Author Archives: Soccer America

Luis Arroyave grabbed a few minutes with Barcelona’s striker Thierry Henry, and the player reiterated not only how much he loves U.S. sports, but how he’d like to live here some day, “and it might happen pretty soon.”   “I just realized recently in New York on vacation that soccer is growing,” Henry said. “I […]

Has GolTV suddenly disappeared from your TV channel lineup? Chances are that you’re a Dish Network subscriber. Read the broadcaster’s official statement on the move that will deprive many U.S. viewers of La Liga and the Bundesliga.

Lowell Cohn outlines the difference between Beckham the commodity and Beckham the “ordinary” person.

Pat Noonan will likely re-sign for the New England Revolution in the next few days, and then be traded on to another MLS team, writes Steven Goff. “Four or five teams” are said to be interested.

There’s a timely pre-season primer from Tony Karon on the financial vagaries of the cut-throat European game, outlining the high-risk strategy of several top clubs as they compete to sign the highest paid players, and launch another bid for domestic and international success.   Citing the “giddily bullish market” in European soccer that belies the […]

FIFA President Sepp Blatter said in Beijing Monday that the game’s world governing body will review Olympic soccer regulations before the 2012 games to avoid a repeat of the current row between clubs and country over the release of players.   With just three days until the start of the Olympic soccer competition, the Court […]

After the English Premier League’s proposal to play a 39th round of games around the world was rejected as both pointless and unfeasible by the teams, the English FA, FIFA and the fans, chief executive Richard Scudamore has gone back to the drawing board. His latest proposal foresees a winter world tour guaranteeing all the […]

L.A. Galaxy President Tim Leiweke has told the team to turn its season around or face the consequences, reports Jonah Freedman on his Inside Soccer blog. He quotes “a  source close to Major League Soccer’s glamour franchise” as saying that Leiweke “made an unannounced visit to the team’s locker room this past week and issued […]

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he was misquoted in media reports citing him as calling Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo a “slave” in the midst of the tug-of-war for the Portuguese star between his EPL club and Real Madrid. “I have never said that Ronaldo is a slave,” Blatter said. “What I said is slavery […]

England and Manchester United star Wayne Rooney, 22, has been questioned by police after allegedly spitting at a photographer. “At 12:10 am on Wednesday we received a third-party allegation that a photographer had been spat at by an individual outside a restaurant in Hanway Street, W1,” a Metropolitan police spokesman said. “Officers established the incident […]

U.S. goalkeeper Brad Guzan, who left MLS’s Chivas USA for Aston Villa, has been granted a work permit by UK’s Home Office. Now the 23-year-old’s only obstacle to getting on the field when he returns from Olympic duty is fellow American Brad Friedel, the 37-year-old veteran who was signed in the offseason from Blackburn. Friedel […]

Craig Tornberg, general manager of the New England Revolution soccer team, who helped subdue a naked, threatening man when the team was flying from Boston to Los Angeles last month, talked about the incident and his 15 minutes of “superhero fame.” When Tornberg saw the nude made leaving the bathroom, he said he was shocked […]

Spiegel magazine takes a look how Juergen Klinsmann is starting his coaching tenure at Bayern Munich, which is by far Germany's most dominant club but hasn't had European success since its 2001 Champions League win. Among the characters in the in-depth piece are former Bayern greats Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, now in club management, […]