Why am I blogging?

Well, I could blame it on an off hand comment from my intern that I should start a soccer blog.  But really, what was driving it was the realization that while it’s easy to comment and discuss other people’s thinking on the sport I love, I figured the challenge was having enough useful and unique thoughts to put them out on their own.   How will it work out?   We’ll see.

Who am I?  

By day a corporate wonk that focuses on alliances and marketing in the IT world.  I just happen to be an over-enthusiastic footy fan of no significant consequence other than having too much to say.

Why Soccer Soap Box as a name?

Well . . . the theme (soccer) is pretty clear, and I liked that Wikipedia‘s definition of soap box included both the idea of it often being impromptu (as I’m guessing much of this will be) and “political” (which affects the game, the clubs and countries and nearly everything else.)

Game on . . .