A funny thing happened in the run up to tomorrow's crucial qualifier between the US and Trinidad & Tobago. Soca Warriors Coach Dennis Lawrence, whose team depends heavily on US based players, noted that MLS was releasing players to Bruce...
The league “appreciates” the “assist” in “efforts” to “try” to get a team the league already approved?
If there's something worse than discovering that the World Cup is being built on the backs of slaves rented from North Korean President Kim Jong Fat, or having the borders of a putative host nation literally sealed off from the world, it's likely...
Jack Warner is probably pretty bored down there in Port of Spain. The world's rich and powerful, who used to regularly drop in to kiss his ring and pad his bankroll, would now rather be photographed with a bed full of 12 year old hookers...
Now…not every foreign MLS player of note deserves induction, in my opinion. Let’s take, for example, a newcomer on the ballot – Amado Guevara.
Soccer is all about balance. Wait, no it isn’t.
If there were any lingering doubts about whether Gianni Infantino has taken full, personal, complete Blatter-like control over the FIFA universe, they were utterly demolished in Bahrain yesterday. In a chaotic session of the full FIFA Congress,...
After a five hour behind-closed-doors meeting which has been described - probably very accurately - as "tense", the soon-to-be-defenestrated FIFA Council labored mightily over the Palestine Football Association's complaint and decided:...
The cardinal rule at FIFA, the one inviolate principle, has always been that they don't engage in politics. Unfortunately for them, and perhaps ultimately for all of us, politics is now refusing to return the favor. And to the extent...
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A little over a year ago Gianni Infantino clutched his hands over his heart, tears welling up in his eyes as he acknowledged the cheers of FIFA's assembled delegates who had just elected him - so the narrative ran - to lead world soccer's...