On @us.theguardian.com, here on some thoughts on Seattle, a city so deserving of more US games - and one that’s fostered the game of soccer for a half century or more. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

MARTAing

For a brief moment, I thought this might be a Chiefs player before I recognized the number. Infatuated with this print design and would love to have a Kaizer Motaung version in a Chiefs shirt.

Scotland = Drudgery

A photo of the city’s first metro soccer team, the Atlanta Soccer Football Club at Piedmont Park vs the Alabama Polytechnic School, Auburn on March 9, 1912. Love to see the team getting some real estate on the Downtown Brewhouse walls. I suspect @longshoe.bsky.social had something to do with this.

This is huge. For months, I have been working to stop the construction of a massive 10,000-person ICE facility in Social Circle, Georgia. We just learned DHS is cancelling it. The power of the people is always more powerful than the people in power.

Is FIFA going to lie again and tell us those aren’t empty seats on TV and the Czechia v South Africa game actually sold out? I would’ve love to have gone if not for the bullshit ticket prices.

Meto Atlanta’s early soccer history reaches back nearly 150 years and started near the granite quarries of Stone Mountain and Lithonia in DeKalb County. Happy to work with the Arabia Alliance to tell that story. #soccerhistory #Atlanta arabiaalliance.org/field-notes/...

In 1913, a sporting goods store on Broad Street hosted the meetings that started Atlanta’s first soccer league. This week, the Brewhouse Café opened two blocks away. Same street. Same game. 113 years apart. The full story 👇 www.soccerdownhere.net/post/brewhou...

Happy to help out a bit on this article and great writing as always from @longshoe.bsky.social who does an excellent job tying together Atlanta’s explosive current soccer culture and landscape with its once forgotten past.

Were a congressman's remarks in 1983 describing American football as "capitalist" and soccer as "European socialist" as infamous as they were later characterized to be? Kevin Tallec Marston breaks down the story: www.ussoccerhistory.org/changing-pol...

#OnThisDay in 1975 – Pelé had a goal & assisted on Mordechai Spiegler’s tally during his #NewYorkCosmos’ debut, in 2:2 draw, in a friendly, w/ visiting #DallasTornado before a crowd of 21,278 at Randalls Island’s #DowningStadium. David Chadwick & Altamont McKenzie scored for Dallas.

The National WW1 Museum and Memorial's - The Beautiful Game Exhibition is now on. If you are in Kansas City during the World Cup, then why not pay a visit! More information @ www.theworldwar.org/exhibitions/...

Switzerland deserved that.

This SASH Session is now available on the SASH YouTube channel and in podcast format: youtu.be/KcAn2jjopCw and www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9pquw...

Just 2 days to go! The National WW1 Museum and Memorial 2026 Digital Summit - The World’s Game: Football and WWI, will take place on Tuesday, June 9, 10 am-2 pm Central. It is a free event and here are the sign-up details: www.theworldwar.org/symposia

Grab some soccer history books before the World Cup and save some money. Also great gifts for Father’s Day! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

An article in the 20 June 1894 edition of “Atlanta Constitution” announcing the organization of the American League of Professional Football Clubs (ALPF). The first professional soccer league in the U.S. began play on 6 October 1894 & shuttered just 14 days later. #soccerhistory

SASH Session, Friday, June 5 at 12 PM ET: Michael Lewis will discuss his new book, “Around the World Cup in 40 years: An American Sportswriter’s Perspective.” More info at www.ussoccerhistory.org/sash-session...

In “The Lexical Transit of ‘Socker’ to America,” @davidkilpatrick.bsky.social pushes the earliest use of the imported word “socker” in the US to the early 1890s, usage that also reinforce the word’s English etymology, www.ussoccerhistory.org/the-lexical-...

San Antonio and New York City are finally gonna put it all on the line and determine which city makes the best salsa

#CONCACAFChampionsCup just got turned up. Toluca v. Tigres now tied 1-1

In less than 17 minutes you’ll know stuff about Seattle soccer history that will have people saying, “Wow! Okay! That’s enough, thanks.”

