Women’s World Cup OPINION: VAR is Ruining the Beautiful Game

New Rule for PK Shootouts during the Women’s World Cup FIFA recently announced a rule change for the highly contentious VAR procedure during the 2019 Women’s World Cup. Beginning with the knockout stage, no cautions will be handed out for goalkeeper encroachment during penalty kick shootouts. Imagine a keeper getting a second yellow thanks to […]
Around the World With a Six Pack

Apart from marquee tournaments, international breaks are often viewed as a nuisance rather than a blessing. Thankfully for soccer fans here in California and around the globe, there was plenty of quality action on which to feast this weekend, despite the hiatus from our favorite leagues. There were heated World Cup Qualifiers in Europe, South […]
United States U-17 MNT fall 2-0 Against Powerful Nigerians

The U.S. Under-17 Men’s National Team was defeated 2-0 by Nigeria in the teams’ opening match of the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile. The match was scoreless for the first 49 minutes of play until Chukwudi Agor broke the tie with a goal in the 50th minute and then assisted on Victor Osimhen’s […]
U.S. U-17 MNT kicks off U-17 World Cup campaign against reigning champions Nigeria

U.S. Men’s U-17 head coach Richie Williams has brought an extremely talented and diverse team to Chile to take part in the 2015 U-17 World Cup, but the draw has done the United States no favors. Not only does the U.S. open the World Cup in the opening game, but they face reigning champions Nigeria […]
USWNT victory against Nigeria takes them to next round

With the 1-0 win against Nigeria, the USWNT finishes up as the lead team in group D for the 2015 Women’s World Cup. There was a lot of expectation for Alex Morgan, as this was the first game in 2 months that she actually started. Even though she had missed a few opportunities throughout the […]
USWNT breaks viewership records again

Yesterday, the U.S. game against Nigeria broke records with an audience of 5 million spectators, making it the most-watched Women’s World Cup group stage match AND the most-watched soccer match ever on Fox, with its peak at 6.3 million viewers. The audience for this World Cup has been increasing game after game. It started at […]
USA vs. Nigeria: Preview of the final Group Game

This is the last match for the U.S. in the group phase and probably the most important for them so far. This may prove to be the match that either makes or breaks the campaign. As of now, the USWNT is first in the group, however if they tie or lose to Nigeria, there is […]
BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year award: Asisat Oshoala wins

[dropcap type=”1″]T[/dropcap]he 20-year-old forward is the first player to win the new award from the BBC World Service, voted for by football fans around the world. She beat Spain’s Veronica Boquete, German Nadine Kessler, Scot Kim Little and Brazilian Marta to the honour. “I would like to say thank you to the BBC, to my […]