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  • Friendly Game April 25, 2015

    Friendly Game April 25, 2015

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    Scarborough SC vs Toronto Croatia April 25, 2015 7:00 PM Loyola Secondary School-Mississauga 4010 Sladeview Crescent,Mississauga,Ontario,L5L-6B1

  • Harry Kane, Globalization Under Attack, on the Soccer Field

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    Last week, a 21-year-old soccer player named Harry Kane made a spectacular debut for England’s national team, scoring against Lithuania just 79 seconds after entering the game and then wheeling away with a look of joyous disbelief as a crowd of roughly 80,000 countrymen roared approval. Mr. Kane’s unexpected emergence this season as the leading…

  • Uefa president Michel Platini fears rise of hooliganism

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    Michel Platini warned of a return to hooliganism’s “dark days” as he was re-elected unopposed for a third term as president of Uefa. The Frenchman says there is a rising trend of “nationalism and extremism” being observed in stadiums. He reiterated calls for a European sports police force to avoid events witnessed in the “not-so-distant…

  • Cyprus Cup: Canadian women lose final to England

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    Lianne Sanderson’s 67th-minute goal lifted England to a 1-0 win over Canada in the final of the Cyprus Cup on Wednesday. The goal was the first given up by Canada at the women’s soccer tournament after victories over Scotland, South Korea and Italy. The loss also ended Canada’s eight-game unbeaten streak. It was a solid…

  • New York Soccer Team Set for Historic Match in Cuba

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    It’ll take place on June 2 in Havana The New York Cosmos will go up against Cuba’s national squad in Havana this summer, according to a new report, marking the first time in decades that a professional U.S. team will play on the island. News of the soccer match was errantly announced early, according to…

  • Pele: It’s time for Australia to host the World Cup

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    “No doubt [Australia can host a World Cup]. I remember when I was in Australia a long time ago people already mentioned about Australia hosting the World Cup,” Pele told Perform. “Now is the time, no doubt. The way to prepare for that is to have good players, good team and have some players play…

  • English football title defences aren’t easy, as Man City are learning again

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    The big question, perhaps, was why this type of vigour hadn’t been seen in Manchester City earlier. Last Saturday, the defending champions seemed so energised by Chelsea’s 1-1 slip to Burnley that they immediately tore into Newcastle United, dismissing them 5-0. Afterwards, Vincent Kompany made some proclamations, but they weren’t necessarily all that persuasive, despite…

  • Late-November/late-December proposed for the 2022 FIFA World Cup

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    Following a six-month consultation process, FIFA’s Task Force for the International Match Calendar 2018-24 held its third and final meeting today in Doha, identifying end-November/end-December as the most viable period for the 2022 FIFA World Cup™. The proposed event dates have the full support of all six Confederations. The proposal will be discussed at the…

  • FIFA-INTERPOL initiative

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    Corruption and match manipulation remain the biggest threats to the integrity of football, and the increasing number of match-manipulation cases merely underlines the global nature of the problem. Organised syndicates of criminals are trying to undermine football at all levels of the game, and no region of the world is immune to the threat. Simply…

  • Beckham says FIFA needs people passionate about soccer as leaders

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    David Beckham waded into the FIFA presidential election on Tuesday, singling out former Real Madrid teammate Luis Figo in his bid to unseat Sepp Blatter. The 39-year-old Beckham, who retired from soccer in 2013, has largely kept his distance from the world of FIFA politics after being part of England’s failed 2018 World Cup bid.…

  • 10,000 WAYS TO BUILD BETTER FOOTBALLERS

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    by Jonathan Townsend Is it possible for young players to take 10,000 touches a day to improve their ball mastery? Jon Townsend analyses the Dutch theory that could develop technical ability at all levels. In the summer of 2001, I was fortunate enough to train in Holland for close to 16 weeks, playing with a…

  • Hannover win special new fans in Africa

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    Although Bayern Munich are undoubtedly Germany’s most recognized football club, it is a more modest team from northern Germany that enjoys popular support amongst South African football fans in the Kwaquga township on the outskirts of Emalahleni, some 130 kilometres east of Johannesburg. Watching the Vutha All Stars play on a dusty township field, it…

  • PRIDE OF THE BADGE

    PRIDE OF THE BADGE

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    INSIDE SOCCER WAS AT THE LAUNCH OF NYCFC’S BOLD NEW BADGE. THEIR WAS POSITIVE ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW MLS FRANCHISE. IT ALSO RAISED QUESTIONS OF PRIDE AND LOYALTY IN FOOTBALL, THE ROLE OF CLUBS AND COMPETITION IN A PLAYER’S PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT FROM YOUTH TO PROFESSIONAL RANKS. Last night the New York City Football Club…

  • Season’s Greetings

    Season’s Greetings

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    One of the great joys for this Holiday Season is the opportunity to say Thank you! to our clubs, sponsors, players, fans and media! The CSL would like to express its sincerest appreciation to all its members for the trust that they have placed in us! We wish you the very best and success for…