The Barcelona player mentioned that the team was playing better with "El Bigotón" as compared to the "Pentapichichi". “Maybe when (Lavolpe) was here, we had ‘something’ better.” He also mentioned that the national team is still trying to understand what identity he is trying to impose on the national side. Márquez reported to the national […]

Riquelme Xensational Juan Román Riquelme gave one of the greatest virtuoso performances in his swansong, leading Boca to their 17th international title. Those threats that were given in the days leading to the days prior to the match had more substance on the way to the pitch. That all ended when the opening whistle was […]

Dave Sarachan, a longtime associate of Bruce Arena with DC United and the National Team was fired today as Head Coach of the Chicago Fire. Chicago entered the season with high hopes and began the campaign an undefeated run of five matches but has one just once in the past seven. The Fire at this […]

The quality of soccer blogs throughout the blogosphere is continuing to increase. The difficult part is finding them.Two new ones I uncovered and highly recommend are: Pitch Invasion: It's not just the pretty pictures at Pitch Invasion which make the blog stand apart, although the images definitely do help. Blogger Tom Dunmore creates a 'thinking […]

Pat Dolan (pictured) has decided to continue as a Setanta Sports pundit instead of becoming manager of Derry City, according to BBC Sport. That means that the Setanta Sports crew for next season will feature Dolan, Paul Dempsey, Steve McManaman, Les Ferdinand, Angus Young, Steve Bower and Tim Sherwood (the former Blackburn Rovers player). Expect […]

Many forget that the days before MLS' became solely dedicated to spreading parity across the league that DC United had emerged as a "super club." Not only did DC United reach the MLS Cup finals in each of the league's first four seasons, but they provided MLS some much needed credibility on the international stage. […]

Many forget that the days before MLS' became solely dedicated to spreading parity across the league that DC United had emerged as a "super club." Not only did DC United reach the MLS Cup finals in each of the league's first four seasons, but they provided MLS some much needed credibility on the international stage. […]

The English Premier League will debut a new anthem to be played before matches and during the "English Premier League Preview" and "English Premier League Review" shows.That means that the ever-popular track remixed by DJ Judge Jules will be gone, and will be replaced instead by a track from Peter Lawler that, according to a […]

The interview with Peter Hargitay, special adviser to FIFA President Sepp Blatter, is now live on the EPL Talk Podcast (episode 71). Hargitay responds to some of the allegations that Andrew Jennings recently made on an earlier EPL Talk Podcast episode (number 69). Sepp Blatter's special adviser also answers criticism about other FIFA-related topics including […]

Alexi Lalas makes some excellent points in his discussion with the Guardian, but it is obvious the British media wants to turn him into a laughing stock, and make him appear to be the stereotypical American. Check out the entire interview: http://football.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330046416-103,00.html

A funny thing happened tonight. I read an article about LA Galaxy President Alexi Lalas's criticism of the Premier League and I started writing a blog post ripping him apart. Then I re-read the same Guardian article and found that I agree with about 90% of what Lalas had to say! In the piece that […]

Carlos Pavon is rumored to be days away from signing with LA. He scored this goal for Honduras Sunday in the loss to Guadeloupe.

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Beginning this August, Fox Soccer Channel will begin broadcasting some Premier League matches live via the Internet at FoxSoccer.com According to a source at Fox Soccer Channel, the 24/7 soccer network will show a combination of some live matches not airing on the channel and selected matches on short delay. The live Internet feed will […]

Real Madrid's 3-1 win tonight against Real Mallorca was a fairy tale ending to David Beckham's career for the Spanish giants tonight. In what must be described as a simply spectacular match, Real yet again came back from one goal behind to sneak the win. They've been doing it all season, but this night meant […]