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Before we get to the meat of this Tuesday's newsletter, I need to promte: MORNING KICKAROUND IS GOING TO RHODE ISLAND. Our little American soccer show that focuses on the growth of the game from the bottom up will be broadcasting live from Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket,
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It's time again for Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, our weekly roundup of soccer happenings from around the Amerisoccersphere. This week, we're adding the word "North" to our typical regional purview for reasons that you can probably guess. Before we dive in, share this newsletter
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Two-and-a-half months on from the first troubling cries that the situation in Vancouver for the Whitecaps might truly be dire, new reporting is shedding light on just how far down the relocation road MLS is with the Canadian outfit. It's decidedly not good. I'
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Welcome back to Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, your weekly home for an extremely random collection of American soccer stories. This week's bag of soccer news runs the gamut, which is great because who doesn't love getting to use the word "gamut"? A reminder: If
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I think I have a problem. I, like almost everyone else on the planet, really like good soccer. The kind of soccer than makes you scream OOOH! when something remarkable happens. I'm a big fan of saying "GOOD BALL" when a pass is made that cuts
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Welcome back to Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, our weekly roundup of exciting, distressing, and/or otherwise interesting soccer new from around this weird and wild soccer nation of ours. If you have a tip for GS/BS, drop in the comments or find me on Bluesky. Give That Man A
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First, I think I need to make a quick apology for how sporadic Soccer Eagle has been over the last week. My 5-year-0ld brought home preschool cold germs, the most insidious of all the cold germs, and I've been slowly trying to work my way out
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Now Are We A Real Soccer Country? This week's GS/BS can't help but start with the most talked about story in American soccer: Christian Pulisic's Raya profile. Why are we talking about Christian Pulisic's Raya profile? Because Christian's ex
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Patrick Agyemang is the first legitimate World Cup roster candidate to be eliminated from World Cup consideration thanks to a devastating Achilles tendon injury the forward suffered on Sunday playing for Derby County. We knew the soccer fates would come for someone, we just didn't know who. And,
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Finally, for sure this time, the window of experimentation and audition is over for the USMNT ahead of the most important World Cup in the history of the sport in the United States of America. I think. Certainly Mauricio Pochettino is out of chances to see players first hand in
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Welcome to Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, a weekly roundup of American soccer things that your friendly neighborhood Soccer Eagle (that's me) came across during his soccer travels. Since this is the first edition of GS/BS, let me give you a sense of what we're doing
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Declaring that there was plenty good in the USMNT's 5-2 loss to Belgium in Atlanta on Saturday is a reasonable thing to do that is nevertheless something of a tough sell. The number "5" causes discomfort. "Discomfort" is a good word to describe