• Jonathan Bond signed a contract extension with The LA Galaxy, keeping him in Carson through 2024 with an option for 2025, the club announced Monday morning. • James Pantemis, the Canadian goalkeeper who played as a back-up in Qatar, will remain with CF Montréal for another year with a 2024 and 2025 option. Pantemis is one of Montreal’s […]
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Freddy Juarez on his unique path to the Real Salt Lake helm, growing up in Las Cruces, and the Buzz Lagos influence
Freddy Juarez beat a unique path to Major League Soccer. Real Salt Lake’s head coach never played in a top-tier league — he was a defensive midfielder and defender in two USL-affiliated leagues and during one season of indoor soccer — and had been in charge of a team above the youth level for just […]
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Southern California soccer experience serves Coach Andrew May well with Real Salt Lake Academy
Andrew May has been coaching youth soccer for a couple decades, starting when he was a collegiate player. Until 2020, he coached in Southern California, where he was born and raised. After six months at Real Salt Lake-Arizona Academy, May moved to the Real Salt Lake Academy in Utah. In July, he coached RSL’s U-15s […]
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Watch (profile): An Olympic hopeful's rise out of Utah
Sebastian Saucedo, who once served as a Real Salt Lake when Jason Kreis coached the MLS club, now plays for Kreis’ U.S. U-23 team aiming to reach the Olympics. This two-minute profile includes footage from Salcedo playing for RSL’s U-15 Development Academy team. Saucedo moved to UNAM Pumas after four MLS seasons.
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Evening Edition: What's in the news …
1. MLS expansion team Austin FC secured the largest number of membership deposits ever placed in a single day in MLS history on Wednesdaywhen its application system went live. (Its website at one point crashed because of what Austin FC president Andy Loughnane termed “unprecedented traffic.”) Fans can reserve up toeight seats per account for […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Atlanta United stays on top with split
A busy week of 16 games scrambled a few places atop the MLS Power Rankings, though many of the top teams stayed put by winning. Previous leader Atlanta United held first place despitelosing to Sporting Kansas City, 2-0. The Five Stripes rebounded from their first home loss by halting Orlando City’s six-game winning streak, 2-1. […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Top teams hold their spots with ties
New York City FC followed up a 4-0 smashing of Real Salt Lake to register a 2-2 tie in Atlanta, with that result keeping those teams in the top two slots in Soccer America’sMLS Power Rankings.Sporting Kansas City held third by tying Seattle, 2-2, at home, and FC Dallas stayed unbeaten while rising to fourth […]
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MLS Power Rankings: Crew SC stays on top
Road teams did well in the second week of MLS play but by holding serve at home – in front of a small crowd – Columbus held first place in Soccer America’s MLS Power Rankings. Both New York teams won at home to take the next two spots and a spectacular road victory by Los […]
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MLS 2018: Seattle's immediate focus is getting through preseason healthy and CCL
Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer isn’tso much concerned about the start of competitive play as he is about the relatively short interval that preceded it. For the second straight year, Seattle and Toronto FC reached the MLSCup final last December, but unlike the 2017 season, this year both teams get underway early with quarterfinal […]
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MLS Moves: Kreilach gives RSL boost in midfield
After its second-half surge that got it to within striking distance of an MLS playoff spot with the league’s largest corps of young players, Real Salt Lake wasn’t interested in making a lot of majoroffseason changes. The TAM signing of Union Berlin co-captain Damir Kreilach will give Coach Mike Petke some needed depth in midfield […]