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MLS Team To Put All of Its Season Ticket Holders' Names on Jerseys

Joe Student — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:49:39 +0000

Season ticket holders often feel like they are a part of the team. One Major League Soccer club is validating that feeling by putting the names of season ticket holders onto its primary uniform (called kits in soccer).

The MLS Colorado Rapids will use the names of all 1,451 fans who are season ticket holders in tiny print on its primary kit. The burgund

Youth Soccer League to Fight Flu By Outlawing High-Fives

Drew Weisholtz — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:15:35 +0000

Everyone knows you canâ€™t use your hands in soccer, but thatâ€™s causing quite a stir in New York City. The Big Appleâ€™s youth Manhattan Soccer Club has banned kids from giving high-fives and fist bumps as a way to combat the flu outbreak in the city. The club sent an email this week to parents [...]

Minnesota High School Soccer Game Ends in Epic Brawl

Ben Chew — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:38:23 +0000

Last week, a Minnesota high school soccer match between Totino-Grace and Prairie Seeds Academy was supposed to decide who would move on in the State Class A tournament, but instead, the game was marred by an epic brawl. In the final seconds of the game with Prairie Seeds up 2-1, a Prairie Seeds forward got [...]

Dad's Soccer Practice With Son Goes Terribly Wrong

Emerald Catron — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:13:06 +0000

We’re having a bit of an ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ day here. First there was the incredibly painful faceplant compilation, and now we’ve got this kid getting smacked right in the face with a soccer ball by his dad. It’s not clear if dad’s intention was to teach the kid how to be a goalie [...]

U.S. Women's Olympic Soccer Team Rocks Out to Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the U.S.A.'

Alexandra Capotorto — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:00:21 +0000

It looks like user submitted cover videos of everyone’s favorite songs is the way to get famous nowadays. Sex tapes are soooo passe. It was really Carly Rae Jepsen‘s ‘Call Me Maybe’ that started the whole trend. Everyone from actor James Franco to shirtless Abercrombie + Fitch boys seemed to jump on the Jepsen train. But now some really big stars (and stripes) are getting in on the action!

10 Things You Didn't Know About Olympic Soccer Player Hope Solo

Don Deane — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:49:13 +0000

While soccer isn’t nearly as popular here as it is in other parts of the world, it seems to get its due in the US during the Olympics, at least. And when the women’s national soccer team won gold after a hotly-contested battle against Brazil at the 2008 Games in Beijing, its members became superstars.