Like an unopened suitcase left to lie on the closet floor after coming home from a cooling beach, a stamp of denial about vacation being truly over, I have put off finishing this blog, unwilling to bid farewell to World Cup 2010, now entering the...

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  At certain moments, yesterday’s KNPR show centering around the future of youth soccer and featuring a recently-returned-from-South-Africa Herculez Gomez, had the feel of the sort of conversation that may be referred to years from now. That...

Way back in the heady days for nascent US soccer fans about two weeks ago, when Landon Donovan scored an in-your-face goal from an acute angle to help his team come back against Slovenia, a frothing headline on the NY Times Website the next day read,...