- Soccer's best stars have come from the world’s slums, ghettos and favelas. Yet in the US the path to the top is often determined by a parent's checkbook https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jun/01/us-soccer-diversity-problem-world-football 2391 comments soccer
Linking pages
- Atlanta's subway soccer fields: the 'crazy' idea breaking down barriers | Atlanta | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/apr/18/atlanta-subway-soccer-fields-marta-streets 61 comments
- How a culture of producing athletes and accepting mediocrity turned me off the US game https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/03/13/how-a-culture-of-producing-athletes-and-accepting-mediocrity-turned-me-off-the-us-game/ 60 comments
- Can futsal deliver a world-class US soccer star from the inner city? | Futsal | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/29/futsal-us-soccer-inner-city-fc-harlem 57 comments
- Anonymous letters and threats: How racism came to stalk US youth soccer | US sports | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/feb/15/us-youth-soccer-racism 23 comments
- Proud Boys and skinheads: MLS faces an incursion from the far-right | MLS | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/mar/06/proud-boys-and-skinheads-mls-faces-an-incursion-from-the-far-right 21 comments
- 'They're stealing from children': US youth soccer's embezzlement scourge | Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/jul/07/usa-youth-soccer-embezzlement-scandal?cmp=share_btn_tw 3 comments
- From coaches to pushy parents, US men’s soccer is married to mediocrity | USA | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/mar/29/from-coaches-to-pushy-parents-us-mens-soccer-is-married-to-mediocrity 1 comment
- ‘You can’t have barriers’: is pay-to-play having a corrosive effect on US soccer? | USA | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jul/23/you-cant-have-barriers-is-pay-to-play-having-a-corrosive-affect-on-us-soccer 1 comment
Linked pages
- The slow death of high school soccer – and why it could cost Jürgen Klinsmann | Football | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/oct/13/the-slow-death-of-high-school-soccer-and-why-it-could-cost-jurgen-klinsmann 30 comments
- Will Philadelphia Union's high-school create USA's next soccer stars? | Philadelphia Union | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jul/14/will-philadelphia-unions-high-school-create-usas-next-soccer-stars 9 comments
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