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Alexander Abnos
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⚽️ for @us.theguardian.com / 🥁 for Secret Cities / Signal: anabnos.11 / “There is still everything to play for, and forever to play it in.”
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My location in Fort Greene is giving out The Full Trio, the Neapolitan ice cream of voting sticker handouts.
Three NYC voting stickers
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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This graf has been in the piece the entire time.
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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/...
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."
October 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Stuff like this seriously bums me out. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
We can probably state with more certainty who won’t be there: a lot of people really keen on going to this generational event who can’t begin to afford it. A teacher I know is desperate to get tickets – any kind at all – for her soccer-besotted son. She’d been asking for updates about where and how to buy them for at least a year, maybe two. When I told her what the tickets I briefly had access to were selling for, she winced and shook their head sadly. “No…,” she said. “No.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A lot of really good Remembering Guys tonight!!
1 Jon Busch 2 C.J. Brown 6 Brandon Prideaux 32 Dasan Robinson 24 Daniel Woolard 7 Logan Pause 11 John Thorrington 10 Cuauhtemoc Blanco 16 Marco Pappa 9 Baggio Husidic 20 Brian McBride 14 Patrick Nyarko 17 Chris Rolfe Substitutes 40 Andrew Dykstra 18 Michael Banner 34 Austin Washington 21 Justin Mapp 3 Calen Carr 1 Matt Reis 30 Kevin Alston 25 Darrius Barnes 6 Jay Heaps 5 Emmanuel Osei 28 Pat Phelan 21 Shalrie Joseph 13 Jeff Larentowicz 31 Sainey Nyassi 29 Abdoulie Mansally 16 Mauricio Castro 7 Wells Thompson 10 Edgaras Jankauskas 11 Mikokheli Dube Substitutes 24 Brad Knighton 2 Amaechi Igwe 26 Nico Colaluca 8 Chris Tierney
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Seeing the Chicago Fire forced to play their playoff game back at Bridgeview got me wondering when the last time they played a playoff game at Soldier Field was.

It has been almost exactly 20 years! October 21, 2005. Chicago 0-0 DC United. Check out these lineups and LET'S. REMEMBER. SOME. GUYS.
Chicago lineup: 24 Zach Thornton 2 C.J. Brown 5 Jim Curtin 23 Ivan Guerrero 25 Gonzalo Segares 14 Chris Armas 21 Justin Mapp 15 Jesse Marsch 12 Logan Pause 29 Thiaguinho Correa 11 Nate Jaqua 17 Chris Rolfe 9 Chad Barrett Substitutes 1 David Mahoney 3 Samuel Caballero 20 Tony Sanneh 13 Jack Stewart 16 Will John 27 Andy Herron 8 Lubos Reiter 18 Nick Rimando 5 Facundo Erpen 26 Bryan Namoff 4 Brandon Prideaux 16 Brian Carroll 10 Christian Gomez 23 Jamil Walker 17 Joshua Gros 21 Dema Kovalenko 27 John Wilson 99 Jaime Moreno 25 Santino Quaranta Substitutes 1 Troy Perkins 32 Bobby Boswell 19 Clyde Simms 7 Lucio Filomeno
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Incredible stuff happening in my child’s daycare app.
Announcement Family focus: Is My Kid Weird?
October 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Editor's note of the year. www.wired.com/story/owning...
How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod? People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Absolutely love this, from Luna’s brother. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
“They talk about [Diego] like he’s a street baller. But he never played on the streets. This conception that you only develop the kind of skills he has as a Latino is by playing on the streets, that’s bullshit,” says Armando. “It was all by design. From training. From encouraging his creativity on the field, from discipline. He had to learn the mental aspect of the game quickly. We never criticized him for trying new things. That translates to his game now.”
October 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I don’t have a pick for the U.S. Open Cup final but I do have this picture of a mural at a Wall St taco shop that looks an awful lot like Hany Mukhtar.
October 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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This is my first time seeing soccer played here since they installed the new mondo-sized video board and I gotta say…it’s pretty distracting.
Wide shot of Citi field in soccer configuration, with a gigantic video board looming overhead
September 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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An interesting thing about Citi Field is that the Kansas City Royals won Game 5 of the 2015 World Series here almost 10 years ago, sealing their status as champions in the annals of history forever.

Also Messi plays here tonight.
The exterior of Citi Field
September 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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A 64-team men's World Cup is marginally better than a 48-team men's World Cup purely because it eliminates the need for third-place teams to make the knockouts. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Norman Rockwell "guy standing up" meme attached to unpopular opinions THAT ARE RIGHT AND TRUE.
September 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I have always been impressed with Steve Spagnuolo’s ability to have two pens on him at any given moment.
Steve Spagnuolo with a pen on a necklace and another in his collar. Steve Spagnuolo with a pen on a necklace and another in his collar. Steve Spagnuolo with a pen on a necklace and another in his collar.
September 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Well, two things are for sure: soccer will be played, and we are going to watch it. #usmnt
A shot of a partially full stadium, taken from the press box. From a sports journalist, no less! Imagine that. This one is before the U.S. vs South Korea at Red Bull Arena.
September 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I believe that Phase 2 is the Phase For You
Screenshot from Fifa press release, reading: Phase 2: Early Ticket Draw, with the registration window expected to take place from 27 to 31 October and time slots for purchase from mid-November to early December. Similar to the first phase, this will consist of an application, followed by a randomised selection process. Successful applicants will receive a time slot to purchase tickets (subject to availability).
September 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Yay
September 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I think we can all agree that the most important thing to happen tonight is the greatest of all time winning another trophy.
It's Preki.
September 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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...oh yeah, apparently not.
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July 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Love something as much as San Diego FC loves knocking the ball around. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Line graph of average number buildup passes over time in MLS, with San Diego 2025 highlighted as an outlier with a ton more than any other team
July 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The comment section on @johnspacemuller.com's excellent San Diego FC piece is currently up 1-0 on 1.0xG.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
A comment in the comment section reading: They have many leather bound footballs and their stadium smells of rich mahogany
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Asked MLS commish Don Garber about anti-ICE protests and statements from MLS supporters' groups in recent months, if he thinks the league has a responsibility to protect fans, and how the league is thinking about this topic as raids take place in public places across the country. Here's his answer:
I don't think the league has the ability to serve as an entity to protect anyone. That being said, we want our stadiums to stay safe. We want to ensure that we're having displays that are not going to incite anyone, and at the same time not take care of one audience, and at the same time having to deal with another audience that might be on the other side of this issue. The best way to do that is to have the policy we have, which prohibits having political signage or anything to do with legislative acts on display in our stadiums. I understand and sympathize with those that are impacted by this. I grew up in a very diverse environment. We are a very diverse league, but we have to be very thoughtful about how we engage in this situation. As LAFC has done, if teams want to make a statement they can. I don't think any team should be required to. Certainly the league is not, has not, and will not make a statement on this. We just want to continue to do whatever we can to ensure that our games are safe for all of our fans.
July 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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An alternate view of the halftime show.
Wide shot of the side of MetLife stadium with the halftime show stage in the distance. Not many people in seats for the show, which seems very tiny in contrast to the broadcast making it look huge.
July 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Unbelievable views from the New Jersey transit train approaching MetLife Stadium for the Club World Cup final.
An extremely dirty window
July 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Pretty crazy! www.theguardian.com/football/202...
A dot graph with % final third throw-ins on the x axis and % of kicks in Dyche zone on the y axis, showing Minnesota United as a clear outlier amongst at least a hundred points of data.
July 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM