business is just as guilty as those choosing Brazil's tactics. |
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May 23, 2002
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Top 10: Soccer Stadiums Seeing as there are so many enormous stadiums scattered across the world, I had to take more than size into account when honing them down to a Top Ten list... |
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July 19, 2004
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Olympique Lyonnais: Scoring Off the Field The French soccer team is making millions by putting its brand on everything from CDs to taxis. Its newest venture: A beauty salon. |
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October 19, 2011
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How the Players Can Win the NBA Lockout The NBA players need to leverage their talent to win the lockout. |
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The Gridiron on the Web -- Football Online Am I doomed to be shut out from the world of football forever? No! The internet has arrived to save the day with zillions of sites to explain and celebrate American football. |
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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. |
Sports Central
June 4, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
World Cup Preview: Group E The United States finds itself smack dab in the middle of the second group of death in this World Cup. If the United States are to advance out of this group, it would be a monumental achievement of the highest order. |
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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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Al Saunders |
Top 10: 2006 World Cup Stadiums In Germany Organizers have announced that approximately 2.6 million World Cup tickets are being sold for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. |
Sports Central
May 31, 2007
Kevin Beane |
In Praise of Losing Teams Love sports, but don't like the stress associated with being a hardcore fan? Then pick a poor team to support. |
Sports Central
July 6, 2006
Will Tidey |
World Cup: Zidane Bows Out on Top Zinedine Zidane, arguably the most extravagantly-gifted player of his generation, will showcase his mesmeric skills for the last time in Sunday's World Cup Final. |
Sports Central
July 21, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
The American Premier League While a remarkable 18 teams were within five games of a playoff spot on Monday morning, such parity is more of a Bud Selig parlor trick than an exhibition of competitive balance. |
AskMen.com
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. |
