OKC Energy FC has a goal differential of -1 through its first five games of the regular season. Perhaps its newest signing will help shore-up the back line. The club announced Tuesday that Alvin Jones, a national team player for Trinidad & Tobago, is joining the squad. The deal is pending league and federation approval. […]
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AUSTIN, Texas — As promotions go, it may not get more urban or rural as it will the next week for the USL Championship. In what promises to be two of the most original promotions in North American soccer this year — regardless of what other teams might concoct in the coming months — Las […]
[ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”504″ 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″] AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Bold FC’s 1-0 win over San Antonio FC on Saturday night was full of the firsts that Bold coach Marcelo Serrano said, with laughter in his postmatch interview, come with being a first-year franchise. It was, most notably, the first […]
Since signing a homegrown deal with Columbus Crew SC in 2016, Alex Crognale has appeared in 22 MLS contests over the past two seasons. In 2019, the 6-foot-5 defender is in line to see more playing time, but not with Columbus. The Crew announced earlier this week they loaned Crognale to Indy Eleven of the […]
The 2019 USL Championship season kicked off with a bang last weekend, drawing more than 90,000 fans to games across the country. Unlike some other teams in the league, two-time defending champion Louisville City FC, did not begin the season with a strong performance Saturday and lost 4-1 to North Carolina FC. In Cary, N.C., […]
The Southwest certainly showed out for soccer this past weekend. Three new teams from this growing region of the USL Championship landscape debuted Saturday, with New Mexico United and El Paso Locomotive drawing sellout crowds for their home openers. Austin Bold FC, meanwhile, debuted at Cashman Field against a Las Vegas Lights FC team that […]
MARIETTA, Ga. — About a year ago, Patrick Okonkwo did not want to go to Charleston, S.C. Atlanta United had made the decision to loan the homegrown talent, and teammate Gordon Wild, to the Charleston Battery of the USL Championship for the entire 2018 season. Okonkwo knew if he worked hard, he’d get chances to […]
Imagine, for a moment, a soccer league in the United States with 36 teams across the map. And those squads have rosters filled with various players, including budding talent, veteran marquee stars and journeymen. And the clubs have unique names with flashy kits. Sounds pretty cool, right? Newsflash: that league exists. It’s the United Soccer […]
The United Soccer League rebranded and reorganized itself into three tiers during the offseason, and the highest level – the USL Championship – is set to get underway this weekend. Filling rosters in the league are budding and promising prospects, former MLS stars, bonafide professionals and journeymen who just flat out love the sport of […]
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds bolstered their goalkeeping corps earlier this week by acquiring Ben Lundgaard on loan from Major League Soccer’s Columbus Crew. The native of Wilmington, Del., is set to be on loan with the Hounds for all of 2019 season, but the Crew reserve the right to recall him at any point. “Ben is […]