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With the 2025 MLS season now nearly a third complete, we are starting to get a picture of how this season fits in terms of youth development.

“The great unknown with a clever touch,” is how the Stuttgarter Zeitung headline in June 2020 described Pellegrino “Rino” Matarazzo.

As the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup approaches, rising stars begin to step into the spotlight.

Jordan Allen is the head coach of the Real Salt Lake’s U-16 team, which recently won the U-16 final at the 2025 Generation adidas Cup.

Voting began April 16 for the Board of Directors of United Soccer Coaches, the 84-year-old organization that is amid a financial crisis.

The soccer referee patrols more than an acre and a half of the field for 90-plus minutes. The six to seven miles of a ref’s running include plenty of sprinting to keep up with the actions of world-class athletes amid the decision-making and disciplining.

Matt Fondy is back in the Bay Area, where he grew up. But rather than take the easy path – going back to the elite youth club that gave him his start – he has done something dramatically different.

After losing for the first time under Emma Hayes last time out against Japan, the U.S. women’s national team had a terrific response in a 2-0 win at SoFi Stadium.

Trinity Rodman of course wasted no time making an imprint in her return to the U.S. women’s national team.

Brazil celebrated its first victory over the USA in more than a decade — and just fourth victory in 43 meetings — with a 2-1 win before a sell-out crowd of 18,000 fans at San Jose’s PayPal Park.