Liverpool spent the last few days training in Palo Alto, California, as part of their USA tour, and during that time Liverpool's training staff found time to take on that of Stanford University in a friendly.
What happened next will shock and outrage you.
SoccerGrlProbs have released a new video through their YouTube channel that perfectly captures the everyday struggles of being a soccer player by using snippets of pop songs. Beyonce, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber and many others have their music repurposed in innovative and hilarious ways to illustrate the laborious effort that anyone whose ever played the game will instantly recognize.
Normally, Fox Soccer commentator Alexi Lalas is not our cup of tea. In fairness to him, most American soccer pundits/commentators are not our cup of tea.
When it comes to America's ongoing debate about whether college soccer is good and cool or dumb and bad, we agree with Lalas. Here he is on Twitter:
We need to stop apologizing for valuing college education within the context of developing U.S. soccer talent.
With just under 20 minutes left to play in the 2015 Women’s College Cup, Mallory Weber received the ball on the sideline and heard a very familiar sound.
“I heard Rocky screaming in the middle,” Weber said after the game. “And when Rocky wants the ball, you try and find a way to do it.”
One thing we can't get enough of here at The18 is a ridiculous bicycle kick. And boy do we have one to share with you. Zach Knudson, a sophomore from Oakland, New Jersey provided us with this gem of a goal as N.C. State tied #4 Notre Dame this past weekend.
Going into week 6 of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Division 1 soccer season there was one thing clearer than all the rest: parity, even among the best teams in the nation, is at an all time high.
According to the Associated Press, 13 soccer players who took part in this summer's Women's World Cup have been dropped from the FIFA 16 video game because of concerns from the NCAA.
This is the first year FIFA 16 has featured women's teams, with 12 women's national teams from the World Cup included in the game..
The dropped players hail from three coutries: six from Mexico, six from Canada and six from Spain.
Thursday night in Chicago, with storms and lightning swirling over the city — reflecting the tenor of the match — the Loyola Ramblers defended their home pitch against number 21/20 in the country, DePaul. The match was intense from the first to last whistle – feeling every bit the cross-town rivalry.
The college soccer season is just beginning, but South Carolina's Jeffrey Torda is off to a great start.
Torda scored a sublime scissor-kick goal to put South Carolina up 3-2 on Georgia Southern (they would go on to win 4-0).
The play was the number two selection on SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays, and for good reason. What a rip.
Collegiate soccer programs began to truly emerge sometime in the 1980s. For women, the passage of Title IX opened up opportunities for female athletes that were only available to men playing football (the oblong type) and basketball. Men’s soccer programs have been around significantly longer (the first NCAA championship was played in 1959), but consistently take a backseat to padded football and madness of basketball.