The much-dreaded return of Michael Bradley to the USMNT fold went about as well as everybody expected it to as the US lost 4-2 against Colombia on Thursday. There were some bright spots from some of the younger players but overall a 4-2 loss is not a good look for a team trying to win […]

Earlier in the week, Arsenal finally officially announced that they are partnering with Adidas following the completion of the current campaign. The five-year deal with the German sportswear manufacturer is reportedly worth £300 million ($391 million), which would be the third largest annual kit contract in world football (only behind Barcelona and Manchester United). The […]

Unless you've been studying the US youth players in recent years, it’s difficult to cheer for your national side when the players donning the red, white, and blue of the USA are just as unknown as the opposition. Against Mexico, interim coach Dave Sarachan fielded a team with an average age of 23. Considering the […]

It’s been almost exactly one year since the US lost to Trinidad & Tobago and failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In that time many questions have been asked but change has been slow to happen. A much needed overhaul of the player pool has begun in earnest and US Soccer […]

Just when we thought that ESPN+ couldn't add any more soccer leagues to its streaming service, ESPN+ has added the Indian Super League, Sweden’s Allsvenskan and Danish Superliga to bring their total of different soccer leagues and competitions to 17 by our count. As well as adding streaming coverage of leagues from Denmark, Sweden and […]

NBC Sports will launch a free preview of their Premier League Pass streaming service from NBC Sports Gold this weekend. Priced at $50 per year, this is the first time this season that NBC Sports Gold has offered a free preview, which will include all of the Premier League matches exclusive to NBC Sports Gold […]

ESPN has added the Coppa Italia and Italian Super Cup to its ever-growing list of soccer properties it has the rights to in the United States. According to SportsPro, "The duration of ESPN’s rights deal for the two cup competitions has not been announced, but it is likely to run from this season until 2020/21, […]

Arsenal’s Granit Xhaka has been one of the more scrutinized players in the Premier League since he joined the Gunners in 2016. Decision making and lack of discipline from the Swiss international appear to be the biggest issues for fans around the world. Despite these supposed problems, it seems as if every manager that Xhaka […]

When it comes to Serie A matches with Italian commentators, RAI Italia is the way to go in the United States. And now the popular Italian-language TV channel is available to fuboTV subscribers. fuboTV has added RAI Italia as a separate add-on for $7.99/month giving subscribers access to select Serie A matches each week in […]

With the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League Group Stage kicking off this week, most soccer fans in the United States had their first taste of soccer coverage from TNT. Dominant Spanish-language TV broadcaster Univision Deportes also aired their first Champions League games including some of the more high-profile matches on the over-the-air Univision channel. But how […]

Saying it's been a tumultuous summer for Real Madrid would be a massive understatement. Fresh off an unprecedented third consecutive Champions League title that well and truly solidified their place atop the European footballing world, everything began to crumble very suddenly. First was their manager. Zinedine Zidane took over Los Blancos at a difficult time, […]

I’ve been writing for World Soccer Talk since May, 2014. As you may know, I mainly handle match previews of US Men's National Team games, but I also write stories about attendances and TV ratings. This past Tuesday, I was afforded the opportunity of being able to go to Nashville to cover the USA-Mexico game […]

Univision Deportes already has made Liga MX one of the most popular soccer leagues on television in the United States, but now the Spanish-language broadcaster is ready to dive head first into European soccer when it launches its coverage of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League group stages next week. The addition of the […]

This season's UEFA Champions League tournament will be the biggest change for soccer fans in the United States since the games moved from ESPN to FOX Sports in 2009. The big changes mean that there are some big winners and losers. Here's our breakdown of who will win and lose based on the massive changes: […]

With the US media rights for the UEFA Champions League having changed hands, we say goodbye to FOX Sports and ESPN Deportes's coverage of the world's greatest soccer club competition and hello to TNT and Univision Deportes who are preparing for their first-ever broadcasts of the UEFA Champions League group stage. But what can we […]