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Simon Kuper |
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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November 8, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Race And Soccer Management There's still a curious absence at the heart of English soccer: black managers. England has done a great job of tackling racism on the pitch and in the stands. Now it needs to do the same in the head offices of its clubs. |
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December 5, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Do Ex-Players Make Worse Coaches? For decades, it was an article of faith that only someone who had played professional soccer himself knew how to manage a team. Players who had been leaders on the field were particularly favored. |
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July 31, 2013
Simon Kuper |
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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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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Simon Kuper |
Soccer Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional soccer. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2009
Adrian Rush |
Does This Economic Goal Fall Short? A new book, Soccernomics, by Stefan Szymanski and Simon Kuper, examines some of the monetary myths about soccer. |
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Simon Kuper |
The Optimal Age To Be An Athlete Athletes, the general manager at one sports club told me, are like "blocks of ice." All players are melting. What the club needs to establish is how fast they're melting, and it must get rid of them before only a puddle of water remains. |
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October 20, 2014
Simon Kuper |
Can Luis Suarez Return To Glory After Becoming The World's Most Infamous Biter? Suarez is about to make his debut for Barcelona, most likely in the "clasico" against eternal rivals Real Madrid after his four-month ban for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. |
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Simon Kuper |
Russian Soccer Times have changed since the days when players only worried about breaking a leg on the field. FIFpro plans to publish its complete "black book" of bad clubs in January. |
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June 16, 2014
Simon Kuper |
Why We're Seeing The Return Of Attack Soccer (And Why It's Better For The Fans) We know what viewers want: stars playing attacking soccer. |
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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 |
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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Simon Kuper |
Champions League Your best chance of scoring in modern soccer is within three seconds of winning the ball. That's when your opponents are still in disarray and haven't yet occupied all their defensive positions. |
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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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Simon Kuper |
Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
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July 2, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Data Analysis And Soccer Just two years ago, data analysis was still not very widespread in international soccer. Penalties are the most obvious piece of data to analyze, yet big teams like England and Argentina entered their knockout games in 2010 with barely any statistics on their opponents' penalties. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Mark Scott |
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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Simon Kuper |
What's Next For Brand Beckham? If the 35-year-old player is fading, Beckham the brand is simply entering a new phase. |
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Rob Fox |
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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Jack Doyle |
USA Soccer Has No Chance Against England With a runner-up finish in the 2009 Confederations Cup still fresh in the minds of U.S. soccer fans, expectations for World Cup success have never been higher. |
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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. |
Salon.com
May 30, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
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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Simon Kuper |
How To Win Penalty Shootouts Few know about the statistical analysis of soccer, and it can be used for financial advantage. |
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David Stoll |
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. |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 13, 2003 |
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." |
Sports Central
October 1, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
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June 8, 2014
Simon Kuper |
Meet The Man Who Made The Belgium Devils A World Cup Force To Be Reckoned With The new money pouring in is changing the Belgian game. |
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May 17, 2013
Simon Kuper |
David Beckham's Career Now that he no longer needs to waste time playing soccer, he can dedicate himself to his true vocation: global celebrity. |
Salon.com
July 2, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004
Jack Ewing |
Can Football Be Saved? In Europe, football is more popular than ever -- but the losses keep mounting. What can be done to fix the business? |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2007
Stanley Holmes |
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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July 14, 2014
Simon Kuper |
How Germany Created A Lean, Mean Unbeatable World Cup Machine It takes a country to create a team like this. And not many countries could manage that project. |
Sports Illustrated
April 16, 2002
Grant Wahl |
A Bad Break If you think the U.S. media hyperventilates over sports, consider the reaction in the U.K. last week to the news that English soccer captain David Beckham may miss the upcoming World Cup finals -- which begin on May 31 -- after breaking a bone in his left foot... |
CFO
June 1, 2007
John Goff |
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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Mark Simmons |
soccer betting What do we think about when high-budget sporting franchises come to mind? Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? Although all of these might be valid answers to the question, soccer should also be added to the list. |
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Simon Kuper |
Lionel Messi: Copa America Lionel Messi will continue to prove his skills at the Copa America against Colombia today. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
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Simon Kuper |
The Decline Of Drinking In English Soccer Drinking on pro soccer teams was a carryover from the British military, but these days athletes' bodies are treated as finely tuned machines. |
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Simon Kuper |
Sir Alex Ferguson "David, you're not going to start tonight. You'll be on the bench," Manchester United's manager Alex Ferguson told David Beckham. It was April 23, 2003. |
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Simon Kuper |
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. |
AskMen.com
May 22, 2013 |
Greatest Soccer Matches In the spirit of personal fandom, here is Simon Kuper's list of the moments in soccer he'll never forget. |
Salon.com
June 12, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
Sacre bleu! Dios mio! It's the Bizarro World Cup! France fades into Sartrean nothingness, Argentina dances the tango of despair and the United States and Japan, titans of world baseball -- sorry, I mean soccer -- rise up. |
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February 21, 2001
Mark Simmons |
African American Coaches In The NFL Marvin Lewis was passed up because the Caucasian coaches have had a head start and have leveraged this edge. But, with time, the landscape will change, and the same way now that the best athlete runs the offense, one day, the best coach will run the team... |
Sports Central
December 14, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
World Cup Group of Death? The greatest sporting event in the world is taking place just a few months from now. No, not the Super Bowl, not the Olympics. The World Cup of soccer. |
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Kuper & Winner |
Edwin van der Sar A reflection on the retirement of Edwin van der Sar, the man who changed soccer. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Soccer Bends It for Beckham Major League Soccer bends its rules to crank up Brand Beckham. |
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September 20, 2015
Simon Kuper |
Holland's Soccer Woes It's a rough time to be a fan of Dutch soccer. Here's how Holland sank so low. |
Sports Illustrated
October 7, 2002
Phil Taylor |
Go, Johnnie, go Johnnie Cochran's plan to aid minority hiring in the NFL is overdue. |
