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About
Sportswriter widely renowned for being one of the US leading soccer journalists. He has covered soccer for The Washington Post since 1992, including more than 100 matches for the U.S. men's national soccer team and every World Cup event since 1994, in addition to 5 Women's World Cups. He has also covered every MLS Cup for D.C. United since the MLS initiation in 1996 and provided coverage for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Before Fame
In 1988, he earned his bachelor's degree in print journalism from American University in Washington, D.C. He began working for The Washington Post in 1985, when he was a sophomore in college.
Trivia
In 2013, he was inducted into the Virginia-D.C. Soccer Hall of Fame.
Family Life
He was born in Los Angeles, California. He had a cat named Patches.
Associated With
He quoted Alistair Johnston in a June 17 post to his SoccerInsider blog/Twitter account, which boasts 160,000 followers.
