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Today's Soccer Eagle is going to take a quick look at the biggest MLS story of the week, engage in a bit of attitude adjustment, and look ahead the Week 4 of the still-young top-flight American soccer season. And. Here. We. Go. Orland City and Oscar Pareja'
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I cannot emphasize this point enough: United's quest to mine for new fans in Baltimore feels quixotic when Baltimore sports fans' prime directive (other than root for Baltimore if possible) is never to support teams from DC.
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I'm a sucker for pointing at the big, seemingly symbolic moments re: American soccer's growth. Intellectually I understand that big moments come and go and whatever the initial rise a big moment might cause, it's never quite as massive as we imagine it will
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Following MLS Week 2, when it's entirely too early to draw any conclusions about anything and few, if any, of the narratives emerging will still hold by the time we get to the fall and the sorting of clubs into playoff qualifiers and sad sack outfits that might
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Guess who's back to try again. LaLiga will ‘try again’ to play league game in U.S., says TebasThe Spanish soccer league wants to resurrect plans to stage a regular-season game in the United States.ESPNAssociated Press "We celebrate Halloween, which we never celebrated 20 years ago.
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On a whim, for no other reason than I want to push myself to write about soccer on a regular basis again, Soccer Eagle is back on a Tuesday with a handful of observations from the opening weekend of Major League Soccer. I've been writing a lot about
Flying high since 2008
Last week, after Matt Doyle's mlssoccer.com exit and the agonizing examination of the American soccer media scene that transpired for fans and journos alike, I half-joked that I should just turn Soccer Eagle into a soccer media newsletter[1]. I say "half-joked" because a) it
You might have heard by now that Matthew Doyle, aka The Armchair Analyst, is no longer employed by mlssoccer.com. Doyle announced that his 15-year run as the league roster maven and in-house tactics explainer ended abruptly last week thanks to a "re-targeting" of the league website'
I hear Vancouver is beautiful. I hear the food is amazing. I'd love to make the trip. It seems very possible that very soon I'll be robbed of obvious soccer reasons to finally do it.
Last week, we verged outside of soccer. Little has changed (no matter what you might have heard for a day or two from the news media) so I'll encourage you to read that entry and do what you can to help. But there's big soccer news
Welcome back to The Soccer Eagle, an American soccer production. This place is about dumping out the contents of my soccer-addled brain in case there's someone out there who might appreciate them. We stay soccer and make no apologies about it. But. This week, the soccer is taking
We're back! After a multiple-week holiday excursion to Puerto Rico[1], the Soccer Eagle is back (feeling slightly hungover and little chubbier) and very ready to fly high above the world of American soccer. The first newsletter of 2026 focuses on a unique soccer situation brewing in Dallas,
Here are things we know. Trinity Rodman wants to continuing playing for the Washington Spirit. The Washington Spirit would happily pay Trinity Rodman an amount commensurate with her talent to continue to play for the Washington Spirit. The NWSL thinks this is a bad idea. The saga of Rodman'
As of right now 21 different new clubs are slate to launch within the next two years. 21! It's worth asking if all of them will hit the field as currently planned, but they all exist in some form and are engaged in the process of building towards their first competitive matches.
North Carolina FC is shutting down. Or going on hiatus. Or entering suspended animation ahead of the United Soccer League's planned launch of a first division soccer league in 2028. Whatever the words, the effect is the same: An established American soccer club will stop playing matches with
These things happened last week: MLS trumpeted a bunch of numbers with some transparently self-serving framing.[1] Michael Wilbon said he wouldn't put Lionel Messi and the MLS Cup playoffs on any of this three TVs.[2] John Muller dropped a piece at The Guardian about Messi'
The Eagle is back. I needed a week to do some pretty intense video editing (I mean intense for me, since I'm by no means an expert) on something we produced for Morning Kickaround. If you're interested, have watch of our item on the big questions
This is one of those weird weeks when a bunch of stuff in the personal life and a bigger helping of work (that I myself created) conspired to make it nearly impossible to do a fully fleshed out newsletter. But f**k it, let's see if I can