#Paul Caligiuri

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November 14, 2023

By Adam Elder

(BBC Sport) — On a Saturday evening in February 1990, many of the United States' finest footballers stepped on to A&M Studios' historic soundstage in Los Angeles.

A month before John Barnes would implore his England team-mates to "hold and give, but do it at the right time" in a studio in Berkshire, the United States team recorded their own rap - one they hoped would make the sport famous at home.

In a moment, some of Hollywood's biggest celebrities would walk through the door to join them.

The plan was to record a novelty music video for a star-studded jock jam called Victory. The track celebrated the United States' first trip to the World Cup in 40 years, long before any of these players were born.

Never mind fame, though. In 1990, making football a little less hated in the United States would have counted as a runaway success.

Americans mostly considered football a fringe concern - if they even considered it at all. Baseball, American football and basketball were the "real" American sports.

For most of the 20th century, football in the States was for "the others", to put it politely: expats, cab drivers, dishwashers, exchange students, leftists, intellectuals, Euro snobs and the like.

Still the US Soccer Federation was constantly thinking about how to grow the game.

Werner Fricker, the federation's stern but visionary president, had cannily realised Fifa's desire to wring American dollars out of the world's most popular sport. By 1988, he had guided the United States to victory over Brazil and Morocco to win the right to stage the 1994 World Cup.

But Fricker knew a World Cup in the States faced scepticism. He wanted to prove the hosts had a team good enough to qualify on merit.

He put up his own money to fund a push to qualify for the 1990 event. If the United States succeeded it would be the first time they had made the World Cup since Brazil 1950, where they earned their place via a second-place finish in a three-team pool.

"Werner refused to accept that qualification wasn't doable," said Kevin Payne, former director of marketing and national administrator for the Federation. "He knew what needed to be done, and that past attempts were amateurish."

Fricker made Bob Gansler the team's first full-time coach. A tough yet erudite German-Hungarian immigrant, Gansler's knowledge of American youth football ran deep.

The team picked by Gansler, many fresh out of college, had been raised during the North American Soccer League's Pele-led glory days and were a clean slate from past failures to reach the World Cup.

They had chips on their shoulders for all sorts of other reasons though.

Many of them were second-generation immigrants, their parents and family lives different from an 'apple pie' American ideal. They loved a sport that many around them reviled and yet there was no nationwide outdoor league for them to play in.

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR MARCH 28, 2023

I Can Do All Things

By Peter Caligiuri (Florida, USA)

READ PHILIPPIANS 4:10-13

"I can do all things through [Christ] who strengthens me."

PHILIPPIANS 4:13 (NRSV)

"'In the last week of my dad’s life, he didn’t complain as he lay in the ICU. Instead, he wanted to be sure that I was getting enough rest at night and that I understood how to handle the affairs of his home. Some days he asked to hear scripture read aloud. He loved Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through [Christ] who strengthens me.” He repeated those words with a calm confidence that his Good Shepherd would lead him along the last stretch of his path on earth.

The apostle Paul had experienced a series of unusual circumstances. He recalled his successes and failures, the times when his cupboard was bare and the times friends provided him home-cooked meals. Yet despite everything he faced, Paul shows us that when we learn to trust in Christ we find contentment.

In whatever we face today God is always at work — both in us and in our circumstances. With God’s help, we all will be able to say, “It really is true! I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!”' These words have sustained many of us over our lifetimes. We have little power on our own, but with Jesus by our side, we can handle anything. Trust Him and rely upon the help He gives.

TODAY'S PRAYER

"God of strength, open our hearts so that we may learn contentment. Help us always to trust in you and your Son, who strengthens us." Amen.

Philippians 4:10-13

New International Version

Thanks for Their Gifts

"10 I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. 11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength." Praise Him for all the strength that He shares with us. Be faithful and share all blessings. Joe

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B03: Soccer in a Football World

Author: David Wangerin

There’s a quote in this book, p. 117 in the edition I have, that sums up so much of what I find so interesting and so endearing about American Soccer — After a 6-0 loss by the United States Men’s National Team to the Scottish National Team in Scotland’s Hampden Park in 1952, officials from the US Soccer Federation who had attended the match telegrammed to their headquarters in New York: “107,765 in attendance; score secondary.” 

Isn’t that just it? Hasn’t it always been ‘score secondary’ for American soccer? That is what’s defined my appreciation for the way that this sport has played out in the country in which I grew up. American Soccer has survived in spite of itself, and in spite of its spectators and media and surrounding culture, and though its history is fraught, inconsistent, often weird, rarely triumphant and never without caveat when it is triumphant, I remain enamored with it. I see a game that stumbles to achieve cultural and social footholds and survives more than anything else and I admire that more (and find it more interesting) than the self-sustaining machines that otherwise define major American sports. It’s paradoxical — we go years without a top division league and our men’s team inexplicably reaches its   greatest height during that period. For years (it was a record still standing when this book was published in 2006, and I think it was only during the late 2010s emergence of Atlanta United that the record was broken), the highest attended club match in US Soccer history featured no American players. The team that drew so many people, the New York Cosmos, were so successful that they’re treated as the scapegoat for their league’s death. Major League Soccer never initially appealed to the fans they tried to court, and still struggles with that even now.

