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Byline: Steven Goff Any doubts about Lionel Messi's enduring capacity to play soccer at an otherworldly level - at 37 and deep into another physically taxing year - were annihilated [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Upon his arrival last offseason, D.C. United General Manager Ally Mackay began the process of reconstructing the roster by bidding farewell to more than a dozen players. [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Still not at full strength after returning from a back injury, Washington Spirit star Trinity Rodman will miss the three U.S. women's national soccer team matches this [...]

Byline: Steven Goff GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Aidan Morris's blossoming year in soccer began with him as a midfield keystone for the MLS champion Columbus Crew and a probable starter on [...]

Byline: Steven Goff NEW YORK - In the 20 months before the 2026 World Cup, Mauricio Pochettino will gather the U.S. men's national soccer team at training camps to shape [...]

Byline: Steven Goff CINCINNATI - Mauricio Pochettino was named coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team Tuesday, uniting one of the sport's most respected club coaches with a program [...]

Byline: Steven Goff MILFORD, Ohio - There were two plotlines playing out with the U.S. men's national soccer team Monday morning, one pertaining to the alarming problems on the field [...]

Byline: Steven Goff KANSAS CITY, Kan. - In the coming hours or days, there is a very good chance the U.S. Soccer Federation will finally name Mauricio Pochettino as the [...]

Byline: Steven Goff KANSAS CITY, Kan. - On the surface, the U.S. men's national soccer team match Saturday against Canada is as unremarkable as they come: a friendly without several [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Washington Spirit midfielder Croix Bethune, who parlayed a sensational rookie season into a trip to the Olympics, will miss the remainder of the National Women's Soccer League [...]

Byline: Steven Goff The U.S. men's national soccer team still does not have a full-time head coach, but it does have its first roster since Gregg Berhalter's departure. With Mauricio [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Mauricio Pochettino, an Argentine who has led major clubs in Europe and guided some of soccer's most famous players, is deep in talks about becoming the U.S. [...]

Byline: Steven Goff PARIS - The U.S. women's soccer team arrived at these Olympics more than three weeks ago with both a marvelous portfolio and tempered expectation. It seemed incongruous [...]

Byline: Steven Goff PARIS - Judging strictly from the sights and sounds Friday at Parc des Princes - the famous soccer stadium tucked in the southwest sector of this radiant [...]

Byline: Steven Goff PARIS - There has been, in fact, a critical flaw with the U.S. women's soccer front line: It has lacked a nickname. Former U.S. forward Christen Press [...]

Byline: Steven Goff DÉCINES-CHARPIEU, France - Another U.S. women's soccer match dragged into extra time here Tuesday, scoreless and seemingly going nowhere until the cruelty of a shootout would have [...]

Byline: Steven Goff PARIS - For more than two tense hours, the Olympic women's soccer quarterfinal between the United States and Japan on Saturday was a match of strategy and [...]

Byline: Steven Goff PARIS - If he were not captaining the U.S. Olympic men's soccer team in the quarterfinals against Morocco on Friday, Tanner Tessmann just might have been on [...]

Byline: Steven Goff PARIS - From the moment it stepped into Parc des Princes on Friday for an Olympic quarterfinal, the U.S. men's soccer team encountered an atmosphere and quality [...]

Byline: Steven Goff MARSEILLE, France - As sunlight and playing time expired Wednesday at Stade Vélodrome, a scene that had been missing from the U.S. women's national soccer team at [...]

Byline: Steven Goff SAINT-ETIENNE, France - As it turned out, the U.S. Olympic men's soccer team did not need to win its Group A finale Tuesday. Already in grand position [...]

Byline: Steven Goff MARSEILLE, France - Before each of their respective Olympic soccer matches, U.S. women's team captain Lindsey Horan and Walker Zimmerman, the elder statesman on a young men's [...]

Byline: Steven Goff MARSEILLE, France - These have not been fun times for the U.S. men's soccer program, what with the Copa América debacle resulting in a coaching change and [...]

Byline: Steven Goff NICE, France - The U.S. women's national soccer team arrived at these Olympic Games without a major trophy or medal to its name for five years - [...]

