The 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal in Miami featured a rematch of a Confederations Cup group game from a month earlier. Brazil and the United States had varying approaches to this tournament: The USA wanted to win the event and again qualify for the Confederations Cup while Brazil was bloodletting a promising group of youngsters […]

With huge advances in cable, satellite and Internet technology, we can now watch practically any major football league on our TV screens or monitors in the comfort of our living room. Your favorite football team could be the one that's in the city near you, or it could be a club that's on the other […]

There's Premier League football, and then there's Sunday League football. One is glamourous. The other is a mixture of aching limbs, no glory, pints of beer and having a laugh. The latter is portrayed in a surprisingly trendy viral video from The FA (yes, the Football Association). It's a spoof of the Nike video that […]

Readers of this site know I don't typically post pieces on one particular youth prospect going abroad. But, Cody Arnoux is a player I have been tracking for a long time and it's refreshing to hear that he may be latching on with a big English club. Soccer by Ives broke the story earlier today […]

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, […]