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Monday AM: Mathis Albert (16!) makes Bundesliga debut
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! The Soccer America Library has some new additions. Soccer America Daily is edited by Paul Kennedy and Mike Woitalla. AMERICANS ABROAD Mathis Albert becomes youngest American to make Bundesliga debut The 16-year-old Mathis Albert came off the Borussia Dortmund bench in the 89th minute of […]
Friday AM: World Cup-bound Iran prepares for ‘proud and successful participation’
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! We hope everyone has a great soccer weekend! Soccer America Daily is edited by Paul Kennedy and Mike Woitalla. AMERICANS ABROAD Bayer Leverkusen’s ‘117 million euro’ debacle puts focus on Malik Tillman When Bayer Leverkusen lost, 2-0, to Bayern Munich in Wednesday’s German […]
Thursday AM: Midweek MLS mayhem
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! The 2026 World Cup has sparked an unprecedented amount of soccer publishing. Check out the Soccer America Library for books by category along with excerpts and reviews. Soccer America Daily is edited by Paul Kennedy and Mike Woitalla. MLS Midweek mayhem MLS’s first midweek […]
Wednesday AM: The USA-Paraguay problem
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! This is the first MLS midweek date of the season. The big game: talented RSL vs. Inter Miami. It’s not every Wednesday night you see Lionel Messi in Sandy. Soccer America Daily is edited by Paul Kennedy and Mike Woitalla. WORLD CUP 2026 […]
Monday AM: American soccer history is made in Spain.
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! In this morning’s SA Confidential, Paul Kennedy looks at the political fallout of the public transportation plan to get thousands of fans to eight World Cup 2026 matches at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Mikie Sherrill, who took office as the new New […]
Friday AM: FIFA pushes back in World Cup train dispute. Also: Colorado, home to women’s champions.
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! in SA Confidential, Mike Woitalla talks with Ali Curtis, president of MLS Next Pro, about his soccer journey that began in the backyards of his family’s Ann Arbor, Michigan, townhouse community, among kids who loved soccer — and how he imagines MLS Next Pro looking […]
Thursday AM: World Cup fans getting taken for ride
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! In SA Confidential, Soccer Media Podcast’s John Shrader talks with Sammy Sadovnik, the lead play-by-play voice for MLS on Apple TV and lead play-by-play announcer for Fútbol de Primera’s radio covrage of the World Cup. He has been nominated for an Emmy as outstanding […]
Wednesday AM: Matt Crocker leaves U.S. Soccer … MLS teams sweep Liga MX powers … Inter Miami shakeup.
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! No one we know knows Los Angeles better than our longtime contributor and friend Scott French. In SA Confidential, he reminds us that “Los Angeles” is three things: a city, a county, and a metropolitan area of 20 million spread through 300 cities and communities […]
Tuesday AM: Seattle’s historic women’s soccer home
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more soccer news! ADVERTISEMENT Good morning! In SA Confidential, Dan Woog profiles Dan Helfrich, now four months into his new role as U.S. Soccer’s chief operating officer. While working full-time at Deloitte, where he was its chair and chief executive officer, Helfrich devoted at least 25 hours a week […]
