West Ham have struck a deal with Dutch second division side VVV-Venlo that will see young players loaned between the two clubs. The Hammers announced the deal on Tuesday after extensive research from academy manager Terry Westley to find what he considered the right match-up. Westley's son, Sam, has already moved to Venlo on loan earlier […]

Saturday night's CONCACAF Cup game between USA vs. Mexico was viewed on average by an audience of 1.56 million people on FOX Sports 1. While the viewing audience size didn't beat the 5.1 million who watched the game on Univision, the number still was decent considering competition from baseball on a Saturday night. To put the USA-Mexico game […]

Sam Allardyce arrived at Sunderland having been left in little doubt as to the task ahead of him. Here, Press Association Sport considers some of the major issues in the new manager's in-tray as he looks to turn the Black Cats' season around. HOME SICKNESS The Stadium of Light has been a graveyard for Sunderland's […]

After struggling with poor TV viewing figures for live Bundesliga games so far this season, FOX Sports has decided to throw a "Hail Mary" and show 8 Bundesliga games live on the over-the-air FOX network in 2016. The games will be shown from January through May in the second half of the 2015/16 Bundesliga season. The bold […]

Saturday was a disastrous day for US Soccer. Not only did the USMNT lose to Mexico and fail to qualify for the 2017 Confederations Cup, but the US U-23 team lost in the semi-finals of Olympic Qualifying to Honduras and now faces the possibility of missing the Olympics for the second time in a row. […]

Other than Mexico, who beat the United States to win the CONCACAF Cup in California, there were two other clear winners Saturday night — Univision and FOX Sports due to impressive TV viewing numbers for the classic rivalry between these two nations. While the numbers from FOX Sports have not been published yet, the USA-Mexico game […]

A full-blown coaching crisis. I’ve been waiting so long. Never in my lifetime has there been this much scrutiny on a United States head coach, yet after Saturday’s 3-2 loss to Mexico, the United States have an undeniable soccer “crisis” on their hands. The team’s not progressing. Fans are pissed off. Is this what it's […]

Jurgen Klopp held his first training session as Liverpool manager with a reduced squad, but there was some early good news for the German. International duty meant just nine first-team players, supplemented by three youth team goalkeepers, were present at Melwood as the former Borussia Dortmund boss began work proper on Monday afternoon after his […]

Arsenal defender Gabriel Paulista recently spoke about his difficult childhood growing up in south Sao Paulo. The 24-year-old revealed that seeing his mother live in problematic conditions in his native country motivated him to help give her a better home. “She lived in a shack in a favela,” Gabriel told Arsenal Player. “I talk about […]

Vincent Kompany could feature for Belgium in Tuesday's Euro 2016 qualifying clash with Israel in Brussels. The center back has missed the last five games in all competitions for Manchester City due to a calf problem, and prior to the current international break, Blues manager Manuel Pellegrini's verdict on Kompany, with regard to his chances of being […]

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has no plans to poach any of his former players from Borussia Dortmund and insists he is not interested in what money is available in the January transfer window. The German has reiterated his desire to work with the squad he has inherited from predecessor Brendan Rodgers – most of whom he […]

On August 8, the National Premier Soccer League shocked the US soccer landscape by drawing a record crowd to Chattanooga FC’s Finley Stadium for the NPSL National Championship match. Although many of the 18,227 fans left disappointed after Chattanooga fell to New York Cosmos B, interest in the league and Chattanooga FC was raised. Considered […]

As the 2015/16 Championship season progresses, the QPR rollercoaster has yet to pull into the station to let its fans off for a moment of relief. This international break, on the back of a dramatic 4-3 last second victory over Bolton, is just another long slow climb up the hill to the next match against […]

Just two days after Bob Bradley’s USA side was knocked out of the 2010 World Cup in heartbreaking fashion by Ghana, US Soccer President Sunil Gulati was asked how he felt about the team’s tournament run. He answered, "I think the team is capable of more. I think the players know it. I think Bob […]

The United States Men’s National Team program has hit a clear tipping point. Saturday’s 3-2 loss to Mexico in the CONCACAF Cup coupled with the stunning 2-0 loss to Honduras in the CONCACAF U-23 Championship represented a double-whammy indicting the current direction of the program. Poor results and national team regression come at a point […]