Assistant referee Debodun Osekita was yellow-carded by his colleague in the middle after entering the the field and tripping a winger during an English Sunday league game between AMG Ballerz and Welling Town Reserves. According to The Guardian, Osekita thought the ref had blown the whistle and intervened to stop play.
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Watch (highlights): Mexico vs. Germany serve up thriller in Philly
Each team ledin the 2-2 tie in front of 62,284 at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Field. Mexico, denied of two penalty kicks that VAR would likely have awarded, went down on a Antonio Rüdiger goal (25th minute) and equalized through Uriel Antuna (37th). Érick Sánchez’s diving header gave Mexico a 2-1 lead early in the second half. […]
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Watch: U.S. players take a unique training camp break
Tim Ream, Ricardo Pepi and Kris Lund took advantage of a break in U.S. national team training camp in Tennessee, where they play Ghana on Tuesday, to visit the Nashville Zoo. Their tour included a behind-the-scenes visit to feed giraffes and a chance to mingle with clouded leopard cubs at the zoo nursery center.
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Watch (highlights): Mexico beat Ghana ahead of the Africans' friendly vs.USA
Ahead of facing the USA in Nashville on Tuesday, Ghana fell, 2-0, to Mexico, in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday on goals by Hirving “Chucky” Lozano (57th minute) and Uriel Antuna (72)
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Watch: Kylian Mbappe shoot France into Euro 2024
Kylian Mbappe scored with a close-range volley in the 7th minute and long-range half-volley in 53rd minute in the 2-1 win over the Netherlands that clinched a spot for France at the 2024 European Championship. Quilindschy Hartman scored in the 83rd minute for the Dutch.
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Watch: Germany's new coach prep DFB-Elf for friendly vs. the USA
New coach Julian Nagelsmann is in the spotlight as the “DFB-Elf” trained in Foxborough, Massachusetts, ahead of Saturday’s friendly against the USA in East Hartford, Connecticut. SportBild delivered footage from Nagelsmann’s first official practice: “One thing is immediately apparent. The new Germany coach is very loud, gesticulates a lot, and runs around like we was […]
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Watch: U.S. men get their 2024 FIFA Beach World Cup challenge
While in training camp in Fort Lauderdale, Coach Francis Farberhoff and the U.S. beach soccer national team watched the draw for the 2024 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (Feb. 15-25 in Dubai). Farberhoff and goalkeeper Chris Toth comment on being placed into Group A with Italy, hosts United Arab Emirates and Egypt as the USA […]
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Watch: Brilliant back-heel golazo from Liga MX
Toluca’s counterattack launched within a minute of kickoff featured Édgar López‘s spinning back-heel finish from seven yards. Juan Domínguez, who delivered the ball through penalty area, also used his back-heel in the buildup for a give-and-go that sent him down the wing. The quick goal put Toluca on the path to a 3-1 win over […]
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Watch: Fantastic volley from college ball
Ethan O’Brien‘s golazo from outside the penalty area earned Notre Dame a 1-0 win over Duke. O’Brien, a grad student junior, played youth ball for the Seattle Sounders and Columbus Crew academies. Notre Dame is amid its best ACC start history with a 4-0-1 record.
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Watch (trailer): Germany's failure in Qatar captured up-close in docuseries
Germany, the U.S. men’s national team’s next opponent in an Oct. 14 friendly in East Hartford, Connecticut, won its fourth World Cup in 2014 but exited at the group stage in 2018 and 2022. Its failure in Qatar is documented extensively in Prime Video’s four-episode ‘All or Nothing.’