http://www.espnradio710.com/viewentry.asp?ID=266799&PT=Jocks Note: Not written expressly for the soccer-lover such as ourselves.
i'll give you tv... but newspapers? no way take a gander at the soccer directory link in my signature... and realize that i don't have everything and am not even close to having it truly be 'finished' (i don't think it will ever be finished... it's always going to need editing and adding of new sources) take a look at the weekly output of soccer articles through-out the country that i find... well over 100 articles just on mls each week
if you haven't noticed... i only cover mls... not wusa, a-league, pdl, psl and college so there absolutely hordes of papers covering soccer in this country
I'll hate this article if I were not a soccer fan. Actually, I don't like it even though I am a fan. It is full of nothing but hyperboles.
enjoyed the article but there is some hyperbole. 15 freddy adus?? if you want to develop 15 freddy adus, take 30 of our better athletes at about the age of 4 or 5, ship them to ghana, house them in some slum or another, make sure they have enough soccer balls to play with 24/7, and then bring them back to bradenton/carson when they're 10 or 11 or 12. otherwise, the best we're going to develop is 15 landon donovans or demarcus beasley's, not in and of itself a bad thing in any way, but presuming a psuedo-linear curve in freddy's development, not the same thing as "15 freddy adus". FWIW.
Soccer is still very ignored in newspapers. There isnt one full time soccer writer in the entire new york metro are. Meanwhile, hockey has four on each paper. Is that equitable? Hardly.
I feel soccer is very well respected in our local newspapers. They ussually have the standings and weekends results on Monday and Tuesday. They ussually have an article previewing every Nat game and an article after the game. On the collum, I'm not about to rip it. Thats stupid. Thanks for making an effort to promote soccer.
You might find it interesting that the Scottish Cup Final (Rangers-Dundee), played at Hampden Park last weekend, had football lines on the pitch. (The Scottish Claymores NFL Europe team plays there too.)
that would actually make an interesting poll question: which would you rather choose, artificial turf or football lines? i think i hate artificial turf worse...