The creativity and passion that Portland Timbers supporters pour into making incredible tifos to help support their team is outstanding. Thankfully, filmmakers have captured the fans and the process on video to give soccer fans such as ourselves a better understanding of what goes into making these beautiful designs. The 15-minute film, entitled "Tifo: Inside […]

The fiery Serbian derby between Red Star Belgrade and Partizan Belgrade bore a closer resemblance to a Rage Against The Machine music video than a soccer match today after Partizan fans literally set the stadium on fire. The crazy Partizan fans ignited several fires on the concrete terraces around the stadium. Fire trucks were brought […]

Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 11:00 ET on NBCSN The 106th edition of the South Wales Derby will make its first appearance in the Premier League on Sunday. Cardiff City will host Swansea City in a fixture that has had its share of blood on and off the pitch. It is somewhat unfortunate that this derby […]

Edinson Cavani’s move to from Napoli to Paris St. Germain was one of the surprise moves of last summer’s transfer window. The Parisians, after all, already had a world-class striker in Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Having the two of them in the same side seemed almost like trying to cram two lead guitarists into the same group. […]

There’s a first time for everything. The Football League in England was founded in 1888, and since its inception there has never been a matchup in the top flight between two clubs from Wales. There are nine Welsh clubs competing in the English football league system and only two have ever won a major honor […]

Stoke City goalkeeper Asmir Begovic became only the fifth goalkeeper in Premier League history to score a goal today, joining the elite ranks of other scoring goalkeepers Peter Schmeichel, Tim Howard, Brad Friedel and Paul Robinson. Here are two camera angles showing Begovic's incredible goal:

Montreal Impact are set to name Alessandro Nesta as their new coach, according to a report tonight by Grant Wahl. The Italian centre back, who has been capped 78 teams by his country, retired from playing soccer last month after spending his final two seasons of his footballing career with the Canadian MLS side. Current […]

Here’s the line-up of commentators for gameweek 10 of Premier League matches on US television across the NBC Sports Group networks this weekend: Saturday, November 2: Newcastle vs Chelsea, 8:45am, NBCSN; Steve Banyard and Jim Beglin Fulham vs Man United, 11am, NBCSN; Gary Taphouse and Tony Gale Hull vs Sunderland, 11am, Premier League Extra Time; […]

NBC Sports Network is doing everything it can to pump up TV ratings for its coverage of Major League Soccer. The network is showing some matches on free-to-air television. They're putting Arlo White back in the lead commentary booth this weekend (and putting stand-in Steve Bower in charge of commentating this weekend's Premier League matches). […]

Following Arsenal’s 2-0 loss to Chelsea in the League Cup on Tuesday, we read analysis far and wide about how the Gunners title credentials had been unmasked by the result. These theories gained traction among many analysts during the course of this week, but they were laughable. Bashing Arsene Wenger has long proven to be […]

Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher recently sat down on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football to analyze how defending has changed in the Premier League from when both of these English footballers were being coached compared to more modern defenders such as David Luiz and Jan Vertonghen. Neville argues that the Premier League clubs should incorporate […]

It’s always wise to point a camera at Jose Mourinho. Train a camera on the man, and he’ll pay you back with some remarkable scenes. Such was the case on Sunday as a revived Fernando Torres pounced on a cataclysmic piece of defending from Manchester City and their beleaguered goalkeeper Joe Hart to score and […]

After Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a spectacular back-heel goal for Paris Saint-Germain against Bastia in Ligue Un two weeks ago, a video has been created that uses a flip book to immortalize Zlatan's beautiful flick. Is it better than the flip book that was created to showcase Thierry Henry's goals for the New York Red Bulls? […]

Players from the Montreal Impact in MLS were described by TV commentators as "sore losers" and "classless" for the way they ended their MLS playoff hopes last night after losing 3-0 to the Houston Dynamo in a fiery match where three Impact players were red carded. Nelson Rivas, Andres Romero and Marco Di Vaio were […]

Joe Hart has been dropped by Manchester City for tomorrow's clash with Norwich City, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper. Costel Pantilimon will start in goal for City after making an impressive performance against Newcastle United in the Capital One Cup midweek. While Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini remained coy in his press conference interview […]