Ta’s Timeout: Being a Soccer Fan in the U.S.

Danny Ta PO ’22 discusses the challenges of being an avid soccer fan in the U.S.

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Ta’s Timeout: A solution to meaningless international friendlies? The UEFA Nations League

This past summer, the largest sporting event in the world brought together millions of people, as the 2018 FIFA World Cup showed us all how national pride impacts football’s biggest stage. However, those who watch football regularly know that international football is not always played at the highest level, when

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Ta’s Timeout: What could have been: A disappointing end to a great inaugural season for LAFC

In the beginning of the 2018 Major League Soccer season, Los Angeles football fans had plenty of reason to be excited and hopeful. Expansion squad Los Angeles Football Club was expected to bring a new dynamic to the league and the five-time MLS Champions LA Galaxy were poised to compete

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Ta’s Timeout: Real Madrid sacks Julen Lopetegui just in time

After just four months in charge, Real Madrid has sacked head coach Julen Lopetegui, following their embarrassing 5-1 defeat at the Camp Nou against their biggest rivals, Barcelona. Soccer fans around the world reasonably expected this to happen sooner or later. Before taking the Real Madrid job, Lopetegui was the

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