USA! USA! USA! Union previews, more
3 wins with 3 shutouts for US Soccer on Leap Day. Union previews and numbers. News from the Ghana v Chile friendly at PPL Park, and much more.
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Daily news roundups / Featured
Daily news roundups
News from Union town hall meeting, Nowak on CR, more
News from Thursday night’s Union town meeting, including a very healthy financials, plans to build a training facility in Chester, summer friendly expectations and the All-Star Game, and more. Nowak on what he wants out of Costa Rica trip. More news.
Featured / Philadelphia Soccer History
Flashback: Philly in the 1973 NASL playoffs
As the second-year Philadelphia Union prepare for their first MLS playoff appearance, we take a look back at how the Philadelphia Atoms fared in the 1973 NASL playoffs in their inaugural year.
Daily news roundups / Featured
Power rankings, Union salary analysis, Mom’s fault, more news
Power rankings roundup, a look at how the Union’s salary numbers compare to the league, some idiot says Adu’s career trajectory is his mom’s fault, Fergie compares Rooney to Pele, more news.
Daily news roundups / Featured
Defense questions, more news
Soccer America ranks Union defense 17th in the league; Soccer America says Valdes could make the Union playoff contenders – which is it, guys? Makeshift defense news. Ruiz has a lot to say. Are the Union a “darkhorse”? Wacky video blasts from the past and much more news.
Daily news roundups
Five freaking days to go!!!
More season previews. The Union trademark “Doop.” FSC in HD coming to Philly. Garber wants refs to “reward attacking soccer.” More news, including a crazy final in Australia.
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.
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.
History / NASL / Philadelphia Soccer History
Great Philly soccer teams: Philadelphia Atoms, part II
This concludes the two-part “Great Philly soccer teams: Philadelphia Atoms.” You can read Part I here. Before Atoms coach Al Miller took the young team to England to train and to scout for some British players to fill out the roster, back in Philadelphia, Atoms general manager Bob Ehlinger’s marketing […]
History / NASL / Philadelphia Soccer History
Great Philly soccer teams: Philadelphia Atoms, part I
The Philadelphia Atoms joined the NASL as an expansion team in 1973. They were the first expansion team to win a championship in its first year in any American professional sport. That they accomplished this with a squad managed by an American coach that was largely made up of Americans […]
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