Brian Phillips writes regularly about soccer for Slate. He blogs at The Run of Play.

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Women’s World Cup 2011: Team USA loses to Japan in a bizarre final match.

Brian Phillips

July 17, 2011 9:54 PM
Gold Cup 2011: How the U.S. national team got swarmed over by Mexico.

Brian Phillips

June 26, 2011 1:00 PM
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: How the Swedish soccer star confounds the sports world’s most-cherished clichés.

Brian Phillips

June 21, 2011 7:15 PM
Barcelona and the Champions League: Will Saturday’s final be the last hurrah for soccer’s greatest team?

Brian Phillips

May 25, 2011 10:21 AM
Barcelona, Real Madrid: Two of the world’s most beautiful teams play a fascinating, infuriating series.

Brian Phillips

May 03, 2011 6:58 AM
Stan Kroenke’s Arsenal: Will the American billionaire change the culture of England’s most glamorous soccer club?

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April 14, 2011 12:13 PM
Celtic Rangers rivalry: What happens when a soccer feud gets out of hand.

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March 23, 2011 9:58 AM
Barcelona, Manchester United: Is there enough parity in international soccer?

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March 03, 2011 10:11 AM
Ronaldo retirement: He wasn’t the greatest of all time, but he made soccer look like unbelievable fun.

Brian Phillips

Feb 14, 2011 4:28 PM
Soccer stats, Prozone, Opta: The trouble with soccer’s statistical revolution.

Brian Phillips

Jan 27, 2011 12:53 PM
All hail Barcelona, the world’s greatest soccer team.

Brian Phillips

Dec 23, 2010 6:59 AM
Why the United States lost out on its bid to host the 2022 World Cup.

Brian Phillips

Dec 02, 2010 6:57 PM
Major League Soccer foolishly ignores the sport’s American history.

Brian Phillips

Nov 17, 2010 10:19 AM
The rise and fall of Wayne Rooney.

Brian Phillips

Nov 04, 2010 10:01 AM
The return of the soccer rioters.

Brian Phillips

Oct 19, 2010 4:34 PM
The bizarre, sad tale of Togo’s fake national soccer team.

Brian Phillips

Oct 04, 2010 10:10 AM
England’s greatest soccer teams and American owners, a match made in hell.

Brian Phillips

Sept 20, 2010 10:02 AM
An appreciation of soccer’s ludicrous, misleading, and fabulously entertaining transfer rumor mill.

Brian Phillips

Aug 24, 2010 4:00 PM
The glorious, ludicrous feud between Pelé and Diego Maradona.

Brian Phillips

Aug 09, 2010 5:00 PM
Spain’s win over the Netherlands brings a fantastic World Cup to a hacking, plodding end.

Brian Phillips

July 12, 2010 1:07 AM