It is no secret: Our site visitors spikes round U.S. nationwide staff matches, and we count on to “see” some new faces on our web site over the subsequent 5 days. So here is a fast information to taking advantage of ASN.
ASN Slideshow
BY
John Godfrey
Posted
June 21, 2013
11:00 PM
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NEW TO AMERICAN SOCCER NOW? Welcome. We wish to be your favourite Web site. We wish you to come back again a number of occasions each day. We wish you to love us—in addition to LIKE us—and we promise to do our greatest to earn your loyalty.
Sure, we write about soccer—identical to everyone else on this area. We additionally do a bit extra. This is a fast rundown.
1) We have a good time nice pictures. We’ve got a devoted picture editor who spends a good portion of each day searching for the very best pictures on the market. We create slideshows, just like the one above proper, every time potential. On this case, it is a assortment of pictures chronicling the buildup to Friday’s Jamaica match. Test it out.
2) You might be a part of the story right here. Most websites allow you to touch upon their articles; we take it to an excessive stage. Our ASN Matrix, for example, would not exist with out your enter. On this interactive infographic, we ask a (hopefully) thought-provoking query and provide the alternative to graph your place on an X/Y axis, argue your viewpoint, and soak up what others must say. It is one of many cooler options on the positioning, it is custom-built HTML5, and we’re very pleased with it.
3) The Beginning XI instrument What would you do in case you have been Jurgen Klinsmann? We put you within the coach’s seat for each U.S. nationwide staff sport, empowering you to pick the starters and formation; articulate a tactical sport plan; and share your imaginative and prescient with likeminded soccer followers.
4) We give away soccer vacationsIf you get reallyreally good at predicting Klinsmann’s roster picks, you and a good friend may win a free week in Brazil in the course of the 2014 World Cup, together with a stipend totally free tickets to a match. Significantly.
5) Soccer Holidays—plural It’s also possible to enter our sweepstakes. The prize is identical. The principles are proper right here. You could have completely nothing to lose.
6) We personal the Hex Wish to learn up on the important thing gamers for every squad? Pondering of touring to Costa Rica for the September 6 qualifier? Questioning how Honduras has carried out within the final 5 World Cup cycles? Our well-researched Hexagonal channel is prepared for you.
7) The ASN 100 is addictive Sure, our editorial panel—which incorporates Grant Wahl, Alexi Lalas, and others—ranks the highest 100 American soccer gamers from 1-100, however that is just the start. This extremely interactive function helps you to kind the gamers by birthplace, age, top, place, and extra. You possibly can rank them by the variety of Twitter followers they’ve. In case you click on on any participant you may get an in-depth profile, stats, movies, and hyperlinks to nice articles from ASN and elsewhere. It is a good way to devour an hour or 12. (And we invite you to inform us who needs to be ranked increased/decrease/in no way.)
8) The ASN Questionnaire is coolWe ask 16 strategic inquiries to U.S. nationwide staff gamers (in addition to U.S. hopefuls) so you will get a way of the folks behind the gamers.
9) Participant Rankings As soon as the match is over, it is time to grade the performances. Our interactive rankings instrument makes it enjoyable and straightforward to have a good time an amazing efficiency, critique a awful one, and hold forth on Klinsmann’s techniques.
We’ve got much more within the works, I guarantee you, together with a mobile-friendly model of our content material for these of you who insist on spending all day looking at your iPhone 5 or S4. However we hope there’s sufficient within the right here and now to maintain you busy within the meantime. Tell us how we’re doing under, and do not be shy about asking for extra, or higher, or no matter.
