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USA TODAY Hispanic Living magazine, Fall Winter 2012.

MLS 2002: Bring 'A' game, not A-League game MLS won't really need an All-Star Game this year. With the league dropping from 12 to 10 teams, most teams have current stars, former stars or future stars at every position. Competitive? You bet. A lot of...

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D.C. United travels to Mexico City on Wednesday to complete a testy CONCACAF Champions Cup matchup with Mexican power Pumas. The teams tied 1-1 last week in Washington in the semifinals of a tournament that has struggled to gain firm footing.

If San Jose Earthquakes striker Chris Wondolowski had stuck with baseball, he might be the sort of guy who played four years at a Division II college, spent time in the minors, worked his way up to the majors and, when given a chance to start, led...

South Africa's group pits it against 1998 champion France, two-time winner Uruguay (1930 and 1950), and CONCACAF power Mexico in what will be a challenging group for the hosts.

Seattle Sounders fans haven't let their team's absence from MLS Cup diminish their enthusiasm. The team held its March to the Match, a parade from Occidental Park to Qwest Field led by marching band Sound Wave, on Sunday before Real Salt Lake and...

In 2006, David Beckham and Dave Checketts shoveled dirt next to each other at a groundbreaking ceremony for a Real Salt Lake stadium. But before Checketts' team moved into the stadium and got ready to face Beckham's Galaxy in the MLS Cup final, Real...

Since Landon Donovan burst onto the world soccer scene as a teenager, U.S. fans have watched him grow. Never more so than this year.

Columbus 'til I die isn't the most likely chant for a California-born defender. But with the Columbus Crew's rebuilding effort coming to fruition the same year three supporters groups banded together in a cozy soccer stadium, players and fans have...

For all that Brian McBride has been bloodied, battered and surgically reconstructed, the 36-year-old striker still is in great shape to play professional soccer.

Where David Beckham goes, the news and entertainment media follow. When Beckham plays, the TV ratings and attendance go up.

When Chase Hilgenbrinck bounced from Chile to Colorado to New England this spring, his eyes were already on another path. Not toward another MLS club or Europe. Toward the priesthood.

For all that players may gripe and fans may boo, referees have always had the last word on the soccer field. But thanks to U.S. Soccer and Major League Soccer, the discussion doesn't end with a wave of the referee's hand.

Freddy Adu just turned 16. But for the rest of the month, he's the old man for the U.S. at the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands. He's out to show scouts from Europe and U.S. national coach Bruce Arena what he can do as a creative force...

Tim Howard will compete for playing time with Manchester United. His team will compete for the honors that have eluded it for the last two seasons in England's Premier League and Europe's Champions League. And he'll compete for a spot on the U.S.

Both are planning to retire after this season. But health permitting, MLS and U.S. World Cup veterans Cobi Jones and Eddie Pope will face off twice more Saturday in Los Angeles and Sept. 19 in Salt Lake City. Jones is 37, and Pope is 33, and time is...

Unlike many soccer players, Carlos Bocanegra boasts high school football experience not limited to kicking. He made Alta Loma (Calif.) High's varsity as a wide receiver and defensive back, and, says the school's athletics director, Brett Proctor...

After Sunday's MLS Cup final, the Colorado Rapids can testify to soccer's capacity to inspire great passion and joy. FC Dallas can attest to its cruelty. On a chilly night with winds sweeping in from Lake Ontario, Dallas had the better of play...

Taylor Twellman scored his 100th and 101st goals in Major League Soccer on June 7, 2009. It was only his second game back from a head and neck injury suffered 10 months earlier.

Major League Soccer has its most improbable champion in its 14-year history. Real Salt Lake, a small-market expansion team that dealt with a harsh political landscape to survive in Utah and scraped into the MLS playoffs, won the MLS Cup 2009 final...

Jonathan Bornstein scored a late goal to give the U.S. soccer team a 2-2 draw against Costa Rica that clinched first place in the regional World Cup qualifying competition.

Trailing early and giving up chances late to an El Salvador team not thought to be a threat, the USA used two goals late in the first half for a 2-1 win Saturday night in a World Cup qualifier it simply could not afford to lose.

Michael Bradley didn't generate as much publicity upon entering Major League Soccer as fellow teen phenoms Freddy Adu or Bobby Convey, both first-round draft picks. His biggest claim to fame at age 16: He was the coach's son.

The U.S. team warmed up for next week's home World Cup qualifier against the world's 121st-ranked team by playing the No. 1 team to a standstill before a crowd favoring light blue and white over red, white and blue.

For all the changes in Major League Soccer over the past six years, two things remain constant Dwayne De Rosario's match-winning ability and the New England Revolution's playoff heartbreak. De Rosario, who scored the winning goal in the 2001 MLS Cup...

The Chicago Fire's curse on D.C. United lives on. Barely. The Fire got the better of United in the playoffs yet again Thursday night, scoring two first-half goals and surviving a thrilling D.C. comeback in a 2-2 tie that sent Chicago to the Eastern...