Official Status of Striker Magazine
Striker, the best US soccer magazine, is officially dead in the water. I had a brief moment of hope when I saw a World Cup preview issue in a Cape Coral Publix, but a quick email to Harris Publications has confirmed the worst:
We regret to announce that STRIKER magazine has been discontinued.
If you have sent us a payment for the magazine, and we have not yet processed it, the payment is being returned to you. If you had a subscription to the magazine, we will be sending out refunds for the remaining balance of the subscription. These should arrive shortly.
Please accept our apologies.
-Subscription Dept., Harris Publications
PS: THE SOCCER SPECIAL IS NOT PART OF THE SUBSCRIPTION, IT IS JUST A “SPECIAL” WE’LL SEND YOU A COPY AND DEDUCT THE AMOUNT ($6.50) FROM YOUR REFUND, WHICH YOU WILL RECEIVE SOON.
Striker was like the American version of FourFourTwo. It had some great interviews in its first three issues—David Beckham and TH14 among them—and it’s a real shame that they couldn’t survive until the World Cup, a time when they would have received a natural boon from peripheral interest.