New York Times Adds a Chief Soccer Correspondent

Rory Smith starts in September.

Rory Smith (pictured) currently describes himself as a “football writer.” However, when he moves over in September from the Times of London to the New York Times to continue writing about his sport of choice, from Manchester, the job title will become chief soccer correspondent.

The sport’s purists need not worry. As Smith himself points out today on Twitter in the midst of fielding congratulations from colleagues, soccer is an English word, one that was commonly affixed to the sport in the U.K.

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