Landon Donovan has secured his first head coaching job at the tender age of 37. And he’s hiring plenty of smart women to help him out.
A day after Zlatan Ibrahimovic, another aging former LA Galaxy forward, announced he’s leaving MLS to play in Europe, Donovan was announced as the head coach for the expansion USL club San Diego Loyal SC.
Queens, the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, is getting a soccer team, with an assist from World Cup winner David Villa.
Queensboro FC will launch in the USL Championship in 2021, with former NYCFC striker Villa among the owners in an investment group led by New York businessman Jonathan Krane. Villa, Spain’s all-time leading goal scorer, will have a hands-on role with the club in U.S. soccer’s second division.
When the Seattle Sounders signed 19-year-old goalkeeper Trey Muse to a Homegrown Player contract back in January, he was widely considered the best amateur keeper in the country. He's since been sent on loan to USL Championship side Tacoma Defiance to get more consistent competitive minutes.
While he's struggled at times this season behind the league's worst defense, he's also proven that he's still the goalkeeper of the future for the Sounders.
Just take a look at this incredible quadruple-save he made against New Mexico United on Wednesday night:
Cuba’s national team left Toronto on Saturday having not only lost its opening Nations League match to Canada 6-0, but having lost five of its players permanently.
NISA (National Independent Soccer Association), the first major soccer league with a promotion/relegation system, kicked off its inaugural season recently, with the opening match between California United and the Oakland Roots ending in a thrilling 3-3 tie.
Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. The Las Vegas Lights of the USL Championship have set the unofficial world record for the largest water balloon fight at a soccer match.
Nobody said it couldn’t be done — they only asked “why?” The answer, of course, is Las Vegas Lights FC.
America’s Team.
With MLS just announcing that the city of St. Louis will be the next to join the league, other cities are beginning to scramble to fill the final slots MLS has made for expansion teams. Of all the cities interested, here are five that we think deserve a franchise the most.
The 2019 USL Championship (USLC) season marks the division’s third year as the second tier of American and Canadian soccer, and with 36 clubs vying for the USL Cup — including three that are averaging attendances of over 10,000 per match — the competition has never been bigger or better.
Francis Jacobs became the youngest soccer player to sign a professional contract with a U.S. club when he joined Orange County SC, the club announced Monday. Orange County competes in the USL Championship, the second division of U.S. soccer.
The world’s premier club competition is back for another edition and you’re all Googling "how to watch the Champions League" and scrambling to figure out if you have the right channels.
Well, you’ve come to the right place to learn how to watch the Champions League and every other major soccer league for the 2019-20 season, iterating on our similar story from last year.