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1:44 PM ET … And then there were four. The CONCACAF Gold Cup hits the business end this week with a mouth-watering pair of semifinals — Qatar vs. the United States and Mexico vs. Canada — on Thursday night before Sunday’s final in Las Vegas. – Gold Cup fixtures, results, schedule and more– Stream ESPN

11:57 AM ET Jeff Carlisle Close U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Kyle Bonagura Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. It was a wild week for Major League Soccer thanks to two full rounds of matches and

1:44 AM ET Matthew Hoppe rose up, got his head on a deflected cross and, by the time his feet hit the ground, the United States had a 1-0 lead against Jamaica in the Gold Cup quarterfinals. The decisive 83rd-minute goal was Hoppe’s final involvement in the game, capping his first breakthrough international performance. At

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7:27 AM ET THE CICADAS HAVE arrived at Rose Lavelle’s woodsy childhood home, surrounding the Cincinnati cul-de-sac in a siren of shrieking and clattering. A doorbell rings and Janet Lavelle, matriarch of the family, answers and eagerly steps outside. She wants to show a squeamish visitor the backyard, once the playground for one of the

10:56 PM ET Ricardo Pepi became the young player in Major League Soccer history to score a hat trick, leading FC Dallas to a 5-0 win over the LA Galaxy on Saturday evening in Frisco, Texas. Pepi, who is 18 years, 197 days of age, increased his season goal total to a team-high eight with

5:42 PM ET Atlanta United FC has had some of the world’s biggest music acts attend games in the past, with Wocka Flock and Outkast’s Big Boi among those professing their love for the Five Stripes. But Saturday’s contest against the Columbus Crew went to a different level, with none other than Kanye West taking

11:58 AM ET Caitlin Murray The U.S. women’s national team can breathe a big sigh of relief after beating New Zealand by a comfortable 6-1 score in Saitama on Saturday. – Report: U.S. score six vs. New Zealand The win is enough to neutralize the threat of crashing out of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which

2:00 PM ET Caitlin Murray It was bad enough that the U.S. women’s national team lost 3-0 to Sweden to open its Tokyo Olympics. But the way the USWNT lost made the result feel somehow worse and more significant. Now, the question USWNT fans will be asking — and that the USWNT players might be

9:00 AM ET The CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals are upon us, with defending champions Mexico and fellow co-favorites United States navigating some stern tests during group stage action. Joined by Jamaica, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Canada, and invitees Qatar in the knockout round, El Tri and the USMNT will face further challenges if they

4:00 AM ET What do Mohamed Salah, Raheem Sterling, N’Golo Kante, Robert Lewandowski, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Jordan Henderson all have in common? They have reached the key moment in their contracts when they find out how important they really are to their clubs. As my ESPN colleague Gab Marcotti wrote this week, there is an

4:00 AM ET Barcelona have hit a big stumbling block in their attempt to register Lionel Messi’s new contract — ESPN’s Insider Notebook has the latest. PLUS: An ex-Man Utd star wanted by Chelsea. Jump to: Romero a Chelsea, Juve target after United exit | Premier League clubs’ COVID fears | Barca back out of

4:08 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona president Joan Laporta said the club are open to proposals for their players this summer and refused to rule out letting Antoine Griezmann leave. Sources have told ESPN that Barca have held talks with Atletico Madrid over a swap deal which would see Griezmann return to his

11:09 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer “Anything can happen in football,” said the Atletico Madrid president, Enrique Cerezo. Even Barcelona following up their decision to let a striker go to Atletico Madrid for free, pay a chunk of his salary and help them win the league by… well, letting a striker go to Atletico Madrid

3:00 AM ET France had wanted to showcase the best players it could for the male team’s first appearance at the Olympic Games since 1996. France U21 head coach Sylvain Ripoll, who is in charge of the men’s Olympic team, dreamed of bringing the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Eduardo Camavinga, Houssem Aouar and Amine Gouiri

1:50 PM ET Andrew Cesare Richardson Inter Milan forwards Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez. Carlo Hermann/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images Inter Milan are the latest club to pull out of the Florida Cup due to take place this pre-season after Arsenal withdrew on Tuesday. Arsenal announced they would not be travelling to the U.S. for the tournament

9:30 AM ET Caitlin Murray There was a moment early in the first half of the United States women’s national team‘s opening match of their Olympics campaign when midfielder Rose Lavelle, dribbling into Sweden‘s half with the ball at her feet, looked around furiously and put her hands out, as if she was lost. Even

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