Columbus Crew midfielder Tony Tchani, who debuted for the USA in a friendly against Iceland in January, Montreal Impact defender Ambroise Oyongo and 19-year-old New York Red Bullsforward Anatole Abang have been called up for Cameroon’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa on March 26. Since the Iceland match was a friendly, Tchani […]
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Why Yaya Toure is the New Kanye West
Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubamayang was awarded with his first-ever African Player of the Year award by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The 26-year-old Gaboninternational rounded out a fantastic start to the year with 18 goals and 4 assists in just 17 games as Dortmund reached the midway point of the 2015-16 campaign in […]
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Aubameyang named African Player of the Year
Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who plays for Borussia Dortmund, edged Ivory Coast’s Yaya Toure of Manchester City to win the African soccer confederation’s Player of the Yearaward. In a vote of African national team coaches and technical directors, Aubameyang, the Bundesliga’s leading scorer so far this season, with 18 goals in 17 league games, earned […]
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Ethiopian taxi drivers, happy Irishmen and MLS's challenge
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) If you are like me and have followed the international game for many years, you quickly become fast friendswith complete strangers from abroad thanks to that international language: soccer. A few years back, I was at the NSCAA coaches convention in Indianapolis and my glasses broke. The onlyplace I could find […]
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What They're Saying: Jordan Morris
“I don’t want to gloat or anything. I mean, for one thing, we were playing like this was the game of our lives. They’d been going through three-a-days, and now they’re playinga college team. It wasn’t a normal game situation.” — Jordan Morris on the goal he scored for Stanford in a pre-2014 World Cupscrimmage […]
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What does $1 million get you in MLS these days? Actually, quite a lot
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) So, what does $1 million get you in MLS these days? It usedto be rare that MLS clubs handed out salaries of $1 million or more. As recently as May 2013, there were just eight players earning $1 million or more. That number was up to 21 in the latest MLSPlayers […]
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USA-Nigeria Women's World Cup Player Ratings
USA-NIGERIA EXPRESS: June 16 in Vancouver USA 1 Nigeria 0. Goal: Wambach 45. Att.:52,193.——————————– View image | gettyimages.com The USA finished atop Group D with a 1-0 win over Nigeria. The USA’s all-time leading scorer Abby Wambach, with her first goal ofthe tournament, decided the game with a volley off a corner kick late in the […]
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Networks step up MLS coverage with dedicated time slots
MLS begins a new eight-year agreement with dedicated time slots on three networks. Friday’s LA Galaxy-Chicago opener on UniMas and UDN marks the first time the MLS season begins exclusively onHispanic television. MLS debuts on Fox Sports 1 with a special Sunday doubleheader while ESPN returns for the 20th season with the Orlando City-NYCFC opener. […]
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Top 10 new reasons why to get excited about MLS
The Major League Soccer kicks off its new season this weekend. There’s a lot to get excited about with a new stadium in San Jose, new teams in New York and Orlando and lots of new stars with thelargest Designated Player class in league history featuring Kaka, David Villa and Sebastian Giovinco, who will all […]
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2015 MLS Preseason Action
D.C. United won the inaugural ATX Pro Challenge with a 1-0 win over FC Dallas Sunday in Austin, Texas. Chris Rolfe‘s blast from 25 yards was the difference inthe four-team tournament hosted by the USL’s Austin Aztex. Week 3 Results: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY15: Austin, TX | D.C. United 1 FC Dallas 0. Chris Rolfe‘s blast […]