Costa Rica named its roster for the 2022 World Cup that includes three players with current ties to MLS teams. They include seven-year MLS veteran Ronald Matarrita (FC Cincinnati), who returned from an ankle injury that sidelined him for six months, and Bryan Oviedo, who joined Real Salt Lake in the middle of the 2022 […]
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USL reaches an agreement on first CBA for USL League One
It took 32 months of bargaining for the USL to reach an agreement with the USLPA, the players association, on a first collective bargaining agreement for USL Championship players. Only thirteen months after that, players in the third-tier USL League One have their own CBA. The five-year agreement includes a minimum compensation structure (beginning at […]
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Road to Qatar: Cameron Carter-Vickers joins U.S. injury list
Cameron Carter-Vickers did not play for the USA in its World Cup qualifying campaign. He wasn’t even called up once. But a strong year at Celtic, helping it win the 2022 Scottish Premiership title and captaining it in this fall’s UEFA Champions League, put Carter-Vickers in position to make the U.S. World Cup team. A […]
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NWSL: Gotham FC has hired Spaniard Juan Carlos Amoros as its new coach
Gotham FC has hired Spaniard Juan Carlos Amoros as its new coach. He moved to the NWSL this summer to serve as the Houston Dash’s interim coach and led the Dash to the playoffs for the first time in eight seasons. Amoros, who made his reputation as the manager at England’s Tottenham for a decade, […]
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Road to Qatar: Weston McKennie out at least two weeks, adding to USMNT injury worries
Weston McKennie is the latest U.S. World Cup hopeful, suffering a thigh injury in Juventus’ 1-0 win over Lecce that forced him to leave the Serie A match on Saturday at halftime and will sideline him at least two weeks, according to Italian reports All USMNT players are scheduled to arrive in Qatar by Nov. […]
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Big day for the Hunt family
The big winner in Thursday’s 2026 World Cup cities announcement was the Hunt family, which backed two winning bids. Clark Hunt, the chairman of Hunt Sports Group and Kansas City Chiefs and FC Dallas CEO, was the co-chair of the Kansas City bid committee while his brother, FC Dallas president Dan Hunt, served as chair […]
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Sounders are Concacaf champions!
The Seattle Sounders are Concacaf champions. It only took 14 seasons for an MLS team to win the Concacaf Champions League, but when the Sounders won on Wednesday night, they did so going away. Their 3-0 win over UNAM before a Concacaf Champions League record crowd of 68,741 gave the Sounders a 5-2 aggregate victory, […]
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Awards: Walt Chyzowych honors go to ref Esse Baharmast, USA World Cup 1990 team, and Rick Davis
Former referee Esse Baharmast will be honored with the Walt Chyzowych Lifetime Achievement Award on Jan. 22 at the United Soccer Coaches Convention. Also at ceremony in Kansas City, Walt Chyzowych Distinguished Playing Career Awards will be given to members of the 1990 U.S. men’s national team, the first to qualify for a World Cup […]
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American soccer's missing resource: time
The only thing American soccer never got was time. Time to grow to quietly, over generations, outside the bright lights of television. Like soccer around the world, which got a half-century start on the American game, the major American sports grew organically in cities and towns long before the pro games thrived. The first sporting […]
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MLS Preview: The 27 players everyone will be talking about
MLS kicks off the 2021 season on Friday with 27 teams. Here’s a look at the 27 players everyone will be talking about, from MVP candidates to Homegrown players breaking into their first teams. MVP candidates … Two Argentines, two Spaniards, two Uruguayans. What has become a consistent formula for success in MLS. 1. Lucas […]