Josef Martinez will be honored before Inter Miami’s game in Atlanta, where he helped make the Five Stripes an instant hit. Photo: Inter Miami * * * * * • MLS One of the biggest weekends of the year features two city derbies (NYCFC vs. New York Red Bulls and LAFC vs. LA Galaxy) and […]
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Sporting KC's Alan Pulido gets new DP deal thanks to 'phenomenal' strike rate
Sporting Kansas City signed Mexican forward Alan Pulido to a new Designated Player contract through 2026. Though his MLS career has been marred by injuries, he ranks as Sporting’s most prolific scorer, ranking first in team history in goals per match (0.48). Pulido has climbed into a tie for second in the 2023 MLS Golden […]
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Ethan Horvath is in limbo
Ethan Horvath, who earned the shutout in the USA’s 4-0 win over Oman on Tuesday, is in limbo at his English club Nottingham Forest. Horvath, who has spent much of his European career as a backup, was not registered by Forest for the new Premier League season. The 28-year-old keeper is a victim of the […]
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MLS Power Rankings: The home stretch begins
With Lucho Acosta (No. 10) pulling the strings, FC Cincinnati is running away in the 2023 Supporters’ Shield race. Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire. * * * * * Top-ranked FC Cincinnati has a commanding nine-point lead in the Supporters’ Shield race with five weeks left in the 2023 regular season. Reminder: Only results […]
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Milan Iloski headed to Denmark in 2024
Milan Iloski, who has scored 39 goals in the last three USL Championship seasons, will join the Danish Superliga’s FC Nordsjaelland on a permanent transfer from Orange County SC in the January 2024 transfer window. Iloski, 24, will remain with the OCSC for the the remainder of the 2023 USL Championship season. He has scored […]
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Hugo Perez is out as El Salvador coach
After more than two years in charge of the El Salvador national team, head coach Hugo Perezhas been relieved of his duties. The end came after a 3-2 loss at home to Trinidad & Tobago left La Selecta as the lone team in the Concacaf Nations League’s League A without a point after two games. […]
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Revs' crisis peaks
Bruce Arena (left) with assistant Richie Williams during a New England Revolution MLS game in 2022. Williams played for Arena at the University of Virginia and in MLS and was his assistant at the New York Red Bulls in 2006-07 and on the U.S. men’s national team in 2017 and with the Revs since 2019. […]
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U.S. Open Cup: Local qualifying produces 21 first-round winners
Twenty-one teams advanced in the first qualifying round for the 2024 U.S. Open Cup. The winners will join 67 teams that had byes into the second qualifying round Sept. 30-Oct. 1. Two former champions had differing results. The New York Pancyprian Freedoms – winners in 1980, 1982 and 1983 – beat New York Braveheart SC, […]
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NWSL rookies Barcenas and Ricketts called up for U.S. U-17 camp
Head coach Katie Schoepfer has called up 26 players for the first camp of the U.S. under-17 women’s youth national team’s new cycle. The camp will take place Sept. 17-26 at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif., and feature a pair of friendlies against Japan’s U-17 WNT, on Sept. 22 and Sept. 24. The squad […]
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Bruce Arena resigns as Revs head coach and sporting director
On Saturday night, Bruce Arena issued a statement that he has resigned as New England Revolution’s head coach and sporting director. The move comes six weeks after he was placed on administrative leave, pending a review of allegations that he made insensitive and inappropriate remarks. MLS issued a statement, following the release of Arena’s statement, […]