Photo Copyright Jon Durr for USA TODAY Sports. When was the last time the US women’s national team’s starting XI was a true tabula rasa heading into a competitive tournament? Interim head coach Twila Kilgore, in consultation with head coach-elect Emma Hayes, has named a 23-player side for the inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup where […]
Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports United States women’s national team captain Lindsey Horan apologized on Thursday for recent comments that “American soccer fans, most of them aren’t smart.” “Some of my comments were poorly expressed, and there was a massive lesson learned for me,” Horan said on Thursday. Horan, who assumed co-captaincy of the US ahead […]
Photo via Concacaf W Gold Cup On Saturday, at Dignity Health Sports Park six different teams faced off in a battle for the final three spots in the group stage of the Concacaf W Gold Cup. In Carson, California each team played one win-and-advance match, hoping to move on to the competition’s next stage kicking […]
Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports The 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup kicks off on Saturday with three play-in games (sort of) and regional bragging rights on the line (One-third of the final-round participants are from South America, so there’s an asterisk to Concacaf bragging rights .) Default thinking leads to the idea that the United States […]
(Daniela Porcelli/SPP) As a young girl in Zambia, Racheal Kundananji would daydream with her friends and family about life in the United States. Long before her love for soccer developed through informal play with neighborhood kids, Kundananji knew that one day she wanted to live in the US — especially California. On Tuesday, Kundananji was […]
Daniela Porcelli / SPP Zambian forward Racheal Kundananji is officially the world’s most expensive player after National Women’s Soccer Leaguee expansion team Bay FC paid a €735,000 transfer fee (about $788,000 using Tuesday’s conversion rate) — plus the possibility of $75,000 more in performance add-ons — to Spain’s Madrid CFF, multiple sources confirmed to The […]
Photo Copyright Kirby Lee for USA TODAY Sports The 2026 Men’s World Cup schedule was announced on Sunday, with the big reveal that the greater New York area — MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, to put some respect on the name — will host the tournament’s final after speculation that greater Dallas could stage […]
USL Super League president Amanda Vandervort (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union-USA TODAY NETWORK) There are officially two first-division women’s professional soccer leagues in the United States. On Friday, US Soccer officially sanctioned the USL Super League to launch as a top-flight league in August alongside the National Women’s Soccer Leaguewhich has been the only first-division league in […]
Orlando Ramirez/USA TODAY Sports The first edition of the Concacaf W Gold Cup is an enigma. Is it truly the confederation’s championship event? There was already a “Concacaf W Championship” played in 2022, which was really just qualifying for the 2023 World Cup and 2024 Olympics. Compounding the confusion is that four of the 12 […]
Photo copyright Chris Jones for USA TODAY Sports Change has been the operative word around the United States women’s national team lately, and the team’s 23-player roster for the inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup continues that with a headline omission and the semi-return of a star in her prime. Forward Alex Morgan has been left […]