Orlando Pride defender Ali Krieger’s offseason has been about more than just staying in shape for the 2019 NWSL season. The Pride’s “Warrior” has been flexing her coaching muscles. Krieger launched the Ali Krieger Football Camp in July and has hosted four additional camps since then, with her sixth camp coming up this weekend. Krieger […]
As Columbus Crew SC prepares to play its first preseason game, new head coach Caleb Porter welcomed his coaching staff. Mike Matkovic, Matt Reis and Pablo Moreira have all been hired as assistant coaches. Additionally, former goalkeeper coach and interim general manager Pat Onstad has been hired full time as the team’s technical director, reporting […]
Sitting idle, forgotten and forlorn for decades, downtown Sacramento’s massive railyard chugged back into relevance last week. Kaiser Permanente announced it purchased the equivalent of eight city blocks in the railyard’s northwest corner for a major medical center. And Beverly Hills billionaire Ron Burkle signed a land deal to build a Major League Soccer stadium […]
Diego Chara remembers training at a public field in Beaverton during his first year with the Portland Timbers in 2011. The training facility where the club now practices had yet to be built. So, Chara and the rest of the Timbers would meet up at then-Jeld-Wen Field on weekday mornings and pack into several vans […]
LOS ANGELES — With the first week of preseason training winding down, LAFC took its first heat check ahead of the 2019 MLS season — a 3-1 victory over Toronto FC. The Sunday match was a friendly affair, closed off to the press to allow both teams a relaxed environment to analyze their team’s strengths […]
The weekend did nothing to quell rumors that emerged late last week about Sebastian Giovinco potentially leaving Toronto FC to join Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal. Some foreign outlets – including Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport – are reporting the Atomic Ant could leave Major League Soccer in the near future. Al-Hilal, the two-time reigning Saudi […]
The Philadelphia Union debuted their new secondary kit for the 2019 season on Monday morning. The “Inspired Kit” has a simple navy and white design with a change to the coloring of the Bimbo sponsorship in the middle of the shirt. Similar to the change made for the 2019 home jersey, the Union switched the […]
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Update: USA beats Panama 3-0 GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Gregg Berhalter picked Aaron Long as captain instead of Michael Bradley in his first game as U.S. coach and gave debuts to five players, the most first-time starters for the Americans in more than a quarter-century. Defenders Nick Lima and Daniel Lovitz were part of a mostly […]
Canadian soccer history was made Sunday. In the 85th minute of a match between Germany’s Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart at Munich’s Allianz Arena, the referee held up the substitution board that showed Alphonso Davies’ number, 19. Seconds later, the 18-year-old former Vancouver Whitecaps player became the first Canadian national team member to play for Bayern […]