Despite their current supremacy, their abundance of exquisite footballers and their unwavering determination to succeed on all fronts, Manchester United may find an FA Cup sixth round trip to Craven Cottage a difficult challenge to overcome tomorrow. Sir Alex Ferguson’s thoroughbreds continue to vanquish their opposition week after week, playing with a swagger and style […]

Every time there has been an article about David Beckham wanting to leave Major League Soccer on the footballing side or those cronies in the English press trying to knock down our league and American supporters that they have no idea about real football, here is a man that will stand up on top of […]

Episode 67 of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast features an interview with Dave Brett Wasser, the President of the NASL Alumni Association. In the show we discuss the legacy of the league on youth soccer and both the US and Canadian National Teams. We also discuss the impact the New York Cosmos and other […]

The Bundesliga Season 2008/09, a few words come to mind: Exciting, Dramatic and Close. The first half had newly promoted Hoffenheim getting a fast start and ultimately claiming the Herbstmeister Title. Now we have a team at the top that has never been there this late […]

Liverpool FC will be traveling to Asia this summer for their 2009 preseason tour. The Reds will play in Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong between July 17-26, 2009. No ticket news has been revealed as of press time, but it looks likely that Liverpool will play the Thai national team in Bangkok. Thailand is managed […]

I'm finally feeling well enough to write about the events of last night. From the backer of the game in North America it was just too painful to write about after the event. The Montreal Impact did everything right early. Absorbing pressure, keeping their shape at the back, hitting Santos on the counter. Two goals […]

Tomorrow I'll be recording Episode 67 of the Major League Soccer Talk podcast with Dave Brett Wasser who is President of the NASL Alumni Association. Anyone with questions or curiosities about the NASL please leave them in the comments section here. Thanks!

USL-1 has placed a team in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League, just a day after the last MLS representative the Houston Dynamo were embarrassed in Cancun at the hands of Atlante. Yesterday we discussed tactics on this site: specifically how Colin Clarke, the second leading goal scorer in Northern Ireland National Team history […]

– Photo by Katy Umana In contemplating the Houston Dynamo’s performance on Tuesday night in Cancun, the only thing that pops into my head is Dusty Rhodes saying "Shameful!". The Dynamo were the only MLS squad to make it out of the CONCACAF Champions League group-stage and into the quarter-finals. After giving up a 1-0 […]

After Barcelona's poor run of form in the past few weeks, goalkeeper Victor Valdés is at the center of the storm. Do you think it is time for Josep Guardiola to make a change there? Should Victor Valdés remain Barcelona's starting goalkeeper? ( surveys)

The MLS' most presentable and competitive franchise bit the dust late last night in Cancun. The Dynamo who so valiantly fought two years ago in Hidalgo against Pachuca in a similar situation showed little fight or quality yesterday against an Atlante team which is pedestrian at best. The kicker is that Houston in 2007 played […]

Let me say that this is a bad moment for everyone involved down in South Florida. I understand what my colleague Kartik Krishnayier is going thru. Granted that I never supported the Miami Fusion back in those days, but when you've had your heart ripped out like that when your favorite player was traded, or […]

The Miami/Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area will continue to be the most populated urban area in the US or Canada without an MLS franchise. Yesterday's announcement that Marcelo Claure and Barcelona are out of the running for a team confirms much of the speculation of the last few weeks. It also intensifies the feeling that persisted […]

Please stop giving me grief about the comments that came out in the papers today. You got the wrong guy. I am not the one that is optimistic about Mallorca's ability to overturn a 2-0 first leg deficit against Barcelona in the Copa del Rey. They are inspired and Gregorio Manzano is ready to pull […]

North Americans don't get much in the way of involving chit chat shows covering the Premier League. Sky's CNN talking-head-over-ticker-tape style sports news is good for watching endless loops of Steven Gerrard looking forlorn as Liverpool's title chances evaporate into thin air, but it's hardly the sort of thing that makes you feel glad to […]