Former England, Manchester City and Mexico manager Sven Goran-Eriksson did not become director of football at Notts County “for the money.” Nor, apparently, did he go for the prestige or mild degree of difficulty. Eriksson inherits a club that finished 19th in League Two last season, essentially the worst club in England that can be […]

It was the Merseyside derby... in Thailand? Watching Liverpool FC and the Thai National Team come out of the tunnel side-by-side was eerie: the hosts wore all-blue kits and Chang Beer is their sponsor. I had to double check the tv menu and make sure I was actually watching this morning's pre-season friendly and not an FSC Premier […]

When Arsene Wenger told the press he was in no hurry to spend Emmanuel Adebayor's transfer fee and would replace him with "an internal player," more than a few people probably had the same reaction: "Same old Wenger, always stingy." A quick look over Arsenal's roster, however, proves Wenger indeed has no shortage of options […]

Darren Tilley's Rochester Rhinos will not repeat their feat of 1999. The US Open Cup Final will feature two MLS teams and two coaches who are part of the US system. USL-1 with its British flavored football and coaches who tend to promote defensive tactics have been eliminated from the tournament. While MLS has one […]

AC Milan have been linked with quite a few strikers this summer but one link that seemed to intensify, after his impressive form in the Confederations Cup, was Luis Fabiano . However there seems to be reports coming out that the deal is dead as an agreement can not be reached over the players valuation. […]

Little more than an hour’s drive from Jose Mourinho’s reunion match with Chelsea, before the largest southern Californian soccer crowd in a decade, the Gold Coast simultaneously played host to an international friendly of a smaller scale, but a truer sense of the term. Burnley, the tradition-rich Lancashire club which earned promotion in May’s playoff […]

By all accounts, Chelsea's tour of the United States thus far has been a rousing success both on and off the field. After playing in front of 65,289 fans on Saturday against Seattle Sounders at Qwest Field, Chelsea played in front of another massive crowd Tuesday night at Pasadena's Rose Bowl. The attendance was 81,224. […]

What a long, strange trip it’s been for Portsmouth supporters. Just a little over a year ago, Portsmouth Football Club lifted the FA Cup, qualified for Europe, and was enjoying its second straight season in the top half of the table. Harry Redknapp was forgiven for his brief trip to Southampton. Winning trophies will do […]

The Summer of Soccer continues to open eyes. Sports fans are taking a second look and new fans are getting hooked. This period of time has undoubtedly been Soccer's most historic in the U.S. But are sports fans getting confused and could this confusion be counter-productive? No other mainstream sport has as many international tournaments. Basketball and hockey […]

Fox Soccer Channel will be televising friendlies this summer featuring Spanish powerhouses Real Madrid and Barcelona. The action gets underway on Saturday, Aug. 1 at 10:30 p.m. ET when Fox Soccer Channel broadcasts Barcelona against LA Galaxy live from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Max Bretos and Christopher Sullivan will be commentating. The following Saturday, […]

A number of Bundesliga games for the 2009-2010 season will be shown on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN360, according to The New York Times. Under a similar deal that ESPN negotiated with GolTV, where GolTV sublicensed some of its La Liga games for the 2009-2010 season, GolTV will sublicense a number of Bundesliga games to […]

How is it that an international striker with 16 goals in 34 games for his country and a Premiership strike rate of one goal in under every 3 games simply keeps being moved on? Now I could understand it if the player in question was a boorish, thuggish hooligan who whines about not being treated […]

Say what you will about the obscene amount of money being spent by Manchester City this summer, but you have to admit that there's a certain perverse pleasure in watching someone build a real-life club lineup in much the same way that most regular joes would create their starting XI in a video game. Okay, […]

The on-again off-again transfer story about Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic hit the front cover of the online edition of The New York Times today. Unfortunately, it was only the global edition. When you switch to today's U.S. edition, the story isn't even mentioned on the homepage.

PDL side Ventura County Fusion hosts Burnley in a friendly tonight. The manager of the club, Graham Smith joins us to discuss Anton Peterlin who was sold to Everton earlier this month as well as the PDL and his thoughts on the USMNT. This interview features different content from the Smith interview released last week […]