I’m not a ‘do or do not, there is no try,’ guy. Effort and intent matter. Trying hard matters, and so many people have tried so hard to make American soccer function and so many of them have failed in such fascinating ways. The section on the NASL has this unending whiplash between the Cosmos drawing 70,000+ to the Meadowlands, the Rowdies developing a professional sports culture in Tampa, and the Whitecaps getting parades in Vancouver, all the while there’s a team in Hawai’i that started and failed, and a team in San Diego named the JAWS, after the movie, the Minnesota Kicks more or less being an outfit to fund wild drunken and stoned tailgate parties in their stadium parking lot during the mild Minnesota summers, teams are springing up and folding constantly, it’s just so different from everything else, both in American (and Canadian) professional sports and in soccer on a global scale. It’s always like this with this sport, it’s constantly shifting, perennially (and I suppose ironically) relegated beneath the rest of the American sports landscape, treated as a fad or a novelty or a social movement but only every now and then as a sport.   

We have few of those unquestionable moments of triumph, they’re all wrinkled and misunderstood and flukey — but they still seem to echo — The section on Belo Horizonte, the 1950 upset of England which was so monumental that its unbelievability was mostly understood in the denotative sense, moreso the point of ridicule thrown at England from its European rivals… Then in 1998, DC United beats Vasco Da Gama to win the intercontinental cup, a huge upset that regardless is seen by few in-person, not covered in the US Press, and is primarily celebrated by fans of Flamengo and other Brazilian rivals. Paul Caligiuri scores with an arcing, off-speed shot from long distance in 1989 in Port of Spain to send the US to the 1990 World Cup, one of the best moments in US Soccer history, and 28 years later and a few miles south in Couva, Omar Gonzalez puts another arcing, off-speed shot from long distance into the back of the net to knock us out of the World Cup — The success in making it to Italy was not as cementing as fans might have believed immediately following just as the failure in missing out on Russia was not so disintegrative as many of us thought, both matches met with confusion by most mainstream outlets, Bob Ley having to explain on ESPN that this mean’s we’re in next year’s world cup begets Max Bretos and Taylor Twellman having to explain on ESPNews that we won’t be in next year’s world cup. Even the USWNT’s World Cup wins get treated like novelties, 1991 in virtual anonymity and 1999 like a fad. 2019 had so much political drama wrapped around it that it felt like more of a rod for discourse to much of the mainstream media (2015 (and 2014) I’ll say felt like one of the few times that American soccer got to just be American soccer, for what it’s worth. Might’ve been that ESPN had the tournament rights and had to sell them on their merits.) 

And there’s just the absurdity of it all — Why do two leagues always inevitably spring up to fight for the same spot? It happened in the 1890s, the 1920s, the 1960s, the 1980s with the indoor game, even the 1990s initially with the failed APSL merger, even after this book released in the early 2010s with the NASL/USL split in Outdoor Men’s Division II. It just keeps happening! This was still pre-NISA, MagicJack, Couva, the 2012 Olympic Semifinals, the Western New York Flash in the baseball outfield, the Galaxy losing by ten goals to Manchester United, Rafael Marquez, the NJ Teamsterz owner suiting up in goal, the San Francisco Deltas, nearly the entire existence of Chivas USA, Salt Lake City and Kansas City’s trading back and forth of an NWSL franchise, even the match I’m watching on the TV behind this laptop screen right now between Seattle and Al-Ahly, the first time an American team has ever appeared in the Club World Cup. Freddy Adu was still a prospect when this book was published. 

In American soccer I see the weirdness and perseverance I like to believe I reflect myself, I see the wrinkles, eccentricities, quirks and features that I find enamoring about other people, and I see something more reflective of my experience as an American than I do in other sports. It would be wonderful to attend a UEFA Champions League Final at some point in my life, I suppose, or one of the historic European or South American derbies, but I found life in our 20,000 seater in Western Kansas City, and I’ve found it in little college stadiums on a cliffside in San Diego, in downtown Omaha, in Northwestern Lawrence, even on a practice field in KCMO. GOD I love American soccer. 

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UCLA Bruins Soccer Field. California College. Paul Caligiuri(1986). Billy Thompson(1990) Brad Friedel(1992) Sasha Victorine(1999) Zach Wells(2003) Abby Dahlkemper(W 2013) Sam Mewis(W 2014). Leo Stolz(2014). カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校のサッカーフィールド。 全米優勝4回。 UCLA出身のサッカー選手。 ポール・カリジューリ(1997-2001 LA Galaxy)。 ビリー・トンプソン（1996-1999 Columbus Crew)。 ブラッド・フリーデル(1992-2005 アメリカ代表GK)。 リバプール(1997-2000)、ブラックバーン(2000-2008)、アストン(2009-2011)、トッテナム(2011-2014)。 サーシャ・ヴィクトリーヌ(2000-2009 MLS)。 ザック・ウェルズ(2004-2008 MLS GK)。 アビー・ダールケンパー(女子アメリカ代表2016-。DF)。 サマンサ・メウィス（女子アメリカ代表2014-）。

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Die Wunschliste

Vor 2 1/2 Jahren hab ich ein neues Projekt begonnen - das Wunschprojekt. Dafür habe ich Wünsche gesammelt und sie nach und nach geschrieben. Jetzt, wo der 100. Wunsch einging, beschloss ich, die Liste endlich mal zu schließen. (Manche Zahlen kommen doppelt vor, weil ich am Anfang anders gerechnet habe, deshalb sind es eiiigentlich 102 Wünsche...)

