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Read Full ArticleIn issue 3 of XI Quarterly, Elliott Turner writes about his experiences in Managua, Nicaragua as a nonprofit worker around 2008-09. Working with street children, Turner writers about the interactions he had with the youth through soccer. Despite the extreme poverty, and despite the reputation of Nicaragua as a baseball country, Turner indicates soccer was really …
Read Full ArticleIn issue 3 of XI Quarterly, Tom McCabe writes about the story of Peter Millar, a man born in Scotland who moved to the United States and played in a couple of North American leagues (including the original NASL). More remarkably, Millar also played in Argentina for the famed Boca Juniors. After hearing about the Scot who …
Read Full ArticleLast week featured Part 1 of our two-part series on Alianza de Futbol. Alianza is a series of tryouts organized throughout the country that bring together talented young players with scouts from Mexican clubs, the Mexican federation, and US Soccer. This year, for the first time, Alianza chose the most talented players and sent them …
Read Full ArticleThe arrival of issue three of XI Quarterly is coming closer. We are pleased to announce that all of the content for this issue has been completed and is now in the capable hands of the XI art director Liam Murtaugh. Over the next couple weeks, he will be putting the content together into the …
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Most teams at the Dallas Cup practice together for months before arriving at the Dallas Cup. As one of the most prestigious youth tournaments in the world, teams work hard to show well in an event that attracts teams from throughout the United States and the world. But this year, along with Manchester United, Fluminense, …
Read Full ArticleSeveral months ago, when I interviewed Marco Garces, head of scouting for Pachuca, he told me an interesting story. I was interviewing Garces for a story in issue three about Mexican clubs scouting for players in the United States, almost all of whom are Mexican-American. The dual citizenship that these players hold makes them eligible to …
Read Full ArticleLaunching a quarterly print periodical covering soccer in North America in a market where even publications the size of Newsweek are going out of the paper business was seen as quixotic by some a year ago, when our team – David Keyes, Tom Dunmore and Liam Murtaugh – put XI Quarterly up for support on …
Read Full ArticleWhen the United States and Mexico play next week, it will be the resumption of the most intense rivalry in CONCACAF. As the two most powerful and successful nations in CONCACAF, the two have long been rivals. But at the same time, they are also closely connected, and nowhere is this more true than along the …
Read Full ArticleWhen the United States and Mexico play next week, it will be the resumption of the most intense rivalry in CONCACAF. As the two most powerful and successful nations in CONCACAF, the two have long been rivals. But at the same time, they are also closely connected, and nowhere is this more true than along the …
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