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Thierry Henry’s First NYRB Training Session

Written by: Tyler

The official New York Red Bulls blog released a video of  Thierry Henry’s first training session with the New York Red Bulls. It is a man playing with boys. While players are a bit more fancy in practice than a game, the “out of shape” Henry moves at a pace that MLS players rarely experience.

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Edson Buddle T-Shirt Contest

Written by: Gabe

Edson Buddle T-Shirt Contest

In addition to being a soccer fan, I’m also a designer with occasionally overwhelming tendencies to embark on projects with little or no reward. Edson Buddle’s t-shirt contest was practically custom-built to take advantage of my shortcomings! To coincide with the upcoming launch of his online merch store, Edson is holding a t-shirt design contest. [...]

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The ASTROHEADER F50 adiZero

Written by: Gabe

The ASTROHEADER F50 adiZero

We all like to dream. Sometimes my dreams feature customized $250 soccer boots. Behold! A dream come true: the F50 adiZero through the eyes of ASTROHEADER. You can create your own at miadidas.com.

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Missing an Open Goal: Why USA Lost to Ghana

Written by: Gabe

Months ago, around the time the World Cup lottery was drawn, US Soccer publicly set one clear goal: Get out of the group stage. Surviving the group stage was a fair measure for the players, the program and the coach, and after all, the USA was improving incrementally over 2006 and their group seemed winnable. [...]

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Tales Told

Written by: Gabe

The group stage of FIFA’s 2010 World Cup is in the books, and while some of the balance was restored in the soccer universe, a few stories that will define this tournament have been told. EuroFail—France, Italy, Denmark and Greece are all gone in a continent-spanning shocker. However, the chances of The Netherlands, Germany, and [...]

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Adidas Star Wars Commercial

Written by: Tyler

I am probably slow to the party on this one but I just recently saw the Adidas Star Wars commercial. The video includes David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, and some old time Star Wars characters. Enjoy!!

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Are You Ready for the World Cup?

Written by: Gabe

Two weekends of television monopoly, seven business days of GameCasts, tweets and streaming video, some hours of sleep filled with dreams of Cristiano Ronaldo (either as him, watching him, or married to him, depending on your fancy)… we’re now eleven days into the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It has been a flurry of the unpredictable. [...]

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Add BELIEF to the USA Repertoire

Written by: Gabe

It won’t be our most famous game. It wasn’t an amazing display of skill. It wasn’t even enough to get the USA out of the group stage… but something about our 2-2 draw with Slovenia was special. After (and in spite of) a typically lackluster first half, the American team battled back for three goals [...]

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Finally, a High Score

Written by: Gabe

Finally, a High Score

First, click the image. It’s a comment (and reply) posted on Grant Wahl’s inquiring blog post about the low scores of the opening World Cup round. The comment is common, prejudiced, red-blooded, base-circling, upright-splitting drivel, but the reply is oh so, “WIN,” as they say on the internet.

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Corrupt Ref and Michael Bradley? Just Give Bradley a Red Card Right Now.

Written by: Tyler

Corrupt Ref and Michael Bradley? Just Give Bradley a Red Card Right Now.

To kick off one of the most anticipated games of the World Cup (and that’s a fact), FIFA has decided to put a referee in change that was suspended in his own country for corruption and incompetence. FIFA has allowed Brazilian Carlos Simon the chance to ref the England v United States game in the [...]

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