Mario Machado, an important man in the history of soccer on US television, died earlier this month aged 78. Machado whose soccer commentary helped bring the sport into millions of American homes in the 1970s and 1980s was the first Asian-American newscaster in the United States of prominence, and was best known for TV news […]

It's payback time at Anfield for spending all of that money on Liverpool striker Andy Carroll. According to a report tonight in The Guardian newspaper, Liverpool are prepared to sell striker Luis Suarez for a club-record £50million plus. After Suarez came out in the last 24 hours and explained why he wants to leave England, the club […]

Photos have been leaked on the Internet featuring West Ham United's new home and away shirts for the 2013-14 season. After signing a deal with adidas earlier this month, the new West Ham United kits were scheduled to be unveiled this summer. But thanks to the football shirts sleuths, we've got an early peek at […]

FOX's live broadcast of the 2013 UEFA Champions Final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund averaged a 0.9/2 rating with 1.4 million viewers on Saturday, May 25, 2013. With no Barcelona, Real Madrid or Premier League team in the final, ratings were understandably lower than in 2012 (-18% from 2012's 1.1/3 rating). However, according to […]

Tickets for the tournament that will be the hottest soccer item in the United States this summer went on sale today for the International Champions Cup featuring Juventus, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Everton, Valencia, Inter Milan, AC Milan and LA Galaxy. All eight teams will compete to determine which major club will be crowned champion. Matches […]

Southampton Football Club have announced that they've signed a deal with adidas for the Germany company to be their kit designer and manufacturer beginning with the 2013-14 season. The timing of the new kit deal is welcome based on last season's extremely disappointing home kit that Umbro designed, which was completely devoid of the characteristic […]

Landon Donovan’s stoppage time goal against Algeria in the 2010 World Cup was fateful in many, many ways. One of the most tangible consequences? It kickstarted the Ian Darke phenomenon. In 2010, Darke was one of UK’s lead soccer and boxing announcers. After ESPN’s commentary debacle in the 2006 World Cup, featuring Dave O’Brien – […]

David Moyes made some excellent signings in his eleven years at Everton. The likes of Tim Cahill, Mikel Arteta and Leighton Baines immediately spring to mind when talk turns to this particular topic. But despite his impending exit, potentially the best signing of the Moyes reign is still at the club, and may well be […]

Real Madrid and adidas have unveiled the Spanish club's new home shirt for the 2013-14 season. It's an incredibly smart design from adidas (hint hint Nike with your England shirt design). The orange and silver trim complement the shirt well. "adidas wanted to go a step further in innovation and product design," said a statement […]

It is a well known fact that soccer is a team sport and every team member is as valuable as the other. But naturally, the recognition received by all the players of the team is not the same. As an audience, we rather watch strikers score goals than defenders preventing them. A spectacular last ditch […]

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has explained, in his own words, why he wants to leave England. While he admits that he's received no offers yet and that he's still under contract at Liverpool, his agent appears to be trying to line up a deal in Spain either with Real Madrid or another top club. Watch […]

Spanish media are reporting that Manchester City have reached an agreement to sign Jesus Navas, a 27-year-old right winger who plays for Sevilla. According to Spanish newspaper AS, Navas will head to Manchester City at the request of soon-to-be manager Manuel Pellegrini. The newspaper reports that Sevilla were trying to sell Navas for £25million. The […]

Ah, you've got to love politics. After a judge suspended the Brazil against England friendly yesterday due to concerns about public safety, the same judge overruled her decision today and said that the game must go on. The state government presented a report today showing that the Maracanã Stadium complies with the relevant safety guidelines […]

The likelihood that Luis Suarez will leave Liverpool this summer for Real Madrid or another club has increased in the past 24 hours with the Uruguayan star admitting on radio that it would be hard to pass up an opportunity to move to Real Madrid if they came calling. Plus, before Uruguay's friendly against France, […]

With FOX Soccer scheduled to morph into FXX later this summer, and the US media rights for the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup and England home internationals to transition to FOX Sports 1 after August 17, one of the biggest questions that soccer fans have had in the States is what will happen […]