The allure of the Premier League is in its blood and thunder approach. The incredible noise from the stands is replicated with a frantic energy on the pitch, where some of the players with the most red cards in Premier League history are also some of the most celebrated for their brave defending, box-to-box midfield play or aggressive attacking.
Si estás mirando el duelo eliminatorio entre Costa Rica y México seguro habrás notado que al Tri le falta alguien.
No, no hablamos de Raúl Jiménez ni de Chucky Lozano ni de otro jugador de campo. La ausencia es al borde de la cancha y corresponde al entrenador de la selección, Gerardo Martino.
París es una locura. Después de cerrar su legendario capítulo junto al Barcelona, Lionel Messi viajó a la capital francesa para sellar su fichaje con el PSG. El argentino llegó al aeropuerto Le Bourget junto a su familia y fue recibido por miles de fanáticos que encendían bengalas y coreaban su apellido. El astro argentino se asomó por unas de las ventanas del terminal aéreo, llevando una camiseta blanca con la leyenda “Ici c’est Paris” (Aquí es París), lema del club francés.
Realmente es difícil imaginar a Lionel Messi con una camiseta diferente a la del Barcelona, pero después de casi 20 años ligado al club el adiós es un hecho. La noticia cayó de manera sorpresiva este jueves y tiene a todo el mundo futbolero completamente groggy.
Speculation and excitement grow surrounding Champions League victors Chelsea in the quest to sign a new star striker. Even though the club spent around a whopping $150 million last year to bring in forwards Timo Werner and Kai Havertz, they are still shopping for a special striker before the 2021/22 season. While Havertz was battling Covid issues and Werner couldn’t win over the fans last season, the Blues will look to add a lethal striker to the club.
The reason you won’t see some of the best men's soccer players at the Olympics is sort of peculiar. In order to preserve the status of the World Cup as the greatest international event for men’s soccer, an Olympic soccer age limit was instituted for the men's tournament.
The men's Olympic soccer tournament only features players under 23 years old, with three exceptions for each country.
U.S. soccer fans who last saw the men’s team lift the Concacaf Nations League trophy will be taken aback to see a lot of big names missing off the Gold Cup roster. Why is Pulisic not playing in Gold Cup? Where are the stars? The answer to these questions is quite simple.
When you look at the Chile national team, one player might appear out of place. Ben Brereton is not your usual Chilean; he doesn’t even speak Spanish, the primary language spoken by the rest of the team. The English-Chilean forward had played with England's U19 and U20 national teams for almost five years before switching to Chile's squad this year for the Copa América.
Former Argentinian forward Gonzalo Higuaín had low expectations coming to MLS but now is learning to respect the competition. The 33-year-old exclaimed he expected to play with a cigarette in his mouth, it was going to be that easy.
Through seven matches in the 2021 MLS season, Higuaín has four goals and one assist. He was quoted on Christain Vieri's Twitch live stream a few days ago saying, "I thought I would come to MLS and play with a cigarette in my mouth and instead it is difficult."
The U.S. men's national team defeated Mexico in a highly contested match on Sunday to win the CONCACAF Nations League, marking the country’s first competitive victory over its rivals since September 10th, 2013.
The fruitless streak continued so long that I personally graduated middle school, high school and was just one year away from graduating college before the U.S. was victorious again. Christian Pulisic, the American captain who scored the go-ahead goal, was just 14 years old when the U.S. last claimed victory.