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...waddles down the street. I nod, proudly and smugly. (O.K., some Americans do inherit their fandom.) The same emotions course through me as I consider how a Barça victory would confirm so much: they play the most attractive football in recent memory; Ronaldinho is a player for the ages; once and for all, Barça will shed their lineage of underachievement. But there's no way that I will be able to fully enjoy this game, to root against Henry and other Arsenal players I love. Even if Barça wins, I fear I will have...
...lite European leagues--and Americans clearly expect the best. The way the league is managed, each MLS team has a $2 million salary cap. You can't buy a star with that kind of money. So the league is planning to allow each team to sign one marquee player, a designated star, who won't count against the salary cap. "Our long-term goal is to be one of the world's best leagues. We can't do that without investing in stars," says Gazidis...
Over drinks and cigarettes at the Carousel Bar in the French Quarter recently, Keen explained New Orleans by telling the story of a 15-year-old named "Caveman." On April 14, 2003, at 10:30 in the morning, high school football player Jonathan (Caveman) Williams was sitting in his gym class. The gymnasium was packed with kids. Without warning, two men with an AK-47 and a handgun walked into the gym, strode up to Caveman and shot and killed him. They fired at least 18 times, blowing off half his face and pockmarking the floor tiles underneath his body...
...expletive-of-choice way. Those are the only possible human reactions to viewing Ping Pong, the underground Nike soccer ad that has dribbled around the Web faster than Pelé in his prime. In the spot, Ronaldinho, a Brazilian considered the world's best soccer player, laces up his new Nike cleats, the Swoosh as golden as his game, and then, from the top of the 18-yd. box, fires a soccer ball off the 4-in. crossbar. Before the ball touches the ground, he corrals the rebound on his chest, juggles the ball with his feet and repeats the feat...
...young fútbol freaks, joga.com is a powerful tool. Users can view and debate the Ronaldinho ad ("Ronaldinho is the best player but that 4 times on the crossbar no way," writes Raymond from the Hague, Netherlands, on one board), organize pickup games and rant against the most severe problem facing the sport: racism. Members can blog, upload their own soccer video or view thousands of other clips, from the latest Arsenal highlights to Nikola from Bulgaria juggling the ball--in slow motion, no less--in his bedroom. "Some Tricks I Make!" reads the title...