Giancarlo Canas-Jarquin: Flying High with Flower City Union
By S.T. Weller It is a quintessential Los Angeles day sometime around 2004. Sunshine rains down from the sky. Even the ubiquitous L.A. basin smog has ...
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Alioune Diakhate: A Banner Season with ALBION San Diego
By Sam Weller Photo by David Frerker 6229 miles is a long way to travel to pursue a dream. But the distance from the west coast of ...
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Alexander Satrustegui: A Long Way From Home
By Sebastian Johnson When Alexander Satrustegui was three years old, his family uprooted their lives in his birthplace of San Sebastian, Spain, and moved to his ...
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International Game, International Community: NISA Helps AC Syracuse Pulse Owner Samir Belhseine Affect Change in Morocco
By Sebastian Johnson Odds are, the next person that passes you on the street knows next to nothing about Morocco. Were you to stop them and ...
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Mayele Malango: Fluent in the International Language
By Sebastian Johnson Photo by Jon DeBoer Duke history professor Laurent Dubois stated, in his book The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer, that soccer ...
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Family, Community, Soccer
by Sebastian Johnson It’s hard to imagine the work that goes into running a professional sports team. It’s a tall task to be sure - one ...
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Sociology, Criminology, Soccer
by Sebastian Johnson | Photo Credit: Dan Bartel / Chicago House AC Chicago House forward AR Smith remembers the shock he felt the first few weeks ...
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We Are NISA Nation: An Interview with Pioneer Premier League Commissioner Desmond Armstrong
By Alexa Doebler Last week, the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) proudly announced an amateur league affiliation with the new Tennessee-based Pioneer Premier League (PPL). The ...
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Kevin Gonzalez Is The Perfect Man For The Job
By Sebastian Johnson It takes a special type of person to be a goalkeeper. A goalkeeper isn’t just another element of a team’s defense - far ...
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