well this is interesting: U.S. Soccer announces that the roster for the USMNT-Ecuador game will be out tomorrow. No mention of the Australia game four days later

if I were Rodrigo De Paul and Telasco Segovia I would simply use my legs to run back and help my teammates

Yunus Musah having a shocker after coming on as a second-half sub for Atalanta. Unnecessary yellow card, blew a breakaway (which later ended up a pen for Atalanta) and now awful back pass nearly gifting a goal to Brugge

the coach and sporting director who brought Gio Reyna in are both gone and it's still September

Benja Cremaschi on pace for 26 goals and 13 assists in this game. Let's see if he can keep this pace up.

good: Pulisic and Zendejas are outrageous right now not good: Reyna and Pepi are looking at another missed USMNT window

Infantino should just tell Trump that they are moving games out of Chicago at his request and everybody wins

I hope Landon Donovan is wrong about this!

For your morning WoSo read, @svertelney.bsky.social has a great rundown of what USWNT captain (and hopefully one day President of Earth) Becky Sauerbrunn has been up to since retiring in December. Spoiler: a whole lot, and soon even more.

I spoke to Becky Sauerbrunn, who is quite busy these days but is still taking on a new full-time gig

it is my opinion that Christian Pulisic is Good

Here's @svertelney.bsky.social on D.C. United hiring an author, corporate headhunter, lawyer, and player agent to do an important job that is none of those things

Malik Tillman just got hooked after 50 minutes with Leverkusen losing 1-0 at Copenhagen. Can't say he didn't deserve it

'It doesn't look good' - Blackmon appears to suffer serious knee injury

we got a Weah goal at the Bernabéu folks

good: Gio Reyna looked pretty sharp in his Gladbach debut bad: Gladbach stinks and Reyna will already be on his second manager in his second game

26 for 2026: Projecting the USMNT World Cup roster

here is a definitive list, without any doubt, of every USMNT player who will be on the 2026 World Cup roster.

player ratings on a night that I actually rated many of the players high!

Basically a complete rotation for Japan, with even Yuto Nagatomo getting a start. The only potential WC starters in this XI are Junya Ito and Daizen Maeda, but it will be a good opportunity for all of these fringe players to account for themselves against a highly motivated USMNT.

BREAKING NEWS: The North Carolina Courage have agreed to trade #USWNT playmaker Jaedyn Shaw to Gotham FC for $1.25 million, multiple sources confirm to ESPN. That doubles the intra-league #NWSL record set a month ago and ranks among some of the top global transfers to date.

Pochettino's USMNT has a pressing problem: they can't seem to press. “When we don't have the ball...we need to be aggressive." That aggression hasn't showed. Structural and personnel flaws have in a 🇺🇸 press that's more liability than asset. For @backheeled.com ⤵️ www.backheeled.com/mauricio-poc...

very "sir this is an Arby's" presser today from Poch

yeah the USMNT is going to rue losing this guy

Yes, Univision has branded tonight’s Mexico-Japan match #TacosVsSushi

Poch doesn't seem super happy that Weah has been playing fullback at Marseille

Poch says that Weah was cramping and didn't suffer any injury

Pochettino said the USMNT was better than South Korea but wasn't clinical enough

Pochettino has now lost 7 of 17 games with the USMNT

the USMNT can take a little solace in the last 20 minutes, by far its best period of the game. not a coincidence that came after Balogun came in

oh my days, that Pulisic free kick

26,500 is the attendance, a sellout. A legit sellout too, as almost every seat is filled (by a Korea fan)

sort of strange to see Roldan as the first CM sub when he was just called in late. seems to have bypassed 3 guys who were ahead of him just a few days ago

if Poch truly crashes and burns as he appears to be, what would be the best overcorrection hire U.S. Soccer could make? I'm gonna go Schmetzer

The easygoing smile of a man who's not only very proud of his son, but also has cashed large checks from both of these federations

it's been fun having Dest back in the attacking third but yeah, if this doesn't get cleaned up then may not be worth it

Pro Soccer Wire has @svertelney.bsky.social in the building pulling the levers and pushing the buttons on the Live Blog Machine as the #USMNT takes on South Korea today

gonna regret posting this but it’s sunny right now! weather delay is definitely not going to happen

Press, Heath call on NWSL to abolish salary cap

about to jump on @siriusxmfc.bsky.social to talk some USMNT. come onnnnnn down

In honor of @bsky.app updating the Starter Pack function, we're bringing back our American soccer starter pack...now twice the size! Make sure you invite a friend to join Bluesky, give them this starter pack, and they'll eat (great soccer content) for a lifetime.

The #USMNT will face Uruguay in a November friendly match in Tampa, according to multiple sources. Details: www.foxsports.com/stories/socc...

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The USMNT won't have a full compliment of players this week, but this was a good weekend abroad nonetheless

Gio Reyna is not in the squad for Borussia Mönchengladbach's game against Stuttgart. Gladbach coach Gerardo Seoane hinted at this possibility earlier in the week.

Pochettino: Banks could become best center back in Europe

Mauricio Pochettino engaged with his responsibilities as USMNT coach in a completely normal way, but because of how deeply warped that space is it's Major News to say a good-but-not-great league is sometimes a better place for the player pool than other good-but-not-great leagues

whew there is A LOT here

this shouldn't be controversial (but it will be!) -he said "competitive" not "better" -he didn't say which leagues