The Chicago Fire have made an excellent coaching hire to replace the fired Dave Sarachan. Columbian Juan Carlos Osorio, whom I am personally very familiar with from his four plus years as an assistant at Manchester City under Kevin Keagan and Stuart Pearce will take over the Fire next week according to Soccernet.com. Osorio actually […]

A somewhat disappointing Copa America for the United States comes to end tonight against Colombia. Expectations were low for the Americans heading into this tounrment. The US brought a side without several first-choice players like Landon Donovan, Demarcus Beasley, Carlos Bocanegra, Tim Howard, and Clint Dempsey to play against two of the most powerful teams […]

Episode Six of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast is now online. Unfortunately we had technical problems while attempting to tape our weekly conversation with BC John, but still have a good give and take with Michael Haley regarding the U-20 World Cup, Copa America and everything else going on in the world of US […]

Episode Six of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast is now online. Unfortunately we had technical problems while attempting to tape our weekly conversation with BC John, but still have a good give and take with Michael Haley regarding the U-20 World Cup, Copa America and everything else going on in the world of US […]

The English newspapers are reporting that Carlos Tevez is poised to become Manchester United's latest signing as early as next week. If the deal goes through, the implications for the Old Trafford club would be enormous. First, United will have managed to secure the biggest transfer target of the summer in Europe away from the […]

Chile's draw tonight with Mexico eliminated the US from the Copa. Nonetheless the US "B" side has given a good effort and we should expect to see them play loose and without pressure tomorrow in the group finale against Columbia.

Watch Adu, Szetela and Altidore lead the US to one of our biggest wins ever at the youth level.

I'm finally catching up on some of the e-mails I've been meaning to get to, so this one is sort of timely... Courtesy of EPL Talk reader eplnfl, here's a photo slideshow from the recent USA v Canada Gold Cup match from Soldier Field, Chicago — including a photo of eplnfl next to the appropriately […]

Everton has released its new away shirt for the 2007/2008 season and, for once, the design is simple, understated and classic compared with the other audacious new away shirts from Premier League clubs such as Chelsea, Reading, Spurs and Newcastle United. Everton's away shirt, like their home kit, is manufactured by Umbro and will be […]

Adu Takes on Polish Defender en route to a hat trick Earlier, my fellow blogger usasoccerfan16 said that Tuesday's World Cup game between the US U-20 squad and Poland's U-20 squad could be one of the biggest games in the lives of several of the US players. Well, usasoccerfan16 was right and the players as […]

Jozy Altidore/Getty Sports Images Earlier, my fellow blogger usasoccerfan16 said that Tuesday's World Cup game between the US U-20 squad and Poland's U-20 squad could be one of the biggest games in the lives of several of the US players. Well, usasoccerfan16 was right and the players as well as Coach Thomas Rongen knew how […]

Tonight's 6-1 win for the US Under 20 team at the U-20 World Cup (formerly the FIFA World Youth Championships) was as good a performance as I have ever seen by any US team against respectable opposition in a FIFA or CONCACAF event.(note I excluded COMEBOL events because the 3-0 win over Argentina in the […]

Tonight's 6-1 win for the US Under 20 team at the U-20 World Cup (formerly the FIFA World Youth Championships) was as good a performance as I have ever seen by any US team against respectable opposition in a FIFA or CONCACAF event.(note I excluded COMEBOL events because the 3-0 win over Argentina in the […]

With the decision by the arbitration panel today ruling against Sheffield United, the precedent has been set for clubs to be deceitful in the future regarding transfers, face the penalty of getting fined but avoid a points deduction. If West Ham United can do it, what's stopping other teams from following suit in future seasons? […]

Freddy Adu just scored perhaps the best goal I have seen an American player make since Eric Wynalda in the 1994 World Cup or at least since Preki's goal versus Brazil in 1998. The goal gives the US a 2-1 lead against Poland in minute 21, at the U-20 World Cup. More on the game […]