The Homer girls and boys soccer teams swept host Nikiski in Northern Lights Conference action Saturday. The Mariners girls won 3-0 to move to 2-1-1 in the league and 5-2-2 overall, while the Bulldogs dropped to 0-5-0 and 1-7-0. The Homer boys won 6-0 to move to 3-1-0 and 5-2-1, while Nikiski is 0-5-0 and […]
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The host Soldotna soccer teams swept Homer on Monday in Peninsula Conference action. The Soldotna girls defeated the Mariners 2-0 to move to 9-0-1 overall and 4-0-0 in the league. Homer is 5-3-2 and 2-2-1. The goals for the Stars were Jillian Duncan on an assist from Morgan Lemm, and Grayson Henry with help from […]
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Ender Mora arrived at the soccer field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park one Sunday afternoon with a couple of new Venezuelan friends who had gotten off a bus at Port Authority four hours earlier, after a journey from the Texas border. The two 20-year-olds had no socks, wore only thin jackets and looked confused and […]
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In the first half of a January game at Stamford Bridge, the London stadium where the Chelsea Football Club has played since its founding in 1905, seven well-groomed spectators in green velvet jackets stood up together from their seats behind the substitutes’ bench as players raced up and down the field in front of them. […]
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In those few minutes after Niclas Füllkrug had scored, as the Yellow Wall swayed and roared, Borussia Dortmund must have felt the stirring of some distant memory. Waves of attacks pounded down on Paris St.-Germain, now dizzied and wearied. The world shimmered with possibility. A place in the Champions League final felt, for a moment, […]
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Mayowa Abeshina should, really, be at work. It is the middle of Sunday afternoon, and he has not yet finished his shift at the barbershop. He is here, clad in a red-and-white Arsenal jersey, only by the good grace of his boss. Well, grace is one word. Resignation is another. “I took a break for […]
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All of the Kenai Peninsula’s soccer teams won Friday, with the Kenai, Homer and Nikiski girls and boys winning at Soccerfest, and the Soldotna girls and boys winning over North Pole in nonconference games in Anchorage. At the girls Soccerfest tournament at Redington, Homer and Kenai moved to the final with victories, while Nikiski won […]
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Things started with a brawl and have scarcely gotten better from there. Over the course of the past five months or so, there have been a string of arrests; allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering; dark whispers of illegal data breaches; vague accusations of intimidation; and several charged invectives about financial impropriety, dishonesty and […]
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The Homer and Kenai girls played to a 1-all tie, while the Mariners boys topped the Kardinals 1-0 on Tuesday night, April 16, in Peninsula Conference soccer action at Ed Hollier Field at Kenai Central High School. The Kenai girls are 1-0-1 in the league and 1-0-1 overall, while the Mariners are 0-0-1 and 0-0-1. […]
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The host Homer girls soccer team defeated Grace Christian 5-0 on Thursday, April 18 in nonconference action to move to 1-0-1 overall. Christi Weisser had the shutout in net for the Mariners. Homer head coach Mike Tozzo also wrote in a text message that Addi Grimes was his player of the game for her play […]
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As the announcement trilled out over Kenilworth Road, the jumble of rusted metal and peeling paint that Luton Town F.C. calls home, the tone started to shift. At the start of the sentence, it was little more than the traditional polite welcome to the stadium for that evening’s visiting team, Manchester City. By the end, […]
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The use of video technology in football may have made refereeing decisions more accurate overall but it is also changing the game for the worse, critics argue. Anger at how the “video assistant referee” (VAR) is being used has been steadily growing since being introduced into English football in 2019, and there have been a […]
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Silence swept from one end of the Etihad Stadium to the other, a wave of dawning realization. The background noise that a crowd cannot help but generate — the rumble and murmur of 20,000 separate conversations — fell away. Calculations were made. Conclusions were drawn. For most of Wednesday evening, the natural operating assumption was […]
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My father was a long-haul truck driver. He piloted one of those eighteen-wheelers that had a horn that could raise the dead. As a kid I longed to join him on his journeys and discover something of the world beyond Huntsville, Ala., where we lived. Despite his numerous promises, he never took me along. That […]
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Executives at Bayer Leverkusen, the longstanding but habitually middleweight German soccer team, have been fielding the messages since at least February. Some were delivered in person, a quiet blessing after yet another victory. Others came via WhatsApp, unsolicited and unexpected notes from peers and acquaintances and, to their occasional surprise, traditional foes. Soccer, after all, […]
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West Ham, in the end, could not quite withstand the barrage. Bayer Leverkusen’s first goal — a Jonas Hofmann shot that picked its way through a thronged penalty area — broke its resistance. The second, a late, artful header from Victor Boniface, shattered its hopes. The club’s Europa League adventure will likely extend no further […]
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The New York City Council voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve construction of a 25,000-seat, privately financed soccer stadium at Willets Point in Queens, to house the New York City Football Club. The vote pushed the project a step closer to fruition than any of the previous proposals over the last decade, adding a measure […]
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Neither Paris F.C. nor St.-Étienne will have much reason to remember the game fondly. There was, really, precious little to remember at all: no goals, few shots, little drama — a drab, rain-sodden stalemate between the French capital’s third-most successful soccer team and the country’s sleepiest giant. That was on the field. Off it, the […]
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Florentino Pérez had a contented smile on his face, and with good reason. He had just watched Spain and Brazil share a thrilling, freewheeling draw at the stadium he has expensively, lavishly, reappointed. Now, Pérez, Real Madrid’s all-powerful president, found himself in a whitewashed tunnel, presented — completely by chance, obviously — with his favorite […]
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Imagine meeting a professional athlete, only to be ignored. Over the weekend, before a soccer (football) match between Chelsea FC and Burnley FC, fans noticed a clip of Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher shaking the hands of one of the young child mascots, but ignoring the handshake of another. New Grails Docu-Series Explores 2 Black Entrepreneurs’ […]
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Imagine meeting a professional athlete, only to be ignored. Over the weekend, before a soccer (football) match between Chelsea FC and Burnley FC, fans noticed a clip of Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher shaking the hands of one of the young child mascots, but ignoring the handshake of another. New Grails Docu-Series Explores 2 Black Entrepreneurs’ […]
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Youseff Chippo had a secret. A few months into his life as a soccer pro in Europe, Chippo, a Moroccan midfielder, was pushing to prove himself and didn’t want to do anything that might hurt his chances of success. That included revealing he was fasting for Ramadan, a normal practice for the world’s billion Muslims […]
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