adidas celebrates The Mercury Center
adidas today unveils The Mercury Center, a three-day incubator for creativity in soccer. Located within the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, The Mercury Center opens on the heels of the brand’s latest breakthrough soccer footwear launch across X, Ace and Messi known as the Mercury Pack, and the “First Never Follows” campaign. Existing as a catalyst for firsts in soccer culture, The Mercury Center brings together various subcultures that have permeated the sport in the United States. In this space, adidas will develop and exhibit several projects aimed at delivering firsts in the fields of technique and skill, design, ...
Real Madrid adds on to its legendary collection
Real Madrid won its 11th Champions League crown against Atletico Madrid after a hard battle that was concluded by the penalty shootouts. Sergio Ramos has given the lead to the Merengue with a first half goal. Real Madrid went on dominating while Atletico had all the difficulties to implement its offense. Whereas Real Madrid was in the best position to double the lead, the counterattack led by super-sub Carrasco who smashed in the ball to even up the Final. At 1-1, no other goals would be scored and the final whistle set the teams up to the shootouts. Then, Juanfran missed ...
Liverpool let Sevilla win their third straight Europa League trophy
Europa League Final 2016: Liverpool FC 1-3 Sevilla FC Liverpool fell short to win the Europa League this season as Sevilla FC briongs home the trophy for the 3rd straight year. Liverpool played perfectly in the first-half leading 1-0 thanks to a superb goal from Sturridge. But the second half turned to be a nightmare conceeding 3 goals leading up to the defeat. Coach Liverpool Jurgen Klopp comments the game: It was obvious the first goal of Sevilla had a big influence on our own game. In this moment we lost faith in our style of play. We changed from passing simply and ...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic leaves PSG as legend
Paris Saint-Germain 4-0 Nantes Zlatan Ibrahimovic had already broken PSG's record for the most goals scored overall but now became the highest goal scorer in one season for the club with 38 goals beating an old record set by Carlos Bianchi more than 35 years ago. In 4 years Ibrahimovic won everything with the French champions at the Ligue 1 level but also with numerous cups. The only negative point is the Champions League that the club never was able to pass the quarterfinal stage. He leaves PSG as a legend of the club and will be forever remembered there. Paris Saint-Germain's top ...
Juventus celebrates 5th consecutive title at home
Juventus 5-0 Sampdoria Juventus had won its 5th consecutive Serie A title and the 34th overall. But this year it has been very difficult. The start of the season was very chaotic for the Old Lady and they were 12th in standings after a third of the season. Everyone was started to think that the title will go to some other team this year. However, the team start clicking and the wins added up with some very marquee wins. Players like Dybala emerged as confirmed talent for the future while Pogba and Morata carried the team all season. The legendary goalkeeper Gianluigi ...
Luis Suarez scores hat-trick, FC Barcelona are back-to-back champions
Spanish Liga: Granada FC 0-3 FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona had to ewin to not be dependant on Real Madrid's result to be crowned for the second consecutive times and the 6th Liga title in the last 8 years! Luis Suarez made sure of it scoring a hat-trick and putting his total to 40 goals scored this season, the best in Spain. Coach Luis Enrique reacts and a well-deserved title: “It was a deserved title which shows that the team knows how to bounce back from a bad spell. The hard work of the team throughout the season must be praised. I’d like to thank our ...
PUMA celebrates Leicester City with new home kit
The city of Leicester has turned blue and all spotlights, headlines and eyes of the footballing world turn to the new English Premier League Champions for the story to continue. Today, LCFC and Official kit supplier, Puma have released the new 2016/17 home kit that will now grace the hallowed turf of the King Power stadium. For the first time in the clubs history the official LCFC home shirt will be sporting the new iconic gold Premier League embellishment only reserved for Champions and worn with pride. The sleek contemporary style brings a bold, geometric jacquard design to the body and sleeves to ...
Leicester reaches the 80 point mark
Leicester 3-1 Everton. Leicester celebrated the Premier League title in front of their fans and signed another win. They reached 80 points today with the win against Everton. Vardy who came back from suspension scored 2 goals and missed a penalty. Last defeat for the Foxes was in February at the Emirates Stadium against Arsenal. Coach Claudio Ranieri comments on the last home game of the season as his team got another win: “It’s fantastic. The people are unbelievable. Thank you to them because they pushed us all season. I was concentrated to be calm but of course inside I am very happy. It’s ...
Leicester crowned champions of England
Leicester City is the 2015-16 Premier League champion The domination of the Foxes this season is undoubtely one of the top perfomances in the history of the Premier League. After electing Mahrez as the best player of the season, Leicester City wins his first league title with two more games to be played. To refresh memories, the club finished at the 14th place last season and were 5000/1 favorites to win the title this season. The emergeance of Mahrez and Vardy as the two locomotives of the team and solid performances from the rest of the squad sustained this incredible run all ...
