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England Captain Steven Gerrard spoke to the media in Miami on Friday afternoon following a training session at Barry University. The Three Lions have a final World Cup warm-up friendly tomorrow against Honduras before leaving for Brazil. Liverpool's captain was in a positive mood ahead of the friendly against Honduras and the World Cup. Gerrard […]

Former US Men’s National Team Coach Bruce Arena believes that the US Men’s National Team needs to be a fundamentally American team. Currently, German playing legend Jürgen Klinsmann who has lived in California since 1998 is managing the national team. "I believe an American should be coaching the national team," Arena told the New York […]

German midfielder Marco Reus suffered an injury in the friendly today against Armenia. Germany won the match 6-1 but the 25 year-old midfielder was in tears as he left the field late in the first half. According to the DFB, Reus suffered a partial tear of the anterior ligament above the left angle. The full […]

American soccer fans have been in the last week obsessing over Jürgen Klinsmann’s decision to scrap the 4-2-3-1 formation for recent friendlies and play with a midfield diamond. The developed narrative has claimed that the United States lacks adequate defensive cover from midfield in this formation. Klinsmann however has been anxious to diversify the United […]

World Soccer Talk has teamed up with Reddit's /r/WorldCup subreddit and QuakeNet to offer an official World Cup jersey as a prize to the winner of a World Cup prediction competition. The competition will run throughout the World Cup tournament, with points awarded to each entree for correctly predicting the results of games. To learn […]

On a hot and humid day in South Florida, England and Ecuador battled in a lively friendly at Miami's Sun Life Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. In addition to the promising performance by Ross Barkley as well as the unfortunate injury to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, there were plenty of talking points from the 2-2 stalemate, with more […]

Celtic is a club at a crossroads. Having just clinched their third title in a row, the Scottish club's plans for the summer were shaken up when manager Neil Lennon resigned on May 22. The popular manager had followed up his successful playing spell at Celtic Park with more than four seasons of titles and triumphs. […]

With two draws in their preparation friendlies, Greece is a team that is looking toward the World Cup with tempered optimism. A depleted Portugal squad held them 0-0 on May 31, and they found themselves in another scoreless draw against Nigeria on June 4. On Friday June 6 at Red Bull Arena in New York, […]

French winger Franck Ribery has been ruled out of World Cup due to a back-injury. Ribery has been complaining of lower back pain for months and has not been playing for either the French National team or Bayern Munich since April 29. France manager Didier Deschamps was optimistic about Ribery returning after some personal training but […]

Saturday morning at 9:30am (AEST) (7pm ET), the Socceroos will face off against European giants Croatia in what will be both teams' final friendly match in the lead up to the World Cup. The match will be played at the Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, with Australia having several injury concerns ahead of their clash against […]

David Villa's signing with NYCFC led to the question, what will the World Cup bound Spanish striker do until MLS season begins? The answer is join NYCFC sister club Melbourne City which competes in the Australian A-League. NYCFC, Melbourne City and Manchester City are all owned by Abu Dhabi Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour. Villa […]

Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas will play host to a friendly between Liga MX teams Club Leon and Santos Laguna on Sunday, July 6 at 5 p.m. Central Time, it was announced earlier today. FC Dallas’ home stadium has become a regular venue for friendlies involving Liga MX sides. Heading into its first CONCACAF Champions […]

This week, BBC's Panorama news program debuted a new episode entitled Brazil – In The Shadow Of Stadiums, which examines the rampant prostitution and poverty that exists within view of the World Cup stadiums. It's no wonder there's a growing anger at Brazil for pouring billions of its money and resources into hosting the World […]

Former United States Manager Bob Bradley feels his son, Michael who is arguably the best American field player of this current generation would have made a good signing for Arsenal this past January. At the time the younger Bradley was struggling for playing time at AS Roma and eventually moved to Toronto FC of Major […]