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What shall I call this thing? This midweek pivot between what happened and what’s next? 

The general thrust of its arc will focus on weekly events in the US soccer-verse. 

Soccer-verse? How does one define a made up word? For my purposes, it will be all that which touches the national teams, national team players at their clubs home or abroad, and the domestic professional leagues. 

That… is rather a lot of things, and within its remit, an entire novel could transpire each week! 

So, in lieu of attempting to throw my arms around every single happening in that weekly hemisphere of sporting hope, I’ll instead focus on a handful of things that “grab me by the throat and demand to be written”, as Salman Rushdie once said, though probably not about soccer. 

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