PSP’s coverage of minor league, college, high school and top amateur soccer in the region.
A recent PSP poll found more than 25 percent of the responders took five newbies to Philadelphia Union games last year. That was a stunner. Here, we hear from one of those people about the newbies he brought and what grabbed them about the beautiful game at PPL Park.
Philly has embraced its soccer teams…or has it? Live soccer is a completely different experience from its televised counterpart. Is PPL turning doubters into new fans? PSP wants to know.
Week three was cut short by showers, but the round-up never gives you a short shift. All the action, all the goals, all the ominous weather forecasts are here.
Fundraising efforts surpassed the $25,000 target on Wednesday to beat Thursday’s deadline thanks to a contribution from the Sons of Ben. Now, director Eugene Martin has the money necessary to finish his film about the nation’s only all-African-American, inner city girls soccer club, which is based in South Philadelphia.
Before so much as kicking a ball, the Philadelphia Union made Carlos Ruiz the new face of the franchise. But his lazy play is in marked contrast to a Union team that finished 2010 ripe with confidence and chemistry. After unseating Danny Mwanga in the starting lineup, is the chemistry problem Ruiz?
The results of the weekend’s action in the United Soccer League