Sunday’s friendly against Uruguay in Kansas City will easily be the USA’s biggest test of the month. The USA beat Morocco, 3-0, on Wednesday, but it should beat a team like the Lions of Atlas if it is to make an impact at the World Cup. A victory over a team of Uruguay’s caliber would […]
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U.S. Soccer's CEO Will Wilson will make an early exit
Will Wilson, hired by U.S. Soccer as Chief Executive Officer/Secretary General in March 2020, will leave the post this October. His predecessor, Dan Flynn, had the job for nearly two decades. Flynn, who arrived in 2000, retired in September 2019, a year after the Washington Post reported Flynn would be stepping down. U.S. Soccer, despite […]
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Haji Wright's return: A former teen star who cleared the hurdles
At the U-17 level, Haji Wright scored a hat trick against Brazil and struck twice against England within a couple days. That was at age 15, in late 2013, at the beginning of a U.S. U-17 national team cycle that culminated with the 2015 U-17 World Cup, where his teammates included Christian Pulisic, Tyler Adams […]
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Christian Pulisic takes dig at lack of U.S. support, we should all celebrate Moroccan support
The image I’ll remember of the USA’s 3-0 win over Morocco Wednesday night in Cincinnati came shortly before kickoff. After the Moroccan national anthem was finished, the ESPN cameras caught Vahid Halilhodzic, Morocco’s Bosnian coach, just as he turned around and looked with wonderment into the stands at TQL Stadium. I’m sure Halilhodzic was as […]
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USMNT's tests against World Cup-bound opponents give it rare chance to see how it stacks up
U.S. national team coach Gregg Berhalter says the two friendly games against World Cup-bound Morocco on Wednesday in Cincinnati and Uruguay on Sunday in Kansas City will require compromises. The June window will be one of only two windows before the World Cup — which starts Nov. 21 in Qatar — during which he will […]
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Catarina Macario stakes claim to 2022 Ballon d'Or
In her first full season in France, Catarina Macario completed a double when she scored in the 3rd minute to give Lyon a 1-0 win at Paris St. Germain that clinched the 2022 D1 Arkema title for its 15th league title in 16 years. It came a week after Macario scored the third goal for […]
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Jesse Marsch takes big gamble with Brenden Aaronson signing
Various media outlets have reported the transfer fee that Leeds United is paying Red Bull Salzburg for 21-year-old U.S. midfielder Brenden Aaronson to be in the $28 million range. That puts the fee for Aaronson higher than what Salzburg received for Sadio Mane or Erling Haaland. It makes Aaronson the third most expensive signing in Leeds […]
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U.S. Soccer board presented year-end financial picture, discusses gender equity proposal
At its meeting on Friday in Dallas ahead of the National Soccer Hall of Fame weekend, U.S. Soccer’s board of directors was presented with a look at how the federation did financially for FY2022, which ended on March 31, 2022. In 2021, the National Council approved a budget with a deficit of $40.6 million, but […]