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Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:00:18 +0000

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By: David

David — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:52:51 +0000

Keddy – I decided it would be too hot (plus, not as much soccer down in Dixie-land).

By: Keddy

Keddy — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:23:08 +0000

DK – What happened to our route through the southern heartland?!? You should get Borat to come, I know he loves that area of the world more than almost anywhere. Sequals are the thing you know, so it would be perfect for his movie career. Go Messi, go mess em up in Chavezland! Ja ne.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:31:08 +0000

Love the blog. Read it everytime there is a new story. Am a sociology-politicalscience student whose is about as nuts about soccer as you are. I am really interested in following in your footsteps and going with something like this website.

I live in Chicago and wouldn’t mind putting you up. I know about most of the teams around here that play in the two top amateur leagues around here. Italians, Serbs, Poles, etc..

If you want more info let me know.

By: David

David — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:07:19 +0000

Mark – Woops, didn’t mean to leave Columbus off. My family is from Ohio (an hour from Columbus) and so I will definitely stop by there.

Jason – I’ll do my best to tell you what anthropology is, though as a beginning student, I’m not sure how informative I’ll be.

Joe – Yes, I was enjoying Google Maps last night as I made mine.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:14:22 +0000

David – one of the best parts of google maps (and I’m neither an employee nor fanboy!) is you can just create point A and point B, then take any point along the route and “drag” it to your en route location.

It’s a fairly nifty solution. But good luck all the same.

By: Jason.Burke,Murphy

Jason.Burke,Murphy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:19:12 +0000

That’s great. By the way, I am a grad student in philosophy who has dabbled in sociology and philosophy of the social sciences. I read a lot of Habermas, though I need to read more.

I hope to someday tackle ethical and maybe even phenomenological questions involving being a fan. But I need to finish the dissertation first.

Over several beers, you can tell me what Anthropology is. I’m being a little coy but over there its fossil-hunting and over there its world travel and …

Another tourist point. See the field where Canada won the Soccer Gold Medal in the Olympics. Its on the campus of the only University (Washington) which has an anthropolgy department but none in sociology.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:43:28 +0000

Why did you leave Columbus and the Crew off your list of cities? You’re going right by on the way to Chicago.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:33:15 +0000

Like the blog.

We’re blogging from Venezuela so if anyone is interested in the Copa America, check it out: http://latinfootballworld.wordpress.com/

Cheers and have a safe trip

By: David

David — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:14:50 +0000

Thanks for all the ideas, everyone.

Peter- I would love to cover USL teams as much as possible, but I’m not sure if I will be able to. The First Division doesn’t seem to have any teams in the middle of the country. The Second Division does, but their last games are around the beginning / middle of August. PDL teams end their seasons even earlier.

Jason – I’ll see if St. Louis can fit in my trip. Those sound like interesting ideas.

Bob – I’d love to make it to Portland, but I’m afraid that’s a bit too far out of my way.

Joe – I thought about making a Google Map, but I’m not sure the exact route I want to take. I want to leave my route open to change based on other possibilities that people might suggest. I’ll put together a rough route, though, later today and post it.