(Sócrates, who had studied to be a doctor and was bored by soccer talk, favored architects and musicians, and was said to play better when intellectually stimulated).
Speaking on a Dallas-based soccer talk show, sportscaster Adrian Healey mentioned seeing a preliminary broadcast schedule for ESPN next year that has clear Fifa breaks in June, September and October.
The long season gives the erudite Parks plenty of time in between the soccer talk to muse on subjects as varied as crowd psychology, aesthetics, anthropology, poetry (Giacomo Leopardi gets plenty of playing time), the cultural rift in Italy between north and south, and the similarities between soccer and erotic experience.
"Klinsmann is the right man to have at the helm," World Soccer Talk's Asher writes.
World Soccer Talk's Abe Asher says that despite the frustrating outcome, the match showed the potential of US soccer after an ugly, defensive battle against Ghana.
For example, Street Soccer USA talks about building triangles.
CORNER KICKS LANDON DONOVAN, a precocious 18-year-old, is hoping to move from the reserve squad at Bayer Leverkusen in Germany to Major League Soccer, but talks Wednesday did not yield an agreement.... Trinidad and Tobago lost to Jamaica, 1-0, on Wednesday in Kingston.
The top soccer player talked about on Twitter was Wayne Rooney of England.
So the women's section of the French Federation of Soccer is talking about a revolution.
Major League Soccer officials talk of building a berm — read "vast mound of dirt" — and placing the stadium atop that.
