Author Archives: Soccer America

“Seattle Sounders FC seems to be following Macaulay Culkin‘s career path, and that’s not a great thing,” writes Don Ruiz of The Olympian. “The former child star of ‘Home Alone’ quickly grew from cute little kid that everybody loved into a less-likable adolescent who just made everybody miss the cute little kid he used to […]

"It's always special. Chicago is a special place for me. Chicago is where I learned to play soccer. Coming from Green Bay, I didn't necessarily grow up as a soccer player but I learned how to be a professional and the skills I needed to make it as a pro. I hold this place special […]

West Ham has been taken over by an asset management company, CB Holdings, a subsidiary of its main creditor, the Icelandic bank Straumur. The club had been up for sale but unable to find a buyer. The move to Straumur, which former West Ham owner Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson reportedly owed $160 million, should safeguard the club's […]

Toronto FC announced its second friendly game of the season on Saturday, facing Argentine club River Plate on July 22. This game, following hot on the heels of the announcement of the visit of Real Madrid on Aug. 7, will be inclusive of Toronto FC season ticket packages, and will represent the annual Carlsberg Cup […]

Bayern Munich should offer French playmaker Franck Ribery a contract extension or allow him to leave as speculation about a move to Real Madrid is rife, club president Franz Beckenbauer said on Monday. “I only see two solutions – Ribery extends his contract to end any talk of a transfer or we offer his release,” […]

Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is desperate to sell the club after it dropped out of the Premier League. The sports store millionaire has seemingly accepted he will suffer a huge loss on his investment in the northeast club after spending a reported $370 million. The Magpies issued an official statement setting a price as Keith […]

Elvin-King Ibe flew 8,000 miles to pursue a dream. He and his family flew to Houston from Johannesburg, South Africa, so that Ibe could take part in this week's Dynamo Elite Camp along with 300 other campers. If he makes the cut at the end of the week, he'll begin training to be part of […]

Guus Hiddink declared that he wants to manage a Premier League club again in the future but admitted that it won’t necessarily be Chelsea, here he had a run on an interim basis last season. “I will be back,” the former Australia, South Korea and Netherlands boss told English daily The Sunday Mirror . “Chelsea […]

Reports in the Spanish press indicate that Real Madrid will officially present Kaka as one of its own on June 30, after the Confederations Cup and if he passes a medical this week. Although reports in Italy state that a conclusive decision will not happen until Monday night, Spanish newspaper Marca state that the move […]

South America's marathon qualifying tournament reaches game-day 13 (out of 18) this weekend and is highlighted by Brazil's trip to Uruguay on Saturday. The two nations have seven World Cup and 22 South American titles between them and their every meeting recalls the famous Uruguay upset of Brazil, the Maracanazo, in which the Uruguayans snatched […]

England aims for its sixth straight in Group 6 World Cup qualifying when it faces Kazakhstan in Almaty on Saturday. And England coach Fabio Capello has brushed off suggestions that fatigue could affect his players, who flew over 3,500 miles to the far eastern end of Europe for the game after a tough domestic season […]

New York Times columnist George Vecsey calls the USA 3-1 loss to Costa Rica on Wednesday “a throwback to the bad old days of two decades ago, when the national team often looked pitiful on the road in the Americas, to say nothing of Europe.” Now the Americans need to bounce back against Honduras on […]

The New York Red Bulls defender Alfredo Pacheco, 26, is on national team duty for El Salvador and believes his team can beat Mexico on Saturday even though El Salvador has picked up only two points from its first three games in the final round of World Cup qualifying. "I'm not satisfied," Pacheco. "We've not […]

An England fan was shot in a bar in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, where he had stopped en route to neighboring Kazakhstan, where England plays a World Cup qualifier on Saturday. As he and friends sang England fan songs in the bar, a local told them to shut up. When they ignored him, […]

The Netherlands can become the first European team to clinch a place at the 2010 World Cup if it beats Iceland in Reykjavik in one of the 14 qualifiers in Europe on Saturday. The Netherlands has a near full-strength team for the game. Only midfielders Wesley Sneijder and Ibrahim Afellay are missing for the Group […]

New England defender Jay Heaps, a 32-year-old, 11-year veteran, will play in his 300th MLS game when he takes the field against the New York Red Bulls on Sunday. Heaps will become the ninth player to reach that milestone. He recently became the first the first Revs player to log more than 20,000 minutes (20,349 […]