July 2012
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Making It In America
An extract below of Andrew Guest’s XI issue one essay, Making it in America: Analyzing the Immigrant’s Game, explains the question he explores in depth: why do immigrant families still have massively disproportionate success in American soccer?
In the popular imagination, soccer has only gradually become “American.” The legendary 1950 US World Cup team, for example, beat England on...
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The Futboleras of North Carolina
Women’s soccer in the U.S. is typically known as a bastion of bright, fair skinned, blond ponytail players kicking the ball. But these players are very different. They are Latinas and they want to play, too. What’s most remarkable about them is that many of these players are not youth players but older women, moms even, who want to play competitive soccer on the weekends just like their husbands...
June 2012
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For issue #1 of XI, Andrew Guest is writing about...
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In issue #1 of XI Quarterly, Leander...
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“His skills would offend the opposition, often leaving them feeling foolish and...”
– Gil Scott-Heron discussing his father’s soccer career in his posthumously published memoir. Gil Heron was the first black player to turn out for Glasgow Celtic’s first team in 1951, having built his career playing in Detroit and Chicago. Explore the story in the forthcoming inaugural...
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Tear the Roof Off
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Here’s my new Grantland piece on Klinsmann and the USMNT at the start of World Cup qualifying.
May 2012
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