The US will host Sweden in an International Friendly in January at the Home Depot Center. The match will be one of the last opportunities for Coach Bob Bradley to look at European based players before qualifying for World Cup 2009 begins.

MLS has suspended Ricardo Clark of Houston for nine games and given him a $10,000 suspension. This is an unprecedented fine for MLS, but given Clark's actions against Carlos Ruiz last week, the league felt the fine and suspension were justified. Given Carlos Ruiz's history as a provocateur I am anxious to hear Clark's side […]

MLS has suspended Ricardo Clark of Houston for nine games and given him a $10,000 suspension. This is an unprecedented fine for MLS, but given Clark's actions against Carlos Ruiz last week, the league felt the fine and suspension were justified. Given Carlos Ruiz's history as a provocateur I am anxious to hear Clark's side […]

Rafa Benitez has himself to blame for Liverpool's defeat last night in the Champions League. Deciding to put Leto and Aurelio on the left wing and Sissoko in the middle was a devastating mistake. It was almost as if Benitez seemed to not take Marseille too seriously, the first French side ever to win at […]

Much more on New England's 3-2 triumph over FC Dallas to win the US Open Cup tomorrow and on Episode 24 of the podcast which will be released this Friday.

Much more on New England's 3-2 triumph over FC Dallas to win the US Open Cup tomorrow.

The season is winding down and it is almost time to select our first annual Major League Soccer Talk Best XI. Any listener is welcome to submit a vote via email at kartik@majorleaguesoccertalk.com Here is what we are for: 1 Goalkeeper3 Defenders5 Midfielders2 Forwards No limit exists on games played so you can vote for […]

1 Wake Forest (16) 7-0-0 400 1 2 Connecticut 9-1-0 377 4 3 Notre Dame 6-1-2 365 2 4 Santa Clara 5-1-2 332 3 5 Duke 7-2-0 328 7 6 Virginia 6-1-2 292 8 7 Creighton 4-1-2 287 10 8 Northwestern 7-1-1 277 5 9 South Florida 7-1-1 262 12 10 Southern Methodist 4-2-2 251 […]

Covering La Liga from far away as we've been doing for the past 6 months like we have on forza futbol, we tend to see things antiseptically, second hand or translated and repackaged to fit another culture or another way of seeing things, whether it's to reach the ex-pat Spaniard, the curious Brit or the […]

A bitter disappointment I must admit for those of us hoping for a deep run from MLS' lone representative in the competition. United fought valiantly but was eliminated 2-2 on away goals. I can't help but wonder how ironic it is that this event used the away goal rule which could have advanced Houston instead […]

A bitter disappointment I must admit for those of us hoping for a deep run from MLS' lone representative in the competition. United fought valiantly but was eliminated 2-2 on away goals. I can't help but wonder how ironic it is that this event used the away goal rule which could have advanced Houston instead […]

A strike from Ramon Morales in minute 65 has put CD Guadalajara ahead of DC United 1-0 and 2-2 on aggregate with an away goal in the Copa Sudamericana Round of 16 second leg. DC must score in the final 25 minutes to advance.

The race for the final spot in the MLS playoffs is heating up with the late season surge by the LA Galaxy coupled with the propensity of the Chicago Fire to blow late leads. Here is the updated table: E1 DC United 53W1 Houston 49E2 New England 48W2 Chivas USA 48WC FC Dallas 40WC New […]

The rumor mill on the Guardian website is reporting that Sunderland manager Roy Keane, a longtime teammate of David Beckham's with Manchester United is trying to lure Becks to the Northeast of England. Beckham is of course under contract with the LA Galaxy but does anyone seriously think that despite their denials, the Galaxy wouldn't […]

Life sometimes gets in the way of football. Juggling three kids, a full-time job and all of the boring aspects of life (getting a haircut, picking up or dropping off drycleaning, getting an oil change, etc), you may find yourself in a similar predicament to me where midweek matches become quite a chore. If only […]