It's been a quite few weeks when it comes to player rumors, really since Omar Bravo left for Cruz Azul there have been few rumors regarding Sporting KC. As James said in his post regarding this rumor, it's been campfire talk for a short little while, and it does seem to make sense. Michael Thomas is currently playing with Ljungskile SK in Sweden.

How United player could help Suarez's racism defence, plus Arsenal's 18-rated Per chant

Liverpool's defence of Luis Suarez in the Patrice Evra race row will claim the word "negrito", which the Uruguayan admits using, is not offensive in South America. Suarez also controversially claims to have heard some of the Frenchman's team-mates calling him the same thing.

As the beautiful Columbus Day holiday weekend wraps up many Virginia clubs are celebrating great performances in some of this areas biggest tournaments of the season. Follow the links below to see results and photos from the following tournaments:
NVSC Battlefield Tournament (Manassas, VA)
Discovery Cup (Boyds, MD)
WAGS Real Vodicka Memorial Tournament (Fairfax, VA)

The boy's time has come, let's give him a little help

If you listen to any football pundits or experts out there (ones in the British game anyway), they will tell you that the catalyst to a championship (Premier League, if you like) winning side is one with the meanest of defence as the backbone.

The Revs 101 Challenge

The New England Revolution have teamed up with Discovery 101 to launch a month-long effort of education through soccer and fundraising for local youth soccer programs. Check it out and see how you can contribute.

What makes a good day out? Three points would do nicely for a start, even in Dagenham, but other variables might range from a particularly memorable chant to the discovery of cracking pub in the shadow of the ground (more to come on that later in the summer on this site...). This year, the award goes to a trip that happened to provide positive results in two of those criteria for this very

When SoundersFC.com says that a trialist is not just in camp but going to play in a Reserve Match (7pm, Starfire, Free) it leaves the land of rumor. Matt Gaschk introduces Myron Samuel of St. Vincent and Grenadines not just Cillian Sheridan of the earlier post here. Samuel is 18 and already has a handful of CAPs for the small island's national team.

BARCELONA, Spain Barcelona defender Eric Abidal admits his recent battle against a liver tumour, when he feared he might never play football again, has left him with a different view about his priorities in life. Abidal underwent surgery in March following the discovery of the tumour, and it was not known when the France [.

Today I participated in the Philadelphia Union Media Community online chat sponsored by the Brotherly Game. A transcript of the chat can be found here. This was my first experience participating in a public online chat. There were a lot of participants and the pace was quite fast. I frequently found myself typing out a comment and being on the verge of pressing "send," when I discovered the topic has already changed.