Paris Saint-Germain had a big dream
Champions League quarterfinal: Manchester City 1-0 Paris Saint Germain PSG were the favorites before the tie but fell short against a strong City side. Paris Saint-Germain is not yet the great club they claim to be in Europe. Manchester City handled them well and De Bruyne was the decision maker who made the difference on the pitch. He scored in Paris for the first leg and won it at Manchester City with a superb lifted strike putting away any hopes for PSG. Manchester City advances to the semifinals of the Champions League for the first time their history while PSG failed ...
US Soccer
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FC Dallas with a comeback win against Portland
FC Dallas 2-1 Portland Timbers FC Dallas gave up an early goal to Portland in the...
LA Galaxy brings a point from Philly, who stay undefeated at home
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LA Galaxy stopped New England’s comeback
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New York FC plays well in DC United
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FC Dallas drops decision to Toronto FC
FC Dallas (5-4-2, 17 points) dropped a 1-0 decision to Toronto FC (4-3-2, 14 points)...
Sporting KC falls to Houston Dynamo
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Down ten men LA Galaxy saves a point in Kansas City
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International
Jose Mourinho is doing Jose Mourinho!
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Roy Hodgson has some tough selection decisions to make ahead of Euro 2016
Roy Hodgson has some tough selection decisions to make ahead of Euro 2016 Decisions...
Whose Boots Shall Turn To Gold At Euro 2016?
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Football Dynasty or Iconic History
The most beautiful and symbolic season of world’s most prestigious club competition...
Real Madrid adds on to its legendary collection
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Europe’s Brightest New Legacy: Atletico Madrid
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Liverpool let Sevilla win their third straight Europa League trophy
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Real Madrid and Atletico set for the final showdown of the season
With the Spanish Liga in the books for the 2015-16 season and the 6th title in 8...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic leaves PSG as legend
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Juventus celebrates 5th consecutive title at home
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Specials
Copa America, why USA have no other choices?
Copa America day 2: USA-Costa Rica This is arelady a must-win for the US National Men’s Team. Any other results will likely jeoperdize US chances to advance to the knock-out round in the tournament they are hosting. Stakes are high for Klinsmann and his squad and after a poor entry to the tournament punctuated by a 2-0 defeat to Colombia, pressure... [Read more of this review]
Lackluster performance from Brazil
Copa America 2016: Brazil 0-0 Ecuador What a poor performance this was and in general a disappointing start for this Copa America 2016 in the US. We only had one goal in three games and a total of 3 goals since the beginning of the tournament. The level of play displayed so far has been very under watchers and fans’ expectations. Ecuador scored a... [Read more of this review]
Roy Hodgson has some tough selection decisions to make ahead of Euro 2016
Roy Hodgson has some tough selection decisions to make ahead of Euro 2016 Decisions like: Rooney or Vardy? Alli or Barkley? Stones or Cahill? Clyne or Walker? Read More →
USA largely dominated in Copa America 2016 opener
Copa America Centenario: USA 0-2 Colombia US Men’s National Team have big expectations for the tournament the Americans are hosting. However they are onto a rough start after losing the opening match of the tournament to a strong world-class Colombian side. It only took the South Americans eight minute to be on the scoreboard when Zapata volleyed... [Read more of this review]
adidas celebrates The Mercury Center
adidas today unveils The Mercury Center, a three-day incubator for creativity in soccer. Located within the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, The Mercury Center opens on the heels of the brand’s latest breakthrough soccer footwear launch across X, Ace and Messi known as the Mercury Pack, and the “First Never Follows” campaign. Existing... [Read more of this review]
The Dangerous Taboo of Mental Health In England’s Football Culture
Mental health problems affecting the Premier League’s top players is an issue that crops up every now and again, but it is also an issue which is usually quickly dealt with swept under the carpet. Wayne Rooney has been one such player who has had rumours about the state of his mental health floating around on fan forums and in the tabloid press. However,... [Read more of this review]
Online gaming increase for hundreds % in the mobile age
Online gaming increase for hundreds % in the mobile age, and given the number of free games online, no one should be surprised. People are able to play so many games online today that they are going to be kept in the loop to a much greater extent nowadays. People who just played a few mobile games casually would probably go in and out of the online... [Read more of this review]
PUMA celebrates Leicester City with new home kit
The city of Leicester has turned blue and all spotlights, headlines and eyes of the footballing world turn to the new English Premier League Champions for the story to continue. Today, LCFC and Official kit supplier, Puma have released the new 2016/17 home kit that will now grace the hallowed turf of the King Power stadium. For the first time in the... [Read more of this review]
Registration Open For LaLiga Formation Methodology Level 3 Course, Hosted By NorCal Premier Soccer, June 3-5 in California
Registration is now open for the second-ever LaLiga Formation Methodology coaching education course, June 3-5 at Las Positas College in Livermore, Calif. LaLiga Formation Methodology Level 3 Course – Hosted by NorCal Premier Soccer June 3-5; Las Positas College in Livermore, Calif. Course web page | Registration: NorCal members / non-NorCal members The... [Read more of this review]
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