… if professional soccer has gained a solid foothold in the United States, soccer journalism continues to lag its foreign peers. There have been few well-known publications dedicated to the sport; the most prominent is Soccer America, founded in the 1970s.
Now two soccer magazines are entering the fray with A-list writers and designers, hoping that enthusiasm generated by the approaching 2014 World Cup will help create a readership that will endure for years afterward.
One of the magazines, Eight by Eight, introduced its first issue in Manhattan last month. The other, Howler, is a year old. (A third, called XI, is in the throes of a financial crisis after a year in print, and its future is unclear.)
