Archive for March, 2011

Fan Culture / Featured / Soccer on TV

Watch the season opener with the PSP

Looking for a place to watch the Union’s season opener? You can watch the game with the PSP at the 700. Angelo’s Soccer Corner will be on hand to give away prizes.

KYW Philly Soccer Show / Podcasts

KYW’s Philly Soccer Show: Kerith Gabriel

Kerith Gabriel, the Philly Daily News’ beat writer for the Philadelphia Union, joins KYW’s Greg Orlandini and PSP’s Adam Cann in the studio for the first podcast of the season. Offseason moves, tactics, the team’s handling of the media and homegrown players are discussed.

Daily news roundups / Featured

Union prepare to come home, more news

The Union get ready to come home. More season previews: some say the Union will sizzle, others that they will fizzle, and some say they’ll do both. ESPN wonders where MOF may be. RSL v KC preseason friendly abandoned after bench-clearing brawl. USWNT in Algarve Cup final today. Shrovetide Football and more morning news.

Featured / USMNT

2011 Gold Cup schedule released

The schedule for the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup has been released. The US plays June 7, June 11 and June 14 in Group C. The June 25 final will be played at the Rose Bowl.

Daily news roundups

Daily round-up: Jet, Pfeff, and MLS in France

RSL has a jet! What!? A Zach Pfeffer profile, a red card for tackling a streaker, Paul Riley wins the Charlotte Moran Award, and CNN calls Major League Soccer the MSL. Sigh.

Featured

Soccer for Union scabs

Swerving Suarez, shots from distance and Eto’o does it like only Eto’o can.

Daily news roundups

Starting young, more news

Stories on the Union website emphasized youth soccer over the weekend. Big East “lukewarm” on Villanova using PPL for football, thank goodness. Seattle beaten by Portland and Vancouver. Goal-line technology possible at 2014 World Cup, more news.

Featured / Union

Full Union broadcast schedule: All over the dial

The full Union 2011 broadcast schedule is released. The team joins the rest of Philadelphia’s sports world on Comcast SportsNet.

Casa Soccer League / Local Leagues / Photo essays

Casa Soccer League

Although the MLS season is just around the corner, there’s still plenty of soccer going on in Philadelphia. Here’s a photo essay by PSP photographer Daniel Gajdamowicz of the Casa Soccer Indoor League, now in full swing and in Week 6.

Featured / Union

Can we just get to the soccer already?

With the Year Two bearing down on us, the Union’s preseason off the field leaves a sour taste for even the most rabid supporters.