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Brian Phillips
Brian Phillips writes regularly about soccer for Slate. He blogs at The Run of Play.
Articles By Brian Phillips
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Sepp Blatter's Soccer Cabal
Why the United States lost out on its bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
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Passing on the Past
Major League Soccer foolishly ignores the sport's American history.
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The Return of the Soccer Rioters
Serbia's far right updates the sport's tradition of thuggery.
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Debt, Lies, and Cowboys
England's greatest soccer teams and American owners, a match made in hell.
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Messi to Madrid!
An appreciation of soccer's ludicrous, misleading, and fabulously entertaining transfer rumor mill.
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Pelé and Maradona
The glorious, ludicrous feud between soccer's two biggest stars.
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Not-So-Beautiful Game
Spain's win over the Netherlands brings a fantastic World Cup to a hacking, plodding end.
