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A bad day at the office
English Premier League

A bad day at the office

So you’ve had a trying couple of months investigating the hooligan violence at the West Ham v Milwall Carling Cup match back in August. You’ve spent endless mind numbing hours looking at CCTV footage and the chief constable is really starting to breathe down your neck. What’s this, there’s some […]

Wonderland

Quirky Keepers and Sarcastic Celebrations

Philadelphia might not be competitive in this year’s College Cup. But the Stony Brook University Seawolves are in the tournament thanks to red shirt freshman Anthony Rogic. Here he is in the America East Conference semifinal game against the University of Hartford. That’s Hartford keeper Nenad Cudic doing the cartwheels. […]

MLS

The best of MLS

Major League Soccer named its 2009 best XI today, and the list was full of familiar faces: Landon Donovan, Dwayne De Rosario, Shalrie Joseph, along with Donovan’s fellow U.S. national teamers: Conor Casey, Stuart Holden, Chad Marshall and Jeff Cunningham. Some big names were left off the list though, including Cuauhtémoc […]

World Cup - International

Eagles-Giants have nothing on Egypt-Algeria

Philly fans may get a bit nuts, but they have nothing on the Egyptians and Algerians, whose match tomorrow could be the wildest of the week.  Egypt’s finest one-upped Eagles fans’ snowball assault on Santa Claus by stoning the Algerian team’s bus Thursday and bloodying three Algerian players.  If that […]

Philly Soccer Page Info

Follow the Philly Soccer Page on Facebook and Twitter

Follow the Philly Soccer Page on Facebook and Twitter. Simply click on the icons to the right of the page. Then become a fan on Facebook and a follower on Twitter. Our posts here will automatically stream to your Facebook and Twitter feeds. Posted via web from The Philly Soccer […]

USMNT / World Cup

US National Team Update: Slovakia and Denmark Matches

The Full men’s national team did not play an amazing game against Slovakia on Saturday. However, Bob Bradley had the opportunity to do some important experimenting that could help the team to be successful at the World Cup this coming June. First, we got to see Brad Guzan start in […]

Philadelphia College Soccer: A Plea
College Soccer

Philadelphia College Soccer: A Plea

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania is approximately 20 miles outside of Philadelphia.  It is a small and unmemorable town. And yet this is where the best Philadelphia-area soccer team plays.  Swarthmore College is ranked 18th in the latest D-III poll and advanced to the second round of the Division III NCAA tournament after […]

Los Angeles Galaxy / MLS / Real Salt Lake / Union

Rimando's guesses and the expansion draft

Nick Rimando’s most amazing feat wasn’t that he stopped three penalty kicks to send Real Salt Lake to the MLS Cup. It was that the RSL goalkeeper “guessed” right on six of seven shots. Rimando reads penalty kicks so well that it’s clearly not guesswork for him. He went the […]

This Day in Soccer History
History

This Day in Soccer History

November 15th, 1964*  Johan Cruyff debuts for Ajax The greatest European footballer of all time** scored on November 15th against GVAV.  Cruyff was seventeen years old and he was better at soccer than everyone you know combined and multiplied by the national deficit.  If you know anybody from Europe who […]

Philly Soccer Page Info

Welcome to the Philly Soccer Page

Welcome to The Philly Soccer Page, a new site we hope will become a must-read for soccer fans in Philadelphia and the surrounding Delaware Valley. With two top-tier professional teams starting play here in 2010, this seemed the right time to assemble our own team to follow the game in […]