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For his hat trick in a 5-3 win against NPSL North Conference foe Minnesota TwinStars, forward Jade Johnson of Dakota Fusion FC has been named the Mitre National Player of the Week for Week 19 of the NPSL season. The three-goal outburst raised his his season total to 17,...
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Entering Friday’s NPSL season finale at Michigan Stars FC with an already woeful record of 1W-1D-11L, things seemingly couldn’t get any worse for the FC Indiana Lions. But things did go downhill alright — boy, did they ever. The Lions found themselves up early after an eighth-minute tally by...
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Rishi Sehgal is to continue as North American Soccer League interim commissioner for the remainder of the 2017 campaign, Soc Takes understands. NASL owners are happy with the status quo in the league’s front office — with Keith Bruce also as executive consultant — effectively putting the search for a...
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INDIANAPOLIS — After scheduling marquee summer friendlies in each of the past two years against Liga MX clubs, the Indy Eleven will not play a mid-season friendly in 2017. Hat tip to reddit user silkysmoothjay, who posed the question after many supporters had already assumed there wouldn’t be a...
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Through the end of the NASL spring season and roughly halfway through the USL season, we have plenty of meaningful attendance data to overanalyze, from which I’ve drawn an interesting few conclusions and issued some mostly meaningless awards. Let’s start off with the NASL spring season. The “The Miami...
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The panel discusses the penultimate week of the NASL spring season in which Miami FC clinched the spring title with a 7-0 destruction of the San Francisco Deltas. The upcoming U.S. Open Cup match between Miami FC and FC Cincinnati also gets heavily previewed. LISTEN HERE Soc Takes is...
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INDIANAPOLIS — A celebration of the Indiana soccer scene is back. The Union Jack Cup, a futsal tournament where local Indianapolis supporters’ groups of European clubs square off, will return to Broad Ripple on July 29. The tournament starts at 11 a.m. on the second floor of the Keystone Parking...
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New Jersey Copa FC striker Raphael Araujo earned NPSL Mitre National Player of the Week honors after scoring a ridiculous six goals in his team’s 7-3 victory over BuxMont Torch FC. Congratulations to tonight’s @jerseymikes Man of the Match, #9 Raphael Araujo who scored 6 goals within the match!#wearecopa...
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FC Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic regularly plays at the Nou Camp; a magnificent and historic stadium that can hold just under 100,000 people. 7500 miles away sits Des Moines, Iowa with a population of 200,000. In other words, half the population of Des Moines could fit in the Nou Camp....
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DAYTON, Ohio — Dayton Dynamo FC and FC Buffalo settled for a 3-3 draw after a wild, five-goal second half last Sunday at Roger Glass Stadium. Here’s a video of Dayton fans reveling in the thriller and some photos from the NPSL contest: Shout out to the @GemCitySquadron who have...
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The fellas talk about their trip to the Indy Eleven training grounds ahead of Tuesday’s match at the New York Cosmos. They also revisit the SF soccer scene and discuss all the latest stories at SocTakes.com. LISTEN HERE Soc Takes is now on Patreon. Support the staff while getting...
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Bob Funk Jr. and his co-owner Tim McLaughlin do not make snap judgments. Just a few weeks ago, it seemed likely that Funk’s OKC Energy club would be building a new home in the Bricktown area of Oklahoma City. The site was a 40-acre mill called Producers Cooperative Oil...
For his hat trick in a 5-3 win against NPSL North Conference foe Minnesota TwinStars, forward Jade Johnson of Dakota Fusion FC has been named the Mitre National Player of the Week for Week 19 of the NPSL season. The three-goal outburst raised his his season total to 17,...
Entering Friday’s NPSL season finale at Michigan Stars FC with an already woeful record of 1W-1D-11L, things seemingly couldn’t get any worse for the FC Indiana Lions. But things did go downhill alright — boy, did they ever. The Lions found themselves up early after an eighth-minute tally by...
Rishi Sehgal is to continue as North American Soccer League interim commissioner for the remainder of the 2017 campaign, Soc Takes understands. NASL owners are happy with the status quo in the league’s front office — with Keith Bruce also as executive consultant — effectively putting the search for a...
INDIANAPOLIS — After scheduling marquee summer friendlies in each of the past two years against Liga MX clubs, the Indy Eleven will not play a mid-season friendly in 2017. Hat tip to reddit user silkysmoothjay, who posed the question after many supporters had already assumed there wouldn’t be a...
Through the end of the NASL spring season and roughly halfway through the USL season, we have plenty of meaningful attendance data to overanalyze, from which I’ve drawn an interesting few conclusions and issued some mostly meaningless awards. Let’s start off with the NASL spring season. The “The Miami...
The panel discusses the penultimate week of the NASL spring season in which Miami FC clinched the spring title with a 7-0 destruction of the San Francisco Deltas. The upcoming U.S. Open Cup match between Miami FC and FC Cincinnati also gets heavily previewed. LISTEN HERE Soc Takes is...
INDIANAPOLIS — A celebration of the Indiana soccer scene is back. The Union Jack Cup, a futsal tournament where local Indianapolis supporters’ groups of European clubs square off, will return to Broad Ripple on July 29. The tournament starts at 11 a.m. on the second floor of the Keystone Parking...
New Jersey Copa FC striker Raphael Araujo earned NPSL Mitre National Player of the Week honors after scoring a ridiculous six goals in his team’s 7-3 victory over BuxMont Torch FC. Congratulations to tonight’s @jerseymikes Man of the Match, #9 Raphael Araujo who scored 6 goals within the match!#wearecopa...
FC Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic regularly plays at the Nou Camp; a magnificent and historic stadium that can hold just under 100,000 people. 7500 miles away sits Des Moines, Iowa with a population of 200,000. In other words, half the population of Des Moines could fit in the Nou Camp....
DAYTON, Ohio — Dayton Dynamo FC and FC Buffalo settled for a 3-3 draw after a wild, five-goal second half last Sunday at Roger Glass Stadium. Here’s a video of Dayton fans reveling in the thriller and some photos from the NPSL contest: Shout out to the @GemCitySquadron who have...
The fellas talk about their trip to the Indy Eleven training grounds ahead of Tuesday’s match at the New York Cosmos. They also revisit the SF soccer scene and discuss all the latest stories at SocTakes.com. LISTEN HERE Soc Takes is now on Patreon. Support the staff while getting...
Bob Funk Jr. and his co-owner Tim McLaughlin do not make snap judgments. Just a few weeks ago, it seemed likely that Funk’s OKC Energy club would be building a new home in the Bricktown area of Oklahoma City. The site was a 40-acre mill called Producers Cooperative Oil...