Watching Giuseppe Rossi is exhausting for American soccer fans. On the one hand, as witnessed in Villareal’s Champions League triumph against Danish side Odense FK on Tuesday, where the Teaneck, NJ native scored twice, Rossi has established himself as one of the game’s elite strikers. Last year he scored 32 times in all competitions, behind  Read More

And we thought American athletes made too much loot. Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o, 30, has reportedly left Inter Milan, one of the world’s most accomplished clubs, for Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala, say reports in Italy. Anzhi Makhchkala. That sounds like a side dish you would get a falafal joint doesn’t it? Either way, Russian money  Read More

After five hotly contended meetings between the two teams last season, soccer fans already witnessed two Clasico’s between Spain’s top two teams this year as they contested the Spanish SuperCopa in a home-an-away series. After a 2-2 draw over the weekend in Madrid, the second leg went north to Barcelona on Wednesday. The play was  Read More

Hundreds of millions of us on this planet love soccer. We can’t get enough of it. Sometimes, even I forget that it’s just a game and that what happens on the soccer pitch should be taken for what it is. Let me say this again: Soccer is just game. Often, however, especially considering the sport’s  Read More

And think, I really liked Joey Barton before Saturday’s match. I thought he just got a bad rap. I was wrong. For those of us that watched the Newcastle vs. Arsenal game on Saturday, the real show came not from the play. but from the antics of Newcastle’s Barton. Barton, a 29 year-old midfielder, who  Read More

He’s Ba-ack. Freddy Adu returned to MLS on Friday, signing a contract with the Philadelphia Union on a free transfer from Portuguese club Benfica. We all know about Adu’s trials and tribulations since signing a professional contract with MLS when he was 14 years old. He was hyped as the next worldwide soccer sensation, and  Read More

In light of a meeting I attended this week for my local men’s league, the Amateur Soccer League of CT (ASL-CT), in which referees were a major talking point, I want to share this YouTube video I found on the Yahoo! soccer blog, Dirty Tackle, of an Argentine 5th division match. After calling a foul  Read More

Even the casual American sports fan has seen his goal. It has gotten 1.5 million hits on YouTube and won ESPN Sports Center’s Best of the Best for over a week, usurped only by Abby Wambach’s last-gasp header against Brazil in the WWC last month. His July 2nd goal was brilliant. Nagbe, at the top  Read More