Category Archives: Soccer

Jürgen Klinsmann is the new head coach of the German national team under a two-year contract. Holger Osieck will be an assistant coach with a general management role and Oliver Bierhoff will be an assistant coach focused on training….

San Francisco Chronicle: “Mayor Gavin Newsom confirmed Thursday that he has met with Quakes president and general manager Alexi Lalas and other team representatives to talk about moving the Major League Soccer squad north from San Jose.” A soccer-specific stadium in China Basin was discussed. Kezar Stadium or SBC Park could be temporary venues until the new stadium is constructed….

Major League Soccer announced Salt Lake City as the site of the league’s newest expansion team. The team will be owned and operated by Dave Checketts’ Sports Capital Partners. The team will play at the University of Utah’s Rice-Eccles stadium for its first two seasons. Rice-Eccles stadium is the home of the United Soccer League’s Utah Blitzz and was the site of the 2002 Winter Olympic opening and closing ceremonies. The playing field is synthetic Field Turf, not real grass….

Daniel Gross writes about the capitalism of soccer and the protectionism of American sports in Slate.. “American sports are virtually all socialistic while the European soccer leagues more closely resemble the entrepreneurial capitalism we Americans fetishize.”…

BBC News reports on a new soccer jersey developed by David Evans at Northumbria University. Silicon strips at the top of a player’s back monitor sweat loss. A heart monitor keeps track of the player’s vitals. A vibrating patch on the jersey’s arm alerts the player to come to the sideline for some attention….

Nick Littlehales is the official sleep consultant for the English Football Association during the Euro 2004 championships. The Financial Times profiles Nick and his efforts to help the team turn less times per night. “The England team’s bedrooms were adapted to create Kingsize and Superking sizes providing more room to sleep and relax. A visco-elastic foam pressure relieving layer was added to each mattress to improve comfort and support. The traditional hotel bed coverings were replaced by hypoallergenic pillows and breathable duvets covered in a pure Egyptian white cotton linen to provide coolness.”…

Jenna Cooper, captain of the University of Nebraska women’s soccer team and member of the U21 player pool, died yesterday from a gunshot wound in her throat. The Nebraska soccer team was celebrating the close of its spring training season….

Two nuclear submarines, the HMS Tireless and USS Hampton, surfaced near the North Pole today for a game of soccer….

Eric Wynalda says “our core fans are the only ones who matter.” Stark contrast to Mark Cuban’s comments I mentioned on Wednesday. “Our fans now know our names, and it’s time we start doing a better job of learning theirs, because there will come a time when that might not be possible.”…

Mulrooney Soccer Academy is a soccer day camp in San Jose featuring professional soccer players as coaches. Richard Mulrooney, Landon Donovan, Craig Waibel, Pat Onstad, and other professional soccer coaches will teach 90 kids per session. Formerly Cannon Mulrooney soccer camps, but with Joe Cannon in Denver it makes sense to rebrand….