If Wednesday night was any indication, we just witnessed the beginning of a beautiful love affair.

Austin and soccer threw one hell of a party.

Q2 did it up something proper.

Austin FC owner Anthony Precourt’s swanky new venue delivered in what will go down as the best soccer opening since the Karate Kid kicked it around the pitch with ...Read more

Christian Eriksen, the Danish midfielder who collapsed and nearly died in his team’s opening match, will have a pacemaker implanted.

“After Christian has been through different heart examinations it has been decided that he should have an ICD (heart starter),” national team doctor Morten Boesen said in a statement. “This device is ...Read more

Q2 Stadium was “Christened by Queens” as the TIFO unveiled by U.S. women's national team supporters group American Outlaws read on Wednesday night. A first-half goal by Christen Press, the first ever scored in Q2 Stadium, started the scoring in a 2-0 win for the Americans over Nigeria in the final match of a three-game Summer Series that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Major League Soccer's decision to join Liga MX on a cross-border all-star game this summer isn't necessarily a step toward a long-rumored merger of North America's two most prominent soccer leagues.

But it's not a step away, either.

"If it makes sense at the right time, then we'll take that step," MLS Commissioner Don Garber ...Read more

What’s real isn’t always obvious or easily discernible in sports. We saw that Sunday night at Hard Rock Stadium.

If you stick a boxing ring on a football field, and put 44-year-old retired Floyd Mayweather inside it to fight a YouTube star turned made-up fighter named Logan Paul ... is it a boxing match?

If there are no judges scoring it ...Read more

One of the CONCACAF Nations League soccer semifinals Thursday night was briefly halted over homophobic chants, an incident that also led security to eject a number of fans from the Empower Field at Mile High stadium in Denver, Colo.

The tense match that ultimately ended with Mexico’s penalty-kick victory over Costa Rica was halted for three ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A 26-year-old Downingtown (Pa.) West alum recently became the first American ever to win a title in the English Premier League, one of the world's most prestigious soccer competitions.

Has that sunk in yet?

"No, it has not," said Zack Steffen, the alum in question.

"I don't know if it'll sink in until maybe I'm back home with...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Alexi Lalas knows a turning point when he sees one.

It happened in his first national team start, at the Coliseum against a Mexican team that had lost only one of its previous 26 games against the U.S. But on that day, the 20-year-old Lalas helped the Americans gut out a 2-2 draw, starting a streak that would see them lose just ...Read more

MIAMI — On the eve of Inter Miami’s first game in a full home stadium, Major League Soccer slapped the club with a league-record $2 million fine and other costly sanctions for breaking salary and roster rules during the 2020 season.

The violations included under-reporting compensation and the incorrect roster categorization for players ...Read more

Seven people, including a neurosurgeon and a psychiatrist, are facing charges in Argentina related to the death of soccer star Diego Maradona.

The two doctors, along with two nurses, a nurse coordinator, another doctor and a psychologist, are accused of being negligent with Maradona and conducting themselves in an “inappropriate, deficient ...Read more

CHICAGO — Nearly three years after permanently revoking the supporter privileges of Sector Latino Chicago, the Fire on Friday announced the ardent fan group formally has been reinstated.

The group will return starting with the Fire’s match against Inter Miami CF on May 22 at Soldier Field, the team said.

Sector Latino’s formal return ...Read more

Before he became Chicharito, before he played in three World Cups and before he became Mexico’s all-time leading scorer, Javier Hernández wanted to quit soccer and go back to school.

So he organized a breakfast meeting with his agent and parents, during which they urged him to give the sport one more try. Twelve years later, that advice ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The tombstone for The Super League, capital T, the breakaway soccer competition by Europe's biggest clubs that threatened to radically reshape the sport's global landscape, would look something like this:

R.I.P., April 18, 2021 - April 20, 2021

It was extinguished as quickly as it was ignited, the brainchild of Real Madrid ...Read more