#OnThisDay 24 Nov 1874 🇧🇷 Charles Miller, the 'father of Brazilian football', was born. For more on the British founders of South American football, read my recent (free) Substack 👉🏼 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew... 📸 @marcusjhaydon.bsky.social

Give someone the gift of The Blizzard this Christmas 🎄🎅

"He’s a very disciplined player. And he’s a giver." After earning player-of-the-year in Norway's top tier Eliteserien with FK Bodø/Glimt, winger Amahi Pellegrino fortuitously wound up excelling for San Diego FC in their MLS Playoff run. Scott French reports. www.socceramerica.com/amahi-pelleg...

Are you stuck for Christmas present ideas for that football history nerd in your family? They might like my books: 📕 Origin Stories - about how the game got started around the world 📘 The Defiant - 100 years of football against fascism 📗 Shades of Green - a groundhop and history of Irish soccer

In Part III of my series on World Cup draws, Drawing Some Conclusions, I take a look at the 1994 World Cup preliminary draw that was held in New York City in December 1991. Read on! frontrow.soccer/2tmvj

I've put all the Shoot! images from the thread so far into an album imaginatively titles "Great moments in Shoot! Magazine" In preparation for the World Cup..... Something for everyone....... Link is below #shoot #shootmagazine www.flickr.com/photos/11405...

Your club. Your membership. Live now on the website! mountainstoseafc.com/memberships Come join us and help shape #M2SFC into the premier community club in Raleigh.🏆 Memberships range from $20-500 - every level includes voting rights. #TrailHawks

Its the offseason so time for USL to grow up & tome to show solidarity with the players beyondthe90.substack.com/p/usl-is-on-...

The #USOC2026 qualifying tournament is complete as the last 9 teams punched their ticket to the 111th edition of the competition next Spring. Graphic: Frank Lanham #OpenCupAfterDark #WeWantTheCup

⛰️Who Are Ya!: Mountains to Sea FC - Outdoor to indoor; @mtn2seafc.bsky.social takes us on a journey through the terrain of building a self-sustaining grassroots club and some of the tougher choices along the way to ensure its stability www.protagonistsoccer.com/coverage/who...

Welcome, Cinderellas 😍 #USOC2026 Meet the 16 Amateur clubs who booked places in next year's Open Cup via the 2026 Open Division Qualifying Rounds Azteca FC (CO) 🧵⤵️

U.S. OPEN CUP: The Windy City vs. the Mount City through the years - frontrow.soccer/c35vk

FINAL Qualifying Round wraps TODAY 9 winners go thru to #USOC2026 🏆 @ussoccer.com RESULTS & SCHEDULE » ussoc.cr/hcn

Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is Bristol Rovers Trumpton Times issue 1 from December 1992. One of 6 Rovers fanzines, it features heavily in our AI vs Print blog this week but there is much more to it. Not sure they were winning cover awards vs The Pirate this year.

Whether on the field or the factory floor, every worker deserves a safe workplace and dignity and respect on the job. All of America’s unions stand in solidarity with USL players as they stand up and fight for the pro standards they deserve.

While all eyes are on the #NWSLChampionship today, we wanted to remind everyone that #TransPeopleBelong in sports and everywhere.

3 Cheers for tonight's 7 #USOC2026 Qualifiers 🥂 Steel City FC (PA) Southern Indiana FC (IN) CD Faialense (MA) Valley 559 FC (CA) Virginia Dream FC (VA) Laguna United FC (CA) Azteca FC (CO) @opencup.ussoccer.com | @ussoccer.com

Seven amateur teams punched their ticket to #USOC2026 on Saturday night. Nine more teams will look to join the party on Sunday. You can find a preview of every game in the comments #WeWantTheCup

Four of the five former San Diego Loyal STMs and lower league sickos that drove up for tonight’s San Diego Internacional at Laguna FC US Open Cup qualifying game. Felicidades, LUFC. @soccershorts.bigpinedigital.com @opencup.ussoccer.com

This is such a good doc. 45 minutes on the history & culture of soccer in Vancouver. Can't beat it as prep for tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Hn...

Pausing on our regular program to express solidarity with the USLPA. Professional players in a professional league shouldn’t have to negotiate for healthcare. #StandUpForStandards ✊

Players from FC Tulsa and Pittsburgh Riverhounds walk onto the field for the USL Championship final wearing shirts saying “USL HQ: Pro Rel? Try pro standards first.” USL HQ has announced a new first-division league including promotion & relegation in 2028.

Today's Menu 😋 7 winners go thru to #USOC2026 4th QUALIFYING ROUND SCHEDULE » ussoc.cr/hcn

What a message from both sets of players to start the USL Championship Final, wearing t-shirts that say: "USL HQ: PRO REL? TRY PRO STANDARDS FIRST" Major statement made from the USL Players Association.

Just finished @aidanwilliams74.bsky.social book on Euro 1984. Simply the best football book I have read for many a year. Well researched and beautifully written, it is an excellent resource for a couple of book ideas I am working on

Online here morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tour...

Get a flick through the Coventry City vs Manchester City football programme from 1974 scanned in full into Flickr Click on the link below to read and enjoy #CoventryCity #PUSB #ManchesterCity #MCFC www.flickr.com/photos/11405...

