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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Luka Jovanović: San Jose’s New Aussie Striker Primed for Take-off
Having grown up idolizing and studying star strikers Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, and Aleksandar Mitrović, new San Jose Earthquakes signing Luka Jovanović arrives in MLS eager to…
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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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Allan Saint-Maximin: Charlotte FC’s New Saint in Queen City
While the world of MLS spent the World Cup break debating Robert Lewandowski’s impending impact for the Chicago Fire, or waiting with bated breath for Inter Miami’s…
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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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Lewandowski, Polish Diaspora, and a New Era for the Chicago Fire
The Chicago Fire aren’t suddenly relevant because they signed striker Robert Lewandowski. Chicago signed the Polish superstar because, for the first time in 15 years, they are…
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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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Dare to Dream: Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde. That is the headline. Amidst everything the 2026 World Cup on American soil has already produced, a tournament classic occurred in Miami last week, played between…
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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…