It seems as if the French soccer team may not get away from its actions during the World Cup scot-free.
According to the Associated Press, French striker Thierry Henry called for a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy upon the team’s return to France to discuss their disastrous World Cup showing.
Sarkozy, who Read More
Before the advent of Major League Soccer, the founding of Italy’s Serie A or the UEFA Champions League, even before the first FIFA World Cup, there was Sporting Club Gjøa. Last Saturday afternoon, well over 100 young footballers and their parents gathered at the old Gjøa clubhouse on 62nd Street in Brooklyn to watch the Read More
On the afternoon of Saturday, June 11, the central village of East Hampton was packed with two types: those who were shopping because it was too cold and overcast for the beach, and those who came to one of the casual eateries to watch the highly anticipated United States vs. U.K. soccer match at the Read More
Here’s our list of etiquette for the clueless or just plain lazy.
DO NOT
Call soccer “football” if you’re American.
This is pretentious.
Root for the U.S.
Our great nation does not dominate at soccer. This should be obvious based solely on the fact that the most memorable soccer Read More
Prominent Soccer Jew and New Republic editor Franklin Foer will be blogging the World Cup for TNR this year, as he did in 2006.
Mr. Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World, will be joined again by Serbian novelist and National Book Award finalist Aleksandar Hemon, among others.
From the release: Read More
When Christiano Ronaldo posed for Annie Leibovitz in his underwear for the June issue of Vanity Fair, he didn’t realize that he would end up sharing the cover of the magazine with his rival Didier Drogba.
Mr. Ronaldo would like to bring legal action against the magazine, according to Page Six.
“Ronaldo is freaking Read More
When President Bill Clinton came onto the field at the Children’s Aid Society on 118th Street in Harlem on Monday, May 17, Juan Pablo Angel, the star of the New York Red Bulls, rolled toward him one of the soccer balls that he had just been using in a clinic for 30 local Read More
