BRADENTON, Fla. — Orlando City goalkeeper Mason Stajduhar couldn’t wait to get started at preseason training camp. This year’s camp at IMG Academy is the first time he’s been healthy at the start of preseason training since – by his reckoning – 2016. It’s a chance for him to shine. Really, preseason training at IMG […]
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FOXBOROUGH — Uruguayan side Nacional is still interested in Diego Fagundez, but its initial offer to the New England Revolution for his services was not a lucrative one. Nacional was interested in signing Fagundez, who still has at least one year on his MLS contract, on a free loan, a source told Pro Soccer USA. […]
CHICAGO — Just as the weather in Chicago is turning into a consistent mix of snow and ice, the Chicago Fire are departing for preseason in Spain. The Fire begin a two-week stint in Madrid with an international flight Wednesday. A second trip to Charleston, S.C., follows. Despite two additions Tuesday, the roster still needs […]
Billionaire financier Ron Burkle has agreed to buy controlling interest in Sacramento Republic FC, a deal that could seal the city’s prolonged and sometimes frustrating bid to land a Major League Soccer franchise. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced the deal Tuesday to an enthusiastic crowd of civic and business leaders at the annual “State of […]
Two days into preseason training, Minnesota United remains in the market for a starting goalkeeper, but it won’t be Argentina’s Agustin Rossi. United pursued signing the 23- year-old from his Boca Juniors team in Buenos Aires until domestic-abuse allegations made by a former partner on Facebook in 2016 resurfaced on the internet last week. Wonderwall, […]
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 […]