[Dad on sideline] Junior, shoot it! [I. Vassilev] Dad, I told you... [scores goal] [I. Vassilev] ...don't call me Junior!
I guess it depends on what was promised. For sure there were people who predicted that academies would immediately start churning out lots of...
As we've discussed endlessly elsewhere, academies are supposed to be collecting players from other teams, not finding them all at age 12. If you...
No, we should not be worried. That one transfer was probably a bigger return on investment than all the rest of their current homegrown players...
I'm gonna make you pay for that kind of word play.
Is it unfair to describe this as a B+ squad? (Where the A squad is the fantasy version that includes Pulisic etc.) Weirdly, I was more impressed...
That's when he gives some brains, some beauty, but to you he gives lice?
They proved it by losing? (NE wins, 3-2.)
I wasn't focusing on the sloppy wording. I found the graphs remarkable. I don't spend much time in the commish section myself. It appears to...
Wanted to single out this stats-heavy article. Basically it argues MLS is not keeping up with the explosion of soccer interest in this country....
Parchman's talking about the national teams, not the country as a whole. There's a case to be made for a more coherent vision in the much...
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Klinsmann said this recently. “The way I grew up, I was 10 and I saw Gerd Mueller scoring the winning goal in the 1974 World Cup and I said “I...
I'll note that the argument isn't always about producing for the national team. Sometimes it's just about giving kids a chance to play soccer....
I don't want to detract from some quality ranting, but here's one scouting example: “I’d watch anywhere from under-13, maybe under-12 sometimes,...
