Chivas USA announced today the merge between the Red-and-White organization and the Cosmos Academy West. In light of the recent merge, Chivas USA would like to extend a warm welcome to the staff, players and families of Cosmos Academy West. Chivas USA recognizes that Cosmos Academy West has been one of the premier youth academies in Southern California and is excited with this recent announcement. As a result of this merge, Chivas USA will be expanding the scope of its academy program to include under 9 through
Major League Soccer (MLS) and the NBC Sports Group today announced a three-year media rights agreement, which commences at the start of the 2012 MLS season. The partnership calls for 45 MLS games and four U.S. Men’s National Team contests to be televised live across both NBC and NBC Sports Network each season. This marks the first rights deal for the newly-named cable channel that will be re-branded from VERSUS on January 2, 2012. The announcement was made today by
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon at Swanguard Stadium in Burnaby, BC, Vancouver Whitecaps FC reserves (1W-3L-2D) defeated their Pacific Northwest archrivals, Seattle Sounders FC reserves (7W-1L-0D) by a score of 2-1 to capture their first-ever MLS Reserve League victory. In a relatively even match throughout the majority of the contest, Whitecaps FC reserves received some timely goals from rookie midfielder Michael Nanchoff and halftime substitute Long Tan to overcome Nate Jaqua’s second-half tally and defeat the MLS Reserve League West Division
Chris Agorsor and Arturo Alvarez scored to lead Real Salt Lake Reserves (2-3-0, 6 points) to a 2-0 win over FC Dallas Reserves (3-2-0, 9 points) this morning on the adidas Field at Pizza Hut Park. Real Salt Lake Reserves’ first goal came early, in just the 10th minute on a buildup started by Alvarez. Running at the heart of the FC Dallas defense, Alvarez played a one-two pass with Paulo Jr. After receiving the return pass, Alvarez had his shot blocked by an FC Dallas
The San Jose Earthquakes announced today that star defender and member of the 2001 and 2003 MLS Cup champion teams, Troy Dayak, will be inducted to the Earthquakes Hall of Fame. He will first be honored at the Soccer Silicon Valley Community Foundation Dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 19 and the team will honor Dayak and unveil his jersey in the stadium on Saturday, Oct. 22 during a halftime ceremony at the Quakes’ final game of the season against FC Dallas
The Sounders FC played the San Francisco FC in their final of two matches for the CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round. On July 26th, the Sounders played on their opponents’ home turf in Panama, where they lost 1-0. The series takes into account the aggregate score from the combined games, so Seattle entered CenturyLink Field slightly defeated yet determined to send a message. The message was loud and clear: Seattle Sounders FC are red hot at home and continue to display
Let me state the obvious: Neymar is a player that could change MLS and certainly could be the world’s best player in two or three years. Let’s take a look at his magical goal against Flamengo: We all know that no MLS team is going to drop $60 million for this once in a lifetime player. It would be great if that was the case. Remember it took a bold move (and another and another) by the New York Cosmos to change the
Alexi Lalas is as big a name as you will find in American soccer. Lalas became a soccer icon as a member of the U.S. men’s national team in the 90s. He experienced great success in MLS and overseas after a brilliant collegiate career at Rutgers. His love and passion for soccer never ended after his retirement as a player. Lalas would see himself become a club executive and his service in the Galaxy front office made him a central figure
In front of a record crowd for a soccer match in the Pacific NW (67,052), Manchester United stormed into Century Link field and pillaged the Seattle Sounders on their home turf. The final score: Manchester 7, Seattle 0. Not too surprising, especially when you consider the salary gap between the two teams: Rooney makes 10 million euro annually, whereas Fredy Montero, the highest paid Sounders’ player by a long shot, makes a mere $636,000 annually. To put it another way, it was sort