the #NWSL has awarded team 18 to Columbus, Ohio in a bid backed by the owners of MLS’ Columbus Crew and the NFL’s Cleveland Browns
here’s some perspective from Whitney Haslam Johnson and Jessica Berman on the move
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Venues for this year's Concacaf W Championship, which is also 2027 World Cup and 2028 Olympics qualifying:
- Play-ins, quarters (the big ones for WCQs) and semis at North Texas SC's new stadium in Mansfield, Texas (capacity 7,000)
- Final and third place game at Houston's Shell Energy Stadium
Come on man if you're going to do this you've got to commit
I love Hansi Flick football and I want it to succeed against all the terrible versions of this sports otherwise ascendant
which is why I would implore Barcelona to sign one (1) player who is good at defending
congrats!
Barcelona *never* know how to turn down the chaos factor and I thank them for it
my thoughts on Matt Crocker's U.S. Soccer exit:
his work with the #USMNT ahead of the World Cup is complete but there are *a ton* of questions about where the federation goes next, both in terms of coaching hires and the youth development program he stewarded
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Per multiple sources, Matt Crocker is leaving his role as U.S. Soccer sporting director for a similar role with Saudi Arabia: www.foxsports.com/stories/socc...
Rayan Cherki can fix the Premier League
I could see what Roberto De Zerbi was trying to do, even if I can’t justify his hire for sporting and non-sporting reasons
I could also see the mess Thomas Frank and Igor Tudor left behind, as well as the one Johan Lange orchestrated and ones his various bosses (old and new) endorsed
in all seriousness, it is death by a thousand cuts with Tottenham thanks to remarkable, wide-ranging mismanagement but it’s hard not to watch this team and think about the below average squad (despite the money spent) and this season’s poor coaching selections
Tottenham Hotspur looked second-best to Sunderland? Almost like their players are worse! Wonder whose fault that is…
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something cool happened yesterday:
Marie-Louise Eta became the first woman to be named a head coach in the men’s Bundesliga — she’ll be at the helm of Union Berlin as an interim through the end of the season (and it isn’t the first time she’s made history, either)
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USWNT stats from the first half of their 2-1 win over Japan
all good - here's a selection of first half stats
she clocked in at 29 touches
This is the first time the U.S. has started Heaps, Lavelle, and Coffey together since they lost to Portugal last fall
“Genuine ownership requires three things: naming what was wrong with what was said, not what feelings it caused but what it communicated; accepting that impact exists independently of intent; and saying clearly, without qualification, that it will not happen again … That is what we did not see here”
Barca playing with 10 men but pressing Atleti around their penalty area with a front four of Rashford, Lamine, Fermin and Olmo
Hansi Flick you wonderful freak never change
Alexander Isak is ready to play in a Champions League game after breaking his leg three months ago and I was told to take it easy at physical therapy last week because I started running a tiny bit following a kneecap dislocation that happened before Isak's injury ... we are not the same
Trump admin appears to be holding hostage the 2031 women's World Cup bid, refusing to offer guarantees (for visas, tax exemptions, safety, security) unless FIFA bans transgender women from soccer. FIFA is so disgusting it'll probably comply By @adamcrafton.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/717...
sorry to burst the bubble but the picture of the Raya profile is not the smoking gun it seems to be - the Nashville trip in October coincides with the USMNT's 2023 fall friendlies and the picture says Pulsiic's age is 25, which is exactly how old he was then
Bayern Munich are so fun to watch. They just go full throttle all the time with such little hesitation -- and they are pretty good at it, too (even if Real Madrid found a way back into the game today)
Manuel Neuer coming waaaaay off his line, even at age 40? May he never change
oh I am thoroughly entertained by this
it's almost as if Real Madrid's decision to fire Xabi Alonso was never going to actually solve their actual problems
Derby County said #USMNT’s Patrick Agyemang suffered a “serious” Achilles tendon injury yesterday
“As a result of this injury, Patrick will unfortunately miss this summer’s FIFA World Cup. At this stage it would be wrong to put a timeline on his recovery”
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Derby coach John Eustace on Patrick Agyemang’s injury:
"We don't want to see any players coming off on a stretcher. Hopefully it's not as bad as what it might be but until we get the scan results, we're going to have to wait and see."
#USMNT
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#USMNT forward Patrick Agyemang exited Derby's game on a stretcher, perhaps ruling him out of a spot on the World Cup roster in the process
no specifics on the injury just yet but what a crushing blow that would be for him and maybe even the team as a whole
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Enzo Fernandez has received harsher punishment for saying he’d hypothetically like to live in Madrid one day than he did for singing a racist song that prompted several of his teammates to publicly condemn him
and finally, here’s Mauricio Pochettino’s assessment of Christian Pulisic’s outing against Portugal
the #USMNT coach still has faith in him, even if he hasn’t scored since Dec. 28 (and since Nov. 24 for the national team)