Sports and football writer with 25 years' experience, covering everything from World Cups to US Open Cup qualifiers. Football reporter for the Morning Star newspaper and FotMob, and North America correspondent for the renowned World Soccer magazine.
US Open Cup
By James Nalton. St. Louis City SC defeated Columbus Crew on penalties to win the 2026 US Open Cup, and in doing so followed a long line of teams from the region to triumph in America’s domestic national championship. St. Louis has a rich soccer history, perhaps most widely
New York International FC
Cosmopolitan Soccer League club New York International FC is aiming to move to a new, more permanent home ground in Queens. The club has been exploring the possibility of using the Con Edison soccer field, located off 20th Avenue in Astoria, Queens, in the upcoming season, as it returns to
MLS
Major League Soccer is on a high going into its latest season break, this time for the Leagues Cup, as star names are shining and fans are turning out in numbers. Luis Suarez has been regularly on the scoresheet for Inter Miami in the absence of Lionel Messi, while there
New York City FC
Yankee Stadium hosted a pre-season friendly between Liverpool FC and Wrexham AFC on Wednesday night, attracting the second-largest soccer crowd of the year to the venue, and igniting the soccer-on-a-baseball-field discourse among a wider audience. A crowd of 42,204 turned out in The
Local
Technically, New York didn’t host the World Cup. It wasn’t home to any team training centers or matches, all of which were based across the state line and the Hudson River in New Jersey. But at the same time, New York City felt like the center of the
Soccer History
A key state in the history of American soccer is an appropriate host for the world's biggest game.
NJ/NY Gotham
Earlier this month, it was announced that Gotham FC will move to the new soccer-specific stadium being built at Willets Point, Queens, in 2028. Just across the road from there on Wednesday night, they faced the Washington Spirit at Citi Field in the first NWSL game to take place
New York International FC
New York International FC will live up to their name this week as they fly across the Atlantic to London for a series of matches in England. The two-game tour kicks off on Friday, July 17, with a game against Bishop Stortford Swifts at 7.30pm BST, 2.30pm
Opinion
The United States was flying high in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, having won every game that mattered and doing so in a very encouraging fashion. Then, following an intervention by President Trump, everything went wrong. Was it a coincidence, or did Trump’s meddling, which undoubtedly tainted a feel-
New York Knicks
The start of the 2026 World Cup for the city, or region, that will host the tournament's final has been overshadowed by another sport entirely, and one team in particular. On Saturday night, just a few hours after the New York New Jersey Stadium hosted its first match
USMNT
The first goal was massive against a team known for having a solid defense, and after that, the USMNT's performance was outstanding.
USMNT
The United States won 3-2 against Senegal in the first of two pre-World Cup friendly matches. These games act as a tournament preview of sorts, and though Charlotte, where this game took place, is not a host city, seeing these games on North American soil, with the colorful