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As America is gaining ground on the world soccer stage, one of the State's elite youth's turned heads — earning a spot as a member of the renowned AS Roma academy. At the youthful age of 9, Alessandro Cupini trained with the top three soccer academies in Italy including Empoli FC, Atalanta BC and AS Roma. Alessandro has trained with AS Roma, one of...

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Chiunque mi conosca ve lo può confermare (credo) senza alcuna difficoltà: non sono mai stato un grande appassionato di sport. E non lo so nemmeno adesso, che la giovinezza ormai l'ho abbandonata... forse da poco, è vero, ma comunque l'ho fatto. Nonostante tutto, però, lo sport e i suoi personaggi e le sue dinamiche e il suo influenzare e farsi infl...

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La stagione calcistica 2017-2018 è iniziata da poche settimane e anche oltreoceano, nell’immensa e caotica New York, tutti i tifosi italiani stanno seguendo con trepidazione questo scoppiettante inizio di Serie A. Che tipo di campionato c’è da aspettarsi? Quale squadra vincerà lo scudetto e quale la Champions League? E chi, infine, potrebbe essere...

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The American has no interest in a European Super League, saying his only goal is to make the International Champions Cup as competitive as possible In the eyes of some, Charlie Stillitano is the man who wants to steal the Champions League. And he understands that characterisation. As the Chairman of Relevent Sports – which organises and promotes th...

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The good news for the New York Cosmos is that the storied soccer team's move to Brooklyn has paid dividends, with attendance perking up by nearly 30% this season, to 4,855 per game. Trouble is, that's only about a fifth as much as local rivals NYCFC and the Red Bulls draw. And the Cosmos' dream of playing on equal footing with those franchises suff...

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US soccer promoter Charlie Stillitano has been called many things in the past 18 months or so - with "power broker" and "mogul" among the more flattering descriptions of the ebullient New Yorker. On the downside, for his apparent suggestion that a European super league might be an idea worth talking about, he has been called "a poster boy for greed...

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Darren Powell has made a career out of recognizing soccer talent, and he knew there was something special about Gianluca Busio when he first saw him — even if Busio was just five years old at the time. “Even as a five-year-old, he stood out on the field with exceptional technical ability,” says Powell, now head coach of USL’s San Antonio FC. “He ha...

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In “Pastorale americana” di Philip Roth la star dell’high school di Weequahic, Seymour Levov, è campione incontrastato di baseball, basket e football, le tre colonne portanti dello sport americano. Se il romanzo fosse stato ambientato in un liceo romano o milanese, forse lo Svedese sarebbe stato una stella del calcio. Il soccer, o calcio americano,...

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Major League Soccer made a permanent home in the Big Apple just a few years ago. But on the lower levels of the sport, soccer has been a staple in Brooklyn for nearly seven decades. The Brooklyn Italians, currently of the lower-tier National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), were established shortly after World War II by a group of Italian immigrants....

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A successful Italian American lawyer with a great passion for soccer. Joe Tacopina opened the doors of his office in Manhattan (New York) to Calcio e Finanza to talk about his goals with Venezia and his commercial and sport strategies. Joe is a goal oriented professional, someone who understands where he needs to be because, “this is something real...

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