There comes a point when “potential” stops being the right word. When the flashes become consistent performances. When the promise becomes steady production. When the kid everyone has been talking about starts making it almost impossible to talk about anything else. Cavan Sullivan has reached that point. The 16-year-old Philadelphia Union homegrown player (he’ll turn […]
With Middlesbrough’s recent signing of Rokas Pukstas from Hajduk Split of the Croatian SuperSport HNL, there has been lots of talk on social media about the Americanization of this English Championship team. After all, the Oklahoman’s arrival makes him the fourth player from the USA to wear the Boro shirt this campaign. That’s all very […]
Four Americans. One Championship club. And a purposeful recruitment strategy. There is a new American accent being heard around Riverside Stadium. Actually, there are four of them. With Rokas Pukstas traveling to Teesside to finalize his move from Croatian side Hajduk Split, Middlesbrough are on the verge of becoming home to an extraordinary quartet of […]
This coming weekend it’s Serie A’s turn to return to the fields and stadiums of Italy to get the 2026-27 season underway, and once again there will be plenty of American interest. There are currently five Italian-based Yanks ready to battle it out, from Milan and Turin to Parma and Venice. There should also be […]
Unless you’re a US Soccer connoisseur, a historian of the beautiful game or perhaps from the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, you’ve probably never heard of Archie Stark and his claim to fame. Stark holds a goal-scoring record that the superstar strikers of the modern era have gotten nowhere close to – the record for the […]
by Satish Sekar (Yanks Abroad has covered everything regarding American soccer for over 20 years. Although that is our main mission, we felt that with the turmoil around ‘the beautiful game,’ especially leading up to, during and immediately after the 2026 World Cup, we left that it has become necessary to also delve deeper into […]
For weeks before the first ball was kicked in Mexico City, the World Cup was all about visa problems, ticket prices and more politics than should be allowed. Fortunately, once that ball was kicked it became all about the beautiful game again. Although its hard to judge the teams after just one game, there were […]
