PHILADELPHIA -- If you would prefer to keep sports and politics separate, you probably figured out long ago that the U.S. women's soccer team would like you to not.

So it's no surprise that, while in Philadelphia, some players from the back-to-back World Cup winners met on Tuesday with representatives of Time's Up, an advocacy organization ...Read more

ATLANTA -- The chief organizer of the bid that secured the 2026 World Cup for North America offered an encouraging assessment Wednesday of Atlanta's chances of hosting key parts of the event -- and a sobering assessment of the costs of doing so.

John Kristick, who was executive director of the joint bid committee for the United States, Mexico ...Read more

Chelsea's Christian Pulisic tops the 26-player roster called into camp for the U.S. national team's September friendlies with Mexico and Uruguay. But after that, Gregg Berhalter's team contains a number of surprises.

Missing are Toronto teammates Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore and Omar Gonzalez, who have 317 national team appearances combined; ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- An hour before Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber spoke into existence the words that have made sense to him for decades, the most powerful man in MLS sat with the most powerful woman on an ownership group that turned hopeless into history.

Garber is hard to catch off guard, but he paused for a moment Tuesday morning ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- Carolyn Kindle Betz didn't realize the presentation she and her family made in Orlando on July 31 would end the suspense. She didn't know the Major League Soccer Board of Governors would vote later that day to award her hometown a professional soccer franchise.

On Tuesday, she and league Commissioner Don Garber finally shared the ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- Major League Soccer plans to announce next week that St. Louis has secured an expansion team, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the league's expansion timeline.

Sources spoke on condition of anonymity, as the St. Louis ownership group and MLS have not publicized the announcement.

Plans have been made for an event ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Atlanta United manager Frank de Boer issued a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday to clarify controversial comments he made in a recently published article in which he twice described equal pay for men's and women's athletes as "ridiculous."

The story was published on Tuesday by The Guardian. Though de Boer did...Read more

SEATTLE -- It took 15 months to finalize, but the Sounders woke up Tuesday morning with one of the world's most diverse soccer ownership groups.

The Sounders announced 11 families have become owners, forming the Seattle Futbol Club LLC that partially bought out Hollywood producer Joe Roth's stake in the team. The latter was a founding father in...Read more

A day after Alejandro Bedoya won widespread acclaim for his protest against gun violence during a nationally televised Union game at D.C. United, Major League Soccer said Monday afternoon that it won't punish Bedoya for his remarks.

When Bedoya scored the opening goal in the Union's 5-1 win Sunday night, he ran over to a field microphone on the...Read more

In 1999, when the United States won the Women's World Cup, the iconic pose was that of Brandi Chastain ripping off her jersey, celebrating in her sports bra. The photographs live forever.

In 2019, another U.S. victory featured two iconic poses: Megan Rapinoe spreading her arms outward, almost wider than humanly possible, after scoring against ...Read more

U.S. women's soccer team coach Jill Ellis will step down from the position at the end the program's post-World Cup victory tour in October.

Ellis' decision was announced by the U.S. Soccer Federation on Tuesday. Her contract was to expire on Wednesday. The team, which is gathering in Los Angeles this week, will play the Republic of Ireland on ...Read more

Jill Ellis, who led the U.S. to a pair of Women's World Cup championships, is stepping down as coach. Her contract with the U.S. Soccer Federation expires Wednesday, although an extension offer was on the table.

The news was first reported by Jeff Kassouf of the Equalizer. U.S. Soccer did not immediately confirm the report but a spokesman said ...Read more

Shannon Higgins-Cirovski won four NCAA women's soccer titles at North Carolina and the 1989 Hermann Trophy, given to the sport's best player. She assisted the legendary Michelle Akers on both of her goals in the 1991 Women's World Cup final, when the Americans first conquered the globe. She appeared in 51 games for the United States before ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Moments after the U.S. women's national soccer team won the World Cup in France, a familiar chant began to rain down from the crowd at Parc Olympique Lyonnais.

"Equal pay! Equal pay!"

It was an appropriate chant given the disparity in compensation for the U.S. women's team, winner of back-to-back World Cups and four-time World ...Read more