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There were 36,218 people in a stadium East Hartford, Connecticut on May 25th, 2010. It was impossible to park, as thousands arrived with hours to spare before game time. Inside the stadium, almost everyone in attendance was wearing some form of official apparel. Jerseys, t-shirts, scarves, and goofy Uncle Sam hats attired the crowd to [...]

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there’s been a lot of smack (trash) talking going down over the upcoming USA – England match up in the soon to be started 2010 World Cup. fate would insist/force/require that i be in the midst of a wedding when the game kicks off, but i will be a living example of those commercials where [...]

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it’s nice to see someone express my thoughts on the AIG bailout as of late. namely, that when this goes through the us government will be technically backing my least favorite team in europe. i wonder if i could make it a condition of my tax-payer dollars that ronaldo has to wear a boa. that [...]

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following up on my post quantifying the rough costs of world cup 2010, i thought i would offer a brief assessment of the costs of seeing club soccer in various places around the world. we start with the home team, the new england revolution, who can be seen at home about every 10 days for [...]

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a bittersweet moment to be sure. the feeling that the summer has begun coasting down the hill to its end, and there’s nothing to do now about it save enjoy the ride. part of enjoying that ride has been a rampant engagement with fifa 07 of late, the last installment of the legendary soccer video [...]

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hilarious ne revolution team photo i got from the ‘fan download’ section so i think its fair use.  ne revolution 1 – atlante 0 it was a game i could’ve gone to. a game i wanted to go to. but fate had other plans, and so i peered through the snow and color distortion on [...]

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it is never too early to start planning for something you care about. in fact, i think i may already be late. why? because i am planning for the world cup, and i don’t think i need to qualify that with words like FIFA or soccer. it’s the world cup, and i want to go [...]

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i just got back from lunch at three aces, my favorite pizza/sub joint in the entire boston area. they have a mrs. pacman machine, which still plays for a quarter, chicken finger subs (oh my god it’s so bad its good), alcohol (heineken thru sutton house) and, most importantly, soccer on tv. a little over [...]

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