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, […]

A number of Bundesliga games for the 2009-2010 season will be shown on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN360, according to The New York Times. Under a similar deal that ESPN negotiated with GolTV, where GolTV sublicensed some of its La Liga games for the 2009-2010 season, GolTV will sublicense a number of Bundesliga games to […]

The on-again off-again transfer story about Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic hit the front cover of the online edition of The New York Times today. Unfortunately, it was only the global edition. When you switch to today's U.S. edition, the story isn't even mentioned on the homepage.

PDL side Ventura County Fusion hosts Burnley in a friendly tonight. The manager of the club, Graham Smith joins us to discuss Anton Peterlin who was sold to Everton earlier this month as well as the PDL and his thoughts on the USMNT. This interview features different content from the Smith interview released last week […]

Real Madrid are determined to snap up as much of the top talent in world football as they can with Xabi Alonso being tipped to be the next big signing for the club. I know this has been getting put about for quite a while now with no concrete movement quite yet but I fear […]

Recently, Atletico Madrid’s coach, Abel Resino, came out and said that Atletico’s goal for this season is a third or fourth place finish in order to qualify for Champions League (Atletico finished fourth last season). Resino has thrown in the towel before the season has even begun, unofficially handing the La Liga title to either […]

The Sports Business Journal reported on Friday that MLS is looking at five potential markets for the next round of expansion and very notably omitting perhaps the most important market of all. The paper reported that New York City appears dead for the next round. However, a second NYC area team should be a priority […]

Let's sit down and discuss this situation like grown adults here. I understand what everyone wants and what everyone is looking for. But to be frank and it's very true what Kartik says, just because there is great football across the Atlantic doesn't mean we have to ignore our league or leagues here in the […]

Fulham striker Bobby Zamora is in talks with Hull City over a proposed £5million transfer. The fee has already been agreed but now Zamora must decide if he is prepared to move to the north of England for the first time in his career. The 28 year old has been in Hull since Friday but […]

Swansea City's busy summer is showing little sign of slowing down after Spanish midfielder Jordi Lopez agreed a two-year deal with the Championship club. The 28 year old will be new manager Paulo Sousa's first signing and joins on a free transfer, after former club Queens Park Rangers failed to meet his wage demands. Lopez […]