The Athletic Soccer Show

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Mike Zimmermann is joined by The Athletic's Laurie Whitwell to explore Manchester United's passive recruitment approach. How much of the recruitment is being impacted by the sale of the club? Who is making key decisions over signings? What are the biggest needs and will they be addressed in January?

From Gakpo to Betinho, Manchester United’s recruitment strategy still feels passive: https://theathletic.com/4039255/2022/12/28/manchester-united-gakpo-betinho-striker/

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Mike Zimmermann is joined by The Athletic's James Pearce to dive into Liverpool's pursuit of Cody Gakpo. How did this signing happen so quickly? Why was Jurgen Klopp so keen on signing the winger? Can we expect Liverpool to make any more signings?

Cody Gakpo’s Liverpool transfer – five days, Christmas talks and Van Dijk’s role: https://theathletic.com/4041321/2022/12/28/cody-gakpo-liverpool-inside-deal/

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Felipe Cárdenas talks about his experience with our colleague Pablo Maurer in Queretaro, Mexico, as he tried to get to the bottom of an awful instance of fan violence. 

https://theathletic.com/3191436/2022/03/17/queretaro-violence-liga-mx-atlas/

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Paul Tenorio discusses his trip to Otterbach, Germany – the hometown of US World Cup midfielder Weston McKennie. 

https://theathletic.com/3904068/2022/11/17/weston-mckennie-usmnt-world-cup/

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Meg Linehan discusses her report on the U.S. women’s national team’s game against England at a sold-out Wembley Stadium, which happened just days after the release of the Sally Yates report into systemic misconduct in the NWSL. 

https://theathletic.com/3670403/2022/10/08/uswnt-england/

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Pablo Maurer discusses the weird and wild origin story of the faux-denim kits the U.S. men wore at the 1994 World Cup

https://theathletic.com/3923994/2022/11/22/usmnt-denim-kit-1994-world-cup/

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Sam Stejskal discussed an anonymous survey of MLS executives about league matters, and how what they said could impact his coverage of the league going forward. 

https://theathletic.com/3162180/2022/03/03/2022-mls-team-executive-anonymous-survey-candid-views-on-owners-coaches-players-and-cheating-around-the-league/

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2022 was a busy year for American soccer, and we’ve been having all of our writers on to talk about their favorite stories they worked on this year. 

A bit of a bonus episode, it’s a rebroadcast because I want to make sure people read this piece if they haven’t Pablo Maurer and Matt Pentz worked for over a year to tell the story of Wee Willie McLean, a player on the United States’ 1934 World Cup team who went missing…until Pablo and Matt tracked down his entire life story. 

That description is selling it very short, definitely go read the piece. And if you still need convincing, here’s a rebroadcast of a conversation Matt and Pablo had with the Society for American Soccer History about the story, earlier this year. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-saga-of-wee-willie-mclean/id1586833046?i=1000567524110

https://theathletic.com/3363062/2022/06/14/wee-willie-mclean/

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