American soccer will lose one if its most venerated heroes at the end of the MLS season when 38-year-old Brian McBride finally call it quits after a 16-year career. McBride is most known in the United States as a star for the national team. A decade of solid performances punctuated by moments of absolute brilliance. […]

Sami Khedira has spoken about Joachim Loew's decision to name him and Schweinsteiger as Germany's first-choice defensive midfield pairing, and has challenged Michael Ballack for the right to fill the midfield role for the national side. Khedira stepped into the midfield and into the limelight during the 2010 World Cup in Ballack's stead. The veteran […]

Qualification matches for European Championships used to be a rare delicacy in the United States. Often times it would be impossible to watch or listen to the games. The next best thing was reading the scores on the Internet and trying to imagine how the game must have played out in your head by reading […]

There's a full slate of MLS action this weekend, but we begin the weekend preview with a farewell to Brian McBride. McBride, former Fulham captain and U.S. international, announced that this season would be his last for the Fire on Friday. It's the end of a long and successful career for the target man, who […]

Italy have begun to forget about Lippi and the World Cup failure, the team has new faces and is beginning to click under Cesare Prandelli. The first qualifying match for the European Championships Poland/Ukraine 2012 was against Estonia, and while Prandelli couldn't use Balotelli, Buffon, and a few other important players, Italy were able to […]

While his Liverpool teammate and close friend Steven Gerrard will be captaining England tonight, Jamie Carragher will be preparing himself for a well earned testimonial against an Everton XI. Carragher’s time at Anfield has been varied. He has achieved some incredible success most notably on that night historic night in Istanbul. But there is […]

This past week in football taught the world that Harry Redknapp is a football manager first and a 'wheeler dealer' last. If you missed his verbal tirade on the poor Sky Sports reporter who so mistakenly uttered the phrase in Redknapp's direction, you'd have also missed Tottenahm's securing of Dutch playmaker Rafael van der Vaart as […]

Gerrard Backs Capello Ahead Of Euro 2012 Qualifiers English captain Steven Gerrard has defended Fabio Capello ahead of England's first Euro qualifiers versus Bulgaria and Switzerland, calling the cries for his ousting "crazy." "It's important Fabio is still given a chance. Who out there, that's an English manager, has the CV Fabio Capello has got?" […]

The Telegraph newspaper is reporting that Manchester United supporters are planning on staging a protest against the club's owners, the Glazer family, in the upcoming clash against Liverpool at Old Trafford on September 19. In the past, United supporters have worn green and gold to show their dissatisfaction with the Glazer's ownership of Manchester United. […]

If you follow EPL Talk on Twitter, you'll know that I send out a ton of links each day featuring breaking news, fascinating articles, updates on availability of soccer on your local TV provider, and much more including my ramblings. But here are a few stories that I wanted to share with you here on […]

After three matches, jumping to conclusions about how the season will play out seems a bit hasty. We can’t possibly know after three short weeks what’s going to happen in the next eight months, right? Wrong. Here are five conclusions I’m ready to jump to: This is the last season you’ll see Fernando Torres in […]

With my sincerest apologies for the long World Cup absence, this edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast looks towards this weekend's action, with Real Salt Lake and New York taking center stage. But before we do, we talk Bob Bradley, Champions League and U.S. Open Cup with the show's new permanent co-host, Christopher […]

Joachim Loew's young German side, who managed a third-place finish at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, will be looking to pick up where they left off against Belgium for Germany's first round of European Championship qualifying matches. The tournament will be held in Poland and Ukraine in 2012, but before Joachim Loew's side […]

Thinking about the foundation of law in the United Kingdom, and all of Europe for that matter, that a person is innocent until proven guilty, made me wonder how, as an Arsenal fan, my immediate reaction to Jack Wilshere's arrest differed to that of the Pakistani cricketing trio (three Pakistani cricket players were this week […]

All you ever wanted was two strong semi-final matches that were going to lead into an interesting and intriguing big championship final that had the pomp and circumstance. Well who would've thought that one man would play a role in US Soccer's version of England's FA Cup? But here it is folks, Sigi Schmid, who […]