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How to Avoid Getting Mugged in the Market Understanding how soccer is played in various parts of globe will make us more internationally savvy, both as sports fans and investors. |
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Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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Brazil Soccer Soccer players once fled Brazil for a better life; now, they're returning to play for home teams. |
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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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Soccer Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional soccer. |
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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. |
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A European Soccer Primer A basic guide to European soccer for Americans. |
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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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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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Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
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Spanish Soccer A cursory glance at Spain's current national team, who play Ireland in the Euro Cup today, tells us a thing or two about how much soccer -- and the men who play it -- have changed in the country. |
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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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The Father of U.S. Soccer U.S. men's soccer coach Jurgen Klinsmann raised some eyebrows in a New York Times profile today when he declared the World Cup unwinnable for the Americans in 2014. |
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David Moyes And Glasgow Soccer Glaswegian managers have dominated English club soccer. Why has the west of Scotland bred managers? And what does this tradition tell us about perhaps its final exponent, Moyes? |
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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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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. |
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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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