Many Major League Soccer teams are struggling with injuries at the moment, and fans are waiting patiently to see their teams back to full strength. With starting-caliber players, such as David Villa for New York City FC, Ezequiel Barco in Atlanta and Orlando’s Uri Rosell, among others, nursing muscle strains, it can be difficult to […]
Patrick Vieira knows Zlatan Ibrahimović. They played together with Juventus and prattled as neighbors in Milan while winning titles at Inter. Ibra signed his Manchester United contract after a morning phone chat with Vieira and has called the current New York City FC manager a great influence and his favorite teammate. “He wanted to destroy […]
Whether Heimir Hallgrímsson likes it or not, the anonymity is gone. The Iceland national soccer team coach’s demeanor is distinguishable from the fame, fortune and egocentric nature of the global game as he gently smiles and quietly discusses his side’s recent qualifications, the European Championship in 2016, where they reached the quarterfinals and the World […]
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When Wilmer Cabrera traveled home to Colombia to visit family during the summer of 2015, he thought he was taking a break from soccer for a while. Matt Jordan had other plans. The Dynamo’s vice president and general manager was searching for the first coach of the organization’s new United Soccer League affiliate Rio Grande […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”81″ 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″] It took some time, but attacking midfielder Josué Colmán is settling in to life in Orlando. He showed up to the city with a backpack and a PlayStation – he didn’t even have a TV to go with the gaming console – and knew […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”81″ 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″] Orlando City’s 2018 start is the reverse of how the club began its 2017 campaign, though performance-wise, coach Jason Kreis prefers what he’s seeing from this season’s squad. On the surface, the difference between last season’s start and this year is obvious. Orlando City […]
CHESTER, PA– Fafà Picault didn’t sugarcoat his feelings on missing the Philadelphia Union’s first three games of the season. The midfielder was suspended for the opening stretch of the Major League Soccer season due to offensive language in a closed-door friendly against Orlando City. “It sucks. It’s not fun,” Picault said. “I don’t want to […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ten years ago, the San Jose Earthquakes were reborn as an expansion club following the previous iteration of the team moving to Houston two years earlier and becoming the Dynamo. That squad won two successive championships for its adopted state of Texas and were the best team in Major League Soccer […]
Danny Royer likes playing the villain, hearing the venom spewed from the home crowd. The New York Red Bulls winger got a little taste of that at Estadio Caliente when his team pulled out a historic 2-0 win over Club Tijuana in the first leg of their Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal last month. That heat the […]