David Beckham could be back in training by the end of August, his LA Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said on Wednesday.
United States forward Landon Donovan is considering possible moves to Europe away from his Major League Soccer club the Los Angeles Galaxy.
France striker Thierry Henry has quit Europe to play for the New York Red Bulls, following players such as David Beckham into Major League Soccer (MLS).
The U.S. soccer team may have been knocked out of the World Cup, but a much bigger match awaits in December, when FIFA decides what countries will host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
U.S. bid officials remain confident the country offers the sport’s global organizing committee the right combination of growth and sure-fire safety and profits to win the right to host its second World Cup after staging the most profitable tournament ever in 1994.
If a grooved World Cup ball can upset some of the game’s best players, how would they react to a ball packed with cameras, lights and a GPS chip?
The United States knocked on the door of soccer’s elite at this World Cup but a lack of top quality talent left them heading home after the second round and with a need to find some new faces for the next four year push.
Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Ghana will have dampened some of the new found enthusiasm for the game in the United States but it was hardly a shock and it illustrated the limitations of coach Bob Bradley’s squad.
North America’s Major League Soccer plans to bring in several faces from the World Cup in a bid to exploit the boom in interest in the event, the league’s head of recruitment told Reuters.
MLS recently changed the ‘Beckham rule’ to allow clubs to sign up to three players who, like LA Galaxy’s David Beckham, are not part of the salary cap system.
Police say they responded to a fight that occurred after a soccer game on the fields near the old Battle Mountain High School in Eagle-Vail on May 30.
A deputy spoke with a 36-year-old man who said he was a referee for the soccer games. The man said a goalie didn’t like the calls he was making. The ref said he warned the goalie and eventually ejected him from the game.
We fight for our team as a coaching staff every week. Whether it’s on calls to the refereeing director Paul Tamberino. Sending them video tapes and clips of things that we have questions on.
A soccer referee was stabbed by a heckler after weeks of harassment, and police said the incident may have been the result of pent-up road rage.
The referee of an unsanctioned soccer league in Natomas, whose identity has not been released, was apparently involved in a near-collision with another man in a nearby parking lot three weeks before the stabbing, according to the Sacramento Police Department.