Executive Editor of @SoccerAmerica, coach, ref and soccer dad.
Oakland, Calif.
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📚Ian Plenderleith reviews "Fanzine: The story of football’s alternative press" By Daniel Gray ⚽️
"If you want to understand UK soccer and the radical decade between 1985 and 1995, read this outstanding work."
@d_gray_writer | @WSC_magazine | @BloomsburyPub
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🔥 Strasbourg ouvre le score ! Reyna trompe Safonov et ça fait 1-0 pour le Racing à la 17ème minute !!!
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There's two weeks left in the 2026 @USLChampionship regular season.
Soccer America's @pkedit presents a team-by-team look at the 25 clubs. It's an important season for @USL_HQ, which has plans to launch USL Premier in 2028 with promotion and relegation.
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Ian Plenderleith recalls hanging out with Man City fans in 1990 and, in light of the current scandal, asks:
"So, is this the end of the world for City, or the start of a brave new one with shades of the old times, when success was the same struggle that it is for all clubs with limited cash?"
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⚽️ ⚽️ #USWNT 2-2 Spain ⚽️ ⚽️
(final)
Mallory Swanson 86th
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Yanks in the Championship, 2:45pm EST kickoff
- Aidan Morris STARTS for Boro vs Stoke
- Sebastian Berhalter STARTS for Boro
- Max Arfsten on the BENCH for Boro
- Rokas Pukstas INJURED for Boro
- Jack McGlynn STARTS for Stoke
- Luca Bombino on the BENCH for Stoke
- George Campbell STARTS for West Brom at Wrexham
- Charlie Kelman on the BENCH For Charlton at Burnley
- Caleb Wiley INJURED for PNE at Birmingham City
- Kristoffer Lund does not make the squad for BCFC
"Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not."
— Kari Seitz, @ussoccer head of refereeing, upon the federation's launch of R90+, a cost-free program to accelerate promising refs' climb to higher levels.
@KSeitz5 | #referees
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Spain coach Sonia Bermúdez said her team "could have played much better" on Saturday when it beat the #USWNT 2-0.
Tuesday's rematch will be "tough and completely different," she said.
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Congrats! 🥂
Ben Wright, who has also been a Soccer America columnist since August 2025, was voted @NashvilleScene No. 1 sports writer for the third straight year. Voted No. 2 was Valair Shabilla, whose column, “I learned the power of soccer in Baghdad,” appeared in Soccer America last April.
@benwright | @valairshabilla | @615Soccer | @PharmaSoccer | @ClubCountryUSA
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This delve into the U.S. men's U-23 player pool by @BrianSciaretta will get you excited about the LA Olympics, which are 1 year, 9 months down the road.
#RoadToLA28 #LA28 #OlympicSoccer #USMNT
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🇪🇸 La escuela de las hard knocks? 🇺🇸
Emma Hayes said pregame that her team would benefit from “learnings” by playing Spain.
David Hirshey & Roger Director detail the #USWNT's homework ahead of Tuesday's rematch.
@RogerDirector | @HirsheyMustache
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Jack McGlynn’s free kick is headed home by Ben Wilmot to give Stoke a 2-0 lead on Bolton. Assist for McGlynn
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If confirmed, Victor Montagliani's decision to seek another term as Concacaf president would all but rule out a challenge to Gianni Infantino's reelection bid for the FIFA presidency.
The Canadian businessman has been widely viewed as Infantino's biggest threat.
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