The Ultimate American XI: What If Top American Athletes Played Soccer?
Lebron, Kobe, J.J. Watt. We take all the best American athletes and put them in a starting XI. The results are amazing.
Lebron, Kobe, J.J. Watt. We take all the best American athletes and put them in a starting XI. The results are amazing.
Could Cristiano Ronaldo, Arjen Robben, or Gareth Bale out-sprint the NFL's fastest players? The answer might surprise you.
Boy do we love the Internet. An awesome designer by the handle of Skaranger13 created home and away kits for all 50 states.
Sure it might of been for fun, but we all have our allegiances to our home states and these kit designs are straight ballin! Take some time to check out your state's kit and go through the other 103 home and away kits. The designer did a pretty awesome job taking each state's identity into account and it shows in all 50 different designs.
Chivas USA is no more, but LAFC looks promising.
It is a typical morning in Joensuu, a moderately-sized college town in Finland. There is a slight chill in the air of this industrial city on the Pielisjoki River as 23-year-old American Nathan Stockie wakes up and plans out his day. He has plenty of time to kill, as he does not have to be at work until 4:30pm that afternoon. What type of work does an American do in a Finnish town that does not require him to be there until 4:30? Bartender? Bouncer? Not quite. You see, Nathan is a professional footballer.
It's been clear since Jürgen Klinsmann's final selection of the USMNT for Brazil 2014 - and, infamously, his exclusion of American star Landon Donovan - that he has an eye to the future. And that future is building U.S. Soccer into a powerhouse.
What started as a disagreement between two organizations has turned into a highly publicized mess.
The MLS referee lockout has entered its second week. The Professional Soccer Referees Association (PSRA), which is the union that represents MLS referees, rejected an offer made by the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), who manages the referees and assistant referees for the M.L.S.