Has MLS Quietly Slipped Back into ʻRetirement Leagueʼ Territory?
For a league that spent the better part of the last few years trying to shake the “retirement league” label, Major League Soccer has spent the last…
Articles by Adam Booker
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Does Leagues Cup Have a Future in the Rapidly Changing American Soccer Landscape?
For four summers now, MLS and Liga MX have paused their domestic seasons so that all their clubs can play each other in a single, Concacaf-sanctioned tournament…
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The Questions Surrounding Mauricio Pochettino’s Extension With The USMNT
This past week, U.S. Soccer made Mauricio Pochettino’s contract extension official, keeping him as USMNT head coach through the 2030 World Cup. It’s a bit of a…
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D.C. United’s Quiet Revival is a Welcome Sight in MLS
For most of the past decade, D.C. United has been a punchline as much as a soccer club. One of MLS’s 10 charter franchises as the league…
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Proposed MLS Roster Overhaul Is the Simplification the League Has Needed for Years
According to a report from The Athletic this week, Major League Soccer club owners are considering one of the more consequential roster rule changes in the league’s…
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MLS Power Rankings: Chicago and San Jose Slip as LAFC Catch Fire
Welcome to the first edition of our bi-weekly MLS Power Rankings on Howler! Every other week we will rank the top-10 teams in MLS based on a…
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A Week in MLS: Star Departures and Farcical Investigations Push Fans to the Edge
Major League Soccer spent this week proving its own critics right. In the span of a few days, the league got tangled in a bureaucratic mess over…
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Chicago Fire Trade Substance for Spectacle in MLS-Damaging Transfer Saga
The Chicago Fire are headed into a brave new world as a club in the coming years. As one of the biggest cities in the United States,…
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How New Fans in the United States Get Tricked into Ignoring Local Soccer Culture
Every four years, a familiar little conversion happens. Someone who’s never fully understood soccer watches a ball hit the net, hears a stadium erupt, and suddenly the…
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Why Fox’s World Cup Coverage Does More Harm than Good for American Soccer
Fox paid $485 million for the exclusive English-language rights to the second World Cup ever held on American soil despite initially acquiring the rights to just the…
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A Political Intervention to Forever Taint a Seminal Moment in American Soccer
The facts are not in any serious dispute. United States Men’s national team striker Folarin Balogun received a red card during the the side’s Round of 32…
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Three things we learned from the USMNT World Cup win over Paraguay
The United States men’s national team ran out 4-1 winners in a historic World Cup win over Paraguay to kick off Group D action Friday night. The…