HeyJaredThe Swan Dive with Meg Swanick
Ostensibly this is about soccer. US soccer, world football, the journey in between.
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The Next World Cup (opens the original)
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The last international tournamentIt was two years ago in August, but I can still see Emma Hayes walking into the press room at the Parc des Princes (the remnants of a pizza slice in her hand, presumably gathered from the locker room celebration she’d just left) with a dazed smile on her face, the reality of what they’d just managed sinking in. Then, it was 74 days between taking over as manager and winning the gold medal. With a few focused phases in between, it’s been a process-heavy preparatio
The final (opens the original)
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— East Rutherford, N.J.Where to begin?The hand to the throat after the game ended? Marc’s floppy hair when he first emerged, which for some reason made me immediately think, “I am wrong in my Argentina-against-the-odds gut feeling”? Or maybe Spain’s bench, walking one inch from the half-time flooring within seconds of Shakira leaving, commanding it to move out of their way so they could pass the ball some more, and get on with it? Ah, but what about the neat formation of players surrounding Mess
England 1-2 Argentina (opens the original)
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— AtlantaA rather long time ago now, in Montpellier, I encountered an Argentine whose interest in the ongoing women’s world cup could only be awakened by the news that England and Argentina were, in fact, playing each other as we spoke. The man became animated, really alive behind the eyes, and said, “we hate each other”. I know, I said, pointing to the nearby television where England was beating Argentina 1-0 with a goal from Jodie Taylor.A separate time, at a distance of shorter breadth, I was
What happened on Monday? (opens the original)
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Since somewhere around the 57th minute Monday evening, give or take the exact moment when Matt Freese kicked the grass instead of the ball and then Tim Ream flailed in the air behind him while the ball passed him into the net, I have been wandering about the house like the young bird in the children’s classic, “Are you my mother?”, and asking various objects for a response to Pochettino’s summer-long mantra, “Why not us?”“Why not us?”, I’ve wondered to the oven, a chair, the other chair, the cou
The make or break moment for the USMNT's 2026 World Cup is at hand (opens the original)
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After beating Australia in Seattle, Folarin Balogun had sober thoughts on winning and memory: “History is always, the winners are remembered, you know?” He was standing in the underbelly of an elated stadium that had just erupted in the first, now-viral rendition of “Country Roads”, swatting away the idea that they’d made their moment just yet.With back-to-back wins to top Group D, Balogun stood before us with his second-straight Man of the Match trophy (officially the Michelob Ultra Superior Pl
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