TEMPE, Arizona — For any international soccer squad (or really a team in any sport at all), hitting the road for games in inhospitable environments is a fact of life. Home-field advantage is real. The flip side of that fact is that it also holds true for opponents. Being the away team is almost always…
Cavan Sullivan just wanted to hug his mom and dad. The U.S. men’s national team prodigy — who celebrated his 17th birthday on Monday — was less than two hours removed from becoming the second-youngest starter in the program’s 113-year history, going a solid 62 minutes in Saturday’s 4-1 friendly win over Peru at Orlando’s…
Maybe the U.S. men’s soccer team’s so-called “Golden Generation” never stood a chance. There’s been plenty of theories about why the USA, with a collection of in-their-prime players who star for some of the planet’s leading clubs and who thrilled fans en-route to the round of 16 at this summer’s World Cup, fell flat against…
Gio Reyna has been in their shoes. Like his new USA teammates Cavan Sullivan and Neil Pierre, Reyna was once a blue-chip teenager participating in his first national team camp, as Albert and Mehmeti are ahead of four home exhibition games against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada — the Stars and Stripes’ first set of…
There’s a youth movement afoot within the United States men’s soccer team. On Thursday, coach Mauricio Pochettino named a 28-player roster for the Stars and Stripes’ first matches since reaching the round of 16 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup – home exhibitions later this month and early next against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada….
Despite helping AC Milan fight back from a two-goal deficit last weekend, Christian Pulisic won’t be on the United States men’s soccer team’s first roster of the 2030 World Cup cycle, multiple sources told me on Wednesday. After fracturing two bones in his right leg in the Americans’ 2026 FIFA World Cup-ending 4-1 loss to…
By comparison, predicting the United States men’s national team’s 26-player roster before the 2026 FIFA World Cup was a breeze. There were a couple of minor surprises — Alex Zendejas and Miles Robinson in! Diego Luna and Tanner Tessmann out! — but by and large, the players Mauricio Pochettino selected for the eventual round of 16…
We’re coming off an incredible summer and arguably the best World Cup in history. Never had we had 48 teams spread across three host nations and so many of the star players actually produce some iconic goals. Certainly the U.S. men’s national team could have done better, even though Mauricio Pochettino’s squad did deliver some…
Following the announcement of Mauricio Pochettino extending his contract with the U.S. men’s national team, FOX Sports analyst Alexi Lalas shared his perspective on the state of the program and the expectations facing the head coach heading towards the 2030 World Cup. Reflecting on the recent tournament performance, Lalas noted that the job ultimately comes…
Clint Dempsey didn’t hesitate. When I asked arguably the greatest American soccer player of all time what the U.S. men’s national team must do to keep its fans engaged and create new ones before the next World Cup arrives in 2030, Dempsey — the USMNT’s all-time co-scoring leader and a FOX Sports analyst during the…
