United States men’s national team coach Gregg Berhalter’s first 23-man roster is highly inexperienced at the international level and composed entirely of players based in Major League Soccer. Berhalter’s inaugural crew of USMNT players will play a pair of friendlies — against Concacaf rival Panama on Jan. 27 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., and […]
FRISCO, Texas — As FC Dallas opened its 2019 training camp at Toyota Soccer Center, a new energy filled the air. The Gonzalez era had begun. New coach Luchi Gonzalez — hired in December after Oscar Pareja departed for Club Tijuana in Mexico — and his assistants, Peter Luccin and Mikey Varas, kicked off their first […]
The United States women’s national team returned to winning ways Tuesday, recording a narrow 1-0 victory over Spain at Estadio Jose Rico Perez in Alicante. The game’s lone goal came in the 54th minute, when substitute Christen Press scored her 47th international goal. The goal was almost entirely a solo effort. Press received a pass […]
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – After 21 years of playing soccer professionally, Colorado Rapids goalkeeper and United States men’s national team legend Tim Howard is ready to hang it up. Howard announced the 2019 Major League Soccer season will be his last playing soccer. “I’m greatly looking forward to kicking off the 2019 MLS season, as […]
PHILADELPHIA– It didn’t take long for Aurélien Collin to be noticed in his first Philadelphia Union training session. The 32-year-old defender, who signed with the club on Tuesday, made a crunching sliding tackle during one of the team’s drills. “I feel very good,” Collin said. “I have to be very wise because I have so […]
The Chicago Fire’s offseason had a slow start in terms of adding players, but the team signed Polish winger Przemyslaw Frankowski on Tuesday. The long-rumored move came to fruition with Frankowski joining the Fire via transfer from Polish club Jagiellonia Białystok. The 23-year-old has a four-year contract with the Fire. Frankowski was signed using one […]
The Vancouver Whitecaps remain busy on the transfer market. On Tuesday the club acquired experienced Spanish midfielder Jon Erice with the use of Targeted Allocation Money (TAM). The 5-foot-9, 32-year-old midfielder joins the Whitecaps from the Spanish La Liga 2 side Albacete Balompié. Erice has agreed to an MLS contract through 2020 with a club option […]
The New England Revolution doesn’t seem to be interested in parting ways with Diego Fagundez, who is drawing interest from at least one team in South America. Fagundez confirmed Tuesday morning after New England’s second training session of preseason that the Revolution turned down an offer from Uruguayan side Nacional. Uruguayan journalist Sebas Giovanelli first […]
Carlos Vela exited the locker room Monday with heavy legs and a wry smile. He had just finished the Los Angeles Football Club’s first training session of the new season, literally running circles around the rest of the team by jogging along the perimeter of the field while his teammates scrimmaged inside. “It’s nice to […]
Corey Baird had a roommate at Stanford who is a computer coder and arrived on campus having already established several companies. Baird has never asked him what he makes, but he figures it probably involves another zero or two more than the $54,504 Baird pulled in as a rookie in Major League Soccer. The same […]