With two Olympics golds, a World Cup win and a FIFA Player of the Year award, Abby Wambach became the face of US soccer and a cultural movement
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In the world’s most lucrative and competitive league, a number of USWNT stars, including Alex Morgan, have headed to France to ply their trade
No nation has done more to enhance the women’s game than the US – and this summer, as defending champions, they’re looking to stay there
Postmen, mill workers and funeral directors made up the US team at the 1950 World Cup – and they’d go on to spring a surprise of epic proportions
She’s seen the best and worst of football but now, at her peak, Ella Masar is calling in quits after a remarkable career on and off the pitch
If you want to join the masse of idiots defending toxic leaders, go for it. Just remember, getting rid of them isn’t ruining the game. You are
Boasting a team made up of ageing British stars, the Vancouver Whitecaps would win the NASL in 1979 in one of the sport’s great North American seasons
This feature is part of Virtuoso It was the moment 53,341 people collectively held their breath as one. The moment millions more spellbound at home had to question if they were really…
When, in October of last year, the United States of America fell to an unthinkable 2-1 defeat away to modest footballing islanders Trinidad and Tobago, stalling fatally in their final 2018 FIFA…
In July 2014, goalkeeper Tim Howard became a worldwide sensation overnight after more than 10 years as one of America’s leading elite athletes. His record-breaking 15 saves for the United States in…
WHEN, IN 1977, writer and director George Lucas released to astonishing critical and commercial acclaim the first of his opening trilogy of Star Wars films, science fiction fans across the United States…
HAVE YOU EVER looked back at your life and wondered, ‘How did I get here?’ Although this may seem daunting, try to do that now. Trace back each aspect of your life…
SELMA, ALABAMA is famous in the American consciousness as a major site during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 were…
US Soccer’s concept of professional league divisions is a farce and a red herring, because it masks Major League Soccer’s real agenda and intention. • • • • MLS’s real agenda and intention is simple: what…
Below the radar of mainstream media, there is a debate raging in the football (soccer) world in the USA and Canada). At the centre of the debate are U.S. Soccer (FIFA’s representative…
LONG BEFORE A TEAM OF ANIMATED PUPPETS decided to take on the world under the banner of Team America, a hodgepodge collection of superstars and NASL underlings joined together in 1976 to take…
“SOCCER HAS ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES! And it’s here to stay … just look at the watch parties, full stadiums stateside watching the United States Men’s national team play in the World…
FREDDY ADU: rarely has the name of a player with caps for such clubs as Portuguese side Belenenses, Brazil’s Bahia and Serbian outfit Jagodina been met with such universal recognition. Rewind to shortly…