With less than nine months before their combined World Cup 2026 bid must be submitted to FIFA, time is of the essence for the U.S., Canadian and Mexican federations. They’ve formed the United BidCommittee for handling the bid process and hired John Kristick, who worked on the USA’s unsuccessful 2022 World Cup bid in 2010, […]
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World Cup 2026: United Bid Committee formed
The U.S., Canadian and Mexican federations have formed a united bid committee for handling the bid process for the 2026 World Cup. The launch included the naming of a pair of American bid committeedirectors and a 10-person board of directors. JohnKristick, who worked on the USA’s bid for the 2026 World Cup hosting rights as […]
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Datebook: U.S. women will close year against Canada
The U.S. women’s national team will face Canada in two-game home-and-away series to close out the year in November after the NWSL season ends. The venue for the first match on Nov. 9 isset: BC Place in Vancouver. The U.S. venue three days later is still to be determined. The match in Vancouver will be the […]
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Canada: Toronto FC wins sixth Voyageurs Cup
Toronto FC won the 2017 Canadian Championship with a 2-1 win over the Montreal before 26,539 fans thanks to Sebastian Giovinco‘s goal that broke the 2-2 tie on aggregate in the fifth minute ofstoppage time. TFC, which captured the sixth Voyageurs Cup title in the competition’s 10 years, qualifies for the 2018 Concacaf Champions League June […]
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Canada won't pick Larin for Gold Cup roster
Orlando City striker Cyle Larin, who faces a misdemeanor DUI charge in Florida, will not be part of Canada’s 23-player Gold Cup roster. He is currently suspended by MLS while undergoingan assessment under the terms of the league’s mandated Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program.
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MLS: Vancouver Whitecaps rocked by triple arrests
Last week was a bad week for the Vancouver Whitecaps. On Thursday, the club announced that two boys in their residency program have been charged with sexual assault and suspendedindefinitely after an alleged “serious incident” at their training facility. The next day, MLS announced that veteran defender Sheanon Williams had been arrested on Thursday andcharged […]
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What They're Saying: Michael Bradley
“Total joke. Total joke. What more can you say? You’re trying to grow a league, you’re trying to raise the quality across the board, you’re trying to give the Canadian Championshipthe respect that it deserves because it’s a trophy and we want to win it. How, ultimately, that you get put into a position where […]
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MLS: Orlando City star Cyle Larin arrested for DUI
Orlando City and Canadian international forward Cyle Larinwas arrested early Thursday morning in Orlando for driving under the influence and was released after spending a mandatory eight hoursin custody. Larin, 22, was stopped at about 2:30 a.m. by the Florida Highway Patrol after being observed driving in the wrong direction down the wrong lane of […]
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MLS Today: Ricketts sidelined with strained hamstring
Toronto FC head coach Greg Vanney won’t have forward Tosaint Ricketts available for at least the start of a crowded schedule. He will be sidelined for threeto four weeks by a hamstring strain suffered last week in a 4-0 defeat of Ottawa in the Canadian Championship semifinals. He left that game in the 34th minute […]
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Lyon equals record with fourth European women's title
Lyon matched German club FFC Frankfurt when it won the its fourth European women’s title by beating French rival Paris St. Germain, 7-6, in a penalty shootout after their UEFA Women’s ChampionsLeague final ended 0-0. OL keeper Sarah Bouhaddi scored the decisive penalty in the eighth round after her opposite number, Pole Katarzyna Kiedrzynek, missed […]