By his own admission, Almir Numic is quite enjoying the media circus. Over the last couple of months, television crews have beaten an increasingly frequent…
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European Soccer Learns a New Virtue: Patience
Firing a coach, meanwhile, is expensive. At the elite level, that can mean several million dollars to pay out the contracts of an incumbent and…
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Ralf Rangnick Is Soccer’s Most Intriguing Free Agent
Though Germany’s relationship with Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig, the teams with which Rangnick is most intimately associated, remains uneasy, nobody holds his lack of playing…
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Sports to Watch This Week
The N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. titles were claimed, the N.H.L.’s Stanley Cup won and the French Open champions crowned — all in the last three weeks.…
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Can Democracy Work at Barcelona, or Anywhere in Soccer?
These may be the last days in office for Josep Maria Bartomeu, Barcelona’s embattled, unpopular president. An insurgent group, frustrated by the decline of the…
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Soccer Played Through the Pandemic. Now It Has to Do It All Again.
Jonathan Van-Tam made no attempt to sugarcoat it. Amid soccer’s coronavirus hiatus, as sports leagues around the world tried to figure out a way to…
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RB Leipzig Ultras: German Soccer’s Great Contradiction
RB Leipzig’s executives have long since grown used to the protests. Some are eerie: Union Berlin’s most ardent fans dressed in black plastic and stood…
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Fathers, Sons and Soccer: Reflections on the Family Business
DORTMUND, Germany — Claudio Reyna cannot put a precise date on it, but it must have been in the last six months or so that…
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