TRS Book Club: “Red Card”
As America prepares itself for a broad domestic debate on institutional corruption, editorials in all the nation’s major papers-of-record speculate on the extent to which...
Category : FIFA World Cup
TRS Book Club: “Das Reboot”
Organized association football didn’t exist when Samuel Johnson took down James Boswell with one of history’s greatest intellectual counterpunches. Everyone knows the quote and the...
Slide Tackle Saturdays: Megan Rapinoe Is The Red, White, Blue, And Purple Hero Football Needs
While she volleys away nonsense appropriation, as she breaks the back of boring institutionalized insults, there is one lazy gender stereotype which Megan Rapinoe slots...
Women’s World Cup Brings Relatable Elite Level Football, Can Manchester United Follow Suit?
It wasn’t until 1969 that the English Football Association lifted its ban on women playing football. The ban, implemented in 1921, came into action when...
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Tactical Focus- USA vs. England
Only one match now stands between the USWNT and a successful defense of their 2015 FIFA World Cup. On Tuesday evening, it was birthday girl...
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Tactical Outlook- USA vs. England
In a match worthy of a final, the USWNT faces the world’s #3 ranked England in the Women’s FIFA World Cup semifinals on Tuesday. I...
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Tactical Focus- Germany vs. Sweden
The Swedish Women’s National Football Team made their own bit of history at the Women’s FIFA World Cup with a stunning victory over longtime rivals...
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Tactical Focus- USA vs. France
Thirty-three-year-old American star forward Megan Rapinoe made history on Friday evening in Paris, guiding the USWNT in the semifinals of the Women’s FIFA World Cup...
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Tactical Outlook- USA vs. France
Women’s football is now front page news in two countries ahead of Friday’s critical match between the US and hosts France in the FIFA World...
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Tactical Focus- USA vs. Spain
Two converted penalties from US captain Megan Rapinoe enabled the US Women’s National Football Team to advance past a gritty Spanish side in Reims, France...