Category: Soccer

I’m pretty into soccer. I played soccer all of my adult life, except when injuries got in the way. I’m a massive Seattle Sounders fan. And I love the global sport. Every four years since 2006, I have taken a bunch of time off work to travel with a group of friends to watch the…

In 1994, after riding the train to Palo Alto with chanting, excited fans, and then watching the USMNT play competitively against Brazil in the Round of 16, I was optimistic about the game in the US. So optimistic that I was convicted we would compete for the world cup in a generation, and win it…

Here’s one for the soccer fans — really, specifically, for my older son. He’s a quantitative nerd, and he likes to point out that in soccer possession is not correlated to goals… but it turns out he’s wrong! Ah, it makes me so happy to point out that he’s wrong in statistics. Reep eventually came…