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Announcing XI Quarterly, a North American Soccer Magazine 4 Apr 2012 | 12:48 pm
It’s been a while since I last posted. A long while. I originally started this website shortly after the 2006 World Cup when blogs were relatively new things and soccer coverage, particularly from Nor...
Photos of the San Diego African Soccer League 25 Mar 2010 | 05:10 am
Ever since I moved to San Diego in 2007, I have heard rumors of the existence of an African Soccer League. My attempts to find it had proven unsuccessful until recently when I found a “Somali mall,” c...
Team Focus: South Valley Chivas Academy 25 Feb 2010 | 02:00 am
In 2008, I featured a piece on siblings Alexis and Amber Hernandez. Mexican-Americans who have grown up in the Central Valley of California, they had at the time both recently been called up to play f...
Interview with Pablo Miralles, Executive Producer of Gringos at the Gate 3 Feb 2010 | 02:00 am
Two encounters with foreign fans inspired Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pablo Miralles’s current project, the documentary film about the US-Mexico soccer rivalry called Gringos at the Gate. The first ca...
Soccer Players and Fast Cars: A Sometimes Dangerous Mix 31 Dec 2009 | 08:11 am
River Plate’s young midfielder Diego Buanotte is currently in the hospital, recovering from injuries he suffered in a car accident in which he was involved on December 26. Buanotte was lucky; three fr...
Does it Matter Where They’re From? Club Teams, National Teams, and the Connection to Home 22 Dec 2009 | 09:50 am
When England recently announced the potential host cities that will host games if that country is awarded the 2018 World Cup, one stood out: Milton Keynes. The MK Stadium that would host games is home...
American Soccer Cultures 1 Dec 2009 | 01:00 am
What is American soccer culture? Ask that question to 100 people and you may very well receive 100 different responses. People’s perception of American soccer culture depends entirely on where they ar...
Tweet tweet! 23 Nov 2009 | 07:10 am
A lot happened in the time I was gone, including the rise of Twitter. In an effort to keep up with the times, I have established a Culture of Soccer twitter account. I think I’ll mostly use it to post...
How I Got This Way 21 Nov 2009 | 03:01 pm
I did a piece for Tom Dunmore’s excellent blog Pitch Invasion today about how I became the obsessed soccer fan that I am. Kudos to anyone who can name a player for the Dayton Dynamo!
An Interview with Jack Keane, Owner of Nevada Smith’s Bar 17 Nov 2009 | 02:00 am
Any list of soccer meccas in the United States would have to include Nevada Smith’s. The bar, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, has bringing in the soccer faithful of New York since 1994. T...
