Landon Donovan is returning to soccer. Again. In San Diego? The U.S. men’s national team’s all-time leader in goals and assists will join the San Diego Sockers for the rest of the 2018-19 season, the Union-Tribune confirmed. SI.com first reported the signing, which will be announced 10 a.m. Thursday...
Kadidiatou Diani scored twice and France ended the U.S. national team's 28-game unbeaten streak with a 3-1 victory Saturday in Le Havre, France. The top-ranked United States had not lost since falling 1-0 to Australia in 2017, The Americans were 25-0-3 over the span. Marie-Antoinette Katoto also...
Eastern Tech soccer star Isaac Ngobu was part of a championship team in his junior year when the Mavericks captured the program’s first Class 2A state crown. The All-Metro senior midfielder is joining another one, committing to reigning NCAA Division I College Cup champion Maryland this week. Ngobu...
River Hill boys soccer coach Matt Shagogue recalls one of his first conversations with then-newcomer Justin Harris. The midfielder skipped his freshman high school season to play for his academy team but decided before his sophomore year that the time was right to represent his school and start...
River Hill soccer star Justin Harris won’t be going far to play college ball and will be joining a championship team with familiar faces, committing to NCAA Division I College Cup champion Maryland this week. Harris, a three-year starting midfielder and captain, finished with 14 goals and 10 assists...
Check out The Baltimore Sun's Player of the Year, co-Coaches of the Year and first- and second-team All-Metro selections for the 2018 high school girls soccer season.
Fulham vice chairman Tony Khan told a fan to "go to hell" in a tweet after the 2-1 loss to Burnley left the London club with only one win in nine English Premier League games on Saturday. Burnley profited from two own-goals in quick succession to come from behind and leave Fulham five points from...
Timothy Chandler’s last two appearances for the U.S. national team came more than two years ago, in back-to-back losses to Mexico and Costa Rica that crippled the Americans’ hopes of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. It’s probably not insignificant that those games were also the last for coach...
Every athlete sets personal goals but for one 51-year-old Japanese athlete his is “GOOOOOOOOOAL!” Soccer star Kazuyoshi Miura is set to return for his 34th year of professional play after inking a one-year deal to return to his Yokohama FC squad, reported BBC Sport. The striker broke the legendary...
Colin Miller can rest easy now knowing he has put in the work. The C. Milton Wright grad became the starting goalkeeper for the Providence men’s soccer team as a junior in 2016 and after his redshirt senior season this past fall, he earned a coveted invitation to the 2019 Major League Soccer Player...
Cristiano Ronaldo is being asked by police in the U.S. to provide a DNA sample in an ongoing investigation of a Nevada woman's allegation that he raped her in his Las Vegas hotel penthouse in 2009, the soccer star's lawyer in Las Vegas said Thursday. Attorney Peter S. Christiansen downplayed the...
Harrisburg Heat (1-4) @ Blast (4-2) When: Saturday, 6:05 p.m. Where: SECU Arena Tickets: 410-73-BLAST, ticketmaster.com or baltimoreblast.com Outlook: Anytime the Blast take on the Heat, their closest Major Arena Soccer League rival, it’s a special occasion. But Saturday’s game — the first meeting...
River Hill graduate Donovan Pines, a towering defensive anchor during Maryland 's improbable run to the NCAA soccer championship last month, will forgo his final year of eligibility to pursue a pro career, Terrapins coach Sasho Cirovski said Tuesday. Pines, a 6-foot-5 junior center back, has hired...
When Michael Bradley made his international debut in 2006, four of his current teammates on the U.S. national team were just 7 years old. By the time he played in his first World Cup four years later, just a handful of those teammates had made it to college. So when Gregg Berhalter called Bradley...
Former Spain and Barcelona star Andres Iniesta has released a statement explaining a social media post that prompted criticism because of a photo that included two people in blackface. They were among 10 people that appeared along with the 34-year-old Vissel Kobe midfielder in an Instagram post...
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the L.A. Times soccer newsletter. I’m Kevin Baxter, the Times’ soccer writer. Today we start in Chula Vista, about 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexican border, where Gregg Berhalter on Monday opened his first training camp as coach of the U.S. men’s national...