Of all of the matches I covered during this summer’s International Champions Cup, AS Roma against Juventus from Gillette Stadium was perhaps the most unique. Neither club has the star power and recognizable branding of a team like Barcelona or Manchester United. Instead, this matchup drew fans with a strong connection to their team. While […]

This past week saw solid reported attendance numbers with the exception of Philadelphia’s midweek match and the FC Dallas home game. The numbers should remain reasonably strong for the rest of the season with Atlanta having eight home matches, while Seattle has seven home games remaining. After 237 matches, the average attendance is up 0.20% […]

Here are the ten things we learned from Week 21 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. Should Atlanta Stay Put? It is extremely rare and perhaps unprecedented in the annals of MLS history that a club or its fanbase has second thoughts about moving out of a college football stadium and into new digs. But […]

The 2017/18 German soccer season kicks off Saturday with a live broadcast of the German Supercup between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. The match will be shown live on the over-the-air FOX network on Saturday, August 5 at 2:30pm ET. Bayern Munich versus Dortmund will also be streamed via Sling Blue, fubo Premier and DIRECTV […]

UPDATE: In a dramatic turn of events, beIN SPORTS has lost the rights to the EFL Championship and EFL Cup to ESPN. For all of the details regarding this huge development, read our exclusive story. The 2017/18 Championship season will be televised in the United States on beIN SPORTS after the broadcaster renewed its contract […]

The news dropped like dueling sledgehammers on Wednesday morning: First, the LA Galaxy announced that they had fired manager Curt Onalfo and replaced him with Sigi Schmid. Then, not two hours later, the Galaxy's new cross-town rivals answered. LAFC announced that it had landed former U.S. national team manager Bob Bradley as its first ever […]

A total of 80,162 fans descended on FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland to witness Barcelona take on Manchester United in the International Champions Cup. As expected, both teams had thousands of supporters show up to cheer them on, and the lineups at kickoff did not disappoint. Ernesto Valverde deployed Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar […]

Walking into Red Bull Arena, I was surprised to see how many random soccer jerseys were being worn. I’d come to watch Tottenham Hotspur play AS Roma after all, but if you’d told someone with no knowledge of the fixture to come, they’d have had a hard time telling you exactly who was playing whom. […]

Brad Friedel sat down with World Soccer Talk this week to discuss his broadcast and coaching career. World Soccer Talk: You are one of the most decorated goalkeepers in the history of the Premier League with the most appearances – even more than the likes of Peter Schmeichel and Petr Cech. How did you make […]

Subscribers to fuboTV, the legal streaming service in the United States, can now use their fuboTV username and password to authenticate with the NBC Sports App to watch even more programming. The long awaited news will come as perfect timing especially for soccer fans who are looking forward to the start of the new Premier […]

Last week was very busy as MLS comes out of the Gold Cup group play break. In a nice change, there were no terrible reported attendances for the seven midweek matches. DC United had a disappointing showing over the weekend given they had rain. Meanwhile, New England Revolution opened up some extra seats for the […]

If ever there needed to be evidence that MLS is completely entrenched in its single entity model for soccer, Monday's revelation that it rejected a $4 billion TV deal from MP & Silva was it. Imagine for a minute how an injection of $4 billion in cash could transform the United States into a powerhouse of […]

MLS has quietly rebuffed a $4 billion offer from MP & Silva that would have quadrupled the broadcast rights fee the league currently receives from its deals with FOX Sports, Univision and ESPN, according to a story in Sports Business Journal. The deal came with one catch, which was too much for MLS to absorb — […]

Here are the ten things we learned from Week 20 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. Atlanta Are Cup Contenders Atlanta United got what is arguably the best win of their expansion season on Friday night, beating Orlando City 1-0 in Florida on a stunning late goal from Hector Villalba. It was a gutty performance […]

In front of a record-breaking 82,104 fans — the most ever for a soccer game in New Jersey, Barcelona saw off Juventus 2–1 in an exciting International Champions Cup match at MetLife Stadium Saturday night featuring two quality first-half goals from Neymar. Veteran defender Giorgio Chiellini scored a towering header to halve the lead for Juventus […]