By Daniel Silberwasser Home field advantage has become a crucial element of professional soccer. The final matches of major tournaments such as the UEFA Champions League are played in predetermined third party stadiums, and...
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By Brendan Kent We’ve got the three stars. We’ve had ourselves a ticker tape parade. And while I don’t think the celebration should end anytime soon, it’s been long enough since the final whistle blew in Vancouver to...
By Brendan Kent A key feature of Major League Soccer that differentiates it from European leagues is the physical distance between the teams. While the two-conference system reduces the average distance an away team travels for a...
By Brendan Kent A key feature of Major League Soccer that separates it from European leagues is the salary cap. For the 2014 season, that salary cap was $3,100,000 spread over roughly twenty players. There are, of course, several...
By Brendan Kent Just last season, Borussia Dortmund placed second in the Bundesliga. The year before that, they also placed second and reached the Champions League final. And in the two seasons before that, they won the...
by Barrett Hansen and Brendan Kent In the final phase of the 2013-2014 UEFA Champions League Group Stage, Manchester City beat Bayern Munich 3-2 at the Allianz Arena in Munich. As stunning as City’s defeat of the reigning...
By Daniel Silberwasser Jose Mourinho, one of the most successful soccer managers of all time, once asked: “How many countries can you think of where a corner kick is treated with the same applause as a goal?” The self...
By Julian Ryan For Fulham fans like myself, this has been a tough season to watch. The team’s typically solid defense which has long kept them out of the relegation battle and firmly entrenched in the relative comfort of the...
By Julian Ryan When soccer was invented, all goals were created equal, with the team that scores more goals being declared the victor. However, the UEFA rulebook strays a bit from this basic guideline by implementing the...
by Julian Ryan In America, March is the month of the Cinderella story for even the most casual of college basketball followers. Millions of fans will turn on their televisions in the hope of watching the next Butler make a run...