MIAMI — Inter Miami continued to fill out its 2025 roster on Thursday with the signing of Argentine defender Gonzalo Lujan and Argentine American goalkeeper Rocco Ríos Novo.

Lujan, 23, comes from Argentine top-flight club San Lorenzo, where he made 97 appearances. He signed a contract through the 2027 season with an option for 2028. He also ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ali Riley will never forget her wedding day. And the reasons for that have nothing to do with her vows.

Five days before Riley was to be married in Ventura County, her parents were evacuated from her childhood home in Pacific Palisades. When she should have been double-checking details with the caterer and the florist, she was ...Read more

MIAMI — They won’t be traveling as far as they did last preseason, but Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates will still have an unusually busy schedule in the coming weeks as the team kicks off training camp Monday to begin preparations for the 2025 season.

The club on Friday announced details of its “Americas Preseason Tour,” ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Malibu home of Carlos Vela, a former MLS Cup champion and league MVP, was among those burned in the Palisades fire. Saioa Cañibano, Vela's Spanish-born wife, posted a note on social media Thursday saying the house, located near the Malibu-Palisades border, was lost but the family was safe.

"Our beautiful house in Malibu ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Adversity was on the schedule every week for the South Los Angeles Legends, a soccer team of 11- and 12-year-old girls, many of whom were growing up in underserved communities.

"We were trying to navigate a pay-to-play system that had basically outpriced our community," said LaShon Wooldridge, the team manager and single mother ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Netflix on Friday said it will stream for the first time the FIFA Women's World Cup, as the streamer continues to expand its library of live sports content.

Netflix has the exclusive U.S. rights to stream the 2027 and 2031 tournaments in all languages. The company said it has plans to have a dual telecast in English and Spanish ...Read more

MIAMI — Newly hired coach Javier Mascherano will not have much time to prepare Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates for a jam-packed 2025 schedule that includes a few high-profile games even before the team kicks off the MLS season on Feb. 22 with an afternoon home match against New York City FC.

Mascherano, a former Messi teammate at ...Read more

CHICAGO — Trinity Rodman is tired of being asked about her dad.

By this point in her career, the 22-year-old U.S. women’s soccer team star is used to the questions. It’s hard to avoid. Her father — Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman — is one of the most famous American athletes.

Only hours after winning an Olympic gold medal in ...Read more

What's wrong with Manchester City?

I have a theory, although it's not going to be a popular one with the team's Emirati owners. The problem might be the coach, whom the club recently signed to a two-year extension that, based on the value of his previous contract, is likely worth more than $50 million.

And Pep Guardiola has earned that. In ...Read more

MIAMI — Lionel Messi, fresh off accepting his MLS MVP trophy, kicked off the holiday season by traveling 6,870 miles to Azerbaijan this week and brought along teammates Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba for a private charity event in the capital city of Baku.

Azerbaijan is a landlocked country in Southwestern Asia, bordering the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On Saturday, the Galaxy won the MLS Cup. On Monday, the team began building toward next season, exercising contract options on five players, declining options on two others and opening negotiations on new deals with two players whose contracts have expired.

By MLS offseason standards, that's nothing more than some minor tweaks, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Major League Soccer was unable to showcase its most prized jewels at its championship game.

Lionel Messi didn’t toy with defenders in the MLS Cup final. He didn’t make any of those passes that no other player could make. He didn’t create any magic.

Messi didn’t do any of that because he wasn’t here. His team, Inter ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Galaxy are back.

After a decade-long slump in which it lost almost as many games as it won, the team capped an improbable rise from near-worst to first Saturday, capturing a record sixth MLS Cup with a 2-1 victory over the New York Red Bulls at Dignity Health Sports Park.

With playmaker Riqui Puig, who tore the ACL in his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Until he sustained a season-ending knee injury last week in the Western Conference final, Galaxy playmaker Riqui Puig was having a tremendous season.

So I heard.

I watched Puig play only twice this year, once in the Galaxy's season-opening 1-1 draw with Inter Miami and a second time in his team's Fourth of July defeat to LAFC ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Mark Delgado made his MLS debut, he was just 17 and even he acknowledges his approach to soccer was unsophisticated.

"Just being a young kid and running around," he said.

Fortunately for Delgado, his team, the now-defunct Chivas USA, had a rookie assistant coach named Greg Vanney. And while Vanney could do little for the ...Read more

MIAMI — From the moment Inter Miami was launched five years ago, co-owners David Beckham and Jorge and Jose Mas were bullish on the desire to someday play against the world’s elite teams.

They finally will get that chance at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, a 32-team tournament featuring many of the most famous teams in the sport and being ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The most impactful player in Saturday's MLS Cup final won't even be on the field at Dignity Health Sports Park.

Riqui Puig, the dynamic midfielder who makes the Galaxy's offense go, has been limping around the team's training sessions on crutches this week after tearing the ACL in his left knee in the Western Conference final. ...Read more