Hier kommt die fertige Liste. 1002 Wünsche. Und ich hab noch was dabei - nämlich wieder eine Umfrage :D Ich wüsste nämlich gerne, was von den nicht geschriebenen Wünschen überhaupt noch relevant ist. Jeder Wunsch, der mindestens eine Stimme bekommt, bleibt auf der Liste, alle anderen werden gestrichen - und machen vllt Platz für neue Wünsche? Denn eigentlich ist hiermit die Wunschliste geschlossen.

Hier entlang zur Umfrage.

(Anmerkung zur Liste: Fett = bereits geschrieben, kursiv = es gibt einen Plot)

01.  Mia-san-bayern-muenchen: Joshua Kimmich x Sebastian Rode

01. Palomita: Marcel Schmelzer x Neven  Subotic

02. Melanie: Johannes Geis x Leon  Goretzka x Max Meyer

03. Lana:  Johannes Geis x Leon Goretzka x Max Meyer

04. bika74: Paul Verhaegh x Jannik  Vestergaard

05.  luisaakainsane: Martin Kelly x Danny Wilson

06. ladytonic: Roman Bürki & Julian  Weigl

07. toni_paco: Benedikt Höwedes x Mats  Hummels

08. haesje: Roman Bürki x Erik Durm

09. Mia-san-bayern-muenchen:  Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg x Patrick Weihrauch

10. Miri: Daniel Baier x Marwin Hitz

11. litsch & Nathia: Matthias  Ostrzolek x Paul Verhaegh

12. temsah: Hakan Calhanoglu x Christoph  Kramer

13. Nathia: Mats Hummels x Erik Durm

14. Ellen FCB: Kevin Großkreutz x Manuel  Neuer

15. dfbfangirli18: Julian Draxler x  Benedikt Höwedes

16.  rawrr-i-am-a-dragon: Max Meyer/Ralf Fährmann

17. Lisa: Konstantin Rausch x Lars  Stindl

18. glavobolja: Miro Klose x Gigi Buffon

19. sehrgutpeter: Nils Petersen/Vincenzo  Grifo

20. chipsyio: Nuri Sahin x Henrich  Mchitarjan

20. chipsyio:  Pierre-Emile Aubameyang x Marco Reus

21. neven4me:  Lewis Holtby x Ivo Ilicevic

22. Vicky: Ronny Philp x Markus  Weinzierl

23. ein-schuss-ein-tor: Yann Sommer x  Marwin Hitz

24. niemals-allein: Samuel Radlinger x  Christopher Avevor

25. Peti: Daniel  Baier x Christian Gentner

26. becci-chan: Manuel Neuer x Benedikt  Höwedes

27. andrisheep: Piotr Trochowski x  Patrick Funk

28. eowyn_faith: Kevin Großkreutz x  Bastian Schweinsteiger

29. grizilicious: Antoine Griezmann x Karim  Benzema

30. permens: Ich hätte gerne Clemens  Fritz x Per Mertesacker

31. marcinho11: Marco Reus x Erik Durm x  Olli Kirch

32. elekgirl: Erik Durm x Jonas Hoffmann

33. mrscrab:  Mitch Langerak x Mario Götze

34. rapskolben: Leonardo Bittencourt x  Moritz Leitner

35. anon: Mats  Hummels x Neven Subotic

36. schwarzgelbetraeume & rawrr-i-am-a-dragon:  Bernd Leno x Marc-André ter Stegen

