Charles Boehm ⚽️

Rave reviews from Pat McAfee. DMs from Dak Prescott. Cases of free Modelo delivered to his door. Sam Sarver's overnight viral fame is a great story. But it runs deeper still. “Lots of people have some skeletons in their closet. You never know unless you ask.” www.mlssoccer.com/news/sam-sar...

I want whatever drugs the Ballon d'Or ceremony producers are consuming

Somehow this product wound up on my screen, so now you have to think about it too

Jason Derulo has fallen down the stairs at the Ballon d'Or ceremony

It's almost Halloween. Decision Day looms. The contenders are jockeying for playoff seeding, and the also-rans are perusing Galveston accommodations. The MLS season has finally reached its final sprint, and you could taste it across Matchday 32: www.mlssoccer.com/news/nashvil...

Lula Goes HARD

Bom dia and happiest of Mondays to Lula and 🇧🇷

El Trafico, every time:

Marc Dos Santos is gone, but the vibes at LAFC, they are not super great. Watch Son Heung-min (floating @ the top of the box) dress down newcomer Leo Walta after he ignores Sergi Palencia's overlap and plays a cross to no one. Sonny and Denis Bouanga prefer endline cutbacks over back-post floaters

No rewinds on Roku Channel (the irony), so I can't clip Bianca St-Georges' brutal full-speed trucking of Perle Morroni in tonight's San Diego-Boston NWSL match, but good lord BSG has got to be an all-time top-five most chaotic player in NWSL history at this point (complimentary x derogatory)

Of all the U.S. networks I would not have expected to do even a split-screen ad during the run of play, ESPN/ABC is at the top. Even with that sponsor presumably paying well to sponsor the pregame show for an hour on the broadcast network.

Exactly

🧵Come along with us for a Home Rule Walking tour. We’re covering the history of DC's struggle for self-governance since the District lost Home Rule in the 1870s.

Michael Bradley vowed to have his team ready for The Messi Show, and they were. Mohammed Sofo on Mehmeti: "The maturity he has is unbelievable. The vision he has, he knows when to play forward, when to calm down. Sometimes he does things, I'm like 'wow.'"

Feels important to share with Bluesky that Dude Wipes, the Houston Dynamo's 'Official Back of Jersey Partner and Exclusive Disposable Wipes Partner,' has coined the bespoke tagline "Space City has Uranus covered" and splashes it across the pitchside advertising boards at Shell Energy Stadium

Outrageous ThunderBastard scored today by Fiorentina's Spanish fullback Álex Jiménez, stunning Inter Milan at the San Siro

Anti-trans bigots are coming to NWSL games looking to provoke violence or other incidents that could go viral. This is the back-up plan: harass and endanger anyone who stands up to them. NWSL is going to have to contend with this. Kicking the can down the road will put too many fans at risk.

Embolo scored an absolute banger of a header earlier. This, well... 🎶We'll Be Right Back🎶

Leo Messi, flying back and forth across the Atlantic twice in a week for awards events, makes sure not to miss Inter Miami’s trip to Red Bull New York. I'd bet he'll come off the bench in the second half. A matchday of rest would be understandable, but he's not phoning it in

“I think that just comes from my imagination, because none of my family background has ever played soccer. I'm the first...” I had a good chat with rising star Justin Ellis this week about Orlando City, singing solo to the #USMNT and why Antoine Griezmann is Unc: www.mlssoccer.com/news/justin-...

A weird era of restricted MLS involvement in the U.S. Open Cup ended this year, with all 27 American MLS teams back in USOC next year On the future and why, for once, short-term financial incentives must be secondary to preserving a historic competition www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

actual league legend I never thought was going to retire tbh

Soccer has not truly, deeply ✨arrived✨ in North America until we have the rough equivalent of this on television at least once a week (Yes, Paramount's Champions League desk is good. They're not on this level tho)

Bombshell announcement by Concacaf: the first Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal leg between the #USMNT and Haiti, originally set for Sabina Park in Kingston, has been moved to Nu Stadium in Miami. Concacaf has approved an exception for Haiti to play home matches anywhere in the Concacaf region.

Congrats to Stl City SC, deserving Open Cup champions. Somewhere out there, Wee Willie McLean is smiling warmly at the latest chapter of St Louis' rich, wonderful soccer history.

The PK Shootout that crowned St. Louis the U.S. Open Cup Champions!

What an ending. St. Louis’ 11 U.S. Open Cup titles: 2026: St. Louis CITY SC 1988: Busch Seniors 1986: Kutis 1957: Kutis 1950: Simpkins-Ford 1948: Simpkins-Ford 1935: St. Louis Central Breweries 1934: Stix, Baer and Fuller 1933: Stix, Baer and Fuller 1922: Scullin Steel 1920: Ben Millers

Poetic, perhaps, that an ex-FC Cincinnati goalkeeper makes the decisive play in the #USOC2026 final shootout in Columbus. Congrats to Ben Lundt, St Louis City SC and STL, the cradle of soccer in the United States. Huge achievement for Yoann Damet and Corey Wray in year one of their project.

put on open cup, def just googled how tall STL's goalkeeper is. 6'6" if you also did not know.

#USOC2026 Final: @stlcitysc.com 0:0 Columbus Crew - END OF ET - Extra Time is over in Columbus, Ohio. We need penalty kicks to decide a winner. The first PK shootout in a Open Cup final since 2015. || LIVE STREAM (P+) >>> www.paramountplus.com/live-tv/stre...

Tonight I feel fortunate to be able to say I have visited The Hammer

FOREVER FIRST. 🍁 Forge FC defeat CF Montréal to become the first #CPLsoccer team to WIN THE TELUS CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP AND LIFT THE VOYAGEURS CUP 🇨🇦 🏆

10-man CF Montréal opting not to put Alexis Sánchez on for penalties, likely to keep Prince Owusu on, only for Owusu to miss his penalty. The former Impact remain MLS's most productive engine in terms of drama.

Canadian Championship final in extra time in Montréal, 2nd half of a NancyBall vs NancyBall US Open Cup final underway in C'bus... A Wednesday night for the North American ⚽️ aesthete

A must-read ahead of #USOC2026 final. LOVE this - John Hayes scored the OT winner for Busch Seniors in the '88 final: 'He was best man at his brother’s wedding at 10 a.m., then went to the Soccer Park to play the game before going back for the reception...' “Oh, I was playing. There’s no doubt”

It's a great time to be a Southwestern University Pirate. After two more conference Ws over the weekend, my alma mater's BroSo side are now a stellar 11-1-1, ranked #1 in the region and 11th/15th nationally, 24 goals scored, just 6 conceded. Coach Dustin Norman doing superb work. Buc Tough 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

At some point, everyone that comes to NWSL from ~Europe~ loses to a team that turned the Soccer dial up to 10 & has this reaction

Activating Tom's travel budget is a great sign of health for USOC 🇺🇲🏆 #MagicOfTheCup

If you're traveling to Columbus for the Open Cup Final, here's a couple pre-match events to consider if you're looking for @stlcitysc.com related festivities: Tuesday 6pm: Night Before Party at Land Grant Brewing. @soccerwisehq.bsky.social is also hosting a party here so PLENTY of Open Cup sickos!