October 2023

Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini, the greatest player since Edson Arantes do Nascimento may have taken a step back on the stage of football worthies!  On the other hand he has definitely made a worthy choice in the best interests of football.  Initially coached by his father he was given great encouragement by his maternal grandmother whom he still honors after every goal. Messi’s future as a professional was threatened when, aged 10, […] Read More

By Our Premier League Editor   Across Stanley Park from the vaunted Anfield sits the home of a second historic liverpool football club. The ground dubbed Goodison Park was opened on 24 August 1892, by Lord Kinnaird and Frederick Wall of the Football Association.  Interestingly, Everton also won their first English League Championship the year before, but playing, of all places, at Anfield!  Nicknamed The Toffees, Everton Football Club has […] Read More

What an extraordinary weekend for football in the Premier League! Spurs outplayed Luton but found it hard to score despite missing several chances.  Bissouma was sent off for a dive drawing a second yellow card.  And Spurs frustration grew until the talented Maddison worked some magic on the byline to set up Micky van de Ven for his first goal since joiningin the summer from Wolfsburg. Raheem Sterling starred as […] Read More

As a proud Chicago resident and veteran of three Chiccago Marathons (best time 3’30’) allow me to add my Congratulations!!! Kelvin Kiptum of Kenya, shattered the World Record in an amazing 2 ’00’35’ right here in Chicago this morning!!! Sprinting around the perfectly flat course, through twenty nine Chicago neighborhoods, warched by an estimated 1.7 million fans in person and millions and millions around the World, Kiptum earned himself the […] Read More