The only unbeaten and untied team after three weeks has climbed atop the Soccer America MLS Power Rankings. Sporting Kansas City needed a controversial goal to preserve its perfect mark and withthat strike by Brad Davis edged Toronto FC, 1-0. Montreal and San Jose lost after winning their first two games and aside from SKC, […]
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What They're Saying: Clint Dempsey
“At the end of the day, everybody has the right to choose their own path in their career. I have a lot of respect for Oba. He’s come from a little kid in Nigeria to playing with some ofthe best clubs in the world. He’s had a great career. Who am I to tell him […]
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Jordan Morris must earn spot in crowded Seattle attack
Now that the Seattle Sounders have signed Jordan Morris, the question becomes where will they play him. He joins a Sounders’ frontline that may be the deepest in MLS with Clint Dempsey,Obafemi Martins and Nelson Valdez. It’s a problem his new coach, Sigi Schmid, will gladly have.
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Clint Dempsey on Jordan Morris, moving abroad and his national team future
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) Perhaps no player on the Seattle Sounders knows better what Jordan Morris has beenfacing in deciding whether he’ll join the Sounders or German club Werder Bremen — Werder says MLS has won out — than Clint Dempsey. Dempsey was only two yearsolder than the 21-year-old Morris — but with three years […]
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Hodgepodge U.S. roster lacks two Gonzalezes and Seven Standbys
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) The roster decisions made by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann for the first camp of 2016 are a hodgepodge ofthe highest order. Seven veterans on the initial list of 36 players are not in the 23-mansquad, a bizarre sidelight for a coach who can’t seem to accept his own admission that this […]
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SA Positional Rankings: Kamara tops list of strikers
A pair of 22-goal scorers topped the MLS list in 2015, but only one of them is ranked in this category. A breakthrough season for Kei Kamara put to rest those criticisms that hecould score occasionally but not hit the target enough over a long season. He tied for the league lead with the signing […]
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Strong women's field for U.S. Soccer honors
World champions Lauren Holiday, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo are the nominees for 2015 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year. Lloyd isalso a finalist for the FIFA Women’s Player of the Year. She won the Golden Ball as the best player at the 2015 Women’s World Cup, while Solo won […]
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What will new and Improved TAM mean for MLS?
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Something about the number four must be messing with the MLS masterminds as they ponderother ways to permit teams to spend more money on players. Either that or they just love their newest acronym, TAM, which burst onto the scene earlier this year to great fanfare and,gasp, actual numbers provided! This […]
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For Klinsmann, There is No Margin for Error
By the time you read this, the U.S. men’s national team will have most likely completed its opening 2018 World Cup qualifier against St. Vincent and the Grenadines, winning handily. Ifthat hasn’t happened, USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann should be fired immediately. In fact, he should be fired immediately if the game is even the slightest […]
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USA-SVG: Three things to look for in qualifying opener
A month ago in the Rose Bowl, the U.S. national team lost the mother of all rivalry games with Mexico. Soccer federation president Sunil Gulati stuck to his guns and retained head coach andtechnical director Jurgen Klinsmann, and the second World Cup cycle with the former German international in charge officially starts in the city […]