STATE FARM STADIUM (Glendale, Ariz.) – What a way to get your first start for the U.S. men’s national team. A week after making his senior international debut in the second half of the USA’s 4-1 win over Peru, 20-year-old Barcelona goalkeeper Diego Kochen was named in coach Mauricio Pochettino’s lineup for Saturday’s high-profile exhibition…
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…
Three days after trouncing Peru in Florida, the U.S. men’s national team overcame a stiffer test against a stout South American foe. World Cup veterans and up-and-coming youngsters combined to lead the USA past Chile in Tuesday’s 4-2 win in St. Louis. Chris Richards nodded home a Sebastian Berhalter corner kick with about 20 minutes…
The U.S. women’s national team is back together for the first time since the spring, beginning a critical stretch of preparation for next summer’s 2027 World Cup in Brazil. The Americans will face Spain twice – on Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C. and on Oct. 13 in Chester, Pennsylvania – in heavyweight matchups between the…
United States coach Mauricio Pochettino expressed sadness at an apparent failure of “sporting justice” in his response to reports that Manchester City has been found guilty of almost all of the 115 charges leveled against the club for alleged financial breaches. The alleged rule-breaking by City took place between 2009-18, during which period Pochettino was…
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…
Age is but a number. And U.S. men’s national team fans who are already thinking about the 2030 World Cup have a new name to keep tabs on. Cavan Sullivan, at age 16, made his USMNT debut with his start in Saturday’s friendly against Peru. He is the youngest player to take the pitch for…
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…
International soccer is back, and the World Cup stars are heading straight into a new World Cup cycle. The first international window since the World Cup is a three-week break in which countries can play up to four matches each, and most soccer leagues will not resume until Oct. 9. The Nations League competition begins…
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…
