Sporting KC will play at home in fourth-round U.S. Open Cup match with win Tuesday
U.S. Soccer announced the sites for fourth-round Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup games and Sporting Kansas City is in line to play at home again.
Friday, May 24, 2013
U.S. Soccer announced the sites for fourth-round Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup games and Sporting Kansas City is in line to play at home again.





Sporting KC loses last-minute Seattle heartbreaker, 1-0
Portland Timbers FC 3, Sporting Kansas City 2
FC Kansas City versus Seattle Reign FC
Inaugural game | FC Kansas City 1, Portland Thorns 1
Sporting KC 2, Montreal Impact 0
Community Faces | Opening night at Livestrong Sporting Park
Sporting KC | Looking back, looking ahead
After Sporting Kansas City settled for a 1-1 draw Sunday at D.C. United following a blown offside call that would have resulted in a KC goal, assistant referee Matt Nelson told The Star he misjudged the play.
Sporting KC goalie Jimmy Nielsen joined The Star for a live web chat at noon.
The United States and Canadian women’s national teams will play a soccer friendly June 2 in Toronto — marking the meeting between the two countries since they played an instant-classic semifinal in the 2012 Olympics.

Four FC Kansas City soccer players will play for the United States national team against Canada.

Bayern Munich is approaching its third Champions League final in four years with the calm of a team fully in control after a season of dominance.

The Portland Thorns' season couldn't be going any better. They're sitting atop the National Women's Soccer League's opening-season standings and drawing more than 11,000 fans to home games. And they've got Alex Morgan.

A person with knowledge of the situation says FIFA's new anti-racism task force will ask soccer's governing body next week to approve a mandatory five-match minimum ban for any player found guilty of racist abuse.

David Beckham might bid adieu to soccer Sunday from the bench.

In football, is Germany a nation of chokers?

Imagine Derek Jeter leading the New York Yankees off the field because opposing fans were yelling racial slurs and throwing bananas at his team. Or a game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls halted because of unrelenting race-baiting from the crowd.

UEFA says its executive committee has agreed to introduce a 10-match minimum ban for racist abuse by players or officials.
Bayern Munich has been by far the most dominant team in Europe this season, walking to the Bundesliga title and brushing aside both Juventus and Barcelona among others on its way to the Champions League final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday.

A day after New York City FC was born, Claudio Reyna became the team's first employee.

Hoping their baseball success will translate to titles in another sport, the Yankees are combining with English power Manchester City to own a Major League Soccer expansion team in New York that will start play in 2015.
River Plate's title challenge took a hit on Sunday as the club needed to come from two goals down to claim a 2-2 draw at Union.

The owners of the 18 Mexican first-division soccer clubs voted Monday to bar one person or one company from owning more than one team.

Stoke says Tony Pulis left as manager by mutual consent Tuesday, ending his seven-year tenure at the Premier League club.

Chelsea surged to the top of the weekly Associated Press global soccer poll after winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League for the 11th straight season.

Jose Mourinho will leave Real Madrid after three years as coach, paving the path for his return to England and a second stint as Chelsea's manager.

Alex Ferguson. Former Manchester United manager.

Mexicans often feel that billionaire Carlos Slim owns everything in their country, from telephone and Internet companies to banks and chain stores, but his latest acquisitive foray is meeting resistance after touching a national passion: soccer.

Never a stranger to the big stage, David Beckham was finally overwhelmed and reduced to tears as he went out in a burst of fireworks and cheers Saturday in his final home game for Paris Saint-Germain before retirement.
The Copa del Rey trophy could have been coach Jose Mourinho's parting gift for Real Madrid, or at least a consolation prize after a disappointing season filled with locker-room turmoil and failure in La Liga and the Champions League.

After David Beckham's long and distinguished soccer career ends on an artificial turf field in northwestern France, his life promises to be perhaps even more glamorous than it already has been.