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Galaxy assistant coach will not be charged following arrest

Galaxy assistant coach Nick Theslof will not be charged following his arrest on suspicion of public intoxication Saturday morning in Nashville, according to Davidson County court records. Theslof’s case was closed following his release from jail. Nick Theslof while working as an assistant coach with Toronto FC in September 2017. (Fred Kfoury III / Icon […]

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March 12, 2024

Galaxy defeat LAFC to advance to U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals

In rivalry games, records are supposed to be meaningless. The competition isn’t supposed to matter either. It’s just two teams, going toe to toe, for pride and bragging rights. But all that is based on the assumption both teams show up. That wasn’t necessarily the case Tuesday night when LAFC and the Galaxy renewed their […]

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May 24, 2023

Galaxy’s Joseph Paintsil called racial slur in social media post

Galaxy forward Joseph Paintsil was the victim of a “racist social media incident” following the team’s 2-1 loss to LAFC on Saturday at BMO stadium, the Galaxy said in a statement Monday. The incident happened after Paintsil shared a Major League Soccer Instagram post about him getting his first shot at LAFC in the El […]

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April 10, 2024

How a former Galaxy player became a soccer training tech innovator

Eddie Lewis played his final soccer game at the age of 36, old for a midfielder but young for just about everybody else. So with more than half a lifetime ahead of him, he had plenty of time to build a new career. Yet like many former players, all he really knew was soccer. “A […]

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April 23, 2024

How American players are fueling a Serie A soccer renaissance

If the U.S. makes a deep run in the next World Cup — or even in this summer’s Copa América — Italy might deserve part of the credit. Since 2022, a record 10 Americans have played in Italy; six of them were on the 23-man roster for last week’s CONCACAF Nations League final. And five […]

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April 2, 2024

How Denis Bouanga’s scoring impact fueled LAFC’s winning ways

LAFC was 45 minutes away from kicking off its fourth game of the MLS regular season when Denis Bouanga, the team’s leading scorer, walked into the dressing room. “We were shocked,” teammate Kellyn Acosta remembered. Not because Bouanga was late, but because he was there at all. Twenty-four hours earlier, he had boarded a flight […]

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May 17, 2023

How U.S. mass shootings could hurt 2026 World Cup bottom line

The World Cup is coming to the U.S. in a little more than three years. How much of the world will come to watch it, however, remains an open question. That’s because the unchecked rise in mass shootings in this country has led numerous governments — most of them close allies — to warn their […]

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May 16, 2023

Humanitarian groups using soccer to help children at the border

REYNOSA, Mexico — Felicia Rangel-Samponaro never learned the little girl’s name, but she remembers everything else about her. Each time Rangel-Samponaro crossed the U.S. border to work with migrant children on the Mexican side, the 10-year-old would greet her with a hug and a smile, enthusiasm Rangel-Samponaro rewarded with books. But that didn’t last. “It wasn’t […]

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April 8, 2024

Is Bayer Leverkusen’s season a fluke or part of growing trend?

Bayer Leverkusen’s long-suffering fans had waited 120 years for their team to win a league title. On Sunday, with their first Bundesliga crown just seven minutes away, their patience finally ran out. When Florian Wirtz’s second goal gave Leverkusen a 4-0 lead over Werder Bremen in the 83rd minute of a game it had to […]

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April 16, 2024

LAFC confident it can beat Leon in CONCACAF Champions League final

If you think of the two-leg CONCACAF Champions League final as a single 180-minute match, then it’s only halftime. And that makes León’s 2-1 win in last week’s opening game less a loss for LAFC than it is a challenge heading into the return leg Sunday at BMO Stadium. In two seasons under coach Steve […]

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June 4, 2023

LAFC falls short in first leg against León in CONCACAF Champions League final

For all of LAFC’s ccomplishments during its first six seasons, there is still one thing missing from the club’s trophy case: a CONCACAF Champions League crown. The team has a lot of work to do if it wants to add that prize this season after giving up a pair of first-half goals in a 2-1 […]

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June 1, 2023

LAFC is pushing to defy history, win CONCACAF Champions League

A year ago, Brian Schmetzer solved the riddle that had bewildered MLS managers for more than two decades by leading Seattle to a CONCACAF Champions League title. The Sounders’ one-sided win over Pumas marked the first time this century an MLS team won the region’s most prestigious club competition — and the first time a […]

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May 30, 2023