Good morning! When FIFA organizes the 2026 World Cup, it will set up perimeters a sufficient distance from stadiums to hopefully avoid the problems at Sunday’s Copa America final, where fans without tickets crashed the Hard Rock Stadium gates. But it won’t escape another condition that soccer fans lining up to enter the stadium endured […]
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Monday AM: Argentina wins Copa final marred by Messi injury and security nightmare. Also: Spain’s Euro inspiration.
Good morning! There was no social media in the 1980s when the Heysel and Hillsborough tragedies took place. But the images of what happened last night at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, site of the Copa América final, are familiar to anyone who followed the events in 2021 at the Euro final at Wembley or the […]
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Special Edition: England vs. Spain and Argentina vs. Colombia previews
Good morning! Today is a special day for soccer fans. Two championship games in one day. Here’s special edition of Soccer America previewing England vs. Spain in the Euro 2024 final and Argentina vs. Colombia in the Copa América final. • How to watch: Soccer Sunday. Soccer America Daily is edited by Paul Kennedy and […]
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Friday AM: Klopp to USMNT? Very unlikely. Also: Copa America probe, Euro finalists’ development secrets.
Good morning! Olympic soccer will begin in less than two weeks in France with 16 teams competing in men’s soccer and 12 in women’s soccer. Eighteen have selected players based on teams in the United States, reflecting the growth of the American game. There will be a total of 74 U.S.-based soccer players at the […]
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Thursday AM: USMNT: what’s next. Also: England’s Ollie Watkins called it, Copa anarchy in Charlotte.
Good morning! A little more than eight weeks. That’s the time U.S. Soccer has to find a replacement for Gregg Berhalter before the USMNT plays its next game: a Sept. 7 friendly against Canada (coached by Jesse Marsch!) in Kansas City. It’s lightning-fast compared to the most recent USMNT coaching searches: Berhalter was initially hired […]
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Special Edition: Gregg Berhalter fired
Good evening! This is a Special Edition of Soccer America Daily with the news of Gregg Berhalter’s firing. We will have more coverage tomorrow in the morning Soccer America Daily and Top of the News. Soccer America Daily is edited by Paul Kennedy and Mike Woitalla. USMNT Gregg Berhalter fired Gregg Berhalter has been fired […]
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Wednesday AM: Messi enjoying ‘last battles.’ Also: Lamine Yamal comes of age.
Good morning! Brian Sciaretta, who will be covering the Olympic men’s soccer competition for Soccer America in France, examines the USA’s strengths and weaknesses ahead of its return to the men’s soccer tournament for the first time since 2008. Olympic men’s soccer has served as a springboard to big roles at the World Cup two […]
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Tuesday AM: U.S. men’s Olympians revealed. Also: Johan Cruyff’s ‘very sweet memory.’
Good morning! As Euro 2024 and the Copa America move into their final week with semifinals today and tomorrow, the U.S. Open Cup joins them in offering two full days of soccer action. The Open Cup quarterfinals include late West Coast kickoffs on both evenings, stretching essential soccer viewing over at least 10-hour windows, well […]
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Monday AM: Copa América surprise semifinalist, Euro 2024’s final four. Also: MLS and NWSL top-of-the-table clashes.
Good morning! The USA’s 18-player Olympic men’s soccer team – 15 under-23 players and three wild-cards – will be announced this morning on NBC’s “Today” show. The opening game on July 24 will mark the USA’s return to Olympic men’s soccer after an absence of 16 years. The match will be played in Marseille, and […]
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Friday AM: Argentina survives Messi miss. Also: LAFC takes El Tráfico thriller, Dutch luck turns.
Good morning! There is no greater statement of the explosion of interest in women’s soccer than what’s happening at the amateur level. There were more than 250 teams entered this year in the three women’s summer leagues. Some are starting to draw impressive crowds. Last year, we wrote about Minnesota Aurora, the women-led, community-owned USL […]