Introduction

Welcome to Four Score Soccer! My name is Vincent Giacalone and I’m a recent Stony Brook University alum with a degree in French Language and Literature who minored in journalism. I wrote for the sports section of my university's newspaper, The Statesman, for about a year. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic gave me less opportunities than normal, but I was still able to write a lot. 

I’ve been a huge sports fan my whole life and my goal is to pursue a career in sports journalism. Even though I mainly grew up on baseball, soccer has quickly become my favorite sport after I started following it in 2015. My favorite teams include Arsenal in the Premier League, Atletico Madrid in La Liga, Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1, Borussia Dortmund in Bundesliga, Lazio in Serie A and New York City FC in MLS. 

If that last sentence is confusing for you, don’t worry. One of the goals of this blog is to introduce you to the beautiful world of soccer. While the focus will be on soccer in the United States, you can’t talk about soccer without mentioning one or more of the top five leagues in Europe. Even though it's still not as popular in the United States compared to other leagues (like MLB or the NFL), soccer is a global sport. 

Because I will be covering a myriad of topics, I'm looking into developing a system to split up articles for beginners and articles for experts. I would like to garner as big of an audience as possible which means I will have to introduce some people to the sport while appealing to those who are already familiar with the ins-and-outs.

I hope you will enjoy this blog and consider following a soccer team, whether it be one here in the U.S. or maybe one in Europe. Either way, I thank you for being here, I hope you’ll stay a while and I hope you’ll come to love this sport just as much as I do! If you have any comments or questions, you can always email me at vincent.j.giacalone@gmail.com or just head to the "contact" section of this website.