21-year-old defender Will Packwood made his season debut for Birmingham City in their 3-1 win at Millwall. Packwood, who was called up for the USA U-23 side’s friendly win over the Bahamas in August, has spent most of the beginning part of the season as captain of Birmingham City’s U-23 squad. With some of the regulars…
Alejandro Bedoya played the second half of a friendly match that ended scoreless today in France. Nantes tied Lucon while Bedoya got a good 45 minutes of fitness. According to match reports, Bedoya was the best player on the field and nearly scored the game winner with under ten minutes to play. John Brooks made…
First off, the United States U-17 squad lost its second group stage match in the Open Nordic Tournament. The US fell to Norway’s U-17s 4-1 this morning. Illinois-native Elijah Rice scored the lone goal for the Americans. The loss comes a day after an opening day loss to host Denmark, 2-0. The United States final…
Fulham announced today who they were bringing to the United States for their preseason camp this week. 18-year-old American Emerson Hyndman was one of those included in the squad. Hyndman has been featuring regularly with the first team in friendlies and has shown well, picking up a few assists along the way. Fulham will face…
All the pieces gradually fell into place, but the Houston Dynamo officially announced this afternoon that they had completed the signing of American international DaMarcus Beasley, who is recently off his record fourth World Cup appearance for the Stars & Stripes. Beasley, who turned 32 on May 24 this year, returns to the MLS after…
19-year-old English-American Duane Holmes started and played 75 minutes in Huddersfield Town’s 4-1 friendly win yesterday. Along with being involved in almost every goal scoring opportunity for Huddersfield, he scored the opening goal and assisted on the next. Holmes was born in Georgia to an American father and an English mother, but moved to England when he…
A short and sweet Monday morning read. A quiet Sunday evening across North American soccer. DC United 3:1 Chivas USA DC United ruined the fun for Chivas USA, who saw their four-game winning streak snapped on Sunday night. Eddie Johnson and Perry Kitchen were goal scorers for United. Johnson picked up his third goal of the season (after…
Stoke City is in Germany for the next week and a half and they played their first friendly against Fabian Johnson’s Borussia Monchengladbach side. With Fabian and Geoff Cameron still on holiday, the only American involved in the friendly was Brek Shea. Shea played the second half of the match and got a good 45 minutes…
Seattle Sounders 3:3 Tottenham DeAndre Yedlin started and played the full 90 minutes against the English Premier League-side. Clint Dempsey started and captained for 75 minutes against his former club and 21-year-old Sean Okoli came on in the 75th minute to tally an assist on the Sounders’ 79th minute go-ahead goal. It was also nice to see former USMNT…
Jurgen Klinsmann and US Soccer have announced the 24 players that will be headed into a training camp in preparation for the March 5 friendly match with Ukraine. News recently broke that due to political conflict in Ukraine, the match will take place in the small Mediterranean island country of Cyprus. The game will take…
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