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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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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 |
Journalism In Sports Let's start with the great built-in advantage of sports journalism over, say, business journalism, political journalism or science journalism. In sports, you can see the most important events with your own eyes. |
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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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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 Careers "Soccer Men" illustrates there's no such thing as loyalty in professional 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. |
Sports Central
March 9, 2009
Luke Broadbent |
NFL Team in London? Let's Hope Not Talk once again has turned towards the possibility of a permanent NFL team in London. According to a senior league official, London could have their own team within 10-12 years. |
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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 |
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. |
Sports Central
October 1, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
An American's Sports Odyssey Into Soccer Soccer becomes the highlight of a sports weekend. |
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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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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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 |
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. |
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. |
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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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. |
Sports Central
December 14, 2006
Kevin Beane |
A European Soccer Primer A basic guide to European soccer for Americans. |
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 |
Why Man U? Why are so many people are obsessed with Manchester United? |
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August 10, 2013
Simon Kuper |
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? |
Sports Central
May 14, 2013
Brad Oremland |
Minority Coaches in the NFL It does seem to me that black coaches have to meet a higher standard to keep their jobs, and I wanted to find out if that was true. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
Sports Central
October 25, 2007
Kevin Beane |
Where the Yankees Would Be Loved By All The Boston Red Sox's are giving us more reasons to be a Yankee fan. |
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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 |
Brands In Soccer A team's fans often exist locally; successful branding opens up worldwide markets. |
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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. |
Sports Central
May 28, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
WNBA Action? Affirmative In the 14-team professional women's basketball league, only five teams have female coaches and only one of those coaches is an African-American. |
Sports Central
November 7, 2007
Will Tidey |
World Cup 2018: England Expects The English Football Association is to bid for the 2018 World Cup and it's almost certain England will not only win that, but the whole tournament, too. |
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November 13, 2002
Mark Simmons |
Should Johnnie Cochran Sue The NFL? Why have there only been five black coaches in the past 16 years? In my opinion, this has more to do with upbringing, sociology and demographics. |
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Chris Aung-Thwin |
Racism in Sports Striker Luis Suarez, who currently plays for Liverpool, has been issued a heavy fine and was banned for eight games for (allegedly) uttering a racial slur at Manchester United's Patrice Evra. |
Sports Illustrated
January 31, 2002
Frank Deford |
Roots Black coaches still can't make headway in football... |
Sports Illustrated
April 25, 2001
Frank Deford |
The name game WUSA may lead American women to claim soccer as their sport... |
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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. |
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? |
IDB America
May/Jun 2000
Peter Bate |
Soccer meets economics Pele and Kissinger highlight seminar on sports and development |
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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. |
Sports Illustrated
October 7, 2002
Phil Taylor |
Go, Johnnie, go Johnnie Cochran's plan to aid minority hiring in the NFL is overdue. |
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April 24, 2013
Simon Kuper |
Soccer Hooligans In April, Britain was suddenly jerked back into the 1980s. First, Thatcher died. Thatcher been so outraged by the hooligans that she nearly banned professional soccer. Then, the weekend after her death, 1980s-style hooliganism briefly resurfaced. |
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. |
Reason
April 2005
Michael Young |
Wide World of Sports A book review of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, by Franklin Foer: Soccer mirrors globalization and its discontents. |
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... |
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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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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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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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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... |
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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. |
Outside
June 2008
Mark Anders |
Turf Battle U.S. soccer fans are turning to homegrown hero Taylor Twellman, the New England Revolution's 28-year-old striker. |
Sports Central
March 1, 2007
Kevin Beane |
English Premier League Picks and Pans Opinions on soccer teams in the English Premier League. |
