MLS
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.
MLS
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
usl
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
morning kickaround
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.
usl
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
culture
We're back and this time, I've got a friend. As a man once dubbed the "Soccer Eagle" who then turned that nickname into a running bit that I've now revived for this extremely serious weekly newsletter/brain dump on the sport of