April 2012
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Call For Photographers →
A new print publication on North American soccer is launching this summer. Following XI’s mandate to put as much emphasis on photography as writing, we are assembling a small selection of photographers throughout the continent with the experience, quality, and creativity we seek.
XI wishes to underscore that the goal is not exclusively to document top-level men’s professional soccer...
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So then....what's all the Kickstarter money XI has... →
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“We’re going to make the playoffs.”
– Toronto FC (0-7) head coach Aaron Winter with an unexpected guarantee.
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XI Quarterly Hits Fundraising Goal (What Next?) →
Tom Dunmore with some thoughts on XI Quarterly hitting its fundraising target:
This has truly been a grassroots effort, and demonstrates the broad desire of a North American soccer public keen to have serious content to digest about the game they love: this project was not funded by a donation write-off by a major corporation, or by a rich individual with money to burn, but by 250+ individuals...
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NY Hungaria first U.S. club to win in Mexico... →
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When FC Dallas defeated host Pumas UNAM (1-0) in a CONCACAF Champions League encounter at Mexico City’s Estadio Olímpico Universitario on August 17, 2011, it was the first time that a club from the United States won a confederation tournament match in Mexico since 1963.
The last (and also the first) team to achieve this historic feat on Mexican soil was New York Hungaria SC,...
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“We think we’re in the joy business. We deliver communal joy to people who come...”
– Greg Cotton, COO of Sporting Kansas City, from a New York Times piece on the total turnaround at a club seemingly doomed back in 2005.
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Beyond the Blog: The Future of American Soccer... →
XI co-founder Tom Dunmore on the present and future of soccer writing in North America.
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XI Fundraising Progress – All or Nothing →
75% of the way to it being all, rather than nothing - support XI on Kickstarter!
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“I’m trying to overcome those moments of being shy. In front of the world,...”
– Hope Solo, from an interesting interview today in the LA Times.
MLS Could Be First League To Use Goal-line... →
Major League Soccer would implement goal-line technology quickly if its approved in July by the sport’s rules-making body.
”We’re interested in being a test league and we hope that we could achieve that,” MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Thursday while speaking to the Associated Press Sports Editors. ”I would be open to whatever it is that could be done to ensure that we have goal-line...
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New Reward Level For XI - Support New Soccer... →
A new reward level has just been added on Kickstarter for XI supporters: $18 gets you a year-long digital subscription to XI. This will also be included for everyone who pledges over that level as well! Details here: http://kck.st/H51kHc
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Monterrey vs. Santos Laguna: 2012 CCL Final... →
Eben Lehman explains a shift in Mexico’s powerbase:
There will be plenty on the line when Monterrey and Santos Laguna kick off the 2012 CONCACAF Champions League final this week. The two-legged championship series is a battle for both local bragging rights and continental supremacy — not to mention a berth in the FIFA Club World Cup. The series is also a showdown between two of...
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Ethnicity, sports, and MLS expansion →
Fake Sigi with an interesting look at MLS and ethnic marketing.
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A Riot & A Pitch Invasion As Newark Shock The...
Doing some archival research, we just stumbled across an interesting tidbit from the Milwaukee Journal in March 1927 regarding a game between Nacional of Uruguay and the Newark Skeeters.
Tours by the world’s leading teams across North America weren’t quite as well-run back then as in 2012. Nacional were without doubt one of the world’s strongest teams: their squad for a spring...
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The Original Vikings Football Team in Minnesota →
Excellent archival photos and info on Minneapolis’ first soccer teams.
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“If we are going to reach 20 teams by 2020, we want to be a North American...”
– Clip from an interesting interview with NASL Commissioner David Downs.
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