The USMNT closed out the March, 2023 international window and the Nations League A, group D schedule with a 1-0 win over El Salvador in Orlando. The United States will play in the Nations League semifinals on June 15 in Las Vegas. the 3rd-place game and final are set for June 18. After scoring twice against Grenada, Ricardo Pepi subbed on in the 60th minute and scored in the 62nd for the game's . . .
MLS Week 5: Columbus scores six, St Louis and Seattle four in wins
The Major League Soccer season continued during the March international break, starting with Portland and the Galaxy drawing 0-0 at Providence Park. The Timbers finished with one shot on goal to LA's four. "I thought we had good control of the game for, you know, 80 minutes, 70-something minutes, and then it started to get very wide open and a little bit chaotic there at the end," Galaxy coach . . .
Grenada 1 – USMNT 7, Nations League A, group D
The USMNT took another step towards defending their Nations League title with a 7-1 win at Grenada in League A, group D on Friday night. Ricardo Pepi put the USMNT up in the 4th minute with Brenden Aaronson doubling the lead in the 20th and Weston McKennie scoring in the 31st. Grenada pulled a goal back in the 32nd, but McKennie made it 4-1 USA with a goal in the 34th. Christian Pulisic scored . . .
MLS returns to All-Stars vs club in 2023
By Jason Davis – WASHINGTON, DC (Mar 24, 2023) US Soccer Players - American sports culture as a whole naturally informs a lot of what Major League Soccer does, and rightfully so. For MLS, the issue is finding a balance between what some view as the more "authentic" approach to the game, a misnomer, to be clear, and a more unapologetically American style. While the influence that the most . . .
The USMNT returns to the Caribbean
By Charles Boehm – WASHINGTON, DC (Mar 23, 2023) US Soccer Players - On Thursday the USMNT jetted south from Orlando to St George’s, Grenada, for just its third competitive match in the Caribbean in the last five and a half years. It’s both an important Concacaf Nations League game that needs a positive result and a reminder of the regional journeys set to become rare in a 2026 World Cup cycle . . .
League A and beyond in the Concacaf Nations League
By Jason Davis – WASHINGTON, DC (Mar 22, 2023) US Soccer Players - The USMNT resumes the defense of its 2021 Nations League title on Friday when it travels to Grenada for the third match in Group D play. A US group fresh off a World Cup is hoping to start the next cycle on a high note by backing up its Nations League win two years ago with another title, one that would naturally come at the . . .
Advancing, options, and offense for the USMNT in March
By Clemente Lisi – NEW YORK, NY (Mar 20, 2023) US Soccer Players – The Concacaf Nations League comes into fuller focus once again starting this Friday when the group stage of the tournament resumes and the USMNT travels to Grenada looking for points. Just four months after the World Cup, the US once again finds itself having to navigate a group stage. This time, winning Group D in Nations . . .
Bundesliga win for Union Berlin, draw for Gladbach, Tillman scores for Rangers
Monday's soccer news starts with the USMNT players in Europe, Mexico, and Brazil roundup where Jordan Pefok subbed out in the 67th minute of Union Berlin's 2-0 home win over Paxten Aaronson's Eintracht in the Bundesliga. Aaronson subbed on in the 83rd minute. Rani Khedira put Union Berlin up in the 53rd and Kevin Behrens scored in the 75th minute. "Apart from our finishing, everything went . . .
MLS Week 4: Atlanta wins 5-1, Montreal beats Philadelphia
MLS week 4 opened with Seattle and LAFC drawing 0-0 at Lumen Field with the Sounders putting four shots on goal to LAFC's three. “Little bit of a mixed bag there," Seattle Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer said. "I think that we gave up some chances there at the end. I don’t know what the expected goals are but they had a lot of clear chances because we were trying to find a goal at that end of the . . .
Auston Trusty is part of the USMNT center back picture in March
By Jason Davis – WASHINGTON, DC (Mar 17, 2023) US Soccer Players - The USMNT will gather in Orlando next week ahead of Concacaf Nations League matches against Grenada and El Salvador with interim coach Anthony Hudson calling in a 24-player roster featuring a mix of experience and potential. Only one, center back Miles Robinson, plays in Major League Soccer with MLS opting not to break in the early . . .
