Offbeat story in today's New York Times by soccer superwriter Sam Borden about the trend of televising and filming teams in the tunnel leading to the field before a match. More than other sports soccer has a ritual of teams parading onto the field, led by the officiating crew, and lining up to face the fans. For a number of years now, the parade includes one youth player for each pro.
Anyway, interesting piece.
About This Soccer Blog
Welcome to Coach P’s Soccer Blog! Writing whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it about the world’s most popular sport is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Now that I have retired from coaching, refereeing and being a club administrator, I have the time – when my day job as a lawyer permits.
About this blog
I plan to write about whatever comes to mind in the world of soccer – maybe a club game, or a news item from a European league, and a lot from Philadelphia’s new pro teams, the Union and Independence. A lot of content here will be my opinion – and you’ll know when it is – and a lot plain news reporting. I hope it will be objective and professionally written and that it will provoke thought or at least be interesting and entertaining to a soccer fan.
Eventually, when I figure things out, I’ll have more organization and specific pages by topic, pictures and various soccer links.
I won’t pretend to be comprehensive. I won’t have the time, the resources or the desire to fully cover any one league, team or age group.
And you will often find references to songs in my writing. It’s a habit I have, but I find I am not alone. I have found that Dan Shaugnessy, excellent sports columnist for the Boston Globe, has sprinkled references to songs in his work.
About this blog
I plan to write about whatever comes to mind in the world of soccer – maybe a club game, or a news item from a European league, and a lot from Philadelphia’s new pro teams, the Union and Independence. A lot of content here will be my opinion – and you’ll know when it is – and a lot plain news reporting. I hope it will be objective and professionally written and that it will provoke thought or at least be interesting and entertaining to a soccer fan.
Eventually, when I figure things out, I’ll have more organization and specific pages by topic, pictures and various soccer links.
I won’t pretend to be comprehensive. I won’t have the time, the resources or the desire to fully cover any one league, team or age group.
And you will often find references to songs in my writing. It’s a habit I have, but I find I am not alone. I have found that Dan Shaugnessy, excellent sports columnist for the Boston Globe, has sprinkled references to songs in his work.
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