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Mikel Arteta has signed a new three-year contract at Arsenal. The Spaniard’s current terms had been due to expire at the end of the season but neither he nor his employers had offered any suggestion that Arteta might leave a club that have reestablished themselves as title contenders under his stewardship, which began in December […]

The 2024-25 Serie A season is back and back with a bang as the usual giants aim to fight for the title while other clubs hope they can pull off what Bologna did last season and surprisingly qualify for the Champions League. Inter and Juventus look like the favorites to win the league on paper […]

Although it is still two years away, the road to the FIFA 2026 World Cup is underway and there are already some interesting tendencies developing across the different federations. With Mexico, Canada and the United States hosting, the three CONCACAF nations are guaranteed qualification which means that the region is going more or less according […]

The result of the increasingly crowded international schedule has been to create some snooze-able international breaks and this was certainly in that category. However, there was still impactful action playing out across all continents and there is still the October and November international periods to come. From the UEFA Nations League to the FIFA 2026 […]

If Mauricio Pochettino were in any doubt as to the scale of the task he has just signed himself up for, he needed only to listen to his predecessor and his captain. Tactical tweaks and squad pruning are a way off for the new USMNT boss. The most fundamental aspects of any squad — culture […]

The wait is over as U.S. Soccer has entered a new era following the appointment of Mauricio Pochettino as the head coach of the United States men’s national team on Monday. Succeeding Gregg Berhalter who was dismissed from the role following the USMNT crashing out of the Copa America group stage, Pochettino is tasked with […]

The United States men’s national team went into the September international window with something to prove after crashing out of Copa America during the group stage. After losing to Canada and drawing against 94th-ranked New Zealand, they exit this international break, still, with something to prove. Interim manager Mikey Varas’ spell in charge of the […]

Getty Images Two-time Women’s World Cup winner Alex Morgan starts for the NWSL’s San Diego Wave on Sunday when she will play the final match of her storied 14-year career after announcing her retirement just three days earlier. Morgan shared the news of her retirement in a video posted to social media on Thursday, saying […]

After losing to Canada on home soil for the first time since 1957, the United States men’s national team is in need of a bounce back performance hosting New Zealand in a friendly in Cincinnati. While this isn’t as bad as the pre-Copa America 5-1 loss to Colombia there are plenty of similarities. The USMNT […]

Netherlands will host Germany at the Johan Cruijff Arena on Tuesday for their second game of the UEFA Nations League. Both sides won their first games of the tournament against Hungary and Bosnia and are now tied at the top of Group 3 of League A. Tuesday’s clash will probably tell us who the leading […]