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It looks like U.S. Soccer has lost the battle to get Italian American Giuseppe Rossi to play for the Red, White and Blue. The Villarreal striker turns 21 on Feb. 1, at which point he will have to choose between playing for World Champion Italy or the U.S., the country where he was born. U.S. […]

Say what you want about Real Madrid’s first half of the La Liga season, but the Merengues’ sensational tally of 47 points from 19 games is still a record. It’s also a considerably better situation than Real found itself in under Fabio Capello at this stage last year. As ESPN’s Phil Ball says, “the brave […]

Zidane rumors are flying across the Web again, and a hopeful Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports says that the time is now for MLS to find out exactly what the three-time World Player of the Year meant when he told French magazine L’Equipe: “I have no goal but coming back into football… Then, in which […]

Newcastle United ended its long search for a successor to Sam Allardyce on Wednesday by reinstating former manager Kevin Keegan in the role he occupied from 1992-1997. During that time, Keegan drove the club to promotion from the English First Division in 1993, progressing all the way to the runner-up slot in the 1995-96 EPL […]

Even without Kansas City forward Eddie Johnson, who’s currently negotiating a transfer to the club, Fulham FC of the English Premiership is recognized across the world for its considerable American contingent. Former U.S. international Brian McBride is the club’s captain, while current U.S. internationals Clint Dempsey, the club’s leading scorer with six goals, and Carlos […]

Fabio Capello met with the press again on Tuesday, addressing the topics of his first England squad, the team’s captain, and, of course, David Beckham’s England future. “The team I want is in my head, taking into account what I have seen so far and the games of England I’ve watched,” Capello told reporters. “But […]

The InterLiga was a bust, says Soccer365’s Richard Snowden: Mexican teams don’t want to have to trek to the United States to decide who gets the remaining berths to the Copa Libertadores. Meanwhile, Major League Soccer for years has expressed a desire to send its teams to South America’s championship. If indeed we’ll see the […]

FIFA on Tuesday won a major victory against Europe’s most powerful clubs as the G14 lobbying organization agreed to disband. G14 was comprised of clubs like Manchester United, AC Milan, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. It has often been described as a pressure group that used its considerable influence — for example, there have only […]

FC Dallas on Tuesday traded Carlos Ruiz back to the L.A. Galaxy for a second-round draft pick in 2009 and an undisclosed amount of allocation money. Ruiz, who won MLS Cup titles with the Galaxy in 2002 and 2005, led FCD in scoring last season with seven goals during the MLS regular season. As a […]

The New England Revolution has informed veteran forward Pat Noonan that the club will not pick up the option on his contract, making him a free agent. “This is a great opportunity to try to go overseas,” Noonan told the Boston Globe’s Frank Dell’Apa from the U.S. national team training camp. “Hopefully, this camp will […]