37. cherrysky09: Aron Johansson x Jannik  vestergaard

37. cherrysky09: Janek sternberg x  Michael zetterer

38. hoemmels_fan: Sebastian Kehl x Clemens  Fritz

39. savassavalas: André Hahn x Patrick  Herrmann

40. kaktuspo: René Adler x Clemens Fritz

41. estefania1893: Konstantin Rausch x  Felix Burmeister

42. Hanna: Diego Benaglio x Marcel  Schäfer

43.  bastian-casillas-fussballgott: Iker Casillas x Sergio Ramos

44. n o x: Olivier Giroud x Antoine  Griezmann

45. dragon12:  Fortsetzung Iker Casillas x Sergio Ramos

46. neven4me:  Neven Subotic x Marcel Schmelzer

47. Madrilena: etwas mit Adnan Januzaj

50. toni_paco:  Piotr Trochowski x Clemens Fritz

51. sehrgutpeter: Julian Brandt x Levin  Öztunali

52. sehrgutpeter: Stefan Bell x Loris  Karius

53. sehrgutpeter: Bernd Leno x Sebastian  Boenisch

54. sehrgutpeter: Sebastian Boenisch x  Gonzalo Coastro

55. sehrgutpeter: Hakan Calhanoglu x  Lars Bender

56. sehrgutpeter: Daniel Ginzcek x Kevin  Schindler

57. sehrgutpeter: Felix Kroos x Fin  Bartels

58. sehrgutpeter: was mit Kevin Kampl

59. sehrgutpeter: Tobias Sippel x Yann  Sommer

60. sehrgutpeter: Über Dominik Kohr

61. luisaakainsane: Felix Kroos x Kevin  Pannewitz

62.  rawrr-i-am-a-dragon: Gerard Pique x Cesc Fabregas

63. chipsyio: Piszczykowski

64. Madrilena: Thorgan Hazard x Erik  Durm

65. anon: Marwin Hitz x Gigi Buffon

66. anon: Marwin  Hitz x Iker Casillas

67. anon: Daniel Baier x Marwin Hitz

68. worldofstone: was zu Felix  Burmeister

69. temsah: Sokratis x Huntelaar

70. lana: Felix Platte x Daniel Heuer  Fernandes

71. chipsyio: Fuckbuddies - Nuri Sahin x  Erik Durm und andere

72. nandosbutt: Bastiando mit Kindern

73. anon: Gigi  Buffon x Iker Casillas

74. anon: Gigi  Buffon x Andrea Pirlo

75. buerkihoe: Fortsetzung Roman Bürki x  Adnan Januzaj

76. buerkihoe: Roman Bürki x Emre Mor

77. neven4me:  Lewis Holtby x Matthias Ostrzolek

78. chipsyio:  Ilkay Gündogan x Shinji Kagawa

79. anon:  Cristiano Ronaldo x Fabio Coentrao

79. sehrgutpeter: Was mit Konstantinos  Stafylidis

80. NoFangirl: Zlatko Junuzovic x Robert  Bauer

81. Sammy123: Stürki mit Kindern

82. Meerschweinchen: SCHWEIZER  TORHÜTERORGIE

83. dragon: Felixfin aus Felix' Sicht

84. petersensmondfahrt: Maximilian  Philipp x Nils Petersen

85. petersensmondfahrt: Philipp Max x  Maximilian Philipp

86. chocabel:  Leon Goretzka x Max Meyer x Johannes Geis

87. sinahjcx: Stürki - Hasenjahre - ein  Kapitel aus Romans Sicht

88. meggiesobsessions: Manuel Neuer x  Thomas Müller

89. anon: Mats  Hummels x Neven Subotic

90. anon: Leon  Goretzka x Christoph Kramer

91. anon: Oscar Wendt x Havard Nordtveit  

92. CookieKat98: Fortsetzung Dr Jekyll  Mr Hyde - Manuel Neuer x Thomas Müller

93. meggiesobsessions: Marc Bartra x  Erik Durm

94.  apricotstone: Max Meyer x Leon Goretzka Johannes Geis

95. Ratisbono: Joshua Kimmich x Sven  Ulreich

96. princess28: Fortsetzung Frankenderby  - Niklas Stark x Niclas Füllkrug

97. nuebelinho:  Alex Nübel x Daniel Caligiuri

98. anon: Alfred  Finnbogason x Rurik Gislason

99. helllichtenacht: Fortsetzung  Griezoud

100. lili: Marco Richter x Daniel Baier

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A little bit of history behind Trinidad and Tobago’s shocking win against the USA in the final FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifying match

On November 19th 1989, in the final qualifying match for the FIFA World Cup 1990 to be hosted in Italy, the USA and Trinidad and Tobago were level on points with Trinidad ahead in the second of two qualifying CONCACAF spots on goal difference alone, with Costa Rica having already secured the first place. 

In the 30th minute of the game, Paul Caligiuri scored to put the USA 1-0 up to which Trinidad and Tobago fought to come back from but ultimately didn’t and lost the game and thus their qualifying spot to the USA. It had been the USA’s first time qualifying since 1950.

On the bench for Trinidad and Tobago that game was Kelvin Jones, the father of Alvin Jones, the Trinidadian player who scored a long range 40 yards out goal in the 37th minute on the 10th of October 2017 to secure Trinidad a 2-1 win and kick the USA out of the FIFA World Cup 2018, 28 years after the USA had knocked them out in 1989. It would be the USA’s first time not qualifying for the World Cup since 1986.

Screenshots taken from this video.

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Happy 11th birthday, Red Cadeaux <3 My all time favourite. 6 March 2006 - 21 November 2015 Miss you, big boy

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Carlos Cordeiro elected U.S. Soccer president

The current U.S. Soccer vice president beat out a field of 8 candidates, including former players and the favorite, SUM president Kathy Carter.

In a somewhat surprising outcome, U.S. Soccer vice president Carlos Cordeiro has been elected as the organization’s new president, winning on the third ballot. Cordeiro beat out seven other candidates: former national team players Hope Solo, Eric Wynalda, Paul Caligiuri and Kyle Martino, attorneys Steve Gans and Michael Winograd, and Soccer United Marketing president Kathy Carter.

The election seemed to hinge on the Athletes’ Council vote from the start. The organization gets 20 percent of the vote and has historically voted together. There were reports on Friday night that the group was fractured, but minutes before the election, Grant Wahl reported that they’d decided to support Cordeiro.

Hearing that Athletes Council will vote as a bloc for Carlos Cordeiro. That's huge for him.

— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) February 10, 2018

No candidate was able to secure a majority on first ballot, with Carter and Cordeiro pulling away from the rest of the field. The so-called “gang of six” behind them failed to collectively secure 30 percent of the vote.

pic.twitter.com/j2yAf3HmqG

— Charles Boehm (@cboehm) February 10, 2018

Paul Caligiuri dropped out after the first round, while Michael Winograd and Steve Gans went on to exit after losing support in the second round. There was no winner after the second ballot, but Cordeiro increased his lead.

Still no winniner after round 2 #USSFPresident pic.twitter.com/Grtclx25RF

— The Mane Land (@TheManeLand) February 10, 2018

In the third round, Cordeiro won comfortably, securing a vast majority of votes.

