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Youth Movement Underway in Women’s Soccer

When the Swarthmore Garnet (5-3-0) took on the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (7-2-1) last Saturday in Baltimore, their starting eleven featured two first-years and four sophomores. Normally, a lineup so young is characteristic of a rebuilding team, one that ought to struggle
October 4, 2012

Women’s Club Soccer Gets Off to a Running Start

According to its club sports handbook, the Swarthmore College athletics department currently recognizes eight groups as official club sports: men’s rugby, women’s rugby, men’s ultimate Frisbee, women’s ultimate Frisbee, men’s volleyball, men’s fencing, women’s fencing and men’s badminton, which is now defunct.
September 13, 2012

Tallying up the winners as soccer season ends

The end of the season is nigh, and in most of the major leagues it looks like we have some obvious winners: Manchester United will win in England, Borussia Dortmund will win the Bundesliga, and unless José Mourinho manages to create a
April 19, 2012

The winter of an empire: Liverpool Club’s decline

Liverpool is a sinking ship, and no longer a real contender for the league or Champions League places. I know the statistics: Liverpool has won 18 league titles, 8 league cups, 5 FA cups and European Cups. They won the League cup
April 5, 2012

Inter Milan struggling in a post-Mourinho world

Massimo Moratti, chairman of Inter Milan, fired Claudio Ranieri after a poor run that saw Inter win only one of their past 10 games. Ranieri is just another example of Moratti’s love affair with Jose Mourinho. Since Moratti fired Roberto Mancini, present
March 29, 2012

The Bundesliga: the best football league in Europe

I know that a lot has happened over spring break in the soccer world, and lots of it will be worth debating and talking about. Andre Villas Boas was fired by Chelsea and has now become just another statistic that adds to
March 15, 2012

Forecasting the European Championships picture

Since I really did not want to confront the odd results in the Champions League, the emphatic derby day victory of Arsenal, or the small group of neo-Nazi FC Kaiserslauten fans in Germany, I thought that it might be fun to look
March 1, 2012

New rules set to change soccer’s balance of power

Last week Rangers F.C., the Scottish Champions, went into administration (a state of being unable to pay their debts) after they were unable to pay their tax bill. Rangers currently owe Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs around £49 million and have not
February 23, 2012

The English Patient: choosing England’s new manager

On Feb. 9, the highest-paid manager in football resigned. Fabio Capello left an England team that he was set to manage at the European Championships in Poland and the Ukraine this summer. Capello spoke out against the decision by the English Football
February 16, 2012
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