Good morning! Most American pro leagues have two seasons – regular season and playoffs. Very simple. MLS has five seasons. The 2024 regular season began two weeks ago, and two weeks before that the first team, Vancouver, kicked off in the 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup, which moves into full gear this week with eight MLS […]
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Monday AM: MLS: The snow game, Sporting KC’s sour taste. Also: Pulisic targeted for abuse, Macario’s marvelous Chelsea debut
Good morning! Saturday’s MLS match between Real Salt Lake and LAFC in Sandy, Utah, brought back memories of other snow games of U.S. soccer lore. The most famous is the Snow Clasico, the USA’s 1-0 win over Costa Rica in World Cup qualifying, played in Commerce City, Colorado (March 22, 2013). It’s uncommon to break […]
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Special Edition: U.S. Open Cup, the compromise
Good morning! U.S. Soccer’s Open Cup announcement, which we break down below, was just the start of a busy Friday news day. MLS will again play this weekend with replacement referees after bargaining sessions did not produce an agreement with PRO and PSRA. Soccer America has the details on what PRO intends to do if […]
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Friday AM: MLS: Sergio Busquets on Luis Suarez. Concacaf: Revs sweep. Gold Cup: Determined USWNT
Good morning! A busy weekend of viewing for American fans begins today. Folarin Balogun should be starting — but, yes, he has been removed from PK duties — for Monaco, which faces former star pupil Kylian Mbappe and Paris St. Germain. In Italy, AC Milan is at Lazio in a battle of teams still involved […]
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Thursday AM: Undrafted rookie stars for MLS team. Also: W Gold Cup requires drawing of lots, Joe Corona with a bombazo.
Good morning! Another day, another great goal from an American abroad. Just across the border actually in Tijuana, where Joe Corona scored from distance. It was his first goal since his return to Xolos, where he started his pro career in 2010. Corona, who played for his hometown San Diego Loyal in 2023, is part […]
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Wednesday AM: Report: MLS owners weigh more spending. Also: Concacaf survivors, USL’s new TV deal, Haaland’s five-goal night.
Soccer America Daily for Feb. 28.
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Tuesday AM: USA-Mexico stunner. Also: Minnesota United names 32-year-old head coach.
Good morning! It was quite a 24 hours for soccer at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. How could you possibly match the LA Galaxy-Inter Miami game, the highlight of MLS’s opening weekend? On Monday night, Mexico women’s national team put on a show at the Gold Cup, dominating the USWNT, 2-0, with a […]
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Monday AM: ‘Leo’s genius.’ Also: Goals galore by Americans abroad.
Good morning! MLS wrapped up its first weekend of play in the 2024 season last night with the LA Galaxy-Inter Miami match. It was scoreless until the 75th minute and ended 1-1 – thanks to, of course, a tying Lionel Messi goal in stoppage time – but the scoreline doesn’t begin to tell how entertaining […]
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Friday AM: Top Apple exec: Sign more MLS stars. Also: Vela’s future at LAFC?
Good morning! SA’s Andrea Canales profiles 20-year-old Californian Cade Cowell, the latest American attacker to move to Liga MX. The Chivas signing joins Alex Zendejas at Club America and Brandon Vazquez at Monterrey, giving a significant American presence to the attacks of three of Mexico’s big four teams. Unlike Zendejas and Vazquez, who were raised […]
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Thursday AM: Messi the creator. Also: Open Cup mess, PRO vs. PSRA fallout
Good morning! SA’s German-based columnist Ian Plenderleith writes this week about a peculiarly American phenomenon: the abundance of soccer games available for viewing each day. Twenty-two games being played today around the world are listed in this morning’s Soccer on TV. And that’s a slow day. Ian says his wife used to sigh when he […]