The Raleigh World: Month Seven
My, how time flies! It seems like I just wrote the six-month po…oh yeah. I was a bit late on that one, wasn’t I? Well, here’s to not letting another update languish in my...
Category: soccerwatcher
IT’S WORLD CUP DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!
via GIPHY I’m feeling many kinds of ways about the World Cup right now, but mostly I’m excited. Now I need to hurry up and finish up my brackets!
Being An Ally: Playing For Pride
On March 23, 2016, the North Carolina legislature delivered a rebuke to the city of Charlotte, NC after it passed an ordinance extending protection to transgender people by allowing them to use the public...
NCFC v Landsdowne Bhoys Football Club
Last night I went to my first Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup match at WakeMed Soccer Park. The tournament has been around for over a century1 and includes teams from more than 30 states,...
NC Courage v Chicago Red Stars: 6 May, 2018
During the 2017 regular season, the Chicago Red Stars were the only team the North Carolina Courage could not solve, though they did beat them in the National Women’s Soccer League semi-final when it...
NC Courage v Utah Royals game recap
It was a perfect afternoon for soccer in Cary, NC as the 4-0-0 NC Courage took on the Utah Royals, in their first-ever NWSL matchup1. Utah was coming off a 0-1 loss to Chicago...
The Raleigh World: My First NC Courage Match
For all that the Bay Area has to offer in sports, it lacks women’s professional basketball1 and soccer teams. Luckily, now that I’m in Raleigh, National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) matches are just a...
North Carolina FC v Tampa Bay Rowdies
On St. Gertrude’s Day I got to attend my first North Carolina Football Club match. I had been looking forward to it since I discovered just before moving from California that I’d be living...
USMNT Soccer: The Gut Response
Welp. Owing to an own-goal and an utterly lifeless performance, the United States Men’s National Soccer Team eliminated themselves from the 2018 World Cup. Trinidad and Tobago were already eliminated and had nothing to play...
For the Love Of Soccer: Part 1
For several weeks I’ve been writing and editing (and writing and editing and writing and…) a post about my love for soccer. And I’m realizing that the problem I have with the post is...