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A soccer-loving journalist now based in Albany named Dennis Yusko. That’s me. Please contribute! The Brazilian mens national team, longtime authors of the Beautiful Game, are suffering in 2010 World Cup qualifiers. Paraguay humbled the soccer-mad country 2-0on Sunday in Asuncion, Paraguay,dealing Brazilits second consecutive loss inthe qualifying campaign.On Wednesday,Brazil facesArgentina, the worlds top-ranked team. [...]

“I guess I’ve never viewed soccer as some sort of controlled substance. To me, it’s probably more like Nutella. The rest of the world clearly loves it and puts it on almost everything, but here in America we’re like, “I don’t know, man, it tastes like almonds.” The second leg of Concacaf World Cup Qualifying [...]

I could rationalize that the fact is we Latinamericans are inherently attracted to soccer. We love this game. I think its beautiful. So, when we see a rival throwing crap at us like howler monkeys, the panamanian spirit doesnt disappoint. He wants Argentina to bring over every major soccer superstar (including some of the best [...]

Chelsea had to get past Liverpool to reach the final. In the first leg of the semi final at Anfield Chelsea were 1-0 down until an own goal from John Arne Riise in injury time made it a draw at 1-1. Nani is expected to be recalled for Manchester United to the squad after being [...]

See photos, video and a biography of Cat below. As a biography, Cat was born as Catherine Leigh Osterman on April 16, 1983 in Houston, Texas. As a child, she played soccer and basketball but was asked to be a back-up pitcher for the Little League softball team and got hooked on the sport. Cat [...]

We discussed two keys in our pregame meeting. First, we needed to rely on our footskills and not regress into kick & run soccer. Second, we needed to not back down to an opponent who was physically bigger than we are. On the first, we did a reasonable job of using our footskills, although our [...]