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Carlos Vela and Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez have been teammates plenty of times, with over 180 combined appearances for Mexico on the international stage. They also both came through the youth system at Chivas de Guadalajara, one of Liga MX’s biggest clubs.  But throughout all their various stops, the forwards have

During his decade-long stint in Europe, Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez’s name would often pop up in connection to various MLS clubs. But as Mexico’s all-time leading scorer went from Manchester United to Real Madrid and elsewhere, a return to North America never quite materialized. That is until Tuesday, when the 31-year-old forward

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With Nashville SC’s official MLS debut just over a month away, supporters of the 2020 expansion club are busy preparing for their team’s inaugural season. The level of competition has been taken to another level, and fan interest is rising with it. Clay Trainum traveled over 10,000

LOS ANGELES — Chicharito to the LA Galaxy? Count Carlos Vela among those who'd like to see it happen. LAFC's star attacker acknowledged he's talked to Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez about coming to Major League Soccer says his teammate with Mexico's national team would be a huge addition to LAFC's archrival.

A surefire way to look stupid and wrong is to make predictions about Major League Soccer on Jan. 3. Yet, here I am, prostrating myself before you mere days after the calendar turned to 2020, making outright guesses (let’s not pretend otherwise) about a league in which every single roster is

A new year – and a new decade! – is at hand, and 2020 is shaping up as a big one across North American soccer. Here are some key dates. Winter 2020 Jan. 3: MAC Hermann Trophy ceremony - St. Louis, Mo. The top individual prize in college soccer, this award

Here is the 2017 version of this column. Here is the 2016 version of this column. Both of those focused on the formational and tactical recent history of MLS, juxtaposing each against the yearly and year-over-year trends. Here is the 2018 version of this column, in which the story was

2019 was a huge year in MLS. It was a long one, too.  Starting with a number of transfer sagas last winter, to the league growing again with a new expansion team, stadiums and more, while the quality of play jumped once again with stars aplenty.  With a ton to

TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Signings Inter Miami CF announced two more signings Monday evening, having acquired young fullback Denso Ulysse from USL Championship side and Seattle Sounders affiliate club Tacoma Defiance and agreeing contract terms with goalkeeper Drake Callender after acquiring his Homegrown Player rights from San Jose last month. A

With just over two months to go until their inaugural match, Inter Miami CF are still yet to hire a head coach. But the expansion side are “confident” they can hire Patrick Vieira away from OGC Nice as the French side labor in the bottom half of the Ligue 1

It's schedule release day! The dates have been revealed and MLS 2020 is almost here. One of the first things most fans will do is to circle the rivalry dates on the calendar. We've got the full rundown of regular season dates for each of the league's top rivalries below. Most

The 2020 Major League Soccer schedule is out. Rejoice! Our soccer year is mapped out, and there are more games than ever to enjoy during the league’s 25th season. From 442 games, I cut it down to the 10 I’m looking forward to most. It was hard, and my choices

The full 2020 schedule for Major League Soccer is here. Matches for the league's 25th season will begin on Feb. 29 and run all the way through Decision Day presented by AT&T on Oct. 4. This coming season will see more games than ever before as MLS expands to 26 clubs with

MLS 25th season broadcast schedule delivers most expansive coverage in league history including network coverage on ABC, FOX, and Univision FOX Sports to showcase Nashville SC inaugural match on FOX, Feb. 29; Inter Miami CF debut highlights ESPN double-header on March 1 NEW YORK (Thursday, December 19, 2019)  – In anticipation

It has been a long, long while since I did a proper assessment of the entire US men's national team roster and laid it out in traditional depth chart-style. And, well, it's going to be a while yet until I do that again. The reasoning is simple: As I laid

The search for the first head coach in Inter Miami CF's history has rolled on longer than expected, but the person identified to lead the expansion side in their first MLS season has not changed and will be unveiled by year's end, reports MLSsoccer.com's Jillian Sakovits. 

Ah, the Concacaf Champions League draw, a magical world where "let's play a game" can be immediately followed by "there was a recent study from FIFA..." A world where Darren Eales and Miguel Herrera would be sitting next to each other, with grins stretching across each face. Looking dapper at the red

They were the last definitive dynasty. We can have conversations about whether other teams might be a dynasty. The LA Galaxywere a dynasty. From 2010 to 2014, talking about the Galaxy felt like talking about the recent Golden State Warriors run. You could formulate reasons why they might not win the whole thing, but realistically

Major League Soccer on Thursday announced the opening home games for all 26 clubs in 2020, with the new season set to kick off on February 29. In Week 1 alone there are some blockbuster matchups to whet the appetite. Sure to grab plenty of attention, one of two new

Considering all the roster upheaval still to take place over the Major League Soccer offseason, one would practically need to be an idiot to make an attempt at identifying the top contenders to take home the 2020 MLS Cup crown. Right on cue, that's precisely the far-too-early fool's game I'm here to play. Let's

LOS ANGELES – Landon Donovan's return to the soccer field, as manager of San Diego's new USL Championship club, is a product of mere happenstance. It wasn't part of the plan, even as he became the face of an unsuccessful effort to bring a Major League Soccer expansion team to his adopted

The biggest moves of any offseason come once the transfer and trade window re-opens in January. You start getting hints about what those moves will be, or even sometimes outright confirmations, but they don't become official until the new year. But those are very obviously not the only moves that

LOS ANGELES – When Landon Donovan first heard that next year's MLS All-Star Game presented by Target would match Major League Soccer's finest against Liga MX's, his initial thought was “we've certainly done that before, haven't we?” Well, no, we haven't. “And then I thought, 'Well, why the hell haven't we

LOS ANGELES — Expect next year's MLS All-Star Game presented by Target — pitting the league's best against, for the first time, the biggest stars from Liga MX — will be a happy celebration of the growing partnership between North America's two great soccer leagues? Well, sure, that's part of

The 2020 MLS All-Star Game presented by Target will feature a first-of-its-kind summer showdown: The MLS All-Stars will face the Liga MX All-Stars on July 29 at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles. The match, one of the marquee events in the league's 25th season, will be broadcast on ESPN and Univision