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U.S. men’s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino has defended both his player selection and the team’s performance after a 2-0 loss to South Korea on Saturday, which marked his seventh loss in 17 games since taking the job less than a year ago. Pochettino described the USMNT as “better than South Korea” in the […]

U.S. men’s national team head coach Maurico Pochettino may have been right to say the performances will be more important than the results in this month’s friendlies, but Saturday’s 2-0 loss to South Korea demonstrated genuine room for improvement in both categories – and especially the former. Pochettino’s experimental lineup, which featured a mix of […]

The 2025 NWSL regular season is entering its final quarter, with just seven match weeks remaining. Time is getting shorter for teams in the playoff push. Week 19 provided us with numerous examples of league parity, as bottom-table teams secured wins and stole points from clubs in the upper half of the standings. Momentum has […]

Getty Images Tottenham Hotspur have declared themselves “not for sale” and revealed Sunday night that they have rejected two approaches from consortia to buy the club. The departure of Daniel Levy from his role as executive chairman on Thursday prompted days of speculation over the future ownership of the club, around 87% of which is […]

No matter the circumstances, every club has a fall guy, and few are as well-known as Daniel Levy. No matter the affiliation, every fan seemed to have an opinion of the Tottenham Hotspur chairman, who left the role on Thursday after 24 years at the helm, and truthfully, the review was rarely a glowing one. […]

HARRISON, N.J. – Nine months out from a World Cup, it is unrealistic to expect most national teams to be the finished product, especially in a friendly where experimentation should be encouraged. World Cup-bound teams, though, should be offering a preview of what that finished product might be and in the U.S. men’s national team’s […]

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – With nine months to go until the 2026 World Cup, the U.S. men’s national team are in timeline purgatory, experiencing the friction of the calendar, the stop-start nature of international soccer and the weight of expectations. It is still unclear how much time is enough time for a host nation to prepare […]

A move to perennial Champions League winners Real Madrid was supposed to afford Trent Alexander-Arnold a new start, and yet a little over three months after departing Liverpool, familiar questions are being asked of the most brilliantly esoteric right back on the planet. Is he a better fit in midfield than in defense? What should […]

Getty Images Stage one of suspensions for Inter Miami players have begun after the end of their loss in the Leagues Cup final devolved into chaos. Luis Suarez spat on a Seattle Sounders staff member while Sergio Busquets appeared to punch Sounders midfielder Obed Vargas, following the action. Both received suspensions from the Leagues Cup […]

Gio Reyna has secured a move away from Borussia Dortmund after another lost season sitting on the bench, joining Borussia Monchengladbach. He isn’t going far, the journey between Signal Iduna Park and BORUSSIA-PARK is just over an hour, but it’s a move that brings a breath of fresh air, and a new perspective for Reyna […]