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Doug McIntyre breaks down the full U.S. national team roster, projecting a depth chart that includes the top three players at every position.

Blog | Conversation | May 23, 2013

No doubt, there was plenty of backslapping taking place at MLS headquarters on Tuesday. After all, it's not often that the league receives the kind of investment that Manchester City and the New York Yankees made, as the two teams became owners of Ne...

Things are hectic at MLS headquarters off New York's Fifth Avenue. David Beckham hectic. A giant step and repeat banner branded with images of MLS, Manchester City and New York Yankees logos, U.S. Soccer's latest brand bedfellows, is being shuttled a...

Major League Soccer, Manchester City and the New York Yankees joined together Tuesday to make an announcement in New York that will one day define the legacy of MLS commissioner Don Garber. A franchise within the city limits of New York has long ...

On a day when MLS announced the ownership group for the league's New York City-based team, the question of where the club's stadium will be located became more muddled. On Tuesday, MLS announced that English Premier League side Manchester City and...

Each week, as MLS teams hit the field in another round of competition, there's an obvious question to be asked: Did the narratives from the lead-up hold true? Here are the storylines and how true they held in Week 12. Toronto FC 0-1 Columbus Crew ...

Now we have confirmation that Landon Donovan will indeed have to resort to playing the role of cheerleader when the U.S. takes on Belgium and Germany in a few weeks -- and again for the three World Cup qualifiers against Jamaica, Panama and Honduras ...

Doug McIntyre writes that after Thursday's release of the U.S. roster ahead of the team's five spring matches -- including three World Cup qualifiers -- coach Jurgen Klinsmann's exclusion of USMNT veteran Landon Donovan doesn't add up.

Blog | Conversation | May 16, 2013

A round of rumors about Chivas USA -- probably unfounded and actively refuted by Major League Soccer -- hit the internet last week, alleging the beleaguered club might be in danger of being seized by the league. Backing the claims was an anecdote des...

It's a script that has been played out numerous times since the start of MLS back in 1996. A foreign player arrives and struggles to adapt to the league's physicality, not to mention the language and the culture shock than can come from living in Nor...

Landon Donovan's absence hasn't left U.S. manager Jurgen Klinsmann pining for the team's all-time leading scorer to return. So much so that Donovan has reportedly been excluded from the U.S. roster for a trio of World Cup qualifiers in June. And base...

How did this weekend's MLS narratives play out, particularly after a full set of midweek games? Here's an attempt to answer the question. Chicago Fire 0-1 Philadelphia Union - Video Narrative: Underwhelming Chicago, a team that creates chance...

Doug McIntyre looks at which American players are helping or hurting their national team stock with their current club play. This week, Clint Dempsey and Eric Lichaj are on the rise.

Blog | Conversation | May 13, 2013

As homecomings go, Kei Kamara's return to Sporting Kansas City didn't quite go according to plan. In fact, Wednesday's encounter with the Seattle Sounders ended in nightmarish fashion, with the visitors capitalizing on a late error by Aurelien Collin...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Ryan Nelsen's career in professional soccer has taken him all over the world, from his native New Zealand to Stanford University to MLS and finally the English Premier League. Given such depth of experience, Nelsen is as qualif...

MLS Week 10 brought new storylines, built off old storylines, that played out (or didn't) on the field. A review of which teams held and which fell by the wayside. Portland Timbers 0-0 New England Revolution Narrative: High-flying Timbers sho...