Byline: Steven Goff MARSEILLE, France - The U.S. women's national soccer team returned to its Olympic base of operations by bus in the wee hours Friday following a satisfactory exercise [...]

Byline: Steven Goff In women's soccer circles, the Olympics were once on par with the World Cup, but as the latter has swelled in participants (to 32) and global popularity [...]

Byline: Steven Goff MARSEILLE, France - The U.S. men's soccer team returned to the Olympics after a 16-year hiatus Wednesday with the most daunting of tasks: an opening match against [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Olympic men's soccer is nowhere near the majesty of the World Cup. That's intentional. To prevent Olympic soccer from competing with its prized jewel, governing body FIFA [...]

Byline: Steven Goff The U.S. women's national soccer team will depart for the Paris Olympics this week with a new coach, fresh talent, a nine-game unbeaten streak and a renewed [...]

Byline: Steven Goff MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - The 2024 Copa América - beauty and chaos rolled into three problematic weeks of soccer spanning fervent venues across the United States two [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Representatives for Spanish men's national team coach Luis de la Fuente contacted the U.S. Soccer Federation about the Americans' position, which opened last week when Gregg Berhalter [...]

Byline: Aaron Credeur, Steven Goff The Copa América final between Argentina and Colombia on Sunday was delayed more than an hour after fans broke through entrance gates, causing a security [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Gregg Berhalter is out as the U.S. men's national soccer team's coach - one year after his surprising reappointment, nine days after the Copa América flop and [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Matt Crocker knows he has to get it right this time. The U.S. Soccer Federation's sporting director was barely a month into the job last summer when [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Kevin Paredes and Griffin Yow, 21-year-old soccer players from Northern Virginia who launched their careers as D.C. United homegrown players before venturing to Europe, are going to [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Center backs Walker Zimmerman and Miles Robinson and midfielder Djordje Mihailovic have been selected as over-age players for the U.S. Olympic men's soccer team, people familiar with [...]

Byline: Steven Goff In the wake of the U.S. men's national soccer team crashing out of Copa América, its largest fan organization Wednesday called for Coach Gregg Berhalter's dismissal. âThere [...]

Byline: Steven Goff KANSAS CITY, Mo. - About 90 minutes after the U.S. men's national soccer team crashed out of Copa América on Monday night, the U.S. Soccer Federation issued [...]

Byline: Steven Goff KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The U.S. men's national soccer team entered Copa América intent on proving its mettle two years before the World Cup. It wanted to [...]

Byline: Steven Goff KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The U.S. men's national soccer team is in a difficult spot - and not for the first time under Coach Gregg Berhalter. The [...]

Byline: Steven Goff ATLANTA - Several players on the U.S. men's national soccer team were targeted with racist comments on social media following their 2-1 defeat to Panama on Thursday [...]

Byline: Steven Goff ATLANTA - Tim Weah is usually as cool and graceful on the soccer field as off it, but in a moment of madness Thursday, the 24-year-old winger [...]

Byline: Steven Goff ATLANTA - After scoring an outrageous goal early in his team's Copa América opener Sunday, U.S. soccer star Christian Pulisic celebrated with coaches and teammates on the [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Alex Morgan, who for years has been a centerpiece of U.S. women's soccer excellence and is one of the program's greatest scorers, was left off the Olympic [...]

Byline: Steven Goff ORLANDO - In the lonely days between the dreary performance against Colombia and the draw against Brazil, the U.S. men's national soccer team gathered for meetings to [...]

Byline: Steven Goff ORLANDO - Gregg Berhalter says his mission remains steady, even after a bruising and embarrassing defeat over the weekend and renewed calls from a furious fan base [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Malik Tillman was first to find out about the big family news. Both he and his big brother, Timmy, had been invited to U.S. men's national soccer [...]

Byline: Steven Goff With Copa América two weeks away and the World Cup two years away, Gregg Berhalter has much more on his mind than the outcome of a friendly [...]

Byline: Steven Goff Soccer friendlies are largely free of consequence, untethered from continental and global competitions that end up rendering clear - and often harsh - judgment on national teams. [...]

Byline: Steven Goff COMMERCE CITY, Colo. - For six months, using a proxy on location with the U.S. women's national soccer team, coach-in-waiting Emma Hayes began enacting her plans from [...]