Hirving Lozano and the Global Theater of Transfer-Window Schadenfreude By Our Man in the Departure Lounge If you blinked somewhere between the Tokyo commuter crush and a Lagos traffic jam last week, you probably missed Hirving Lozano’s latest cameo in the never-ending telenovela we politely call “world football.” The Mexican winger—nicknamed “Chucky,” presumably because he…
Steven Lenhart: The Man Who Turned MLS Fouls Into Performance Art and Accidentally Forecasted the End of the American Century By A Correspondent Who Once Watched a Friendly in Pyongyang and Still Has the Whistle Marks PARIS—Somewhere between the croissants and the existential dread, the name Steven Lenhart still surfaces in bars along the Boulevard…
Austin vs Sporting KC: A Microscopic Derby in a Macroscopic Mess By Dave’s Far-Flung Football Correspondent, somewhere between Reykjavík and regret The world is busy immolating itself—Arctic ice shelves auditioning for the role of “ice cube,” crypto bros discovering that gravity is still legal tender, and half the planet’s leaders locked in an eternal game…
LOS ANGELES – In the same week that the International Monetary Fund politely warned the planet may be circling the drain, 22 millionaires in neon footwear kicked a ball around a converted baseball diamond and called it progress. The occasion: LA Galaxy versus Houston Dynamo, a fixture that, on paper, promises nothing more than three…
