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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 […]

Good morning! Today is opening day in MLS. Beginning with a rare Wednesday night opener. And a big one: Inter Miami-Real Salt Lake. Charles Boehm, who will be doing an MLS column for Soccer America each week throughout the 2024 season, looks at what Year 2 of Lionel Messi in Miami means for American soccer. […]

Good morning! The W Gold Cup – Concacaf’s new women’s championship – begins tonight. The late kickoff times will be tough for many readers, but Soccer America will have you covered. Soccer America’s women’s contributor Theodore Lloyd-Hughes will be filing our Game Report with player ratings, while SA’s longtime Los Angeles correspondent Scott French will […]

Good morning! Through the years, Soccer America has had players write first-person stories about their lives abroad. The first we worked on was Tom Kain at small German club Union Solingen in 1986. Christen Press wrote 50 pieces, mostly on life in Sweden. Reina Bonta’s SA Confidential piece here on life at Brazilian club Santos […]

Good morning! One of the great things about working at Soccer America has been seeing former employees go on to have long and successful careers in soccer. Black Players for Change executive director Allen Hopkins, who helped formulate MLS’s groundbreaking anti-discrimination policy, started out in Soccer America’s advertising department in 1997 before moving to Fox […]

Good morning! The promotion of the World Cup 2026 will begin in a big way this year with the Copa America at which huge crowds are expected around the country. One of the star attractions will be defending champion Argentina, featuring Lionel Messi. Another will be the USMNT. Already it has scheduled five games for […]

Good morning! The USA opens play at the 2024 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Thursday in Dubai (6:30 a.m., ET, FS2, Universo) where it faces Italy. Arlo Moore-Bloom, one of SA’s most prolific writers in recent years, is our very own beach soccer national team player. On the very first day after his move from […]

Good morning! Today kicks off the start of the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League with games in the round of 16 spread out over eight midweek days (Soccer on TV). For the first six days of knockout play, CBS will be preempting local programming to air one of the two matches. Few things […]

Good morning! On Friday, U.S. Soccer’s board of directors approved the USL Super League’s application for Division I women’s pro league membership. The league will launch in August with eight teams, increasing the number of Division 1 women’s pro teams operating in the United States to 22. The Super League has plans to expand in […]