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so you want to be a soccer writer?

Stay in the game long enough, doing whatever it is that keeps you afloat, and you’re bound to get the email – how do I become a soccer writer? How do I make money off my website? They come from kids and adults, from established bloggers and newly launched dreamers. They come from honest voices trying to find their places and those less so, who say it never meant nothing until of course it does (after trumpeting self success when after a story gets picked up in a few places, after re-writing someone else’s news, after trying to sell ads, after praying for SEO gold, after finding someone slipping up, after using the biggest, easiest to find nail to drive them into the ground while building a pedestal for yourself… “tip your editor here.”)

Before you fire off that e-mail to your writer of choice, read the following essay by Brent Latham about his experience with what was supposed to be his year, the year (every four years), in which opportunity again knocked for the American soccer writer. Click HERE for the full story…

Adam Spangler

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