Kansas City Current II won the 2026 WPSL title with a 1-0 win over New York Athletic Club in the final at Riverside Stadium. The lone goal was scored by Avery Clark (her 16th of the season) in the 39th minute off a corner kick from Ally Henry. Clark played two years at the University of Texas before […]
Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy edited Soccer America for 41 years (1985-2026). He began writing for SA in 1974. He started writing for France Football in 1978 and has served on in Ballon d'Or jury since 2007.
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Trevor Amann needs 207 seconds to record hat trick in USL Championship
In the span of 3 minutes, 27 seconds, Trevor Amann recorded the fastest hat trick in USL Championship history for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds in their 3-1 victory over Louisville City at F.N.B. Stadium — and on its World Cup Sunday CBS broadcast. Amann tore up USL League One with the short-lived Northern Colorado Hailstorm (23 goals in […]
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Magic in a bottle
The irony of the 2026 World Cup is that it began with all sorts of questions about affordability and access and inclusion, but it became one of the greatest communal events of our lifetime. All for you and me to watch, cheer and go nuts with others and watch others do the same thing. All […]
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Gotham FC draws record New York city women’s sports crowd
Gotham FC claimed a 1-0 win over the Washington Spirit in front of 42,175 fans at Citi Field in Queens, a New York city record attendance for a women’s sports event. The Queens Classic was decided on a Rose Lavelle game-winning goal but not before goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger made nine saves, including a dramatic double save. Australian Sam Kerr made […]
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Robert Lewandowski set for Chicago Fire debut
MLS resumes its 2026 regular season on Thursday with four games. The game to watch: Chicago Fire vs. Vancouver Whitecaps at Soldier Field six weeks after MLS paused for the World Cup. The game is being billed as a reunion of former Bayern Munich stars — the Fire, whose new free-agent signing, Pole Robert Lewandowski, […]
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The small world of French soccer
My introduction to les banlieues of Paris came 50 years ago when I was accepted in an internship program that took me to St. Denis. I did not know a lot of French — my French consisted of a couple of college classes and what I picked up, devouring L’Equipe and France Football, which I […]
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Battle of reigning women’s champions set for October
The U.S. women’s national team will face Spain in a pair of friendlies. The matches will pit the USA, the reigning Olympic champion against Spain, the world’s top-ranked women’s team and defending Women’s World Cup champion. Oct. 10: USA vs. Spain, at Audi Field, in Washington D.C. (2:30 p.m. ET)Oct. 13: USA vs. Spain, at Subaru Park […]
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Bondy and the French grassroots system
There were a lot of ingredients that went into France’s second World Cup championship. There was preparation and coaching — here’s a clip of head coach Didier Deschamps talking at halftime of thefinal about how to shut down Croatia after a difficult first half — and there was luck — calls on France’s first two […]
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USA-Belgium and Mexico-England draw almost 97 million viewers
The USA-Belgium match averaged 50.1 million viewers on Fox and Telemundo platforms, while Mexico-England drew a U.S. audience of 46.7 million (both game windows only), making them the two most-watched non-NFL sporting events since the 1994 Winter Olympics. • The 33,086,000 viewers on Fox is the largest on any network since Super Bowl LX (Seahawks-Patriots) on Feb. […]
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New Milan coach Ruben Amorim on why Christian Pulisic is ‘perfect’
The injury that Christian Pulisic suffered in the second half of Monday’s 4-1 loss to Belgium at the World Cup in Seattle was a bone bruise and a microfracture of his tibia and fibula — a fracture of his right leg. In the 52nd minute, Pulisic went to take a shot but instead kicked the […]