Here's a great article from the New York Times on the history of soccer games that were played at Yankee Stadium during the years, including a classic one between Santos and Benfica in 1968, which features 2 of the all-time greats in Pele and Eusebio. I did some digging and found some footage of a game between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspurs from 1952. Click to continue reading...

Whilst thumbing through The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer in bed the other night, I wondered to myself "when is someone going to do the first book about Becks in America?". With Europe's bookshelves already rammed full of books about our David it was only a matter of time before someone got in the act over on this side of world. Click to continue reading...

First, an apology with not getting this out sooner; I have a great final week lined up to cap off A More Splendid Life's series on the history of soccer in Toronto. Today focuses on the historic Canadian Championship final game between Toronto FC and the Montreal Impact, and as readers of this series will know, it was a long time in the making. Click to continue reading...

It is a privilege for A More Splendid Life to able to present to you an interview with Colin Jose. If you've been following this series from the beginning, you'll already know how instrumental Colin has been in preserving the history of soccer on this continent. Colin Jose has been researching the history of soccer in both Canada and the United States for over 40 years, and is currently the Click to continue reading...

Part Three of A More Splendid Life's Month-Long series on the History of Soccer in Toronto. In typical Canadian fashion, the Globe and Mail referred to the preposterous on-field punch-ups and numerous pitch-invasions over the course of the troubling 1951 season as 'rhubarbs.' In fact, Toronto's top flight, the National Soccer League Western Division, in addition to its more local and ethnically Click to continue reading...

Part Two of A More Splendid Life's Month-Long Public Service Announcement on the History of Soccer in Toronto. In light of the ongoing and perhaps never-ending trade saga between Gareth Barry, Martin O'Neill, Rafael Benitez, the English Press, Pickles the Wonder Dog, some bits of cheese at the bottom of my desk here, and pure energy beings that cannot be directly perceived but are here among us Click to continue reading...

This is Part One of A More Splendid Life's series on the history of soccer in Toronto, continuing daily throughout the month of July. While history tends to remember the winners, it often behooves us to examine the lesser lights to learn more about a specific period of time in the life of a city. Pictured above is the Toronto Transit Commission football team, a solidly mid-table club which had Click to continue reading...

Well my tiny but much appreciated audience, does A More Splendid Life have a treat for you! Beginning tomorrow and continuing for the rest of the month, your temporarily-jobless but still-intrepid reporter will be bringing you stories daily (!) from the history of soccer in Hogtown. Yes, that's right! Click to continue reading...

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Soccer has become increasingly more popular in the United States in the last 30 years, with nearly 3 million children between the ages of 5-19 now playing in youth soccer leagues throughout the nation.

Soccer began in England in the mid-1800's, and was originally played by the higher, more aristocratic English classes in their boarding schools and private clubs. Click to continue reading...