Last week we reported on the exclusion of Latinos from the U.S. Soccer Youth Task Force, which the federation launched nearly a year ago. It includes six Working Groups, which brings to 59 the number ofpeople working on the Task Force. Each of the Working Groups includes one member of U.S. Soccer’s Athlete Council Donovan […]
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Gregg Berhalter: 'We have obligation to fans to win games, play good soccer and entertain them'
With the final friendly of theyear set for Tuesday against Uruguay, the USA’s focus is on the Celeste, one of the most difficult teams in the world to play against, but a lot of the attention at Monday’s press conference was onFriday’s 3-0 loss to Mexico, its worst loss to its archrival in a decade. […]
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To the U.S. Soccer Federation . . . In Anger
My congratulations to the United States Soccer Federation. The ignorance, the arrogance, the bias, the total lack of awareness, the smugness, to say nothing of the abysmal failure to do what it issupposed to do, are now revealed as way beyond anything that I believed possible. The facts in Mike Woitalla’sarticle expose what is going […]
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USA-Uruguay: Six U.S. players return to their clubs
Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Zack Steffen and Alfredo Morales, who all started in the USA’s 3-0 loss to Mexico, have returned to their European clubs and will missTuesday’s friendly against Uruguay in St. Louis. John Brooks, who was held out of the Mexico game after sustaining a tight groin in training, also returned to his […]
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What They're Saying: Gregg Berhalter
“We’re in a difficult position because we’re only allowed to play games during a certain time of year. One thing I’ve been a little bit disappointed in is MLS teams opting to play in FIFA windows. Ithink it’s [infringing] on the time we have with players. I understand their situation of not wanting to play […]
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What They're Saying: Carlos Cordeiro
“Dan Flynn is our chief executive. The search committee is working on finding that replacement.” — U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro, not wanting to comment oncandidates for Flynn’s replacement as U.S. Soccer secretary general and chief executive officer. He said an announcement would be made in the weeks ahead. On Monday, Cordeiro announced a restructuringof […]
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Daniel Workman on his new podcast, working on 2018 U.S. Soccer election and pro/rel petition
Daniel Workman, director and producer of the Daniel WorkmanSoccer Show, was Eric Wynalda’s campaign manager in the 2018 USSF presidential election. The show, which debuted in April, airs five days a week and features a prominent figure in thesoccer world for every episode. Usually based in Mobile, Alabama, Workman has been on a European tour […]
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U.S. Soccer's Carlos Cordeiro announces plans for complaint hot line in response to Glassdoor reviews
A day after a New York Times story on reviews highly critical of the U.S. Soccer workplaceand the organization’s retiring secretary general, Dan Flynn, and chief commercial officer Jay Berhalter, a candidate to replace Flynn, on the workplace Web site Glassdoor, U.S. Soccerpresident Carlos Cordeiro responded to the story and announced that the federation will […]
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Hope Solo wins appeal in U.S. Soccer case before USOC
HopeSolo, who in 2018 filed a complaint before the USOC against U.S. Soccer that the federation was in violation of USOC by-laws and provisions of the Stevens Act won her appeal of the decisionby a three-person USOC panel to grant U.S. Soccer’s motion to dismiss the complaint. Solo vs. USSF: Final Arbitration Award
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U.S. Soccer welcomes new Paralympics challenge
Imagine that you’re picking up a sport from scratch. You’re trying to play a sport you’ve never encountered on any level. You’ve had little opportunity to witness it liveor find a broadcast. Now imagine an entire country is trying to pick up that sport from scratch and come up with a team that can compete […]