The man wore crocodile boots, a white cowboy hat and a belt buckle the size of a license plate. Clint Dempsey doesn't remember his full name—hell, nobody in Nacogdoches, Texas, does—but you couldn't miss him on the sidelines of Nac-town's Mexican League games, amid the cigar smoke and the fajita carts and the horchata peddlers. He was the guy betting cash money on the cocky 15-year-old gringo to beat men more than twice his age, proud men from Mexico and El Salvador who'd throw you to the East Texas dirt for trying a fancy move on them. Sixty, eighty, one hundred dollars! The man kept wagering, and Dempsey's team, Zamora, kept winning. "He called me," says Dempsey, "his Little Rooster."
At least a couple times a year I'll be doing research for something related to American soccer and I'll come across an old Grant Wahl lede that stops me dead in my tracks. www.si.com/soccer/2020/...
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Hallowed Ground probably rightly is Bethlehem Steel’s stadium.
BUT, for this kid growing up in Pittsburgh, Edinboro University and the annual PAWest Open tournament was it. One glorious weekend a year staying in the dorms with your team, a million fields, multiple games per day… it was the best.
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An incredible Decision Day race I didn't notice until reminded by Vikas in the @soccerwisehq.bsky.social discord:
D.C. United (29 total team goals in 33 matches) vs. Lionel Messi (26 individual goals in 27).
Coming down to the wire, folks. Messi has outside chance of chasing down D.C. United
18.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 84 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 5
The article says “it would give players a full summer to train and/or play with pro teams — or to pursue normal internships.”
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Kickback Soccer Media is proud to announce a new partnership with the American Outlaws and the Philadelphia Union! ✨
Together, we’ll spotlight fans experiencing their very first U.S. Soccer match and bring them along for the ride leading up to the 2026 Men’s and 2027 Women’s World Cups 💪 ⚽️
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Definitely going to need to hear touchline fashion expert @susannahfuller.bsky.social on this one for @kickbackcommittee.bsky.social
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds are building the Bombonera on the Monongahela… the Monbonera!
19.08.2025 19:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The keeper up for the corner and scoring is the best goalie-related moment in sports, narrowly edging out the NHL emergency backup goalie entering the game.
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Oliver Kahn with the flow and bonus points for him on this one with the Chicago ‘94 World Cup cap.
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I’m Garret
Santino Quaranta fan here!
25.07.2025 23:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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