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Good morning! The 2024 Super Bowl will pit the Kansas Chiefs against the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 11. The Chiefs are owned by the Hunt Sports Group, owner of MLS’s FC Dallas with ties to pro soccer dating back to 1967. The NFL championship game in Las Vegas will mark the eighth straight year […]

Good morning! Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp on Friday morning. And Barcelona’s Xavi Saturday evening. But in very different circumstances. Legendary figures at two of soccer’s biggest clubs announced they’re stepping down from their coaching positions at the end of the season. Both underscoring the relentless demands of top-flight soccer on its bosses and the tolls they […]

Good morning! We hope you are enjoying the new version of Soccer America Daily. If someone has forwarded it to you and you are interested in subscribing, click here. Soccer America Daily is edited by Paul Kennedy and Mike Woitalla. USMNT 2024 How things stand in midfield The look of the U.S. men’s national team […]

Good morning! Where will Gio Reyna end up? No American has ever generated more transfer rumors than the unsettled Borussia Dortmund playmaker. He has been linked to at least 11 different teams, which isn’t necessarily good news. As we recently detailed, January is not the best time for MLS teams seeking to move players. And […]

Good morning! It’s eight weeks until the full-strength USMNT plays its first game of the year against Jamaica in the Concacaf Nations League semifinals, the start of a huge year for the program. With an eye on the Nations League and this summer’s Copa America, we begin a positional look at how things stand. Soccer […]

Good morning! The LA84 Foundation’s digital library has published a sixth year of Soccer America magazines, the complete collection of 1998 issues. The first issue — the annual Coaches Convention issue — features SA Men’s College Player of the Year Ben Olsen on the cover and an all-time classic interview with his former and future […]

Good morning! Inter Miami’s preseason tour continues tonight when FC Dallas welcomes the Herons to the Cotton Bowl. It’s the second of seven games in five different countries Inter Miami has arranged to show off Lionel Messi before the 2024 MLS season begins on Feb. 21. The tour is unprecedented by MLS standards but nothing […]

Good morning! Mark your calendar. Feb. 4 is the date that FIFA will announce the 2026 World Cup schedule — all 104 games — in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It’s a Sunday, so there is no respite for soccer news these days. The Daily Mail reported that AT&T Stadium, the home of the […]

Good morning! A shout-out to longtime Soccer America contributor Dan Woog, who has published his final “Woog’s World” newspaper column. Since 1986, he has written a weekly column for the Westport News, 800 words about whatever was going on in the Connecticut town. Readers of the prolific Woog, whose first byline came in 1969, can […]