FRISCO, Texas — The “play your kids” debate has been a hot topic this season on social media and in the news. It seems there’s a new young player from Major League Soccer academies leaving for Europe every week. Last week, it was Sebastian Soto of Real Salt Lake’s academy to German club Hannover 96. Meanwhile, […]
Orlando City can’t take much confidence from an April win over the Philadelphia Union. The win, at this point, may as well have been from a different season. Orlando City was surging at the time and the Union were struggling to find their way. The win, a 2-0 victory, remains Orlando City’s only clean sheet […]
[bc_video video_id=”5827147735001″ account_id=”3690581442001″ player_id=”B1k1OQNeX” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Alex Arrieta never intended to be a barber. At first, it started as a way to make some extra cash. Arrieta, a native of Peru, wasn’t in the U.S. legally and wanted to provide for his family as a high school sophomore. […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”376″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] After a regional U.S. youth soccer evaluation camp in 1997, Clint Dempsey revealed to coaches that he aspired to one day play for the United States men’s national team. The then 14-year old from Nacogdoches, Texas, who was all elbows and knees, listened to […]
CHESTER, Pa– The Philadelphia Union enter Saturday’s clash with Orlando City as one of the hottest teams in Major League Soccer with five consecutive wins in all competitions. But just because they’re rolling along in their chase of a playoff spot, the Union aren’t comfortable with where they’re at. “It makes you get greedy to […]
HARRISON, N.J. — After partnering with Cristian Cásseres during his impressive MLS debut for the New York Red Bulls 1-0 win over the Houston Dynamo Wednesday night at Red Bull Arena, Tyler Adams said it was “the start of something” between the two young central midfielders. In reality, Red Bulls fans might just have caught a glimpse […]
FRISCO, Texas — After a slow start to the Major League Soccer season, FC Dallas winger Michael Barrios has slowly made a mark on the attack, scoring or assisting in six straight matches. Barrios only recorded one assist in the first 20 matches, but he still created chances in the final third. During that stretch, FCD […]
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Listed at 5-foot-7 but surely a bit of an exaggeration, Josef Martinez easily gets lost in the crowd. Especially when he’s in front of the goal, scuffling for position among taller players. Then it happens. A deft move with the left foot. A blistering shot off the right foot. A towering […]
WASHINGTON — Rob Castro was sipping beer on the upper concourse of Nationals Park on an August Sunday — a sixth-inning break from a game that would last two hours and 40 minutes — when he spotted something new two blocks away: Audi Field, the just-opened home of D.C. United, getting ready for a night […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”376″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_imagebrowser” ajax_pagination=”0″ template=”default” ngg_triggers_display=”never” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] That Clint Dempsey’s professional soccer career started in New England is as much footnote as fact. There is now plenty of time and distance between Dempsey’s beginning – getting drafted eighth overall by the Revolution in the 2004 Superdraft – and his end, which […]