Author Archives: Soccer America

There are a number of scheduling reasons why Major League Soccer keeps playing through FIFA’s international calendar. But having lost nine players to World Cup qualifying duty this coming weekend, Toronto FC coach John Carver wishes that the league would be more flexible in granting him a postponement. “I’ve had some challenges in my life,” […]

Newcastle United’s Kevin Keegan, 57, is set to leave the club as manager for the second time, reports Tom Bryant. Keegan reportedly met club owner Mike Ashley for talks Tuesday and did not take training. “After making his unhappiness with the club’s failure to sign three or four major targets this summer known,” Bryant writes, […]

Oguchi Onyewu of Standard Liege is back on top form, according to Greg Lalas.

Liverpool’s American co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have been forced to delay plans for a new stadium because they do not have the required funds, reports Neil Johnston.

“Now [Manchester] City can point across the city and say they are at last on a level playing field: their Middle Eastern money is surely as good as the American dollars and borrowed euros of United.” James Lawton analyzes the latest takeover of Manchester’s second team.

Space to play soccer is so scarce in some parts of southern California that a black market has been operating for years that involves the sub-letting of public fields, with thousands of dollars in cash changing hands. Now cities such as Santa Ana plan to clamp down on the abuses after having turned a long-term […]

Canadian author Declan Hill has just published a book called The Fix, an investigative account of sports events across the world that are manipulated by Asian betting syndicates. He talked to two reporters from the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel about his claim that the 2006 World Cup round of 16 match between Ghana […]

There’s a conspicuous lack of youth on Bob Bradley’s roster to face Cuba and Trinidad & Tobago in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers, writes Ives Galarcep. “The omissions of Kenny Cooper, Jozy Altidore and Freddy Adu have left the U.S. team with a roster that proponents will call experienced and battle-tested,” he writes. “But opponents […]

There’s little doubt that the issue of single entity will be one of the main debating points when the MLS Players’ Union’s CBA with the league comes up for renewal in 2010. No one’s making any bets on how much power the league will be prepared to cede to individual teams, but Ben Knight thinks […]