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What Are The Top 5 MLS Debuts In League History: Players Ranked
In 1988, the United States was awarded the privilege of hosting the 1994 World Cup. Part of the conditions for getting to host the revered tournament was that the United States Soccer Federation would create a division one professional soccer league. In 1995 Major League Soccer was unveiled to the American public and officially began…
Read MoreThe Sounds of the Phoenix Rising Home Opener
The first thing you hears as you walk towards the ground, across the gravel concourse with several thousand other football fans in this starved soccer town – is the distant beating drums. That constant rhythm is provided by the competing drums of the two Phoenix Rising supporters’ groups down the far end of the newly…
Read MoreThe Four Horsemen of the 2019 Phoenix Rising Season Preview
March is quickly approaching and for fans of US soccer that means that regular season kick-off for both the USL and the MLS. While Phoenix still waits for Don Garber and the MLS hierarchy to make up their mind about the final expansion spot, we are gearing up for another exciting run in the Western…
Read MoreCallum: Investigative Report On The Name’s Prevalance With Footballers
If you live in the United Kingdom or Australia you probably know lots of Callums. You probably have friends named Callum, and consider it to be as commonplace of a name as George or Steve. Strangely enough, for a name that is so popular overseas, in the United States most folks have nary a Callum…
Read MorePremier League: Why you keep hearing about 6-point relegation games
How the “race to the bottom” plays out. We’re well into the second half of the Premier League season and the title race is heating up – as is the race to avoid relegation. And whether teams are going to survive for another season in the Premier League, or succumb to the drop down to…
Read MoreAccrington Stanley: Who Are They? The Team That Wouldn’t Die
At Across The Pitch, one of our main focuses of this show is to introduce American fans to the totality of English Football. Each month we will bring you one featured team from the ranks of the EFL Championship, League One, and League Two. Our very first team for this feature, which we call “Who…
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