And we have a new president #USSFPresident pic.twitter.com/gDzCFKaeU7

— The Mane Land (@TheManeLand) February 10, 2018

Cordeiro was elected as vice president at the 2016 U.S. Soccer annual general meeting and has served U.S. Soccer in various volunteer capacities for 10 years. Previously, he was a partner and vice president at Goldman Sachs.

Surprisingly, Cordeiro declared his intention to run for president of U.S. Soccer before exiting president Sunil Gulati announced that he would not run for re-election. Gulati was reportedly unhappy with this, and shortly after he decided not to run, SUM president Kathy Carter announced her candidacy. Gulati and MLS commissioner Don Garber reportedly lobbied voters to support Carter, not Cordeiro, Gulati’s right-hand man for the last two years.

Despite this, Cordeiro was often linked to Carter and portrayed as part of the same establishment during the election, due to the amount of time he’s spent with U.S. Soccer. However, Cordeiro was critical of the federation on his website, stating that “the U.S. Soccer Federation has often been too insular and failed to truly listen to all members of our community.”

Eventually, Cordeiro emerged as a compromise candidate. He matches Carter’s business experience, but not her deep connections to MLS and SUM. He wasn’t as vocal about the need for dramatic change as some of the other candidates, but his main campaign issue was a need for U.S. Soccer to return its focus to growing grassroots soccer. At the end of a heated campaign, Cordeiro did an excellent job of putting together a broad coalition, while the other candidates failed to win voters beyond their core base.

Cordeiro’s first orders of business that will be of interest to the general public will be leading the board in the process to hire a general manager. It’s unlikely that any decision will be made about a new U.S. men’s national team coach before that’s done.

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Their path to the planet Cup was not an easy one

Soccer is only for geeky, gym-class children with pocket-protectors and thick glasses. Soccer is a foreign game for hooligan, drunken psycho-fans. Soccer is just plain un-American. Prior to the 1994 World Cup, Mike Barnacle with the Boston Globe described soccer as a mindless sport where hordes of incomprehensible athletes run aimlessly in the circle until so many people are dehydrated and, finally, some guy uses his skull to attain a touchdown. " (American Attitudes Toward Soccer) Hardly any other sport is treated to such consistent degradation from the press. Tom Weir wrote in USA Today in December 1993, that hating soccer is a bit more American than apple pie, driving a pickup, or spending Saturday afternoons channel surfing while using good remote control. " (American Attitudes Toward Soccer) The facts about soccer that generates this degradation? Exactly what is known as soccer bashing" is actually based upon century-old notions that branded football because manly, American games, while soccer was a sport for immigrants or possibly a sport for fitness.

 Our nation was a bed that long resisted soccer's spread. By 1820, many American colleges played soccer, but there wasn't any intercollegiate competition. The policies were casual and infrequently changed. On November 6, 1869 Princeton University and Rutgers University involved in the earliest intercollegiate soccer match in New Brunswick, NJ. The Rutgers team won the match 6-4. Soon immigrants from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales arrived in the usa in the towns in the East, Midwest and Pacific Coast. Very quickly, communities with textile mills, shipyards, quarries or mines were built with a soccer team among its immigrant population. North america Football Association (USFA), now US Soccer Federation, was granted full membership in FIFA in 1914, and in the USA's first international match on August 20 they defeated Sweden 3-0. Regardless of this first victory the united states usually lost to foreign teams.

 However, on June 29 throughout the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, a star player named Gaetjen scored the winning goal as well as the US defeated England 1-0. It had been perhaps, the biggest upset ever in international chaussure de foot magista soccer. In 1989 Paul Caligiuri scored the most significant goal in US soccer history since Gaetjens goal against England. On November 19 Caligiuri's 35-yard dipping shot found websites inside a 1-0 victory over Trinidad & Tobago, looking at 35,000 red-clad Trinidadians, clinching the USA's first appearance on the globe Cup in almost Four decades. North america team qualified for your World Cup for your fourth time this season. Their path to the planet Cup was not an easy one. They tied a really good Mexico team 1-1. In addition, they were required to beat Canada, and El Salvador.

 Soccer is definitely the name commonly given in The united states into a type of football played with a spherical ball. It's the most widely played team game on this planet as well as the most widely used spectator sport, followed avidly by billions of fans. Originally called association football (the name soccer is really a corruption in the word assoc derived consequently from association), (Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia) soccer is distinguished from American or Canadian football and Rugby in the it truly is primarily used you.All that is required to try out soccer is really a ball, goals, and, for individuals who want, uniforms including things like shorts, socks, cleats. It could possibly always be played barefoot. This simplicity and informality can be a chief reason for the international public attention towards the experience. Because tackling isn't as violent like different kinds of football and also the round ball is much more easily controlled than an oval one, soccer is especially worthy of younger players.

 I have been previously playing now let's talk about twelve years. My experiences in soccer have changed from the first games where 11 players ran in the bunch following your ball, to where now we utilize a complex system of passing using triangles. Some fans have informed me the system seems hard to learn and play but once divided, it is extremely simple. I've many userful stuff here about the sport. After i begin to play higher numbers of soccer I had to produce a commitment. To be a person in the 2011 varsity soccer team I spend near to 1 day each week to the soccer field. My coach played semi-pro soccer in Scotland. Nearly all coach in Utah knows him. He trains us harder than some other coach I have ever had. When I dealt with him in the past all of us went 16-0-1. We were ranked #1 inside the state. With commitment and hard work all of us wishes to continue our coach's winning tradition.

