Photo Credit: Slater Bernstein/ISNSoccer.com Allstate and the Concacaf Gold Cup are an incredible pairing, one that promotes the sport of soccer in the U.S. and the entire region. Soccer legends Tony Meola and Moisés Muñoz have made that pairing even stronger, traveling the country to promote the the insurance giant’s support of the beautiful game. Both superstars have enjoyed being involved with Allstate’s Day of Play initiative, something that Meola describes as an opportunity to “get into communities and give back.”
India is a football giant in waiting, a country that is on their verge of something big. To fully understand this, you need to have a grasp of the country’s football past, present, and future. Reading India’s Football Dream by Shantanu Gupta and Nikhil Paramjit Sharma will give you that background and more. The book starts with a brilliant foreword from Indian superstar Sunil Chhetri that truly sets the stage for the rest of the book. It is followed by a
Bangor rounded off their league season with a victory, giving the Seasiders a remarkable tally of 82 points from a potential 84. The undefeated Seasiders had to work hard though to see off basement side Desertmartin in a strange end-of-season fixture which saw Bangor field two different outfield players in goal. With Bangor arriving late at Dromore Park because of roadworks, kick off was delayed but the Seasiders were quick out of the blocks to take a first minute lead. Straight from kick
Photo Credit: MNUFC Collen Warner is what you call an MLS veteran. The 30-year-old midfielder spent nine seasons in MLS, playing for five different teams. He logged some serious minutes, 13,478 to be exact, in 153 starts and 208 appearances. He has been all over North America, playing for the likes of Real Salt Lake, Montreal Impact, Toronto FC, Houston Dynamo, and Minnesota United FC. Warner has plenty of great memories from his time in MLS, all of it starting in
Gemma Clarke is an incredible journalist and she’s the perfect person to write about the transformative forces in the women’s game because she is one herself. Her latest work, Soccerwomen: The Icons, Rebels, Stars, and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game, is truly special for a number of reasons. Cover Art Courtesy of Bold Type Books First, this book allows Clarke to properly honor the past, present, and future leaders of women’s soccer. She recognizes the pioneers, advocates, activists, reformers, and
Cries to change American soccer have been heard for so many years. The calls for change have included every aspect of the game and ebbed and flowed with the successes and failures of the U.S. national teams. Those calls got louder and more frequent with the failure of the U.S. Men’s National Team to reach the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Change came in the form of reform candidates for the position of U.S. Soccer President and Vice President, letters of support
For the third time this season Bangor lost out in a penalty shootout as they fell at the quarter-final hurdle of the Crawford Cup. Saturday’s match was packed with action as the Seasiders and Cookstown Youth shared six goals in normal time. Despite the visitors being reduced to nine men because of injury for the start of extra time, Bangor could find no way through and the resilient Cookstown Youth
The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is proud to announce that the Muskegon Risers (Muskegon, MI) have joined the league as an expansion team. The club will begin competition in the Midwest Region’s Great Lakes Conference in 2020. “We are thrilled to begin our 2020 expansion campaign with such a strong club in the Muskegon Risers,” NPSL Managing Director Cindy Spera said. “We are excited to see the NPSL brand continue to grow in Michigan and throughout the Midwest. We are
Twenty-five years ago, the Cleveland Crunch brought Cleveland a championship in the world of indoor soccer. The 1993-94 Crunch side, after suffering heartbreak in the 1992-93 finals, came back and took the National Soccer Professional League Championship all for themselves. Now, in 2019, the team will be reunited yet again for a great cause. Photos Courtesy of Otto Orf The 25th Anniversary Reunion Game will be taking place on April 26th at Goodyear Hall in Akron. Doors open at 5:30 pm
