For the past decade and a half there has not been a better player for club and country than Landon Donovan. Love him or hate him — and there are legions of people in both camps — there is no one who can match his championships and records in Major…
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British-born Jill Ellis, unbeaten in two stints as interim coach of the US women’s national football squad, was named Friday as the team’s new full-time coach by US Soccer president Sunil Gulati. The 47-year-old American served as an assistant on the…
What a massive week of football we just saw. For fans of high pressure matches, it does not get much better than the past week. The Premier League title race and relegation battle, F.A. Cup, Champions League, Europa League, La Liga title race, and a…
By Andi Thomas @andi_thomas on Dec 5 2013, 3:38p + We take a look at the qualification and draw for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, perhaps the strangest in history. Come back in time with SB Nation Soccer to 1950. Then, as now, Brazil were about…
Major League Soccer will have its top referees back on the field this weekend after a deal was reached between the referees’ union and the governing group for MLS officials. The five-year contract announced Thursday by the Professional Referee Organization…
Major League Soccer has gone through many stages in its 18-year history. In its infancy, every U.S. player with an ounce of talent was on a roster and foreign players were, for the most part, past their prime. As the years went by, U.S. players looked…