Charles Boehm
Major League Soccer
Washington, DC, United States
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Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Matchday 3?
Kids weren’t just an MLS storyline over Matchday 3. They were the storyline. → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Matchday 2?
Young talent continued to assert itself on Matchday 2, with several U-22 players contributing mightily to their teams’ performances across MLS. We’ll start up north in crisp Foxborough, Massachusetts. → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Matchday 1?
Our weekly rundown of the highest-performing young players across MLS returns for another season, highlighting the outstanding displays among the league’s steadily-growing ranks of young’uns. New for this year: We’re thrilled to dive headlong into the 22 Under 22 presented by BODYARMOR camp, adopting the same eligibility statutes as the → Read More
Club World Cup: Breaking down all Seattle Sounders' possible opponents
After more than a quarter-century of existence, there aren’t as many historic firsts as there used to be around Major League Soccer. Yet one of the league’s flagship clubs will mark a big, big milestone in distant Morocco this week. On Saturday at Ibn Batouta Stadium in Tangier, the Seattle → Read More
Houston Dynamo coach Ben Olsen was "itching to get back" on MLS sidelines
Ben Olsen is quite aware of how he’s perceived by large swathes of MLS and MLS fandom, including a substantial chunk of the fanbase of Houston Dynamo FC, the club that just unveiled him as their new head coach and the second such hire under owner Ted Segal, who took → Read More
Final playoff spots, seeding, Golden Boot: What’s at stake on Decision Day?
Wednesday night’s wild duo of rescheduled matches set the table and served up an appetizer: Now the main course arrives on Sunday afternoon. → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Weeks 31 & 32?
How clutch have young players been in these critical final weeks of the 2022 season? Here’s just one small but telling data point: A striking 28% of those who earned MLS Team of the Week presented by Audi honors in Weeks 31 or 32 are YPPOTW-eligible. The kids served up → Read More
Austin vs. LAFC, Portland vs. Seattle: A Week 27 doubleheader gem on ESPN
Official-introduction press conferences don’t always serve up head-turning headline fodder. But Emiliano Rigoni treated us all to that fun little gem on Monday as he made his first media appearance in Austin FC's Verde and Black, showing a delightful disregard for the hoary old sports cliché about not giving your opponents the proverbial ‘bulletin board material' in the run-up to a big game. We,… → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Weeks 20 & 21?
The games are stacking up thick and fast in the midsummer heat, and the past week’s busy bank of matchnights provided platforms for an array of young players. We’ll start in the Windy City, where a previously comatose-looking home team sparked to life with two huge wins. → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Weeks 17 & 18?
It was a busy double-game week across MLS, which means plenty of action, squad rotation and lots of young bucks contributing significantly. → Read More
The Taxi Fountas effect: Is DC United’s ride to the top finally here?
WASHINGTON – Though his comprehension is decent and rapidly improving, Taxiarchis Fountas’ English was limited when he joined D.C. United in April. Conversely, his new teammate Brad Smith’s Greek skills were, and mostly still are, non-existent. → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Week 15?
MLS finally returned to full flow this weekend after a three-week lull. But not quite everyone is back. → Read More
USMNT win vs. Morocco provided World Cup-level test with “vulnerable” moments
Fate, and the calendar, have given the US men’s national team a fleeting six matches to prepare themselves for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar over the next six months. → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Weeks 12 & 13?
The 2022 MLS season is rounding out its third month of existence, and with the June international break looming but not quite here yet, the reality of the grind has really hit home. → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Week 11?
Goals, goals, goals. → Read More
Who were the best young-player performers in MLS Week 10?
Lock your doors and bar the windows, because Gary the Knifey Lion is armed, dangerous and prowling MLS with harmful intent. → Read More
DeAndre Yedlin links past, present, future for USMNT
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – “Have I been asked too much about it? Waaayyy too much.” The reporter posing the question was wondering whether DeAndre Yedlin’s younger teammates had queried him about his experiences of the US men’s national team’s doomed 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign. But at first the → Read More
Rash overreactions to MLS Week 4: Cracks in veteran squads? Dust-ups go mainstream?
Happy international break, all (with the possible exception of the six MLS teams in action this weekend). Everyone in the league has played four games, and just three clubs have won three of theirs: early – very early – Supporters’ Shield leaders LAFC, Philadelphia Union and Real Salt Lake. → Read More
For DC United GM Lucy Rushton, data has always been the equalizer
As a data and performance analyst with 15 years of experience across MLS and the top two divisions of English soccer, Lucy Rushton knows what it’s like to be the bearer of bad news. → Read More
What "world-class" Douglas Costa brings to the LA Galaxy
After weeks of rumors, reports and teases, the LA Galaxy unveiled their showcase offseason acquisition on Thursday, and the first official glimpses of Douglas Costa as a G were accompanied both by warm welcomes and a warning of sorts. → Read More