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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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