World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso marked her first Spain appearance since the kiss scandal with an 89th minute goal in Friday’s 1-0 win at Italy in UEFA Women’s Nations League play. Hermoso had been kept off the roster last month.
Mike Woitalla
Soccer America Executive Editor Mike Woitalla has written freelance articles about soccer for more than 30 media outlets in nine nations. The winner of eight United Soccer Coaches Writing Contest awards, he is the author of two books. He coaches and referees youth soccer, and is a "Soccer Without Borders" volunteer.
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Watch: Liverpool's global golazo-fest
Players from Portugal (Diogo Jota), Japan (Wataru Endo), Uruguay (Darwin Núñez), the Netherlands (Ryan Gravenberch) and Egypt (Mohamed Salah) delivered the goals in the English club’s 5-1 win over Toulouse in Europa League play.
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Coach Gonzalo Segares names U.S. roster for men's U-17 World Cup in Indonesia
U.S. coach Gonzalo Segares‘ 21-player squad for the 2023 U-17 World Cup in Indonesia includes 13 players from MLS clubs, including nine who each saw more than 1,100 minutes of action in the recently completed MLS Next Pro season. Three players hail from USL Championship teams, four are foreign-based, while Paulo Rudisill, who was recently […]
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Watch: Evanilson's volley golazo from half-volley assist
The second goal of Evanilson‘s hat trick for Porto in its 4-1 UEFA Champions League win over Antwerp was a 15-yard volley set up by a one-touch, half-volley from Pepe, who received the ball from João Mário‘s long cross-field delivery. Evanilson scored his first with a deflected shot and his third with a sweet lob […]
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Watch: Michael and Bob Bradley reunite in Norway
Recently retired from 20 years of pro play, Michael Bradley has joined the Stabaek coaching staff, which is led by his father, Bob Bradley. They had previously worked for the same teams: when Michael broke into MLS with the MetroStars, during Bob Bradley’s U.S. men’s national team tenure (2006-2010) when the USA its 2010 World […]
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Becky Sauerbrunn shares views on new U.S. head coach selection process
Becky Sauerbrunn, the 38-year-old central defender who has rejoined to the U.S. squad for the first time since a foot injury kept her out of last summer’s World Cup, was asked during Monday’s USWNT press conference about U.S. Soccer’s head-coach hiring process. Following Vlatko Andonovski‘s resignation after the USA’s round-of-16 exit Down Under, his assistant […]
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Watch: A history of EPL blooper goals
NBC Sports’ compilation of “Unluckiest own goals in English Premier League history” delivers an extraordinary array of mishaps, including misfortune from Gareth Bale and Vincent Kompany.
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Ref Watch: A fun part of reffing — meeting the players
Last year while checking in a U-14 team, one boy’s name, Briegel Morales Pérez, piqued my curiosity. So I spoke to him after the game. He had moved to California from Guatemala, and his father had indeed named him after Hans-Peter Briegel, Germany’s left back at the 1982 and 1986 World Cup. One of the […]
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Watch: 17-year-old score historic gamewinner for Barcelona
The 17-year-old Spaniard Marc Guiu scored 33 seconds into his debut to give Barcelona a 1-0 win over Athletic Bilbao that keeps Barcelona within a point of LaLiga leader Real Madrid. Guiu entered in the 79th minute and scored faster than any player upon debuting in Barcelona’s history. Guiu was subbed in for 20-year-old Fermin […]
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Watch (Harry Kane mini-doc): 'From chubby boy to goal machine'
“DW Kick off!” tracks England captain Harry Kane‘s career from his childhood club, Ridgeway Rovers, which had earlier spawned David Beckham, through his Tottenham Hotspur years, to his $100 million transfer to current club, Bayern Munich.