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The Hartford Athletic have been training at Dillon Stadium ahead of the USL Championship season opener. With a new coach and some new players on the roster, the team is using this time to build team chemistry on the field. After an usual offseason, the players are excited to be back working face to face and there’s a sense...

After an usual offseason, the players are excited to be back working face to face and there’s a sense of optimism that this year’s team can do something special.

As English soccer fans settle down to watch Manchester City take on Arsenal on Wednesday in the English Premier League’s long-awaited return after coronavirus stopped play in March, it will be clear something has changed.

The U_S_ women’s national team wants the U_S_ Soccer Federation to repeal the anthem policy it instituted after Megan Rapinoe started kneeling during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

The LA Galaxy will meet with new Serbian winger Aleksandar Katai on Thursday to discuss a series of alarming social media posts by his wife. Tea Katai made the since-deleted posts on her Instagram story this week, the Galaxy confirmed Wednesday night in a statement that called the posts “racist and violent.” The team says its meeting with Katai, who…

Stephen Schirra took his first trip with Around the Worlds in 2015. “Everything was working so smoothly,” said Schirra. “We were bouncing from country to country running programs with kids who really don’t have access to these opportunities.” Five years in, the Ellington native and UConn graduate had hit his stride with his non-profit, which brings soccer to underprivileged kids…

Five years in, the Ellington native and UConn graduate Stephen Schirra had hit his stride with his non-profit, which brings soccer to underprivileged kids across the globe. To date, he’s run clinics and camps in 49 countries.

All Spanish league clubs can begin group training sessions this week despite stricter lockdown restrictions remaining in place in parts of Spain because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Erling Haaland scored the Bundesliga’s first goal in more than two months and then celebrated. Alone. The 19-year-old’s Borussia Dortmund teammates stayed away, mindful of the strict hygiene measures amid the coronavirus pandemic, as Germany’s soccer season resumed in unprecedented conditions on Saturday. Dortmund beat Schalke 4-0 in the first Ruhr derby to be played in an empty stadium. Calls and...

When the USL Championship season begins, 17-year-old Alfonso Vazquez will be suiting up for the Hartford Athletic. “It’s a dream to me, that’s why I’m still shocked,” said Vazquez. After setting records at the high school level, Vazquez doesn’t have to travel far to start his professional career. “As a former player, there is no limit,” said Athletic head...

Alfonso Vazquez at 17 is the youngest player to sign with the Hartford Athletic.

The newly installed president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Soccer Federation used their first news conference to state that settling a lawsuit filed by women’s national team players is a top priority.

The increasingly bitter dispute between American women’s national soccer team and the U.S. Soccer Federation spilled onto the field when players wore their warm-up jerseys inside out in a protest before their 3-1 victory over Japan.

The U.S. Soccer Federation says it has offered the women’s national team equal pay to male counterparts for matches under USSF control but maintains the women want bonuses for tournaments such as the World Cup to match those of the men. The women disputed the USSF account, saying the federation proposed to match rates the men had under their...

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg has died at the age of 87.

The U.S. men’s national team urged the U.S. Soccer Federation to sharply increase pay of the American women and accused the governing body of making low-ball offers in negotiations with the men

The top five ‘feel-good’ sports stories of the year had one thing in common — karma. Whether they happened on a manicured lawn at the Masters, or turning for home on a dirt strip at the Kentucky Derby, the moments that made you smile hinted somebody up there had a hand in the script.

One of the world’s most-watched soccer matches was played Wednesday night amid heavy security as authorities sought to keep Catalonia’s separatist movement from disrupting the game between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

After becoming the first six-time winner of the Ballon d’Or, Lionel Messi said he’s far from finished. “I hope to continue for a long time,” Messi said on Monday in Paris from behind a row of the trophies which honor the world’s best soccer player. “I realize that I am very lucky, even if, one day, retirement will come....

It may have been chilly Tuesday afternoon, but the activity on Connecticut’s playing fields today was far from frozen.