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Soccer Nomads: What’s Wrong With Modern Player Loans

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By: Drew Pilewski Lucas Piazon, a young attacking player for Chelsea spoke out this week against Chelsea’s loan policy after being loaned to Fulham for the 2016/17 season. “It makes no sense to go out on loan all the time,” said Piazon in a report to the Daily Mail. The Chelsea forward has only made […]

Mizzou Soccer Continues Strong Early Season Form, Routs San Francisco

By: Matt Hosler On a cool Friday night, the Missouri Tigers won their third straight game in a 4-1 rout of San Francisco. This improved the Tigers’ record to 4-1 overall for the season. The Tigers had plenty of opportunities to score as they consistently got into the box and applied pressure to the opposing […]

Luebbert, Missouri Soccer Pass Another Test

By: Garrett Giles Four games into the season and freshman Sarah Luebbert has proven that she is a competitor for the Missouri Tigers soccer team. She continues to lead the team in goals (3) after putting last night’s game against the Colorado Buffalos to rest in yet another overtime for Missouri. Tigers junior Kaitlyn […]

Mizzou Soccer Edges Illinois In Overtime Thriller

By: Matt Hosler With four minutes left in overtime Senior Melanie Donaldson was fouled by an Illini defender inside the box, setting up the game winning penalty kick to end the back and fourth game. The game-ending PK marked the third goal of the game for the Tigers ending the match 3-2. The Tigers came […]

Leicester City, USA

By: Drew Pilewski What do we, as a nation, pride ourselves in? We value hard work, dedication, and the ability to overcome the odds. The stories that will go down as the most historic and legendary sporting events of all time are the ones where a team spat in the face of conventional wisdom and […]

How Tottenham Can Win The Premier League

By: Danny Shin Before I go into how Tottenham can overcome the odds, it should be noted that Spurs own the tiebreaker in goal difference over Leicester City by 13 goals (39 to 26). So assuming there is a tie in points, Tottenham owns the tiebreaker. Right now, Leicester City sits atop the table […]

MLS Week 6 Recap: Late Drama And Controversial Calls

By: Danny Shin Week 6 of the 2016 MLS season came to an ugly end in Los Angeles on Sunday. After a lot of controversy regarding the referees last week, not a single red card was handed out over the weekend. But one should have been given, and I’ll get to that in a […]

MLS Weekly Roundup

By: Matt Vereen If you’re reading this on a laptop or mobile device, do me a favor: open up a new tab and search “antonym for exciting.” Dull. Uninspiring. Boring. Odds are if you turned on a game this past weekend that’s exactly the type of match you watched. Luckily for me, I don’t […]

Man United’s 1-0 Victory Over Man City Is A Curse In Disguise

By: Danny Shin Manchester United’s 1-0 win over Manchester City on Sunday was the latest of unpredictable results for Louis Van Gaal’s side, with the manager developing a habit of winning matches he shouldn’t and losing matches he should win. While it’s fair to point out that City were without center back Vincent Kompany […]

MLS Roundup: Sounders’ Stuggles Continue

By: Chris Olszewski This week saw Major League Soccer get into the full swing of things, and we saw glimpses of how the season could eventually shake out. This included a fair amount of surprises including a resurgent Philadelphia Union (yes, really) and a Seattle Sounders team that’s either just this bad or unlucky. We […]