Soccer America Archives

There were 340 teams entered in this year’s Swamp Soccer World Championships, held in northern Finland for the 10th time in a row.

Columnist Greg Lalas with 10 things an American soccer fan must do, beginning with support of his or her home team.

Real Madrid has asked Brazil to release Robinho from its Olympic team after medical tests revealed that the forward is suffering from a groin injury. The player says he’ll request the club’s decision. “On the advice of the medical staff,” Real said in a statement, “the club has decided that the best thing for the […]

With his team mired in an eight-game winless streak (in all competitions) and facing a crucial game against the USL First Division Montreal Impact Tuesday in the Canadian championship competition, Toronto FC coach John Carver is a tad sensitive. He went off the Toronto press for what he perceived to be its negative tone. “Some […]

Britain does not take part in the Olympic soccer competition because here is no such thing as the British FA. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland — the four nations — all have their own national teams, but Lord Coe — Sebastian Coe to all you track & field fans — would like Sir Alex […]

Cristiano Ronaldo still insists he wants to move to Real Madrid, but Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United manager, says it would be wrong for the 23-year-old Ronaldo to go to Real Madrid so young. Fergie went so far as to say that Madrid is the last place he should be attempting to move to. […]

What’s has been the impact of David Beckham one year after his arrival in MLS? Crowds are still decent, as evidenced by the 40,000-plus crowd at Giants Stadium Saturday for the Red Bulls-Galaxy game. The media circus has disappeared, however. “MLS and the Galaxy cannot expect to thrive based on the snapshot that has been […]

All the scores from Thursday’s UEFA Cup first-round qualifying action. You will want to know, for example, that it was a bad night for Marsaxlokk of Malta as they crashed 4-0 to Croatian side Slaven Koprinica.

James Walker-Roberts takes a look at the four groups of 16 teams and tips the first round winners. Perfidiously, he doesn’t back the U.S. to advance.

Nike has spotted a new market — Brazil’s Olympic team will play Vietnam on its way to Beijing.

With little or no action on European soccer fields right now, and with transfer talk at unprecedented levels of exhaustion, a short piece in the London-based Daily Telegraph illustrates another favored method of British journalists for filling space on a slow news day. Take any given incident from the previous 24-hour news cycle, and second-guess […]

As D.C. United and other MLS teams seek public money to help finance new stadium ventures, Mark Yost looks at the real figures behind a sports venue financed largely by the taxpayer’s cash. While there’s no denying that the neighborhood around the Washington Nationals’ new baseball stadium in southeast D.C. has undergone a renaissance in […]

There was an announced crowd for Thursday’s MLS game between the Columbus Crew and the Kansas City Wizards of 16,117. But how many people were actually there? Shawn Mitchell examines the discrepancy between the Crew’s announced crowds, the number of people actually showing up for the games (that is, tickets scanned on the night), and […]