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100 Best Places For Non League Soccer?

2/28/2018

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So I was reading an article recently called the 2018 Top 100 Best Places to Live, and it got me thinking. 'How many of these Best Places to Live currently have non league soccer clubs in them?' 

Naturally, I spent way too much time looking into it. What follows is a breakdown of which of these cities has team, what league it's in, and how many cities, by state, don't have a team.


UPSL, 15: Charlottesville, VA, Madison, WI, Fort Collins, CO, Boulder, CO, Lincoln, NE, Charleston, SC, Redwood City, CA, Newport Beach, CA, Boise, ID, Salt Lake City, UT, Irvine, CA, Provo, UT, Littleton, CO, Lakewood, CO, Ann Arbor, MI

​NPSL, 12: Ann Arbor, MI, Charlottesville, VA, Rochester, MN, Davis, CA, Asheville, NC, Greenville, SC, Boca Raton, FL, West Lafayette, IN, Sioux Falls, SD, West Hartford, CT, Fargo, ND, Irvine, CA

PDL, 7: East Lansing, MI, Johnson City, TN, Portland, ME, Boca Raton, FL, Cincinnati, OH, 
Eugene, OR, Santa Cruz, CA,


Right now, 34 of the Top 100 Best Places to Live have an non league team. UPSL leads with 15, and Charlottesville, VA, is the only city that has two teams, one in the UPSL and one in the NPSL. That leaves 66 hoping for some soccer. Those are helpfully broken down for you by state. The states with the most 'unclaimed' places are at the top, descending to a long list of states with one place.

Unclaimed By State
CA: Palo Alto, CA, Santa Cruz, CA, Berkley, CA, San Luis Obispo, CA, San Rafael, CA, San Mateo, CA, Santa Barbara, CA, Alameda, CA, Walnut Creek, CA, Santa Monica, CA, Burlingame, CA, 
Pasadena, CA, Novato, CA, Huntington Beach, CA, Mountain View, CA, Fullerton, CA
IL: Evanston, IL, Downers Grove, IL, Wheaton, IL, Elmhurst, IL, Champaign, IL, Oak Park, IL, Naperville, IL
WA: Pullman, WA, Kirkland, WA, Bellevue, WA, Olympia, WA, Bellingham, WA, Redmond, WA
FL: Gainesville, FL, Tallahassee, FL, Coral Gables, FL,  Sarasota, FL, Miami Beach, FL
MA: Cambridge, MA, Newton, MA, Brookline, MA, Framingham, MA

KS: Manhattan, KS, Lawrence, KS, Overland Park, KS
PA: Pittsburgh, PA, State College, PA
VA: Arlington, VA, Blacksburg, VA
NY: Ithaca, NY, White Plains, NY
MT: Missoula, MT, Bozeman, MT
ND: Bismarck, ND, Grand Forks, ND 

OR: Corvallis, OR, Ashland, OR
IA: Iowa City, IA, Ames, IA
MO: Columbia, MO,
NC: Chapel Hill, NC
VT: Burlington, VT
IN: Bloomington, IN 
TX: College Station, TX
WV: Morgantown, WV
AZ: Scottsdale, AZ
KY: Lexington, KY
ID: Moscow, ID
MN: Edina, MN
WY: Laramie, WY
OH: Oxford, OH
SD: Brookings, SD
MD: Rockville, MD
AL: Auburn, AL
TN: Franklin, TN

As you can see, there are 16 cities in California that don't have non league teams. That's enough to start their own league if they wanted. The biggest surprise for me is the fact that Kansas has 3 cities, and North Dakota and Montana have 2 each. 

I'm not trying to say that there is a correlation between the success of a team and the city it's located in, but I do hope this will help people looking to start teams, and leagues looking to accept them, to understand at least a little better the potential of the city to support soccer, especially when you consider the Ranking Criteria.