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Mumbai-born Carlos Cordeiro is new chief of US Soccer Federation

Indian immigrant Carlos Cordeiro has been elected president of the US Soccer Federation. Cordeiro beat out eight other candidates including two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup winner Hope Solo, leading corporate attorney Michael Winograd, other retired footballers including Kathy Carter, Kyle Martino, Eric Wynalda, Paul Caligiuri, and Kyle Martino, and Steve Gans, an attorney based out of Boston.

"It's an incredible honor to be elected @ussoccer President.  I'm grateful to everyone who supported my campaign and I salute all the candidates who ran. I promise to work with all our members to unite our soccer family! #AimHigher," Cordeiro tweeted winning the election. 

Newly-elected @CACSoccer addresses the National Council as U.S. Soccer President. More » https://t.co/Lzro8BHkdR pic.twitter.com/ZekPvxlrzx

— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) February 10, 2018

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  My open letter to our soccer community. We should be proud of our successes, but honest about where we need to do better. U.S. Soccer needs to change. Working together, we can transform soccer in America. #AimHigher https://t.co/JuYrxf11r8

— Carlos Cordeiro (@CACSoccer) February 14, 2018

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62-year-old Carlos Cordeiro was born in India to a Goan father and Colombian mother, did his schooling from Cathedral & John Connon School. In 1971 he moved to the US with his widowed mother and three siblings, when he was just 15.

Mumbai born Cordeiro replaced another Indian origin Sunil Gulati, having served as President since 2006, Mr Gulati had opted not to run for re-election, after the United States men's national soccer team failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.

It is expected of Carlos Cordeiro that he might bring a major reform in the US men's national soccer team as they are missing the World Cup for the first time since 1986.

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In a somewhat surprising outcome, U.S. Soccer vice president Carlos Cordeiro has been elected as the organization’s new president, winning on the third ballot. Cordeiro beat out seven other candidates: former national team players Hope Solo, Eric Wynalda, Paul Caligiuri and Kyle Martino, attorneys Steve Gans and Michael Winograd, and Soccer United Marketing president Kathy Carter.

The election seemed to hinge on the Athletes’ Council vote from the start. The organization gets 20 percent of the vote and has historically voted together. There were reports on Friday night that the group was fractured, but minutes before the election, Grant Wahl reported that they’d decided to support Cordeiro.

Hearing that Athletes Council will vote as a bloc for Carlos Cordeiro. That’s huge for him.

— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) February 10, 2018

No candidate was able to secure a majority on first ballot, with Carter and Cordeiro pulling away from the rest of the field. The so-called “gang of six” behind them failed to collectively secure 30 percent of the vote.

Paul Caligiuri dropped out after the first round, while Michael Winograd and Steve Gans went on to exit after losing support in the second round. There was no winner after the second ballot, but Cordeiro increased his lead.

In the third round, Cordeiro won comfortably, securing a vast majority of votes.

Cordeiro was elected as vice president at the 2016 U.S. Soccer annual general meeting and has served U.S. Soccer in various volunteer capacities for 10 years. Previously, he was a partner and vice president at Goldman Sachs.

Surprisingly, Cordeiro declared his intention to run for president of U.S. Soccer before exiting president Sunil Gulati announced that he would not run for re-election. Gulati was reportedly unhappy with this, and shortly after he decided not to run, SUM president Kathy Carter announced her candidacy. Gulati and MLS commissioner Don Garber reportedly lobbied voters to support Carter, not Cordeiro, Gulati’s right-hand man for the last two years.

Despite this, Cordeiro was often linked to Carter and portrayed as part of the same establishment during the election, due to the amount of time he’s spent with U.S. Soccer. However, Cordeiro was critical of the federation on his website, stating that “the U.S. Soccer Federation has often been too insular and failed to truly listen to all members of our community.”

Eventually, Cordeiro emerged as a compromise candidate. He matches Carter’s business experience, but not her deep connections to MLS and SUM. He wasn’t as vocal about the need for dramatic change as some of the other candidates, but his main campaign issue was a need for U.S. Soccer to return its focus to growing grassroots soccer. At the end of a heated campaign, Cordeiro did an excellent job of putting together a broad coalition, while the other candidates failed to win voters beyond their core base.

Cordeiro’s first orders of business that will be of interest to the general public will be leading the board in the process to hire a general manager. It’s unlikely that any decision will be made about a new U.S. men’s national team coach before that’s done.

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U.S. Soccer presidential election outcomes: Cordeiro beats Carter to switch Gulati

The U.S. Soccer presidential election to switch Sunil Gulati was held on Saturday in Orlando, and the winner was USSF vice chairman Carlos Cordeiro, incomes 68.6 % of the vote within the third spherical of voting. 

The 61-year-old former Goldman Sachs government, the institution candidate, was the oldest candidate working. He has acknowledged his purpose was getting U.S. Soccer to be globally aggressive and has strongly acknowledged on quite a few events wanting the U.S. to host the 2026 World Cup and 2027 Ladies’s World Cup. 

