The soccer world was left in a state of shock recently as Premier League side Chelsea sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge. Credit – CFCUnofficial (Chelsea Debs), Chelsea 1 Man City 1 (16412382351), CC BY-SA 2.0 Lampard, a former MLS star with New York City, finished fourth in the table with the Blues last season, despite working under a transfer ban, and saw his team beaten in the FA Cup final by Arsenal. Despite qualifying for the Champions
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has directly impacted the soccer world in terms of league suspensions and the health of players, owners, and managers. So far, 11 players including Daniele Rugani (Juventus), Timo Hubers (Hannover), Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea), Manolo Gabbiadini (Sampdoria), Omar Colley (Sampdoria), Albin Ekdal (Sampdoria), Antonino La Gumina (Sampdoria), Morten Thorsby (Sampdoria), Jannes Horn (Hannover), Patrick Cutrone (Fiorentina), German Pezzella (Fiorentina) have gotten the disease in addition to Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta and Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest Club owner Evangelos
Professional footballer and Premier League champion Christian Fuchs is a busy man. Yet he’s managed to carve out his stake in the American soccer business, establishing the Fox Soccer Academy in the town of Warwick, New York nestled along the New Jersey border and just a little over an hour’s drive from New York City. Fuchs sat down with ISNSoccer.com in an exclusive interview following a recent tryout date for his academy of girls and boys ranging 8-18 years old. A little over
Photos Courtesy of James Baird James Baird is a special player and coach, someone that has impacted the beautiful game in nearly every corner of the world. The 35-year-old has played for an astonishing 21 different clubs in Scotland, Faroe Islands, England, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S., and Iceland. That doesn’t include his national team experience or his numerous coaching gigs or even his work with the Global United charity team. Baird is a true international player that has spent time
Recently-hired England Women’s soccer head coach Phil Neville’s debut was a rousing success in his team’s 4-1 victory over France in the first leg of the SheBelieves Cup in Columbus. Photo Credit: Brent Durken/ISNSoccer.com MAPFRE Stadium and Ohio played host to the anticipated first look at the former coach at Manchester United, Valencia, and England’s U-21 team. The Lionesses’ victory was their first against France in nearly 44 years, and they hit the four-goal mark for the first time since 1975. “I’ll
If the 2014/15 Premier League season taught us anything, it’s that a hot start in August and September can absolutely translate to a league title. A year ago, Chelsea started the season on a tear, jumping out to an early lead in the tables behind a scorching stretch of play from Diego Costa. Months later, while the Blues’ play tapered off somewhat, the lead that the club built in the autumn was enough to withstand
For many fans, the closing week of the transfer window is one of the most exciting weeks of the season, and can make or break a team’s season. Usually, there’s a flurry of transfer activity in the closing weeks, where teams are frantically trying to add players to their roster without paying over the odds. The English Premier League has built up a reputation of doing a lot of its biggest transfers during the closing stages of the window. You only
The people at Sports Interactive – the team behind the best-selling Football Manager series – have used their acclaimed technology to simulate the remainder of the season and can now reveal how the Premier League and Championship could finish. What’s more, to test how significant this month’s transfer activity could be, they’ve run the simulation twice – once with the teams retaining their ‘pre-window’ squads and again with a number of potential transfers having taken place. Will what happens in
1. Who should finish top in the Conference? Conference North? Conference South? Well Halifax have, at time of writing, won five out of five in the Conference Premier, but most of their victories have come against sides I expect to finish in the lower half of the table. They did make the play-offs last season but I don’t see them being consistently strong enough for a title challenge. Forest Green Rovers have started strongly, as they have tended to do in