Skills
Watch: Cade Cowell torches three defenders with superb goal for Chivas
United States men’s national team and Chivas forward Cade Cowell scored his first goal of the new Liga MX Apertura against Tijuana in style on Friday.
While Chivas lost the game 4-2, Cowell was one of the few positives from the defeat as he netted a great solo goal and added a beautiful assist.
With Chivas trailing 2-0 in the second half, Cowell halved the deficit in the 69th minute after slipping past three defenders and beating the goalkeeper.
Cade Cowell goal vs Tijuana
Fueling a freestyler: Meet one of NYC’s greatest football freestylers and what fuels him and his family
The sport of soccer goes by many names with one that everyone can agree on: The Beautiful Game. Soccer transcends the fields it’s played on and breaks through into art and everyday life.
One New York freestyler epitomizes turning the sport into a daily routine with style and family at his core.
Meet Frankie Flo. A soccer freestyler who has performed on the world’s largest stages, a proud father, peanut lover and artist with the ball at his feet.
Neymar shows off insane first touch with ball dropped from 115 feet in the air
Brazil is getting ready to take the world by storm this winter in Qatar and they’re doing so in the most Brazilian way possible: by having fun.
The national team players participated in a number of segments on "Domingão com Huck" ("Sunday with Huck") — a popular show hosted by Luciano Huck — that dedicated short profiles on the players that made up the World Cup squad.
Watch: 51-year-old Zidane shows off in charity match with incredible skills
Zinedine Zidane will turn 52 years old this summer, but you can’t convince us he still wouldn’t make the cut for some teams. A Zidane charity match clip went viral as he showed off his skills and control.
During a charity match between his former club Bordeaux and Varieties Club de France, Zidane shocked the fans in attendance at Parc Lescure juggling the ball down the field in the middle of the game.
Zidane charity match skills
Watch: USL side Rhode Island show how to execute an indirect free kick perfectly
Indirect free kicks in the penalty box don’t happen often, but when they do it always makes for a spectacle. An indirect free kick goal from Rhode Island FC in the USL Championship on Friday is the exact chaos we love to see.
In the 89th minute Rhode Island trailed 2-0 to Phoenix Rising but had a late opportunity to give the crowd something to cheer about with an indirect free kick from roughly 12 yards out.
Phoenix created a wall of nearly the entire team spread out in front of goal, but Rhode Island were clever enough to produce this piece of magic.
Bernardo Silva’s penalty vs Real Madrid wasn’t a bad shot — it was genius goalkeeping
The Bernardo Silva penalty vs Real Madrid during Manchester City’s shootout defeat in Wednesday's Champions League quarterfinal was one of the most discussed points of the game.
After a brilliant game that ended 1-1 (4-4 on aggregate) it went to a penalty shootout. Silva stepped up to take City’s second penalty and stunned fans when he shot it right up the middle into the grateful hands of Madrid goalkeeper Andriy Lunin.
Silva received hefty criticism online for his penalty.
What if we told you, it wasn’t a bad kick but instead a genius bit of goalkeeping?
Watch: Ireland’s Megan Campbell shocks fans with her huge 35-yard throw-in
A viral Ireland long throw video from the Republic of Ireland’s 2-0 defeat vs. England in women’s Euro qualifying on Tuesday has gone viral. Megan Campbell has done it again.
Ireland defender Campbell is one of the best long-throw specialists in the game and has been heaving throw-ins for years.
There seems to be a cycle where she goes viral for her long throws, people forget about it after a couple years pass and then she’s viral again after a new video surfaces.
Campbell’s latest rocket came on Tuesday when she threw the ball into England’s box from near midfield.
Watch: Christian Pulisic scores his 10th Serie A goal of the season with superb finish
A fantastic Christian Pulisic goal vs Lecce on Saturday opened the scoring of AC Milan’s 3-0 victory and set a personal record for the American.
Milan manager Stefano Pioli gave Pulisic a new role for the Lecce game as the USMNT forward started as a center attacking midfielder instead on his usual role at right wing. Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Milan’s go-to No. 10, was out for the game through suspension.
Pulisic made an early impact in his new position opening the scoring in the sixth minute with a classy finish from the top of the box.
Hey Nottingham Forest, Thursday’s USMNT game is why you need to play Gio Reyna
Thursday night’s United States men’s national team 3-1 victory vs. Jamaica in the Concacaf Nations League semifinals was about as ugly as it gets. There are still some positives to be pulled for the game like the performance of Gio Reyna.
Were you watching Nottingham Forest??
Reyna is on loan from Borussia Dortmund to Forest until this summer and it’s been a nightmare move for the 21-year-old.