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U.S Open Cup games have brought us some news and players to watch – including Ben Cremaschi who is now closing in on a USMNT call-up. Meanwhile, Yanks abroad had a great Tuesday impressing in UCL qualifying and the Copa Libertadores. ASN’s Brian Sciaretta offers up this thoughts on it all.  BY Brian Sciaretta Posted August 23, 2023 1:30 PM SHARE THIS STORY WE’VE HIT MIDWEEK and it’s been fun. Champions League qualifiers, U.S. Open Cup, Libertadores, transfer talk, national team talk – it’s got a bit of everything. Where to begin? Let’s start with the U.S. Open Cup semi-finals…

FC Cincinnati’s 1-0 victory over Inter Miami on Saturday confirmed that the Florida franchise won’t be making this year’s MLS playoffs, leaving Lionel Messi without competitive club football for quite some time.The Beckham and Henry precedents of MLS loansThere is precedent if Messi decides to seek a short-term loan away from Inter Miami, before returning to try to steer them to a better regular season in 2024 than they’ve had in 2023.Messi’s next club after Inter Miami: two teams stand outParker JohnsonDavid Beckham did this when he went on loan to AC Milan from January to June of 2009 and…

The first three episodes of Apple TV+’s six-part documentary series chronicling Lionel Messi’s move to Inter Miami will premiere Oct. 11, the company announced Monday. The final three episodes will follow later in the Major League Soccer season, the company said.The series is the “first and only behind-the-scenes account of this new chapter in Messi’s record-breaking career,” per Apple TV+. Messi, 36, moved to MLS in the summer and made an immediate splash after leaving European club Paris Saint-Germain.He helped Miami win the Leagues Cup in August, scoring nine goals through six games with the club. Apple TV+ announced the…

ASN’s Brian Sciaretta walks you through an epic night in the Open Cup, a big breakthrough with Folarin Balogun where he seems likely to join Monaco, tough news for Cameron Carter-Vickers, the latest with Reggie Cannon and Caden Clark.  BY Brian Sciaretta Posted August 24, 2023 1:00 PM SHARE THIS STORY THE U.S. OPEN CUP final is set after a classic between Inter Miami and Cincinnati saw Messi and CO. advance yet again while Houston deserved its win over Real Salt Lake. Meanwhile, there is plenty of news to unpack abroad with big updates on Folarin Balogun and Cameron Carter-Vickers.…

Lionel Messi says he will play in Inter Miami’s season finale on Saturday, although the club hasn’t confirmed that is the actual plan.Messi – who scored both goals for Argentina in its 2-0 World Cup qualifying win at Peru on Tuesday night – wasn’t in the lineup for Inter Miami’s final home game of its Major League Soccer season against Charlotte on Wednesday night.After playing Argentina-Peru Messi supports his teammates from the bench in Inter Miami vs CharlotteRoberto OrtegaMessi, dressed casually in a white T-shirt, was in the Inter Miami bench area with his teammates for Wednesday’s match after returning…

Lionel Messi is officially the highest-paid player in Major League Soccer history.Messi will make $20,446,667 in guaranteed compensation in 2023, with a base salary of $12 million, according to the MLS Players Association in its traditional second salary release of the season. Lorenzo Insigne, Toronto FC’s Italian star, is the next-highest earner at $15.4 million in guaranteed compensation, which is also the second-highest salary in MLS history.There is a steep drop-off after those two players. Only 14 players have earned more across their careers in MLS than the $20.45 million Messi will make in his first season in the league.…

It’s Monday morning and that can only mean one thing, ASN’s Brian Sciaretta walks you through the weekend for Americans aborad. The past weekend saw some of the top Americans such as Christian Pulisic and Tim Weah do well, but overall it wasn’t a great few days. Meanwhile, he also looks ahead to the final week of the transfer window.  BY Brian Sciaretta Posted August 28, 2023 10:05 AM SHARE THIS STORY THE WEEKEND FOR Americans abroad wasn’t very good and it is masked by the fact that the country’s best player, Christian Pulisic, played well again for AC Milan.…

The ‘Messi Experience’, the world premiere of the first interactive space about Lionel Messi, is here. The ‘World Tour’ will kick off in Miami in April 2024. The ‘Messi Experience’ is a unique and unprecedented multimedia adventure in which visitors will retrace Leo’s legendary career from his beginnings in Rosario to the present day.Through an interactive journey, visitors around the world will be able to experience his historic triumphs and discover the man behind the legend.You can now watch Messi in MLS with AppleIt is the first multimedia and interactive space dedicated to Leo Messi, and will make its first…

“Soccer was dead,” says Kevin Baxter of the Los Angeles Times. “Then the Wolves came along.”Few supporters of Wolverhampton Wanderers, and even fewer fans of wider football, know the story of how the club from the English West Midlands helped take ‘soccer’ to the United States.But Russell Jones, Wolves’ marketing manager, told the audience at a film premiere last week that the events of 1967 rank a lofty third for their historical staging posts, behind only the founding membership of the Football League and their role in pioneering European football in the 1950s.So it was little surprise that Jones decided…

ASN’s Brian Sciaretta offers up his thoughts on the U.S. U-23 team’s first camp to build towards the Olympics. With wins over Mexico and now Japan, Mitrovic now has a promising foundation he can build on.  BY Brian Sciaretta Posted October 18, 2023 6:55 PM SHARE THIS STORY THE UNITED STATES U-23 team defeated a very good Japan team 4-1 in Phoenix to cap its first camp in preparations for the 2024 Olympics. It wasn’t pretty in the early parts of the game, but the U.S. got goals from Johan Gomez, Paxten Aaronson, Aidan Morris, and Duncan McGuire to seal…