​So get on starting those teams in Laramie, Wyoming and Ames, Iowa! You just might be a city that has everything it needs to help your club succeed.
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Sustainable Community: Jonathan Collura of Bugeaters FC

2/22/2018

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"At this level it’s about the community and not money."
AP is now on Patreon! For the price of a cup of coffee, or less than the cost of your Netflix each month, you can help AP not only continue to operate, but grow and reach new forms of story telling and interviews. For less than the cost of your Netflix, you can qualify for cool rewards! Everything will go towards helping AP increase coverage of lower level soccer and stay around for years to come. Please consider becoming a Patron of AP by clicking Here. ​​​​​

Good morning AP readers! The weather outside in most of the country is nasty, so it's a perfect day for reading today's new interview. I was fortunate to connect with Jonathan Collura, one of the men behind Bugeaters FC, a future rival of Santa Fe Wanderers, and got to ask him some questions about the team and what he hopes to accomplish with it. Turns out, Jonathan has a long history with soccer in England that is shaping what he's doing here. A lot of good nuggets in here for you to enjoy. Check it out.


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A League Of Their Own: A Better Way For Amateur Soccer In America?

2/15/2018

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AP is now on Patreon! For the price of a cup of coffee, or less than the cost of your Netflix each month, you can help AP not only continue to operate, but grow and reach new forms of story telling and interviews. For less than the cost of your Netflix, you can qualify for cool rewards! Everything will go towards helping AP increase coverage of lower level soccer and stay around for years to come. Please consider becoming a Patron of AP by clicking Here. ​​​​

​Hello faithful AP'ers, and welcome back to American Pyramid! You might be asking yourself, 'wait a minute, this isn't an interview. Thursday's are new interview day!' Yes, that's true, but due to requests from some of the clubs I've completed interviews with, I'm delaying their release a little bit. Not for bad reasons, to be clear, but in order for new news to come out and create a larger wave of momentum around the team.

Really quick, in case you missed it, I'm considering starting another blog, talking about all kinds of other sports in the US. Rugby, NBA, College Basketball and Football, Pro Wrestling, MLB, whatever I feel like, really. You can vote on whether that's a good idea or bad idea in my Twitter poll.

I'm thinking about starting a separate blog talking about wild ideas I have for other American sports. College hoops, NBA, NHL, Rugby, MLB, that kind of thing. Would anyone be interested in reading that?

— AmericanPyramidBlog (@APyramid_Blog) February 14, 2018
Now, today's article is based around an idea I had for a potential new amateur league structure while I was out on a walk. There's some ideas in here that might sound familiar, and some that might not, and I'm sure there are plenty of you thinking 'good grief, another article about how to do soccer leagues in America?' But I implore you to hear me out. This idea is the culmination of over two years of interviews with teams and leagues nationwide, not some click bait article. (I mean, it is, kind of, but I digress) Everything in here is designed to address issues encountered by teams in dealing with leagues, paying costs, needing help, and fan perception.  

So without further ado, I present A Better Way. Check it out.

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Finding The American Vardy: Tikal Jonson of Madison Dragons SC

2/8/2018

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"Go support your local team and experience the passion!"
AP is now on Patreon! For the price of a cup of coffee, or less than the cost of your Netflix each month, you can help AP not only continue to operate, but grow and reach new forms of story telling and interviews. For less than the cost of your Netflix, you can qualify for cool rewards! Everything will go towards helping AP increase coverage of lower level soccer and stay around for years to come. Please consider becoming a Patron of AP by clicking Here. ​​​

Hello again, and welcome back to AP! At the start of the week, I was really torn about what interview to release this week, whether this one, or my interview with Northern Virginia United. After posing the question on Facebook and Twitter, Madison Dragons SC, a club from Rexburg, Idaho, swamped the Facebook post with comments and won out!

I'm trying to even remember how I heard about these guys. They might actually popped on Facebook as one of those 'Like' suggestions. Regardless, I was able to connect with the club and make an interview happen. Needless to say things are different for soccer in this part of the country. Unique challenges, lower participation, and also surprising opportunities. Check it out.


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