Tag: Soccer
Racial divide driving a wedge into soccer’s grassroots
Has much changed since Steven Wells wrote this article? Some will say “a lot”, others will say “some”, but we clearly know, Not Enough………….. Boston’s Pop Warner “urban suburban” American football league collapsed earlier this month. Parents of the suburban 7-14-year-olds said that the urban kids played too rough. And urban playing fields were “unsafe”. And […]
EPL vs. NBA: Why soccer should fear the NBA
As the 2013 NBA Finals comes down to a game 7 and the summer touring begins here’s a great piece about the globalization of sports. When the English Premier League announced plans to play a regular-season, competitve match on foreign soil — dubbed the “39th game” – there was almost unified outcry from the many […]