My latest Substack for View From The Front Row, the first in a series of looking back at past World Cup draws. This one is about the draw for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, which was held in December 1985. There might be some familiar names in the story. frontrow.soccer/c31gy

The NWSL can change the salary cap whenever it wants. So why hasn't it done so to keep top players? | @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

Both @fctulsa.bsky.social and Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC are playing their first Final in club history. Here's everything you need to know, including Players to Watch, Numbers to Know, Uniforms and Officials. #USL-C www.uslchampionship.com/news_article...

🚨LIVE WATCHALONG🚨 You want to watch the USL Final with friends but they’re all busy? Join us with Phil Baki at 12pm ET! We will be chatting with friends, chat, and special live updates from ONEOK Field! www.youtube.com/live/Ip1kzjm...

It's a brisk morning here in Tulsa, likely to be around 51° at kickoff, and the crowd is starting to fill in nicely at ONEOK Field. The last time Tulsa won a pro soccer title, it was the Tulsa Roughnecks in the NASL in 1983. #USL-C

The Final Qualifying Round 32 | #USOC2026 Only 16 go thru to next year's @opencup.ussoccer.com 4th Round GAME SCHEDULE 👀» ussoc.cr/hcn

Two hours from kickoff in the 2025 #USL-C Final. Hope you'll tune in on CBS as @fctulsa.bsky.social hosts Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC at 12 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. CT.

Whoops, that went out before I was ready. Let's pick this back up. Jeppe Tverskov from San Diego is the breakaway leader in recoveries. Recoveries are not the only ways players win balls, however. There are also interceptions and tackles won (w/ the ball): ball-winning actions. 4/

For all those coming into Tulsa this should 1000% be on your to do lists!

NEW POD RELEASE (PATREON) A new episode of ‘J-Talk: Short Corner’ is now up on the @jtalkpod.bsky.social Patreon feed! In our latest monthly check-in with J3, we cast a glance over all the teams in contention for promotion & relegation (with a special focus on Matsumoto). Hope everyone enjoys!

A star-studded line up 🤩 Deciding this California 5-a-side wasn’t easy, but using your suggestions and insight from @kickbackcommittee.bsky.social happy hour, here’s how it looks! Who’s on your Cali squad? #50statesofsoccer

Big Canadian Premier League news coming out of Winnipeg as Valour FC announce that they will suspend operations.

"And that’s the thing, realising that it’s there. It dawned on me that perhaps I hadn’t been searching properly, and that I needed to look beyond those signs on lampposts and headlines about playing field sales" Out in 2026 via Pitch Publishing #StreetFootball

New episode of Chromaniacs out featuring president of the Locals Steve Brockhoff! youtube.com/watch?v=CtGpfxqEmTo&feature=youtu.be

#OnThisDay 21 Nov 1874 🦁 Aston Villa were founded. 14 years later, Villa's president, William McGregor, helped found the Football League. More on the roots of football in England and around the world in my first book, Origin Stories 📕 More 👉🏼 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/origin-.

We are proud to announce an agreement to develop a stadium in north downtown for your Owls! 🦉 This new stadium will be the home of Union Omaha, along with a 20-acre mixed-use district. Read more below! 👇 🔗 tinyurl.com/UODowntownSt... #OneMeansAll

#OnThisDay 21 Nov 1920 ☘️ British 'Black and Tans' open fire on spectators and players at a GAA match at Croke Park. Alas, it was not the last 'Bloody Sunday' on the island of Ireland. From my book, Shades of Green: A Journey into Irish Football More 👉🏼 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/shades-...

"Populists are taking an axe to fan culture: is this to be the future of football? Clubs: stand up for your fans!" Hertha BSC kicking off the weekend‘s protests against proposed security measures with a 12-minute atmosphere boycott at home to Eintracht Braunschweig. 📷 @shermanns.bsky.social

Our friends at Pitch Publishing are offering a copy of Simon Binn's Red Star Paris to one lucky winner. To be in with a shout to win, send your answer to the question below to [email protected] Q: Who founded Red Star Paris in 1897? A. Jules Rimet B. Gabriel Hanot C. Henri Delaunay

#OnThisDay 21 Nov 1973 🇨🇱 The USSR refused to play the second leg of their World Cup qualifier playoff against Chile, because the Estadio Nacional in Santiago had been used as a torture and death camp for opponents of General Pinochet just weeks before. From my book, The Defiant 📘

The NASL lawsuit is dead; long live the NASL lawsuit NASL's appeal in its antitrust lawsuit against US Soccer and MLS, which was filed on May 9 after a jury verdict was rendered against NASL in Feb, is still on the 2d Cir. docket and MLS' brief is due today.

This is one of the only photos of C.D. Euzkadi, who played in Mexico's Primera Fuerza league. Prior to this, they were exiled from their homeland while touring the world as the Basque national team. The team disbanded in 1939. Some of the players never returned to the Basque Country.

The USL’s season is ending, but its CBA standoff doesn’t seem to be. With the USL Championship’s CBA set to expire in one month, questions about the future abound. From salaries to healthcare to the USL's ambitious future, @usltactics.com examines what's at stake. “Tell us what the plan is.”