This is not a comment on the best bassist ever and the list is in no particular order but these would be my favorite four: Pete Hook Km Deal Steve Hanley Eric Avery

JFC the primary was yesterday and the billionaire vampire whose parents couldn’t stand him to the point his dad left and his mom turned to the bottle is already carpet bombing tv ads for the runoff. Nobody likes you, Rick. Including, according to you, your parents.

Hey Georgia! A vote for Rick Jackson is a vote for unbridled vampirism. Just sayin’

This SASH Session is now available on the SASH YouTube channel and in podcast format: youtu.be/zBhlnhN2Udw and www.podbean.com/eas/pb-r3ikm...

Wondering if soccer struggled in the U.S. & Canada in the 20th century because most early player/coaches came off like Groundskeeper Willie to N. American kids. Maybe Argentine, Uruguayan & Brazilian kids didn’t know what the fuck those dudes were saying? #AmericanSoccerHistory #Footballhistory

Wow!

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From Greg Germani’s always excellent Atlanta Time Machine website, a promotional 45 rpm record from 1982 about Ted Turner and his then brand-new CNN channel. Check out the entire page and get lost in a lot more at: atlantatimemachine.com/misc/cable.htm

Join us for a SASH Session of Friday, May 8 at 12 PM ET when Dilwyn Porter will present, “‘How about that trip to Worcester!’ Building sporting links between Britain and the USA in the 1920s.” Details at www.ussoccerhistory.org/sash-session...

Now on the SASH site from Dilwyn Porter: “‘How about that trip to Worcester!’ Building sporting links between Britain and the USA in the 1920s.” www.ussoccerhistory.org/how-about-th...

SASH member Mark C Franek's new book “American Soccer Nation” has just been published. We talk with him about the role of soccer history in advancing soccer in the US. www.ussoccerhistory.org/eleven-quest...

Film you've watched more than six times with gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli No problem…

The Mocking of Christ, by Cimabue, 1280 (flipped), 📸 by @albello55

PRE-PUBLICATION SALE: You can purchase ‘Around the World Cup in 40 Years’ - frontrow.soccer/mrfkw

🎉 Happy Birthday | @footiemob.com Footie Mob, ATLUTD , is celebrating today!

Check out the new “An American Game” episode (and listen to the old ones too, while you’re at it)! Great job as always by Kirk & Tom, this time examining the tumultuous lead up to the 2026 WC in #Atlanta and a look back at the city’s rich #soccerhistory - all with a little help from yours truly!

The podcast version of Jen Cooper’s SASH Session, “WUSA 2001 — The Game That Launched Women's Pro Soccer,” is now available at www.podbean.com/eas/pb-yvh4t...

Swedish Football Club from Brooklyn, New York, 1943-44. The team formed in 1924 and its clubhouse still exists today at 725 65th St. In addition to the A team, they had a B squad and a junior side. 🇸🇪

Video from Jen Cooper’s SASH Session, "WUSA 2001 — The Game That Launched Women's Pro Soccer," is now available on the SASH YouTube channel at youtu.be/RDV0Ba-At9g

Happy Local News Day! Join the Internet Archive, Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Poynter Institute for the National Summit on Local News Preservation on June 17 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. Register now: https://bit.ly/4mjsMKR

Definitely can tell he’s from Alabama.

Portrait of a soccer player presumed to be Bob, c. 1904-18. Writing on the back reads "with best wishes from Bob." 📸

NEW EPISODE: The greatest dynasty in US high school soccer may be the most dominant HS sports program ever. The story of St. Benedict's Prep includes over 100 years of US soccer history, Newark's '67 summer of discontent, and a couple friends named Gregg and Claudio. pod.link/1826903443?v...

Lots of hoteliers asking themselves in this article, “This is a good thing, right? Right?!”

Now on the SASH site from @arrowsalkeld.bsky.social: “‘The daddy and guardian angel of soccer football here’: Thomas Corden Powell and soccer in Topeka, Kansas, 1910-1917” www.ussoccerhistory.org/the-daddy-an...

This hydration break is fucking bullshit and making me irrationally angry.