"Our trainer was attacked by fire ants and we had to call an ambulance. It's been a crazy year," said John Harkes in the middle of his 2020 championship season.

We suffer from COVID fatigue. Familiar rituals have been canceled. Players miss teammates; coaches miss players; parents miss the sidelines.

When I lived in the USA, I used to love being asked to explain cricket. "Imagine a baseball game going on until 6am and the 47th innings."

Gyasi Zardes has grown into one of Major League Soccer's most consistently potent strikers since leaving his hometown LA Galaxy for the Columbus Crew.

Donovan's first season ended with a forfeit that positioned the San Diego Loyal as a unique club, one that emphasizes ideals and ethics in soccer and sports and life.

The team has never been a typical national squad that constantly turns over the roster with players who have demonstrated their form in club play.

Following abject failure in qualification group play, a good run in that mysterious UEFA invention called the Nations League had afforded Scotland a second chance.

When Skip Gilbert interviewed for a new job last December, no one asked, "What will you do when the world completely stops in March?"

Dominic Kinnear, one the most successful coaches in MLS history, finished the 2020 season as the LA Galaxy's interim head coach but faces an uncertain future.

For coaches, players, parents, referees and administrators considering indoor soccer amid the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Soccer has released an Indoor Considerations Recommendations Guide.

The vacant stadium restart has yet again helped soccer to swerve around the issue of its economic model.

Fewer games, no league or state tournaments. No spectators, no film sessions, no banquets. It was a high school soccer season unlike any I've seen.

Texas A&M, one of only four teams to reach the women's Division I NCAA tournaments in each of the last 25 seasons, has been led by Coach G Guerrieri since the program's inception in 1993.

MLS teams conducted voter registration drives, ran social media campaigns, and used creative methods to get out the vote.

Brianna Pinto's interest in the politics of U.S. Soccer was first sparked when she received a ballot in 2018 to vote on members for its influential Athletes Council.