Closing votes

Carlos Cordeiro – 68.6% Kathy Carter –  10.6% Kyle Martino – 10.6% Eric Wynalda – eight.9% Hope Solo – 1.four%

*Paul Caligiuri, Michael Winograd and Steve Gans all withdrew from the election throughout the first couple rounds of voting. 

First spherical of voting

Second spherical of voting

Extra to return as this story develops.

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CONCACAF story set for intriguing finale - FIFA.com

FIFA.com CONCACAF story set for intriguing finale FIFA.com Famously, a month shy of 28 years ago, the USA headed to Trinidad and Tobago for a game that would transform the face of football in the States. Having been absent for four decades from the World Cup, a solitary Paul Caligiuri goal would end their ... and more » http://dlvr.it/PtQP4j

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The voters and issues that will decide the next U.S. Soccer president

[ad_1] On Feb. 10, at the U.S. Soccer Federation’s Annual General Meeting, an era will come to an end. The 12-year reign of president Sunil Gulati will conclude, and the organization will elect a new leader. The race features eight candidates, a list that includes former U.S. men’s international and collegiate head coach Paul Caligiuri, current Soccer United Marketing president Kathy Carter,…

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US Soccer Presidential Forum review — pros and cons for every candidate

Really big show today. Two hours big. So hold on to your butts.

We open by discussing the revelations regarding Jonathan Gonzalez, which aired on the Max and Herc podcast. We also encourage you to find that show and listen to it for more info.

At 11:24, we get to the main event. A review of the US Soccer Presidential Forum event, hosted by the US Youth Soccer Council in Philadelphia on Saturday, January 20.

We explain how the forum worked and give some rough details about how the actual vote for US Soccer President will work when Feb 10 rolls around. After that, we go through candidate by candidate.

Here are you timestamps:

17:15 — Hope Solo

29:25 — Kyle Martino

39:51 — Steve Gans

49:05 — Kathy Carter

1:03:30 — Michael Winograd

1:13:07 — Eric Wynalda

1:26:02 — Paul Caligiuri

1:34:17 — Carlos Cordeiro

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The failure of the boys’s nationwide crew has introduced an urgency to requires alternate on the federation stage whilst longstanding problems confronted via US ladies’s football proceed to move overpassed

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The present messy state of American football comes courtesy of the boys’s nationwide crew. In fact, the mess existed lengthy sooner than they didn’t qualify for the Global Cup, and far of it has little to do with the precise other people at Ato Boldon Stadium on October 10, 2017. Regardless, if it was once now not for america males’s 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago two months in the past, the way forward for US Football do not need as many query marks surrounding it. The chaos has led to, amongst different issues, the primary contested election for US Football Federation president in 20 years, with 8 applicants recently within the operating. That being mentioned, the entire state of affairs is not only about america males’s nationwide crew.

With most likely dramatic adjustments coming to US Football this yr, regardless of who the following president is, everybody below america Football umbrella might be impacted. But, because the dialog of what wishes to modify takes heart degree within the American football neighborhood, the point of interest appears to be only at the males’s nationwide crew. Overlooked virtually totally is the ladies’s nationwide crew.

The USA ladies’s nationwide crew, up to now, have simplest existed within the context of what has been referred to as “the ladies’s factor” via Forbes’ Filip Bondy, their combat for equivalent pay. At this level, each and every candidate has mentioned they fortify the gamers’ try to in any case obtain equivalent pay to their male opposite numbers, even though they have got now not specified what precisely equivalent pay manner. Hope Solo, one of the crucial two ladies operating for the place of business, expanded the subject to incorporate all staff of US Football when she introduced her candidacy. She additionally needs extra ladies within the upper score positions of the federation. Rather than that, nobody has elaborated a lot on how they plan on carrying out equivalent pay. The truth that the ladies’s and males’s nationwide crew gamers have other cost constructions is hardly ever an issue of dialogue, making it appear to be a very simple downside to resolve for the following president of america Football Federation.

This loss of concept for the ladies in US Football has carried over into how the 2 feminine applicants are perceived. Bondy additionally wrote in his Forbes piece that Solo is entering into the way in which of her personal needs for US Football as a company. As he writes, “If Solo needs ladies represented on the easiest ranges of US Football, then she actually will have to be endorsing Carter’s candidacy to interchange Gulati. A lady on the most sensible of the group chart will be the largest imaginable message to all involved.” This remark misinterprets Solo’s candidacy totally, characterizing her as a candidate for girls via distinctive feature of being a girl. The similar is going for Carter, who, via this description, is the opposite ladies’s candidate, once more, via distinctive feature of being a girl.

This characterization of Carter and Solo ignores their exact phrases as applicants and accomplishments sooner than pronouncing their candidacies and piles in combination all ladies as wanting the similar results on this election. To a few, Carter is not anything however a “woman,” as Sal Rapaglia, the president of the Japanese New York State Football Affiliation referred to as her on more than one events. Then again, she will have to most probably be extra aligned along with her paintings because the president of Football United Advertising and marketing. Her candidacy has been surrounded via questions of backing from the below fireplace president of US Football, Sunil Gulati, and MLS commissioner Don Garber, with honest questions heading her method as as to if or now not she would usher dramatic alternate to American football.

