It looks like 17-year-old Canadian Alphonso Davies is headed to Bayern Munich in what will be a record transfer deal for an MLS player. The deal has not been confirmed, but reportssuggest that Bayern Munich will pay the Vancouver Whitecaps as much as $15 million for Davies, plus 15 percent of a future transfer fee. […]
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Yael Averbuch on forming the NWSL Players Association, learning to love a new position and dealing with a rough offseason
Three-time All-American Yael Averbuch has been playing pro soccer since finishing her collegiate eligibility at North Carolina in 2008. She has won three league titles (two in Women’sProfessional Soccer, one in the National Women’s Soccer League) and last May spearheaded the formation of an association for non-allocated NWSL players, those not under national-team contractsfunded by […]
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MLS Focus: Newcomers debut under yet another new coach in Montreal
In just its seventh MLS season, the Montreal Impact is on its fifth head coach. Remi Garde led the club for the first time Sunday at Vancouver, which built up a 2-0 lead and heldon to win, 2-1. Four offseason additions were in the starting lineup, though it was holdover Matteo Mancosu who scored the […]
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Concacaf U-20 Women's Championship: Huitema leads Canada past Costa Roca
Canada kicked off the Concacaf U-20 Womens’ Championship by beating Costa Rica, 3-1, Thursday in Couva, Trinidad. Jordyn Huitema, the 16-year-old international, scoredtwice for Canada, which trailed, 1-0, at halftime to a goal by Catalina Estrada in the 28th minute but struck twice early in the second half despite failing to convert a penalty kick. Huitema […]
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What They're Saying: John Herdman
“You’d be naive not to think that there’ll be people in the football community with that perception, and that’s natural. That’s natural for most people that aretransitioning, whether it’s women who have moved into men’s pro soccer, or the female referees that have moved into that side of the game. There will be doubters, for […]
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“Speechless right now….” — Longtime Canadian national team star Christine Sinclair after the Canadian Soccer Association
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Women's College Cup: Star-studded field descends on Orlando
The four teams at the 2017 Women’s College Cup bring some of college soccer’s most exciting young talent. Three players who have been in the U.S. senior national team camp. Two Canadian Olympicbronze-medalists. And arguably the most exciting freshman to enter college in the last decade. Women’s College Cup,Semifinals: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 Stanford vs. South […]
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USA-Canada: Rapinoe finishes comeback year with big performance in 3-1 win
USA-CANADA EXPRESS: Nov. 12 in San Jose USA 3 Canada 1. Goals: Ertz (Rapinoe) 11, Morgan (Press) 57, Lloyd(Morgan) 80; Beckie (Prince) 50. Att.: 17,960. A pair of Bay Area college products — Julie Ertz and Alex Morgan — and Carli Lloyd scored to give theUSA a 3-1 win over Canada in its final game […]
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Cities bidding to host World Cup 2026 games will make presentations in Houston
The process of selecting prospective venues for the 2026 World Cup continues next week in Houston, where 32 cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States that have survived the first cut will makepresentations to the United Bid Committee. Presentations will be made starting Monday. During the Official Host City selection process factors such as […]
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USA-Canada sellout: 'Christmas' comes early in Vancouver
How big is the Canada-USA women’s game, which will be played Thursday at Vancouver’s BC Place? A sellout crowd of the domed stadium’s lower bowl is expected, which would be larger thanthe CFL BC Lions’ largest crowd of the season (23,415) and could top the Whitecaps’ largest crowd for the 2017 MLS season (27,837 for […]