Recent Matthew Schofield Articles
It's Time To Fire Bob Bradley: U.S. Soccer Needs A New Direction
by Matthew Schofield (Commentary | Kansas City Star - June 19)
Having watched and rewatched the last couple United States national soccer team matches, I've come to a simple conclusion: The current coach, Bob Bradley, is in over his head and needs to be fired. more details | go to article

Soccer Is A Thriving U.S. Export
by Matthew Schofield (Profile/Interview | Kansas City Star - January 14)
The buildup has been decades in the making. But American soccer has arrived in Europe — in the form of Landon Donovan, a 22-year-old Californian with surfer looks and quick feet, who joined his new German team, Bayer Leverkusen, this week. Donovan, from Redlands, Calif., is hardly the first American to play professional soccer in Europe, but he's the first expected to become a star. more details | go to article

Racial Taunting Becoming More Commonplace In European Soccer
by Matthew Schofield (Analysis | Bradenton Herald - May 16)
Robbie Russell was concentrating too hard on the professional soccer game he was playing to notice the torrent of racial slurs or the first couple of dozen times he was spat on. But when the 24-year-old African-American from Amherst, Mass., felt fans tugging at his jersey and turned around last weekend in the small western Norwegian town of Sogndal, he noticed what came next. more details | go to article

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