It’s been a busy August for U.S. youth internationals at home and abroad. In the Leagues Cup, several have played key roles for their clubs, while in Europe, transfer and loan activity is picking up ahead of the new season. Also, the USA’s qualification for the 2027 U-20 World Cup last week gave a generation […]
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Anthony Hudson on finding success in Thailand and working with USMNT
Hudson, who worked with the USMNT as an assistant at the 2022 World Cup, and served as an interim head coach in 2025, he was named head coach of Thailand’s national team, qualified Thailand for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia.
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The powerful lure of watching soccer on Spanish-language television
It might be the most under-appreciated, under-discussed, under-valued part of American media, especially sports media. It’s the power of Spanish-language media. You might have seen the audience numbers for the World Cup final: Fox had about 39 million viewers and Telemundo about 24 million. It was the most-watched soccer match in American television history. Fox […]
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MLS’s Top 5 players on a roll: From a world star to a pair of teens
This summer’s biggest signing, a Brazilian veteran, a Canadian goalkeeper, an American teenage defender and an 18-year-old MLS Next Pro call-up stood out for superb performances as MLS transitioned into Leagues Cup play.
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Top young U.S. prospects: In MLS, Europe and U-20 World Cup qualifying
In MLS, the weekend slate and the opening of Leagues Cup produced several standout performances. Across Europe, players are battling for minutes as preseason winds down and the first leagues kick off. Meanwhile, the transfer market could soon send one of MLS’s top teenage prospects to England.
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Sandra Cress lifts the curtain on Atlanta’s World Cup 2026 operation
It’s a good bet that in the thousands of stories written about the 2026 World Cup, not one mentioned the stores selling branded merchandise inside a stadium. Or the importance of managing the movement of VIPs, so they did not interfere with players and coaches. Or how to handle FIFA’s requirement that the locker rooms […]
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Larry Berg and shining light on MLS’s ‘crown jewel’
Berg, named MLS’s next commissioner on Monday, is a private equity investor with a long background in the education business. That makes sense because MLS’s priority has to be its academies.
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JP Dellacamera on a career driven by the love of the game
When JP Dellacamera put down his headset at the end of the 1986 Men’s World Cup, he had no idea if he would ever work another World Cup. After 40 years and 17 more World Cups, Dellacamera put that headset down for the final time. He continues to call soccer on television, just no more […]
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Bob Bradley’s insight on Norway’s rise points to evolution rather than reinvention
A 4-1 thrashing by Belgium ended Coach Mauricio Pochettino‘s USA’s World Cup 2026 run in the round of 16, preventing it from equaling the quarterfinal appearance by the Bruce Arena-coached U.S. team at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea. In contrast, Norway, which hadn’t qualified for the World Cup since 1998, beat Brazil, 2-1, […]
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Furman’s Braden Dunham takes different path to U-20s
Over the past 12 years, the United States has excelled at the U-20 level where it has advanced to the last five FIFA U-20 World Cup quarterfinals and regularly sent top prospects into the full national team player pool. Behind this growth have been players who now come from fully professional environments. But there is […]