BALTIMORE — After a standout soccer career at Baltimore's Calvert Hall High School and Maryland, Ben Bender is going pro.

Bender, who was named an All-American and Big Ten Midfielder of the Year as a sophomore this past season for the Terps, was the No. 1 overall pick Tuesday by expansion Charlotte FC in the 2022 Major League Soccer ...Read more

Could it finally be happening?

Could Major League Soccer finally be getting the Miami stadium it has been craving for 25 years?

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Inter Miami managing owner Jorge Mas told the Herald on Thursday that negotiations over the proposal to build Miami Freedom Park are complete. A long-awaited City Commission vote on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. women's national soccer team is returning to Southern California for the first time in more than two years next month when it opens the four-team SheBelieves Cup at Dignity Health Sports Park.

The reigning Women's World Cup champions, ranked No. 1 by FIFA, will face the 24th-ranked Czech Republic in the second game of a...Read more

While researching a writing project, I began to pay closer attention to women’s soccer, including the U.S. women’s national team and the National Women’s Soccer League.

Both organizations include world-class players, and these athletes are not immune to the effects of the toxic division and human brokenness that is pervasive in our ...Read more

Less than a week after leaving LAFC, Bob Bradley has landed a new job, being named Wednesday as head coach and sporting director at Toronto FC where he will be reunited with son Michael, the team's captain.

Speculation that Bradley would eventually land in Toronto began in the final weeks of the MLS season when the coach, whose contract expired...Read more

Several former Chicago Red Stars players accused coach Rory Dames of verbal, emotional and racial abuse and controlling behavior in a Washington Post article published Monday.

Dames, who was the longest-tenured coach in the National Women’s Soccer League, resigned Saturday after the team lost 2-1 to the Washington Spirit in the championship ...Read more

Another season ended in heartbreak for the Chicago Red Stars, who fell in the NWSL championship game in a 2-1 extra-time thriller Saturday.

More than 10,000 fans filled Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville, Ky,. for the first NWSL championship match since before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Red Stars also lost the 2019 championship ...Read more

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Tim Weah of the U.S. and Jamaica's Michail Antonio exchanged first-half goals 11 minutes apart in a CONCACAF World Cup qualifier that finished in a 1-1 draw Tuesday before a sparse crowd limited by COVID-19 to less than 5,000 at National Stadium.

Damion Lowe briefly brought the crowd to its feet in the 84th minute, heading...Read more

CINCINNATI — Oswaldo Sánchez played 15 years for the Mexican national team, making 99 appearances in goal and participating in three World Cups. Yet two of the most challenging games he played during that time were the qualifiers he started in the U.S.

"The United States makes good use of its home sites," he said in Spanish. "They normally ...Read more

French women’s soccer may have its own Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan attack. Paris St.-Germain midfielder Aminata Diallo was arrested in a Paris suburb Wednesday morning, a week after her teammate Kheira Hamraoui was beaten by masked men wielding iron bars, according to L’Equipe.

Diallo and Hamraoui play the same position for PSG and the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Christian Pulisic is returning to the U.S. national team for next week’s World Cup qualifier with Mexico after missing last month’s three qualifiers with an ankle injury.

Pulisic proved his fitness in Tuesday's Champions League match, going 16 minutes in Chelsea's 1-0 win over Malmö.

"It's about progressing him in a safe ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The women's national soccer team will close out 2021 with a pair of matches this month in Australia, marking the team's first trip to that continent in 21 years.

The U.S. is the two-time defending world champion and Australia is co-host of the next Women's World Cup, which it will share with New Zealand in 2023. The Americans, ...Read more

FOLSOM, Calif. — You couldn't help but notice all the deer.

As I prepared to enter Folsom State Prison with Sacramento Republic players and staff late Tuesday afternoon, there were about a dozen deer gathered around the entrance. We'd just driven through a countryside of rolling yellow hills to get to the prison; the American River flowed out...Read more