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By Alex Kotler

Football Partnerships and European Football Group are pleased to release their groundbreaking study on soccer and social media.

Prepared as a follow-up to TWEET! Blowing the Whistle on Social Media, a panel discussion organized by Football Partnerships at Major League Soccer headquarters in New York City in November, the report highlights the relationship between soccer fans and their favorite leagues and teams, and the effectiveness – or lack thereof – of those leagues and teams to connect with their supporters.

The report will be available in Spanish and French next week.

Please feel free to contact Alexander Kotler or Michael Wiesenfeld with any questions.

Download the Soccer & Social Media Study Executive Summary

By Kofi Owusu Aduonum

The Chairman of the Ghana Beach Sports Association (GBSA), Mr. Yaw Ampofo-Ankrah, has revealed that all is set for the maiden Media Beach Soccer Cup, scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday, at the La Beach Resort in Accra.

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For an old guy, Devin Barclay has a pretty good set of wheels.

“We couldn’t catch him,” said Brandon Saine, a state record-setting track star and arguably Ohio State’s fastest football player. “I didn’t know he was that fast.”

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By Bobby Brandon

I spent sometime this season following the results of an upstart NPSL team that caused quite a buzz in the lower levels of American soccer, that team is Chattanooga FC. A quaint, modest Appalachian foothills city that straddles the banks of the Tennessee River, Chattanooga is one of the last places people would look if they were searching for a soccer hotbed, and they would be missing out on something very exciting.

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