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Freshman Charlie McKay stumbled a few times the first game he was asked to play goalie for the Menlo-Atherton varsity boys soccer team but it didn’t take long for him to earn the trust of his older teammates. McKay rewarded his teammates for that trust by coming up big during …

Senior night for the Wilcox girls soccer team didn’t end with a victory, but their progress this season from start to finish has been evident. A resurgent squad, the Chargers’ three wins thus far on the season have come in rematches against two teams who previously beat them and a …

Mike Geller was a big soccer goal scorer in his playing days for New Paltz High School, and that type of attitude never goes away. When Geller was working as an assistant coach at Fallsburg in 2015, he set his sights on player Kelvin Nunez in hopes of generating more …

Former English soccer players who were subjected to years of sexual abuse by youth team coaches entrusted with their care are breaking cover to expose the game’s dark secrets. The abuses were first uncovered two decades ago with the conviction in the United States of English coach Barry Bennell, who …

Ten people were treated in hospital for knife wounds after hundreds of Dynamo Kiev and Besiktas fans clashed in the Ukrainian capital before Tuesday’s Champions League match, local media reported. Around 600 fans were involved in clashes near the Olympiyskiy stadium, which will host the 2018 Champions League final, before …

Connection between football and gambling Recently, scientists have found out that popularisation of poker, as well as online slot machines, is strongly connected with footballers’ success. The whole range of experiments has demonstrated that card games negatively influence on the players’ results. Additionally to that, there was an anonymous survey …