Watch highlights as USA beat Zambia 3-0 in Emma Hayes' first competitive match in charge at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Watch highlights from France's 3-0 win over USA during the pool matches at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Watch as France's Alexandre Lacazette puts his team ahead with a "flash of brilliance" in their match against USA at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

The manager knows his England players are hurting as he aims to make it third time lucky in a title race There was no one prouder than Mikel Arteta when Bukayo Saka banished the demons of his penalty miss in the final of the European Championship three years ago by burying his spot-kick against Switzerland at Euro 2024. “I was very nervous,” the Arsenal manager said of the moment Saka stepped up in England’s quarter-final penalty shootout victory. “It plays back in your mind from a few years ago and that moment but he showed a lot of guts and determination and composure to take it the way he did.” But after the disappointment for England of losing another final it was intriguing to hear Arteta mention the potential psychological impact on Saka and Arsenal’s other England regular, Declan Rice. “I’m extremely proud of my country, and it was a great moment for us to win,” the Spaniard said. “This generation had to really earn it in the last few years to get that belief. At the same time, I was sad because you love your players and you want the best for them, and it was a tough moment for them.” Continue reading...

From Tanner Tessmann to Benjamin Cremaschi, we look at the players who could use this summer’s tournament as a springboard for 2026 The USMNT’s failure to qualify from the group stage of the Copa América on home soil has thrown US Soccer into crisis. An antidote to the negativity around the team could soon arrive, though, with the Olympic football tournament kicking off in France this afternoon. Competing nations are limited to picking rosters made up predominantly of under-23 players, with just three overage exceptions allowed. Continue reading...

Another tournament failure has seen the dismissal of a coach and criticism of the current USMNT squad. But the problems start at the youth levels Nine days after the USMNT were eliminated from the 2024 Copa América at the group stage, head coach Gregg Berhalter was fired. Berhalter’s dismissal was the correct, if easy, way forward for the national team after a poor showing. But any review of this summer’s failing must be broader than one coach. Questions about the quality of the current squad are fair, but there is another potential culprit: the pay-to-play model. Continue reading...

19-year-old joins Premier League club on six-year contractTeenager is expected to join Strasbourg on loan Chelsea have completed a deal to sign US national team left-back Caleb Wiley for a reported £8.5m. The 19-year-old will join Chelsea from Atlanta United on a six-year contract. Wiley is expected to join Strasbourg, the Ligue 1 club who are part of the same Blueco ownership group as Chelsea, on loan for a season. Continue reading...

Former Chelsea manager has to quickly pick up the pieces in Paris after team’s dismal World Cup showing This time last year Emma Hayes’s relationship with international football was very different. Her face adorned ITV’s posters promoting its commentary team for the broadcaster’s coverage of the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The decorated Chelsea manager, celebrated for her astute technical analysis at both men’s and women’s major tournaments, was on a break from the day-to-day grind of club football management. The dismal showing of the back-to-back world champions, the USA, was picked apart by Hayes on screen and in print. Youth development in the US was criticised, a lack of creative talent coming through pinpointed as a key issue, and the togetherness of the team was questioned. Continue reading...

Bournemouth and USA midfielder Tyler Adams is facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines after having back surgery.

Sullivan, 14, is considered future USMNT starExpected to join City at 18 in pre-arranged transfer Cavan Sullivan became the youngest player to appear in an MLS match, Tai Baribo had his first career hat trick and Kai Wagner added three assists to help the Philadelphia Union end a 10-match winless streak with a 5-1 romp over the New England Revolution on Wednesday night. Sullivan – at 14 years, 293 days – replaced Baribo in the 85th minute, topping the record by 13 days. Freddy Adu set the previous mark at 14-306 when he debuted for DC United in 2004. Continue reading...

Bermudez shines in goal as Costa Rica and USWNT draw Emma Hayes’ group open Olympics on 25 July in Nice The heat was on for the US women’s soccer team’s final tune-up before the Paris Olympics, with sweltering temperatures in the air and plenty of chances to score. The goals did not come in a 0-0 draw against Costa Rica on Tuesday night, just the second time – and first since 2015 – the US did not win its last game before a major tournament. But the match showed the Americans could handle the kind of high temperatures that could await later this month. Continue reading...

Gregg Berhalter will not lead the US into their home World Cup in 2026. Here are a few possibilities to succeed him Gregg Berhalter is out. So, who comes next? With a home World Cup looming, US Soccer has some thorny questions to work through. Do they chase someone with experience at the international level or look for a fresh face? Do they look for a big name or someone with domestic credibility? Do they want a hired-gun for one tournament or someone who can build beyond 2026? The decision will sit with technical director Matt Crocker, who, after an exhaustive process in 2023, decided to rehire Berhalter. Oops. Continue reading...

Berhalter spent six years as national team coachThe US lost to Uruguay in Copa quarter-finals Gregg Berhalter was fired as US men’s soccer coach on Wednesday after his team’s first-round exit from Copa América flamed doubts that he was the right person to remain in charge for the 2026 World Cup, a person familiar with the decision told the Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because US Soccer Federation had not yet made the announcement. Berhalter’s second term as coach was cut short 10 months after he returned to the bench with high hopes and proclaimed the team’s goal was “to change soccer in America for ever.” The US had seven wins, six losses and one draw in his second stint, leaving his overall record at 44 wins, 17 losses and 13 draws. Technical director Matt Crocker rehired Berhalter and will also make the recommendation on his replacement. The team next plays in September friendlies against Canada and New Zealand. Jürgen Klopp, Thierry Henry and Marcelo Bielsa are among the candidates being speculated as potential replacements for Berhalter, along with Jesse Marsch, Hugo Pérez, Pellegrino Matarazzo, David Wagner, Steve Cherundolo, Jim Curtain, Massimiliano Allegri and Mauricio Pochettino. Salary could be a problem, though. Berhalter earned $2.2m in 2022, including $900,000 in bonuses for the Americans qualifying for the World Cup and reaching the second round. A top-level men’s coach could put pressure on US Soccer to increase the salary of newly hired women’s coach Emma Hayes. Just 23 months remain before the World Cup comes to the US for the second time and the Americans play their opener at Inglewood, California, on 12 June 2026. The only competitive matches with the full player pool before then likely will be in the Concacaf Nations League. Berhalter was the first American to coach the national team after playing for the team at a World Cup. He was hired to coach the US in December 2018 after stints with Sweden’s Hammarby (2011-13) and Major League Soccer’s Columbus Crew (2013-18). He led the US to titles in the Concacaf Nations League in 2020, 2023 and 2024 and to another with a B team in the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup. His players strongly supported Berhalter, saying he fostered a culture that bound the group. That support led to Crocker rehiring Berhalter five months after his initial contract expired amid an investigation of a decades-old domestic violence allegation that was brought to the US Soccer’s attention by the Reyna family, which was upset that Berhalter limited Gio Reyna’s playing time at the World Cup. A law firm retained by US Soccer said there was no legal obstacle to bringing Berhalter back. Continue reading...

The USMNT have crashed out of Copa América early. At best they have stagnated under their coach’s leadership as they aim to build for 2026 You can’t deny they played for him, and for each other. This was no capitulation, no cowed or callow performance against one of the world’s best teams. So Gregg Berhalter has not lost the locker room. But how, after this, can he not lose his job? How can anyone trust that he is the man to shape the USMNT into a team good enough to make a major impact at the 2026 World Cup? They have at best stagnated since Qatar 2022, and perhaps even regressed. Continue reading...