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Magic City Soccer Podcast

Magic City Soccer Episode 62: We have a crest! And colors! And name! And a friendly at Hard Rock Stadium!

By on Thursday, September 6, 2018
Magic City Soccer Podcast. Photographic by Matthew Bunch.

In this episode of Magic City Soccer, Lee, Drew and Matt cut it up about the new MLS team name, Inter Miami CF, as well as the club’s crest and colors. Omar chats with Chris Wittyngham of Pitch Invasion about soccer goings on. Matt and Lee discuss their “Wifalry.” We relish the start of the 2019 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup competition. Join us, won’t you?

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LaLiga North America

L’Esportiu de Catalunya: Barcelona and Girona to play first LaLiga North America match in Miami in January 2019

By on Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Hard Rock Stadium is pictured during an International Champions Cup match between Real Madrid of LaLiga and Manchester United of the Premier League in Miami Gardens on July 31, 2018. Photo courtesy Real Madrid.

According to L’Esportiu de Catalunya, a prominent sports newspaper based in Spain’s Catalonia region, Barcelona and Girona will contest the first LaLiga North America match at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on the weekend of Jan. 26 and 27.

While the plans have not yet confirmed by the clubs or the league, both Barcelona and Girona are based in Catalonia.

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Miami

A look back: Ron Newman’s half-year with the Miami Americans

By on Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Ron Newman was the co-owner and manager of the short-lived Miami Americans. Graphic by Matthew Bunch.

It was a blip on the radar of one of the most significant careers in American soccer history. But Ron Newman, who passed away Monday at age 82, had an active six months with the Miami Americans in 1980. His time in the Magic City is instructive in how far the sport has gone, but also reminds us that if the history of the game in the United States doesn’t repeat itself, it tends to rhyme.

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Miami

Ron Newman, legendary Miami Americans, Fort Lauderdale Strikers manager dead at 82

By on Monday, August 27, 2018
Fort Lauderdale Strikers coach Ron Newman welcomes the Peruvian Teofilo Cubillas at a press conference in Miami in March 1979. Photograph via Kathy Willens/AP

Legendary American soccer manager Ron Newman, best known as the coach of the dynastic San Diego Sockers of indoor soccer but remembered in South Florida as the manager of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the original North American Soccer League and the short-lived leader of the Miami Americans, died Monday morning. The news was first reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune.

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University of Miami

Miami Hurricanes soccer splits matches in Tennessee with loss to Vanderbilt and win over Lipscomb

By on Monday, August 27, 2018
Miami Hurricanes soccer goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce is unable to stop a header attempt from Vanderbilt's Myra Conte in the Music City Invitational on Aug. 23, 2018. Photo courtesy Vanderbilt athletics.

It seemed like the dream start for Miami Hurricanes soccer on Thursday evening at the Music City Invitational in Nashville. Three minutes in, Gudrun Haralz worked past Vanderbilt goalkeeper Lauren Demarchi to put the Hurricanes up 1-0.

But a late capitulation to the Commodores left the Hurricanes down 2-1. A tight 1-0 victory over Lipscomb on Sunday was a nice consolation, but Miami Hurricanes soccer head coach Sarah Barnes and company must wonder what might have been.

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