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Simon Kuper |
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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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. |
Sports Central
July 13, 2010
Bill Hazell |
World Cup Final: The Beautiful Ugly Game After 40 years, and 120-plus agonizing minutes of waiting, the euphoric fans of Spain could care less if the final was ugly. |
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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 Central
May 27, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
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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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 |
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 |
Edwin Van Der Sar's Retirement The real lesson in soccer's Edwin van der Sar's retirement is to go out on top. |
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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. |
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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. |
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 |
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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June 13, 2014 |
The Flying Dutchman: How Robin Van Persie Grew Up To Become A World Cup Star Friday afternoon, Dutch captain Robin van Persie's two goals helped put away the favored Spanish side. |
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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. |
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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. |
Sports Central
April 10, 2014
Kevin Beane |
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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December 1, 2013
Simon Kuper |
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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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 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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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. |
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. |
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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. |
Salon.com
May 30, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
Get your World Cup scorecard! Everything you need to know about the players and teams... |
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October 28, 2013
Simon Kuper |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Roger Bennett |
The World Is Watching the World Cup A spectator's guide to the soccer tournament in South Africa. Whom to root for -- or against -- and who has the coolest uniforms |
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June 28, 2014
Dave Golokhov |
GIF Guide: Understanding The World's Soccer Strategies, One GIF At A Time For those of you new to soccer, we've highlighted some strategies from basic to advanced in terms of what you might see at the World Cup |
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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Kuper & Winner |
Edwin van der Sar A reflection on the retirement of Edwin van der Sar, the man who changed soccer. |
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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. |
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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May 19, 2014
Simon Kuper |
The Only Way To Experience The World Cup Is By Actually Attending. Here's Why. Over time I've discovered the truth about the World Cup: The soccer isn't the best bit. It's the stuff that happens away from the stadiums that you really remember. |
Salon.com
June 22, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Welcome to the world In defeat, the U.S. soccer team won an epic victory: It brought America into the world of sports. |
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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. |
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 |
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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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 14, 2012
Jimmy Burns |
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. |
Sports Central
May 12, 2006
Ray Leroy |
Soccer: The Beautiful Game June 9th will kick off the most watched sporting event in the world, as 32 teams from across the globe vie for professional soccer's 2006 World Cup. |
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. |
Sports Central
July 15, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
A Penalty Kick in the Pants Forget that famous head-butt. The real tragedy, the true outrage, of this near-classic match is the way it ended. |
Sports Central
February 10, 2004
Mert Ertunga |
Everyone Cares But the U.S. The Davis Cup is big news in almost all the countries that send teams there. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2005
Kevin Beane |
World Cup Fever, Anyone? Sports fans who find themselves lost between seasons, or in the midst of boring ones, may find that soccer fills the void quite nicely -- particularly, the high-stakes, world cup level. |
Sports Central
November 22, 2007
Kevin Beane |
A New Dawn For Ohio State and Russia Ohio State will indeed be playing in the National Championship Game. Also, in soccer, Russia has an excellent chance to get beyond the group stage of a major competition. |
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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. |
Sports Central
May 13, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
The Idiot's Guide to the World Cup In less than one month, the grandest tournament on the planet kicks off -- the World Cup of football, or what Americans call soccer. |
Sports Illustrated
May 14, 2002
Grant Wahl |
No mas for Armas What now for the U.S.? Chris Armas, the U.S.'s tough-as-nails defensive midfielder, will miss the World Cup after tearing his right ACL against Uruguay. But this isn't a catastrophe for the U.S. team... |
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February 2, 2014
Simon Kuper |
Why Men Love Sports More Than Anything Publishers are always complaining that men don't read much, but one thing we do read is daily chatter about sports. |
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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. |
Sports Illustrated
September 23, 2000
Grant Wahl |
Coming of age U.S. men's soccer joins ranks of the world's best... |
