Manchester City's third shirt for the 2014/15 season has been leaked on the Internet. City's third shirt is a purple shirt with fluorescent yellow trim. The collar is a darker shade of purple. So too is the back of the shirt that is darker than the front, similar to Manchester United's third shirt that is […]

An attendance of 64,207. That’s the number of fans that attended a recent rivalry match between the Seattle Sounders and the Portland Timbers at Seattle’s behemoth CenturyLink Field, which it shares with the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. The Sounders have only been an official member of MLS since their inaugural season in 2009, […]

FOX Sports has been using the International Champions Cup as a testing ground for a whole host of changes in its soccer coverage during the past week. Most of them, so far, have been poor. But tonight's coverage of the Liverpool-Manchester City game featured several cheap tricks that — yet again — give soccer viewers […]

The stage is set for the International Champions Cup game between Liverpool and Manchester City at Yankee Stadium in New York City. The winners of tonight's game will be the favorite to qualify for the Guinness International Champions Cup final on Monday, to be played in Miami — where the club could face Manchester United, […]

Former PSG, Barcelona and AC Milan attacking midfielder Ronaldinho has terminated his contract with Brazilian side Atletico Mineiro. The former Ballon d'Or winner left European soccer in 2010 to return to his South American roots. It was initially believed that he would sign with his boyhood club Gremio, but Ronaldinho disappointed his former side by […]

It's not often that a Premier League club officially announces how much they've paid for a footballer, but in the case of Everton Football Club, the Toffees proudly announced today via its Twitter account that the club has signed Romelu Lukaku on a five-year deal for a fee of £28million. For a club like Everton […]

PSV Eindhoven and Atletico Madrid have reportedly reached an agreement to send 18-year-old Belgian sensation Zakaria Bakkali to the Vicente Calderon this season. The young striker's contract with PSV was set to expire in June 2015, but the player had rejected the Dutch club's attempts to extend his stay in Eindhoven. Bakkali has been restricted […]

Mark Clattenburg has been appointed match referee for the UEFA Super Cup between Real Madrid and Sevilla on August 12 at Cardiff City Stadium in Wales. The 39-year-old official will be accompanied in Cardiff by an all-English team of match officials: Simon Beck and Stuart Burt will work alongside him as assistant referees; with Michael […]

The evolution of soccer is not linear. Residues from the past sometimes rise again despite being deemed outmoded and elements never to be thought of as vanishing suddenly begin to fade. The evolution of soccer happens in waves. During the last two decades – in some countries even longer – the center of creativity on […]

AS Roma midfielder Seydou Keita took to Twitter to explain his actions during his side's 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the International Champions Cup. The incidents that took place transpired before the kick-off when Keita refused to shake the hand of Real Madrid defender Pepe. Shortly after, the Malian international was caught on video throwing […]

On a balmy and breezy night in Maryland, 61,238 supporters turned up to watch the 2014 Guinness International Champions Cup match between Manchester United and Inter Milan at FedEx Field. Fans were treated to an entertaining match featuring both new Manchester United signings (Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw). This also was the first match where […]

While in Florida promoting and helping with Gatorade’s Unreal Around the World contest, a program that provides select winners for a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the globe to experience trips in either Italy, England, Spain, Argentina, or Brazil with clubs like Liverpool, Barcelona and Boca Juniors, Graham Zusi took time to talk to World Soccer Talk. […]

Romelu Lukaku has finally had his future determined as it is being reported that the Belgian striker has signed a five-year deal with Everton. Yesterday it was reported that Chelsea were asking £30 million for the player, but Everton is believed to have signed the player for £28.5 million with his weekly wage being £75,000. If that […]

I knew I was an addict when I was 14 years old. It was 1998. I had just returned to the United States from a month-long invitational soccer camp in St. Jean de Luz, France, run by former French national team manager Jean-Michel Larqué. Two days earlier, Zinedine Zidane's France had beaten Ronaldo's Brazil to […]

“Tika-Taka is dead.” The phrase was used a lot during the Spaniard's World Cup campaign. Finishing third in the group, conceding seven and scoring just four left people mourning the style of play called tiki-taka. The style of play is seen as an art-form for the technical lovers of soccer, the short and precise passing, […]