When Crew SC opens the 2019 season at home on March 2, it will mark 481 days since Caleb Porter last coached a Major League Soccer game. After taking a year off from coaching, just being back in preseason training is filling a void for the championship coach. “I’m like a kid in a candy […]
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Sounders left back Nouhou spent much of the winter wondering which side of the Atlantic he’d be playing on this season. But as rumors swirled that he’d be loaned out to French sides Stade Rennais and Olympique Marseille, or Italian squad Palmero, the Cameroon native tried to stay focused on a personal fitness regimen he’d […]
TUCSON, Ariz. — When third-year Minnesota United FC coach Adrian Heath sets his team’s offseason schedule, weather is a big factor. After all, temperatures in St. Paul, Minn., can be pretty rough this time of year. On Tuesday, it was in the mid-teens there and snowy. Tucson, by contrast, was in the mid-60s — and […]
Thanks to a scrimmage on Saturday night pitting the Houston Dynamo against its USL Championship hybrid affiliate team, Rio Grande Valley FC Toros, the squad reports feeling more prepared to take on the upcoming MLS season as well as the more pressing, immediate concern — the Concacaf Champions League play that looms just three weeks […]
Orlando City’s supporters don’t have to wait until March 2 to see the new-look Lions in action. The club will hold a preseason tournament, the Orlando City Invitational, for the first time Feb. 16 and Feb. 20. It will be open to the public. The tournament brings together four MLS teams, including Orlando City, for […]
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How does a team replace one of the top playmakers in Major League Soccer over the course of the last three seasons? That was the most pressing question for the New York Red Bulls in preseason after the club traded Sacha Kljestan to Orlando City SC for Carlos Rivas and Tommy Redding on Jan. 3. […]
Chris Klein played for the L.A. Galaxy in 2008 and was its president in 2017, inglorious bookends to the period in between during which the Galaxy were the most dominant team in MLS. Over those eight seasons the Galaxy won nearly twice as many games as they lost and made the MLS Cup final four times, winning three titles. On […]
The Galaxy staged their final dress rehearsal of the preseason Saturday at StubHub Center and it didn’t go well, with a 2-1 loss to the Vancouver Whitecaps raising more questions than answers. Chief among them: Is the team ready for opening night? That will come March 4 when the Galaxy play host to the Portland Timbers. And that leaves coach […]
Sounders striker Jordan Morris will be lost several months after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee during Thursday’s loss to Santa Tecla FC in El Salvador. The team is refusing all comment until Monday but a source confirmed Saturday that an initial diagnosis of a torn ACL was made on site at […]