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Orlando City reunite with F Daryl DikeForward Daryl Dike is returning to his first professional club, signing with Orlando City SC through the 2027 MLS Sprint Season with a club option for 2027-28, the club announced on Friday.,In exchange for Dike's Discovery Priority, Orlando City sent $75,000 in 2027 General Allocation Money (GAM) to...

Report: Striker Daryl Dike returning to Orlando CityOrlando City SC are finalizing a deal to bring back American striker Daryl Dike, The Athletic reported on Tuesday.,The 26-year-old free agent's contract with England's West Bromwich Albion expired this summer. ,Dike moved to England from Orlando City in 2022 for a fee worth nearly $10 million but wa...

This time for sure!When I was growing up, it was understood that the Chicago Cubs would never have a third baseman. Or center fielder as well, but the third base gap was the more hallowed one because it followed Ron Santo. There was no universally beloved centerfielder whose legacy the team could never tread upon and ...

The USMNT wins its last game in the pre-Balogun era

International soccer, especially this season, is highly weird. So while the USMNT’s 1-0 win over El Salvador to clinch a spot in the semifinals of the Nations League doesn’t look like much — and it isn’t — one must consider that most of the squad has been run ragged with their club teams, had a Worl...

Now it’s time to get on the Brandon Vazquez train for USMNT

Yeah, I know. We do this every few months. Have for basically our entire lives, except for maybe that brief Jozy Altidore interlude…right until he popped his hammy in Brazil. And we’ll continue to do this every few months for the rest of our lives, pinning our hopes for a genuine No. 9 for the USMNT...

Oh, damn, MLS started this weekend

Part of it was due to still being on vacation, and the other part was my general obliviousness. But I only realized at the last minute that MLS started its season this weekend, about 12 minutes after the last one ended with NYCFC’s manager in his undies in the rain in Portland, thanks to having to w...

The fight for the USMNT’s #9 spot moves to the European theater

As it’s always been (and sometimes it feels always will be) that the one big hole on the US Men’s international team is the one up top, a central striker. You never want to be in a place where you’re wondering if there’s any way to make Jozy Altidore 10 years younger. It’s Jozy Altidore, after all. ...

It’s fine, this is fine. No really, it’s fine

In the euphoria of the US’s latest “Dos a Cero” triumph over Mexico, most US fans probably joked with their friends that they would follow this up with a turgid and flat performance in Jamaica. Joke to mask the pain, because we all suspected it, just at differing levels. Maybe some thought they woul...