NASL Players 1982 World Cup

The U.S. men’s national soccer team, with the exception of 2018, have been a regular feature at the FIFA World Cup in recent tournaments. However, the failed to Qualify between 1950 and 1990. Despite this absence, three players from other nations appeared at the finals whilst playing for club’s in the United States, at the…

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Jamaica National Football Team

Every two years nations from across CONCACAF (the Fifa region including the US, Mexico, and Canada) meet in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The current iteration of the tournament dates to 1991 when CONCACAF officials canceled the CONCACAF championship. That first Gold Cup was hosted by the United States as they went on to win the…

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Minnesota United FC Team of the Month

Photo of soccer player and coach, Adrian Heath. By Wilson Wong (user: Longbomb) – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Wikipedia While Minnesota United FC is in the just their third season in Major League Soccer, the history of professional soccer in the Twin Cities dates all the way back to 1976. Back in the old…

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Loughborough Dynamo Non-League Spotlight

By Loughborough Dynamo F.C. – Loughborough Logo Loughborough is a city of about 60,000 that is tucked away in Leicestershire County, England, and is best known for its University. However, within this small college town lies an emerging powerhouse within non-league football, Loughborough Dynamo. The team was first established in 1955 by grammar school students…

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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…

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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…

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