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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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January 6, 2014
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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. |
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Euro 2012 Preview Despite the wide-open nature of this tournament, there's no doubt about the three best teams going into the tournament: Spain, Holland and Germany. |
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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 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. |
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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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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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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. |
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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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July 14, 2014
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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. |
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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. |
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October 28, 2013
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2014 World Cup Preview Possibly the four best teams on earth today -- Brazil, Germany, Argentina and Spain -- are intent on providing more attacking thrills than we've seen in many a tournament. |
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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 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. |
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October 20, 2014
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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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Rob Fox |
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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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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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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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. |
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June 14, 2012
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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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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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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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July 23, 2003
Mark Simmons |
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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May 30, 2002
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Get your World Cup scorecard! Everything you need to know about the players and teams... |
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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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June 9, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Euro 2012 Underdogs Of all the soccer competitions on earth, the European Championship is the underdog's paradise. |
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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. |
Sports Central
May 27, 2006
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World Cup Preview: Group C Aside from tournament contenders Argentina and the Netherlands, both Serbia and Montenegro and the Ivory Coast have the talent to get out of this deep group. |
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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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July 19, 2004
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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? |
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Colm Larkin |
Cristiano Ronaldo: 6 Reasons Why He's The World Cup's Biggest Star As incredible as Argentina's Lionel Messi is, he's not the event's most valuable player; that title belongs to Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo. |
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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. |
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April 12, 2012
Kevin Beane |
Euro 2012 Preview It's getting close to time for the second-biggest global soccer spectacle, the Euros. Spain are the defending champions, and solidified their hold as the best team in the world by following that up by winning the World Cup. |
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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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June 3, 2010 |
The Cream of the Crop The world's best -- and some of its richest -- soccer players will be competing for a wealth of pride next week |
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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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June 16, 2014
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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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Lionel Messi: Copa America Lionel Messi will continue to prove his skills at the Copa America against Colombia today. |
Sports Illustrated
May 21, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Viva Italia 32 teams will clash in Japan and South Korea for soccer's utlimate prize. Here's how we see the field -- and why the Italians will have reason to celebrate... |
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April 10, 2014
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World Cup Preview, Groups A and B With the World Cup scarcely over two months away, it's time to roll out the previews. In this first of a four-part series, I will be looking at groups A and B. |
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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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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." |
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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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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. |
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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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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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June 6, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Euro 2012 Host: Poland When soccer's traveling circus descends on Poland and Ukraine this week, in Poland, at least, visitors might be pleasantly surprised. |
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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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Simon Kuper |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
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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. |
