HANOVER, N.J. — One is the head coach, the other a starting midfielder and both have local ties to the club they led to the Eastern Conference championship series. And that has made it more special for Chris Armas and Sean Davis to get the New York Red Bulls to within striking distance of the […]
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Italy outplayed the United States men’s national team at nearly every turn of Tuesday evening’s friendly in Genk, Belgium, but didn’t breakthrough until the fourth minute of stoppage time thanks to a valiant performance by American goalkeeper Ethan Horvath. Horvath made five impressive saves, but was finally beaten by substitute Matteo Politano’s goal off a […]
Nashville’s Major League Soccer team doesn’t have an official name and won’t begin play until 2020, but it signed its first player Tuesday morning — forward Daniel Rios. Rios, 23, is coming off an impressive 2018 season in which he scored 20 goals in 31 appearances for United Soccer League Championship side North Carolina FC […]
The Philadelphia Union officially set its offseason wheels in motion on Monday, welcoming back Jim Curtin as head coach and announcing a set of roster moves. After Monday’s transactions, the Union are down to 17 players on their active roster for 2019, which means there will be some significant turnover to the team’s depth in […]
A scene from Gordon Wild’s Instagram story on Saturday night foreshadowed news that came Monday. Wild, a 2018 MLS SuperDraft pick by Atlanta United FC, was out with some teammates at a TopGolf that night. He took a photo of Romario Williams swinging away at a ball, but Williams was wearing a boot around his […]
FRISCO, Texas — FC Dallas and head coach Oscar Pareja have agreed to part ways after five seasons, the club announced Monday. “This was a difficult decision for everyone involved, but after extensive discussions over the last few weeks, we believe the best course of action is for Oscar to pursue another opportunity,” FC Dallas […]
CHESTER, Pa.– Jim Curtin will be returning to the Philadelphia Union for the 2019 campaign. Curtin, who was out of contract at the end of the 2018 season, was confirmed as the manager for next season during the club’s postseason news conference Monday afternoon. “This wasn’t a surprise for me,” Curtin said. “We had talks […]
Nov. 10 was a fantastic evening for Borussia Dortmund. The Blacks and Yellows had just beaten Bayern Munich 3-2 at home at Signal Iduna Park to cement their first-place standing in the German Bundesliga. Seven points clear of Bayern, which dropped all the way to fifth, Dortmund was now the team of the hour. Not among […]
Sporting Kansas City 2.0, it was dubbed. Boasted about, really. As he adopted a transformation in personnel and playing style, coach Peter Vermes sat in front of the media two years ago and pointed toward a possession-dominant style as the club’s path to the future. Here’s what he didn’t say that day: It might have […]
Just in time for the Eastern Conference finals of the Major League Soccer Cup playoffs, Atlanta United FC is getting healthy. Coach Gerardo “Tata” Martino said Friday at the club’s training grounds in Marietta, Ga., that Jeff Larentowicz, Andrew Carleton and Brandon Vazquez were set to return to training that day. Larentowicz, 35, had been dealing […]