By Matt Yoder, Awful Announcing There was huge news in MLS this week as the league unveiled plans for the league's 20th team - a joint venture betw...

NEW YORK — Hoping their baseball success will translate to titles in another sport, the Yankees are combining with English power Manchester City...

-- Ask someone in Asia or Europe a decade ago what they knew about the Galaxy, and odds are the answer would have been limited to planets or stars. N...

This is why they pay him the big bucks. Thierry Henry, who is set to earn the highest salary in the MLS this season, scored a game-winning goal wi...

By Avi Creditor, Goal.com Robbie Rogers winding up on the LA Galaxy in the foreseeable future certainly seems like a foregone conclusion. That w...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- After Earthquakes forward Alan Gordon directed a slur at Will Johnson, the Timbers midfielder responded with the game-winning goal. ...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Kevin Alston of the New England Revolution has taken an indefinite leave of absence after being diagnosed with leukemia. ...

I know you can play our sport and deep down I suspect you still want to. If any player mouths off to you in the locker room about your personal life, let them retire.

In a poignant post entitled "The Next Chapter..." on his personal website, U.S. soccer player Robbie Rogers has come out as gay and also stepped away ...

PARIS — In a dazzling career filled with riches and titles, David Beckham is taking his globe-trotting soccer tour to one of the most alluring d...

In the first part of this article, I wrote about FIFA Present Sepp Blatter's assertion that North America does not have what he called a strong league. This week, I examine the second key part of his observations, that we have no league "recognized by American society."

By Avi Creditor, Goal.com Freddy Adu's immediate future is not with the Philadelphia Union. The American playmaker's status was addressed by clu...

It is hard to emulate an AC Milan defensive play if you can't actually see it, maybe even harder to begin the hero worship of pro players if you can't see what makes them otherworldly.

Sadly we already know from the deliveries of World Cup Finals to Russia and Qatar that Sepp Blatter has effectively divorced football from the advancement of human rights. Rather than be a force for good, he simply wants FIFA to be a force.

Supporter culture may be the next marketing tool for the men charged with growing soccer. That however brings a problem for administrators still rooted to the core mission of attracting a family audience -- we're vulgar and we're potty-mouthed.

It's not that I necessarily think the New York Cosmos is a bad idea for MLS's 20th franchise. I just think expanding the league to the south east is a more important prerogative.

As Soccer has evolved into an industry, its journalistic fraternity has tried to move with the times.

By Avi Creditor, Goal.com CARSON, Calif. -- In a flash, the Los Angeles Galaxy went from the cusp of falling off the top of the MLS mountain to for...

CARSON, Calif. — David Beckham stood on the podium with his three sons, an oversized Union Jack knotted around his Los Angeles Galaxy jersey. Wi...

By Keith Hickey, Goal.com The Dynamo travel to the Home Depot Center in a rematch of last year's showpiece occasion against the Galaxy. PROBABLE...

Can we credit David Beckham for the recent growth and health of the MLS? Not completely. But his 2007 arrival symbolically legitimized the MLS at a crucial time for the league's growth.

By Goal.com MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced the 2012 Best XI during his annual State of the League teleconference call on Monday, recognizing...

LOS ANGELES — David Beckham will play his final game for the Los Angeles Galaxy in the MLS Cup next month. Beckham and the Galaxy announced the...