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Brian Phillips writes regularly about soccer for
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Women’s World Cup 2011: Team USA loses to Japan in a bizarre final match.
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Gold Cup 2011: How the U.S. national team got swarmed over by Mexico.
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June 26, 2011
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic: How the Swedish soccer star confounds the sports world’s most-cherished clichés.
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June 21, 2011
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Barcelona and the Champions League: Will Saturday’s final be the last hurrah for soccer’s greatest team?
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May 25, 2011
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Barcelona, Real Madrid: Two of the world’s most beautiful teams play a fascinating, infuriating series.
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May 03, 2011
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Stan Kroenke’s Arsenal: Will the American billionaire change the culture of England’s most glamorous soccer club?
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Celtic Rangers rivalry: What happens when a soccer feud gets out of hand.
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Barcelona, Manchester United: Is there enough parity in international soccer?
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Ronaldo retirement: He wasn’t the greatest of all time, but he made soccer look like unbelievable fun.
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Soccer stats, Prozone, Opta: The trouble with soccer’s statistical revolution.
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All hail Barcelona, the world’s greatest soccer team.
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Why the United States lost out on its bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
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Major League Soccer foolishly ignores the sport’s American history.
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The rise and fall of Wayne Rooney.
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Nov 04, 2010
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The return of the soccer rioters.
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The bizarre, sad tale of Togo’s fake national soccer team.
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England’s greatest soccer teams and American owners, a match made in hell.
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An appreciation of soccer’s ludicrous, misleading, and fabulously entertaining transfer rumor mill.
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The glorious, ludicrous feud between Pelé and Diego Maradona.
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Aug 09, 2010
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Spain’s win over the Netherlands brings a fantastic World Cup to a hacking, plodding end.
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