Born in New York to an African-American father and a German mother, FC Bayern’s biggest prospect in goal could represent both the German and the US national teams. A 6’5″ option in goal Leonard Prescott was born in 2009 in New York, but moved to Germany at a young age. Since then, he has represented […]
Let’s face it; the greatest soccer league in the world is in a bad situation these days, thanks to the rampant cheating over a 10 year period where a billionaire royal family member and vice president of his country pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into a team, while cooking the books, lying, cheating and […]
The US National Team hosted Peru on Saturday in Florida at the home of Orlando City FC and with a team full of youngsters, came away with an emphatic 4-1 victory. The game against Peru was impressive, to say the least. And sure, we should celebrate this victory and every victory, especially with the number […]
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 […]
