Stories By Mark Asher Goodman
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Youth
/ 6 years agoYouth Soccer Spotlight: FC Pittsburgh
When, in the fourth year of my parenting of a small child, I made the decision to sign my kid up...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: Watch this FCC match closely
At this point in the season, I’ve seen every team in the USL East between four and seven times. I’ve seen...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: Hounds poised to throw knockout blow at Penn FC
It’s as much fun to look at the league table at this time of year and pontificate on the permutations and...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: Faltering Indy needs a win
With only five matches left in the USL regular season, Indy Eleven have gone from a presumptive playoff team with home-field...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoAnalysis and Player Grades: Crosses! Crosses! Crosses!
It was quite the wild finish down at the confluence of the Monongahela, Ohio and Allegheny rivers, kids. Pittsburgh was down...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: Louisville are good, but may not be deep
The last time I discussed a match at Slugger Field, it was for my first column for Pittsburgh Soccer Now. I wrote,...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoAnalysis and Player Grades: Man did we blow it
No sugar coating it kids- the Riverhounds had this one under control, and then they got beat. The first goal by...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: FC Cincinnati have the tools and the talent
I don’t like cliches. I generally avoid them like the plague. But sometimes, the thing that everybody says? That’s the right...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoFINAL: Riverhounds 1, Rowdies 1
Things were going swimmingly for the Hounds. A tight defense gave Tampa Bay little possession in significant locations and the Riverhounds...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoPreview: Rowdies in town hoping to reverse skid against Hounds
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds lineup tonight against the kind of opponent that nobody really wants to play: a desperate, must-win side. The...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: Bethlehem Steel FC steady and rolling
The transitive property doesn’t really work in sports, but if it did, Pittsburgh and Bethlehem should be a tight matchup. Last...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: North Carolina is Journeyman FC
A lot of USL teams are stocked with young, up-and-coming players out of NCAA, or the Caribbean, or from an MLS...
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International Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoPreview: What to expect of Borussia Dortmund and Benfica
Any person that’s ever played Ms. Pac-man at an arcade knows the deal. After an initial level or two at a...
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: Top of the Table Clash for Battery and Hounds
The Riverhounds welcome the Charleston Battery to town, the * other * black and yellow striped team in USL’s Eastern Conference....
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Pittsburgh Riverhounds
/ 6 years agoRiverhounds Rabbi Scouting Report: Louisville City, Efficient Giant Killers
Louisville City are the team to beat in USL. Although their recent run of form – three consecutive ties in USL...