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The Passion of Cienciano

By Michael Coroneos • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: World Football Culture

An MLS fan heads to Cuzco in Peru, and finds a new level of footballing passion. Michael Coroneos reports on Cienciano vs. Flemengo.



Fighting Back in Black

By Michael Coroneos • Sep 14th, 2007 • Category: News & Notes, World Football Culture

Twenty-one years ago in Mexico, Canada played in their first and only World Cup: three games no goals. Fast forward twenty-one years and even though there has been little success on the pitch, off the pitch things looked like they were turning around.
This summer the country played host to the U-20 World Cup, club [...]



David Who?

By Michael Coroneos • Aug 4th, 2007 • Category: American soccer, World Football Culture

Editor’s note: Michael Coroneos files dispatches for pitchinvasion.net from behind the lines of the Red Patch Boys, one of Toronto FC’s supporter’s groups. Here he brings us more news on the scalping frenzy as the LA Galaxy Travelling Beckham Circus shows up north of the border.
The Beckham craze has finally hit Toronto. [...]



Has Canada Found the Beautiful Game?

By Michael Coroneos • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: Media, World Football Culture

Editor’s note: Michael Coroneos, a Toronto FC supporter, will be writing periodically on Canadian soccer for pitchinvasion.net. As your editor discovered himself in May on a trip to Toronto, soccer has taken off this season in Canada. And as Michael explains, the ball is now really rolling.
I woke up this morning in Toronto and [...]