Author Archives: Soccer America

It’s nigh impossible to get figures out of Major League Soccer on which teams are earning a profit and which are not. All thanks then to Forbes Magazine for an independent review of the league’s finances. On the whole it presents an optimistic picture of a burgeoning league, especially for those teams with a home […]

Bundesliga side SV Hamburg is to open up a 500-corpse capacity cemetery so that fans can be buried within sight of the team’s stadium. The cheaper option is to have their ashes interned in an official club urn.

Any assurance given by FIFA President Sepp Blatter to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales that their independence would not be threatened by a united GB Olympic team in 2012 would be non-binding for any of Blatter’s successors, according to a UK government e-mail released under the Freedom of Information Act.

Fancy a challenge? The English FA is seeking a chief executive to secure the country’s bid to become World Cup hosts in 2018.

Matt Scott speculates that Manchester City may make a new and more lucrative offer to lure MLS Deputy Commissioner Ivan Gazidis on board the freshly enriched club.

Dan Raley sought out former U.S. women’s national team star Michelle Akers in Florida, and found her busy being a mother to her three-year-old son, as well as rescuing abused horses and nursing them back to health. But she still has plenty to say about soccer eight years after leaving the game due to a […]

After largely ignoring the continent for years, Major League Soccer teams have finally cottoned on that Africa offers a rich mine of soccer talent. Last week the franchise-in-waiting Seattle Sounders signed Gambian Sanna Nyassi, twin brother of New England’s Sainey, as its third player following Kasey Keller and Sebastien le Toux. Now D.C. United has […]

FC Dallas has made a number of surprising trades since Schellas Hyndman took over as coach mid-season, and many of the team’s fans think that striker Abe Thompson’s move to the Kansas City Wizards last week was more of a gift than a trade, writes Bob Luder. The Wizards, though, hope to cash in on […]

Soccer in America fails to make the headlines not just because it’s still a minority sport at the top level, but because its main figures rarely say anything interesting about the game, writes Grahame L. Jones.   Compare that with the rest of the soccer world, where positions of power are occupied by colorful characters […]

FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has written a forthright letter, on FIFA-headed paper, to Sunderland manager Roy Keane following the withdrawal of the English club’s striker, Dwight Yorke, from World Cup qualifying action for Trinidad & Tobago against the USA.   Warner, the Concacaf president who also acts as “special adviser” to the Trinidad & […]