Homemade Media + Social Networking = Mainstream Media Popularity

I’m a huge soccer fun, so of course I am following World Cup very closely. I am very excite because the United States’s first World Cup game playing the Czech Republic is today.

Being a soccer fan and a web designer means that I am looking all over the web for great world cup websites. US Soccer has gone overboard on their converage of the US World Cup soccer team on ussoccer.com. Besides the standard fare of player stats and bios, the site features a blog and podcast that are updated daily and a daily video broadcast called Studio 90.

Studio 90 features an interview segment with different players, a random quiz section with the players, and and video from around the training camp of the players playing and goofing off. For example the June 11 edition of Studio 90 featured Kasey Keller, the US goalkeeper. They toured Keller’s home in Germany– a castle built in 970 A.D. Keller plays professional soccer for a club in Germany.