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Is Soccer Cool?

Posted: June 11, 2018 at 6:07 pm   /   Culture, Fashion

Brands certainly think so — from Nike and Adidas to indie T-shirt companies to World Cup-hungry fashion players like Acne and Boohoo.

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After horror injury Gedion Zelalem faces make-or-break summer at Arsenal

Posted: June 10, 2018 at 8:17 pm   /   Development, Profiles

The USA youth talent has been out all season with a knee injury.

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Nigeria, most stylish team at the World Cup

Posted: June 10, 2018 at 3:49 pm   /   Culture, Fashion, Lifestyle, UrbanStreetSoccer, World Cup

What makes Nigeria’s entrance to the 2018 World Cup different. It’s not just their flair on the pitch, but also the Super Eagles’ flair to the pitch. See more pictures: Along with the Super Eagles’ hit jersey, Nike also released a collection of other gear, including track jackets, bucket hats, and boards shorts, all boasting […]

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World Cup Jerseys, Ranked

Posted: June 9, 2018 at 6:40 pm   /   Fashion

By Rebecca Jennings | Racked  The World Cup kicks off on Thursday, June 14, which means that those of us who prefer to spend our weekend afternoons inside sort-of-gross bars will have something exciting to watch for these specific four weeks of midsummer. And if you don’t know a lot about the non-American kind of football, it also […]

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Behind The Scenes With Harlem FC’s Joseph Koroma

Posted: June 8, 2018 at 11:01 pm   /   Development, Profiles, US System

By: Veronica Leon, BESE.com

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Soccer in America: why aren’t more black kids playing the world’s game?

Posted: June 6, 2018 at 4:47 pm   /   Development, US System

By: Les Carpenter | The Guardian Soccer found Robert Russ when he was in the seventh grade – not that he was looking for it. Like most African American kids at his Washington middle school, he had no interest in the game. Soccer, everyone had told him, was either for white children in the suburbs […]

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Yaya Toure says Pep Guardiola has ‘problems with African players’

Posted: June 5, 2018 at 5:02 pm   /   Africa, Race, The Buzz

Yaya Toure has accused Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola of having “problems with African players,” and questioned whether his limited playing time under the Catalan was because of his skin colour. Toure, who made just one start in his final Premier League season at the Etihad, said Guardiola would “never admit [to not liking African […]

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‘White soccer teams don’t pay upfront’: how race unlevelled US playing fields

Posted: June 5, 2018 at 4:55 pm   /   Development, US System

By: Les Carpenter | The Guardian Wealthy, mostly white soccer clubs in the US have long snatched up the best pitches – but in liberal Seattle, one official is taking a stand. A few years ago, Exequiel Soltero wanted to rent two soccer fields in a well-to-do Seattle suburb. Finding places for his Latino immigrant soccer league to […]

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