10:24 AM ET Sam Marsden Jeff Carlisle Close US soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the US national team for ESPN FC. It has been a summer transfer window that few in Major League Soccer will forget. Never before has the league welcomed so many European stars at once, never before have so many…
Goals, goals, goals. There were 76 goals in 20 Major League Soccer games as we head into the All-Star break (watch MLS All-Stars vs. Liga MX All-Stars on Wednesday, LIVE on ESPN), good for an astounding 3.8 goals per game. In a stunning turn of events, when nearly every game features both teams banging in…
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Former Orlando City star Nani has told ESPN that Major League Soccer has the potential to be a “very strong” competition that, one day, can even serve as an alternative to Europe for players in their prime. A former Champions League winner with Manchester United and European Championship winner with Portugal, Nani signed a three-year…
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Two 4-4 games? Major League Soccer was on one this weekend. Hidden behind those eight-goal affairs was a two-goal stoppage-time comeback, an MVP candidate staking his claim, the league leaders mounting an impressive come-from-behind victory and Mother Nature’s fury. Oh, and there are three days before the transfer window slams shut. You’ve got goals, you’ve…
As the question was asked, you could start to see the amused look creep across the face of Austin FC head coach Josh Wolff. Austin FC was just days away from the season opener against FC Cincinnati and a local reporter noted that the oddsmakers in Las Vegas had the Texan capital club — 12th…
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The Chicago Fire were left for dead, but guess who’s back in the playoff race? That’s right: Xherdan Shaqiri & Co. The New England Revolution, too. Now Toronto FC has a pair of superstars that make the Reds look frighteningly good, and all of a sudden the Eastern Conference has way too many teams for…
10:13 AM ET Noah DavisESPN The Chicago Fire introduced their second new logo in two years ahead of the 2022 season. MLS Eray Dursun couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Nor could anyone in his Chicago Fire FC supporter circles. A new logo had leaked online and, well, it wasn’t good. “All the fans that…
The summer transfer window is full steam ahead. Every day there’s a few more players in, a few more out, and some new hot gossip. How exactly do you make sense a league and its teams in the midst of all that? With a smile. We saw a couple superstars make their Major League Soccer…
2:25 PM ET Dan HajduckyESPN Close Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State Universities. Having flown in from Europe that day, Gareth Bale’s internal clock, as he stood in front of more than…
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Wayne Rooney has taken part in a Major League Soccer minor miracle before. In 2018, the ex-Manchester United and Everton striker joined a floundering DC United side in midseason, and sparked the Black and Red to 40 points in its last 20 games to secure unlikely spot in the postseason. It almost didn’t matter that…
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