In the past few weeks, the Chinese Football Association Super League — the country’s premier professional soccer league — has been on a shopping spree. By the close of the January transfer window, the Chinese Super League had outspent England’s Premier League in the transfer market; the CSL made five of the six largest transfer […]
The U.S. men’s national soccer team (USMNT) has played on perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass and Latitude 36 Bermuda grass, but it hasn’t played a game on artificial turf in the U.S. in the past two years. Compare that with the U.S. women’s national team (USWNT), which was forced this weekend to either refuse to […]
The U.S. men’s national soccer team (USMNT) has played on perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass and Latitude 36 Bermuda grass, but it hasn’t played a game on artificial turf in the U.S. in the past two years. Compare that with the U.S. women’s national team (USWNT), which was forced this weekend to either refuse to […]
Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea… It’s the defending Premier League champion, but Chelsea’s campaign this season would make Scott Walker proud. The team’s nightmarish season continued Saturday, with a 1-0 loss to mid-table football club Stoke City. Chelsea now sits 16th out of 20 in the standings, after winning the league title decisively last season. Emblematically, Chelsea […]
Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea… It’s the defending Premier League champion, but Chelsea’s campaign this season would make Scott Walker proud. The team’s nightmarish season continued Saturday, with a 1-0 loss to mid-table football club Stoke City. Chelsea now sits 16th out of 20 in the standings, after winning the league title decisively last season. Emblematically, Chelsea […]
