U.S. women's national team striker Alex Morgan is set to join French outfit Olympique Lyonnais for the opening half of 2017, with the NWSL club announcing Tuesday that its star attacker would miss the beginning of Orlando's 2016-17 season.
One of the fiercest rivalries in Major League Soccer history will be featured on Viernes de Futbol, as the New England Revolution host the New York Red Bulls at Gillette Stadium.
They don't score many goals, rack up many assists or directly prevent opponents from finding the back of the net with last-ditch tackles, so it's no real surprise that defensive midfielders typically don't get the love they deserve.
Barca, the colloquial name for Fútbol Club Barcelona or F.C. Barcelona, is known and respected throughout the world as one of its premier teams, and is one of only three never to have been relegated from the Spanish La Liga. It is one of the most famous football teams in Europe, second in Spain only to Real Madrid. In fact, according to the official statistics it was the most successful team worldwide between the years of 1991 and 2015.
Old Trafford is the second largest stadium in England and home to Manchester United FC. The stadium has a capacity of 75,811 seats. In the first decade of the 20th century Manchester United played its matches at a 50,000-stadium at Bank Street, when then president Davies began planning for a new stadium with double that capacity. A site was chosen near Trafford Park industrial estate, and architect Archibald Leitch appointed to design the stadium.