This week’s admittedly blurry “Pic of the Week” comes to us from La Liga, where Spanish giants Real Madrid visited minnows Granada at the weekend. The match itself went about how you might expect, with Real securing a 4-0 win and Ronaldo tallying his ridiculous 17th goal in the league despite only having featured in 9 matches. […]
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pic of the week 10/13-10/19
While the European Championships — to be held in 2016 in France — are often thought to bring multicultural Europe closer together, the latest edition of Pic of the Week illustrates how that’s not always the case. This week, Serbia and Albania squared off in Belgrade in Group I action in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. As you might […]
pic of the week 9/22-9/28
If you’re wondering what the next MLS expansion franchise will be, this week’s Pic of the Week may very well give you a snapshot of what it will look like. Just in the first year of existence in the American third-tier USL PRO, Sacramento Republic FC are easily one of the biggest successes of the 2014 soccer calendar year. They […]
pic of the week 9/15-9/21
Football is a manly sport. It’s played out by hard men, running around on a field doing battle with one another for glory, fame and fortune. But every so often, the game provides us with a momentary glimpse of its soft underbelly, and one of those moments took place this weekend in Italy in Roma’s […]
pic of the week 9/2-9/8
Long before he took the manager’s job at Olympique de Marseille, Marcelo Bielsa has always been a man who has spoken his mind. And given his track record of success, he’s entitled to. But sometimes, the man nicknamed “El Loco” — the “crazy one” in English — says a lot more than what his club would prefer. So after […]
pic of the week 8/25-9/1
In the long run, despite a record $1.3 billion spent by English Premier League sides during the summer window, yesterday’s Transfer Deadline Day will ultimately be remembered for the almost incomprehensible amount of loan deals hammered out in the dying hours. But even if most moves were loans, we were still treated to the normal imagery of players […]
pic of the week 8/18-8/24
For many MLS sides, qualifying for the CONCACAF Champions League is one of the ultimate goals each season. The competition provides a chance to test themselves against the best sides in the region, play in some of the most storied venues in North and Central America and — if they can actually win the whole shebang, […]
pic of the week 7/28-8/3
Attendance figures are all the rage these days in American soccer. It’s a never-ending race to see who can get the most fans out for games, and seems to be the main barometer by which the success of your club is measured. One record-setting crowd caught everyone’s attention this weekend, and rightfully so. But that was set by two European […]
pic of the week 7/21-7/27
After getting a reprieve during the World Cup, the WSOTP Pic of the Week series makes its return in grand fashion. In fact, its resurrection is so grand that you could even call it a black tie affair. Well, that’s at least what Spanish Segunda B side Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa thought, as they debuted their brand new “tuxedo […]
pic of the week 5/19-5/25
This week’s edition of Pic of the Week comes a day later than normal thanks to a much needed break away from the internet during the Memorial Day holiday here in the US, but picking it couldn’t have been any easier for me. And the reason for selecting a shot of Gareth Bale scoring the game-winning, […]
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