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Teams: Philadelphia Union vs New England Revolution Location: PPL Park Date: March 15, 2014 Time: 4:00pm ET 2013 Series: Last season, the Revolution won the season series 2-1 with a 2-0 win on April 28, and a 5-1 victory on August 26. Philadelphia Union’s lone win in the series was on March 16 — a […]

You know that soccer has made it in America when the politicians in the United States and Russia are using it as a weapon. On Friday, Republican U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), and Dan Coats (R-Ind.) sent a letter to FIFA president Joseph Blatter asking that he strip Russia’s FIFA membership, ban the country from […]

Eddie Johnson has been given his money. Earlier this week, D.C. United announced that Johnson, acquired over the offseason in a trade with the Seattle Sounders, was given a contract extension that elevates him to Designated Player status. Johnson, who had a fantastic 2013 season for the Sounders in which the forward scored nine goals, […]

With the MLS season set to kickoff this afternoon, below are three of the biggest matches of the weekend. Seattle Sounders FC vs Sporting Kansas City, 3pm ET, NBCSN Graham Zusi, and the rest of the MLS Cup defending Champions, travel to Seattle as they play a new-look Seattle Sounders FC at 3pm ET. Seattle […]

Will it be the Eastern or Western Conference of MLS that will take the honors during the 2014 season? There's no doubt there's plenty of talent among the teams in the Western Conference, but there are plenty of question marks too. Here's our preview of the 2014 MLS Western Conference (see below) as well as our preview […]

U.S. Soccer today officially announced that the U.S. Men’s National Team will play three matches prior to the start of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The matches will be part of the Send-Off Series. The USMNT will play in San Francisco, New Jersey, and Jacksonville as Jürgen Klinsmann and his squad put the final […]

This was an important match and the United States Men’s National Team blew it in the biggest way possible. The defense looked flat. Clint Dempsey seemed uninterested, and the USMNT let Ukraine score twice to leave Cyprus with the 2-0 win versus a World Cup-bound squad. In a game that was the last time Jürgen […]

Despite initial confirmed reports that a senior Ukraine soccer executive had announced that the Ukraine-United States soccer friendly was canceled, the game between the two countries is now back on according to US Soccer. US Soccer tweeted late Monday night that the game will go ahead as scheduled: “The Football Federation of Ukraine confirmed that […]

UPDATE: Since the publication of this article, the US Soccer Federation has reported that the game is back on. See the updated article. In a blow to the United States Men's National Team preparations for World Cup 2014, Wednesday's friendly game between Ukraine and the United States has been cancelled by Ukraine. The USMNT will […]

With the season scheduled to kick off this Saturday, World Soccer Talk brings you the 2014 MLS Eastern Conference preview. There might be a shift in powers in the East after a few clubs made some huge offseason splashes, but one thing is for sure, Sporting Kansas City is still one of the favorites to […]

Major League Soccer and Chipotle Mexican Grill have reached a partnership in which the restaurant will become the Official Fast-Casual Mexican Restaurant of MLS and 12 of its clubs. Additionally, during the AT&T MLS All-Star Week in August, Chipotle will sponsor the inaugural Chipotle MLS Homegrown Game featuring the nation’s top Homegrown players from MLS […]

Earlier today, Jurgen Klinsmann announced the 24 players that he's called to training camp in Frankfurt, Germany as the USMNT prepares for its match versus Ukraine on Wednesday, March 5 in Cyprus (live on ESPN2 at 2pm ET). Twenty one of the 24 players called to Frankfurt for the training camp are players who are […]

North American Soccer League (NASL) is once again changing its playoff format. The 2014 NASL season will debut the new-look postseason format as four clubs will qualify to play in “The Championship” that will decide the NASL Soccer Bowl Championship. The league will still have a Spring and Fall Champion. However, now the two season […]