FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Revolution kick off the 2019 season Saturday by visiting FC Dallas. Pro Soccer USA once again reached out to Revolution fans on Twitter to hear their questions and concerns about where things stand as the 2019 season gets underway. For more insight beyond the questions answered below, tweet New […]
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Orlando City CEO Alex Leitão, channeling his inner Mark Twain, has a message for the hateful Twitter troll who posted a message last season saying fans would celebrate wildly on the day Leitão dies. Just as Twain himself once said, “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” Leitão says he and his soccer club […]
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MLS 2019 season preview: Big, bold and bullish
As you may have heard, Major League Soccer is back for a new season, stepping into the spotlight with the serendipitous coincidence of reaching 24 member teams in its 24th year of existence. Bigger and more flush with cash and relevance than ever, MLS still has a ways to go in its pursuit of a […]
GLASGOW, Scotland — The full time whistle had only just blown on a season-defining win for the defending Scottish champions and the televisions cameras were largely focused on one man. One teenager, actually. Timothy Weah, roused by the dramatic nature and significance of the victory that put Celtic eight points clear at the top of […]
Aaron Long and Tim Parker signed new contracts during the offseason with salaries more in line with what many Major League Soccer clubs pay their marquee defensive players. But both New York Red Bulls defenders are still probably not adequately compensated, considering many of their peers around the league earn similar or higher paychecks despite […]
How high is the ceiling for American midfielder Christian Pulisic? Financially speaking, it’s robustly high – and maybe even still growing – after he signed a deal last Wednesday morning worth $73 million to join English Premier League giant Chelsea, shattering the record for the most expensive transfer fee paid for an American player. Chelsea’s […]
There is little doubt Miguel Almirón will be the next outbound megadeal for Major League Soccer. Some even think the Paraguayan attacking midfielder could shatter the league record for an outgoing transfer — recently set by Canadian Alphonso Davies, whose transfer to Bayern Munich could bring in more than $22 million — and the record set for the […]
It was one of the most spectacular transfer announcements in North American soccer in 2018. A transfer worth between $7 million and $10 million will send Columbus Crew keeper Zack Steffen to Manchester City in the summer of 2019. “This is a historic transaction for the Club and a special moment for Zack Steffen that […]
FRISCO, Texas — It’s been more than a week since FC Dallas was eliminated from the 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs with a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Portland Timbers. The season was capped by four straight losses after a strong campaign, which had the team sitting in first place in the Western Conference much […]
VANCOUVER — RIP 2018 Vancouver Whitecaps season. If the season had a gravestone it would read, “Born on March 4, 2018. Died Oct. 29, 2018. A season of few ups and many downs, in which a fragmented squad was never able to completely get its act together under a coach who was pretty much out the […]