Solo, in the meantime, represents one thing very other, as her remark pronouncing her candidacy signifies. Nearly all of her remark revolved round her enjoy as a formative years participant in Washington state, and the way the construction shuts out formative years gamers from decrease source of revenue households. Solo detailed the days her oldsters have been compelled into turning down alternatives for her to develop as a participant for the reason that circle of relatives may now not come up with the money for it. She mentioned the days she requested for cash from neighbors to succeed in her desires. If anything else, Solo’s candidacy is essentially about solving the formative years machine, a very powerful factor for plenty of in america Football neighborhood.

But, that matter does now not obtain a lot consideration in terms of its affect at the ladies’s nationwide crew. Many have questioned “what number of [Tim] Howards and [Clint] Dempseys” the US is dropping to pay to play, however now not what number of Solos the country is dropping. Even though the likes of Howard and Dempsey, along side others, controlled to grow to be pros regardless of monetary demanding situations as formative years gamers, there are fewer an identical tales of ladies’s nationwide crew gamers. Moreover, Doug Andreassen, former the chairman of the disbanded US Football variety process power, instructed The Mother or father that “[t]he machine isn’t operating for the underserved neighborhood. It’s operating for the white youngsters,” one thing this is most likely extra glaring at the ladies’s crew than it’s at the males’s crew. Whilst the boys’s crew has had many gamers of colour, raised locally and in another country, over time, the similar can’t be mentioned for the ladies’s crew, a traditionally very white crew. Even though the USWNT’s most up-to-date rosters are extra numerous than they have got been prior to now, simplest 15 ladies of colour have ever represented america on the Global Cup or the Olympics.

Training building has additionally been a well-liked subject within the months for the reason that USMNT’s failure to qualify for Russia. The extraordinarily prime costs are protecting coaches out of having certification, however once more, this has been framed at the development of the boys’s nationwide crew. Misplaced in those conversations is that, of the 20 other people to have gained a US Football Professional License, just one is a girl; ladies’s nationwide crew head trainer Jill Ellis gained her certification in December as a part of the second one elegance of graduates from the route.

Whilst ladies gamers in america proportion some problems with their male opposite numbers, in addition they have problems with their very own that want sorting. A urgent factor for america ladies’s nationwide crew is the advance of ladies’s nationwide groups world wide, that means the space between america and everybody else is last, some degree many emphasised after the crew’s removal from the 2016 Olympics within the quarterfinals. Some may argue that the USWNT treated that neatly in 2017 via dealing with as many groups within the most sensible 20 of the FIFA ratings as they may, however it is going to be a relentless worry for the crew within the years yet to come. Adolescence building and training building, as discussed previous, can assist the method.

Moreover, The Nationwide Ladies’s Football League has additionally been omitted because the presidential race continues, even though it has room for growth. Fortunately, the league’s viability isn’t a urgent subject within the sense that it was once for its predecessors, the Ladies’s United Football Affiliation and Ladies’s Skilled Football. But, the applicants, even if precipitated to “cope with the state of the NWSL” in america Football Athlete Council survey, had little so as to add to the dialog. Feedback rather then making an investment additional within the league financially—a very powerful and important motion to toughen the league, even though one missing intense important concept—have been onerous to seek out. Simply because it has outlived its predecessors, even though, does now not make the league simple to handle, just like the equivalent pay factor.

US Football, which partially finances the league, can assist the league and check out to make skilled football a comfy occupation for feminine gamers, a lot because it has grow to be for a majority of MLS gamers. Steve Gans plans to spend a part of the federation’s surplus on ensuring NWSL gamers can are living conveniently in a monetary sense, whilst Kyle Martino proposes a benefit sharing scheme between MLS and the NWSL, however rather then one sentence from Carter that appear to be a passing concept, the opposite applicants have given little indication that this factor is on their minds.

Then again, there may be one candidate who has given concept to girls’s football in america past the problem of equivalent pay. The relatively silent Paul Caligiuri not too long ago penned an open letter based on the North American Football League’s open letter, which mentioned that, amongst different issues, the NWSL has simplest 18.05% of the proposed vote from US Football’s Skilled Council. Caligiuri criticized this allocation of votes, announcing that this allocation, in comparison to male counterpart MLS protecting 57.14% of the vote, “defies each good judgment and equity.”

Moreover, in his reaction to the Athlete Council survey, Caligiuri shared his plan to align the NWSL with the Ladies’s Premier Football League and United Ladies’s Football, two decrease department leagues in a plan to make certain that “they’re assured monetary fortify from US Football.” He would additionally love to create a ladies’s futsal league and “foyer FIFA to begin an Legit FIFA Ladies’s Futsal Global Cup;” Martino has additionally shared a plan to create a ladies’s nationwide futsal crew in his plan. Finer issues haven’t begun to be shared, even though this daring plan has hardly ever grow to be a commonplace matter of dialogue within the weeks main as much as the election.

The USA ladies are simple to put out of your mind when it sort of feels like the boys’s crew is a dumpster fireplace nonetheless burning and the ladies are simply the reigning global champions who proceed to win fits reasonably conveniently. Irrespective of which crew is extra in disaster, via doing this, it continues to set a precedent through which the good fortune and screw ups of a federation are dictated only via the good fortune and screw ups of the boys’s nationwide crew, leaving a large share of people that might be impacted via the approaching alternate atop the us to be omitted. Undermining the ladies’s program would by no means make for the enhanced US Football Federation many are searching for.

Practice Pardeep on Twitter @pcattry. 

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