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There was an interesting announcement today. ESPN, the world-wide leader in world domination, announced that they will be producing stand-alone broadcasts of the upcoming clausura 2011 season. They will be the first to break the broadcasting duopoly enjoyed y Televisa and Television Azteca. Since it is the teams, and not the league, that negotiate their…

While most of the press attention this week here in the UK is on Liverpool’s impending takeover/messy court case or on Mancini and Tevez’s dressing room fight, a potentially very important event is taking place that is receiving little to no attention. /www.bigsoccer.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]>/www.bigsoccer.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]> This week an important event that may well have a large effect…

"Hey, the World Cup made the cover of Vanity Fair," I said to myself as I was standing in the checkout line. "Wasn't so long ago that the World Cup was nowhere near pop culture. It's a good time to be an American soccer fan. Wonder what their take on-" Of all the stupid, pissant…

It is not often that Mexico goes up against teams who are able to play keep away. When it happened in the past, Mexico often had the propensity to blast away and regroup. When they did dispossess, they would then mount their own slow, deliberate attack. The Counter was rarely, if ever used, just as…

And, one day later, Dominic Kinnear comes back to earth. I guess we don't really need to wait for the MLS playoff percentage calculator at Sports Club Stats to update. They still had the Dynamo making the playoffs fifteen chances out of a thousand before last night, but I have to think De Rosario –…

In a move which a just-released FIFA statement calls surprising, the Chairman of the Investigations Chamber of the Ethics Committee, American Michael Garcia, has announced his resignation. In a lengthy statement posted by Kirkland and Ellis, his Chicago-based law firm, Garcia spells out some fairly shocking details. Maybe the most outrageous of these is the…

SLOVENIA 1, ALGERIA 0 "Whoops! Shot's coming. Now, let's see. What was it Robert Green told me just before the game? Something important. Something really, really important. What to do when someone shoots the ball. I remember! I'm supposed to stop it. Okay, so all I need to do is stop this shot. Okay, Faouchi….

It all looked so promising in the beginning: ​ And unfortunately for Toronto, it will be five coaches in five years. We'll send scaryice an email but that's just got to be a record. Interestingly Gareth Wheeler wrote ON SUNDAY that Assistant Nick Dasovic had been sent off "scouting" youth someplace during the last game,…

One of the beautiful things about soccer is that the fun never ends. Sure, the World Cup might be over, but there is no need to break into a cold sweat, turn off all the lights, and wait for the helicopters to arrive and take you away. Dig deep and fight the end of mundial…

Mexico will try to put the pieces together against the Ivory Coast at the Meadowlands in their FIFA Friendly match. The game has become a lightning rod for a number of reasons: can Jose Manuel "Chepo" de la Torre loosen up; who replaces an injured Chicharito; and, of course, the one that has eclipsed every…