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It's always great to see people living their dreams, and it's even that much more special when you get to see it happen to your friends. With a recent move to Anderlecht, our boy Sacha Kljestan is in the early stages of his professional career in Europe. After a couple months adjusting to his new life in Belgium, I caught up with him over the weekend ...

With FIFA arriving in the United States yesterday to begin their tour and assess the USA Bid to host the World Cup, we thought it would be a godo time to re-publish this conversation we had earlier in the year with GoUSABid Executive Director David Downs. A lot has happened since this initial conversation, and as the bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World ...

Had the opportunity to sit down with Thierry Henry ahead of the New York Red Bulls facing Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday. From settling into New York with his new team to his experience with fan support in Major League Soccer, Thierry was more than gracious with his time after flying in from Newark just an hour earlier. Yeah, ...

With the 2010 MLS season and the new MLS website both launching last week, it seemed the perfect time to sit down and chat with Greg Lalas. Greg needs no introduction to American soccer fans, but with his new role of Editor in Chief for the new MLS web site and properties, Greg will continue having a major impact on how American soccer fans get the ...

I had the opportunity to catch up with Eugene Kan (Managing Editor of Hypebeast) back in November for one of our "Conversations in Soccer" pieces and in the following months, Eugene switched the tables on me. After our initial conversations via e-mail (with him being based in Hong Kong and me not even sure where I am recently), we continued back and ...

Many of you have probably been seeing video trailers recently of a project about American soccer fans called OneGoal. It's a pretty amazing documentary about what it's like to be an American soccer fan and the road of following the US team as they qualified for the 2010 World Cup. I recently had a chance to sit down with Jonathan Korn, one of the ...

TOW recently sat down with Justin Brunken and Korey Donahoo of the American Outlaws, the supporter’s group for the US Men's National Team. Justin and Korey shared with us how they and their friends formed a group which became a movement that has connected and emboldened US fans across the country leading up to World Cup 2010 in South ...

Being a soccer supporter in the United States is different from just about anywhere else in the world. People find the sport in their own way, and the journey to becoming an American soccer fan is a unique adventure. I recently started having a conversation with one of our readers named Stephen Catanese about his path to becoming a fan. He told me ...