Former world players of the year Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe are among the 27 women called up Wednesday for the national soccer team's first training camp of 2021, but captain Alex Morgan will not participate after testing positive for COVID-19.

The two-week training camp will open Saturday in Orlando, Fla., and will conclude with two matches...Read more

Alex Morgan, captain of the world champion U.S. women’s soccer team, has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not be called into the national team’s first training camp of 2021.

“Unfortunately, my family and I closed out 2020 learning that we had contracted Covid while in California over the holidays,” Morgan announced in a series of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Pride star Alex Morgan tested positive for COVID-19 after traveling home to California for the Christmas holiday.

The star U.S. women’s national team striker announced she and her family received positive tests at the end of the year on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. She did not specify whether her nine-month-old ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — As the San Diego Loyal soccer club puts together a team for its second season, here’s a ray of sunshine for fans to appreciate:

The club still exists.

One of its former top rivals no longer does.

More than half of the United Soccer League Championship’s 2020 season was lost to pandemic shutdowns, which also kept fans away ...Read more

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The salvation that occurred two Decembers ago, from the labors of the fans who wouldn’t let their team be ripped away from the city, culminated in a championship Saturday night at the first stadium specifically built for massive moments in Major League Soccer.

It’s not supposed to be comprehended, let alone believable. ...Read more

COLUMBUS Ohio — Two days before the club's biggest match in half a decade, another player tested positive for COVID-19 and the Crew revealed it will be without two of its top players.

The Crew announced in a statement that a second player has been confirmed positive for COVID-19 this week, and midfielders Darlington Nagbe and Pedro Santos ...Read more

From the 17th minute of play, Wednesday night’s match between the U.S. men’s national team and El Salvador at Inter Miami CF Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., belonged to Orlando City winger Chris Mueller.

It started with a leap. Mueller hurdled a defender, sliding at him in the Salvadoran box and driving toward the end line before cutting ...Read more

For the first time in almost two years, the U.S. women's national soccer team and its governing body have reached a point of agreement.

The women's team and the U.S. Soccer Federation have reached a settlement on the working conditions claims of the team's equal pay and gender discrimination lawsuit, according to documents filed in a California...Read more

No, it can't be over, can it?

Please don't let it be over.

Don't let Orlando City's amazing, trailblazing season come to an end.

Don't let the Lions go home just yet.

They've been too much fun; they've spread too much joy; they've actually given us something to root for and rally around during this abysmal, awful pandemic-plagued year.

"I ...Read more

Goals from Rose Lavelle and Kristie Mewis lifted the U.S. women's national team to a 2-0 win over the Netherlands on Friday in Breda, Holland, in the Americans' first game since early March.

The match was a replay of the 2019 Women's World Cup final, won by the U.S. by the same 2-0 score. And the Americans, coming off their longest break in ...Read more

Diego Maradona died on Wednesday near Buenos Aires at the age of 60 from an apparent heart attack, and really it is a wonder that this volatile genius lasted even that long on Earth. Those of us who covered his career, who watched in awe as he created divine goals while fighting internal demons, were forever concerned for the great athlete's ...Read more

Five years ago, an overweight Diego Maradona played in a charity soccer match in Colombia to promote world peace. What made the game memorable wasn't the penalty kick he scored, but what happened after.

Maradona was escorted off the field by a halo of security guards, one of whom was pushed into him near the crowd that formed around them. ...Read more

MIAMI — An outpouring of sorrow and tributes flowed from all corners of the world Wednesday as news of Diego Maradona's death spread, for the Argentine soccer icon was not only among the best players of all time, but also a massive personality and tormented soul who transcended the sport.

The short, stocky product of a poor Buenos Aires ...Read more

Diego Armando Maradona, the mop-haired boy from a Buenos Aires slum who dribbled and dazzled his way to world fame, becoming one of the greatest soccer players of all time but also one of the most self-destructive, has died.

Never far from the spotlight he chased with such fury, Maradona died on Wednesday from a heart attack, the Associated ...Read more

Before he became the unlikely hero of Orlando City's first playoff match, Rodrigo Schlegel just needed a chance.

It's why the 23-year-old centerback came to Orlando City in the first place. He was only getting scraps of playing time for his hometown club, Racing, in Argentina. He'd earned a single start against Corinthians, riding the bench for...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando City centerback Rodrigo Schlegel eagerly tugged on the goalkeeper gloves, his face scrunched up in concentration as he jogged toward the goal during the final minutes of the first MLS playoff match in club history.

Behind him, the Wall roared in support as the 23-year-old shouldered the jersey and expectations of star ...Read more

When Vlatko Andonovski was hired as coach of the women's national soccer team 13 months ago, he came into the job with an idea of how he wanted to mold the team and how he wanted it to play.

And that worked — for a while. Andonovski won his first 10 games and was pointing toward the Tokyo Olympics when COVID-19 froze everything, postponing ...Read more