USWNT puts bow on '25 with easy win over Italy
The United States put the finishing touches on 2026 with another friendly win over Italy at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Monday night.
The United States put the finishing touches on 2026 with another friendly win over Italy at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Monday night.
Georgia Stanway scored a hat trick as England made a triumphant return to Wembley with a 8-0 thrashing of China.
The Socceroos will get their home send-off before next year's World Cup final adventure in North America by hosting a special FIFA-backed tournament on Australian soil.
There's no shame in falling 3-0 to Colombia given the circumstances Tony Popovic's Socceroos found themselves in. The spotlight, however, will only shine brighter over the coming months.
The Socceroos will finish 2025 on a three-game losing streak and off the back of their heaviest defeat under Tony Popovic after collapsing to a 3-0 loss to Colombia.
New players in the Australian camp tend not to see any game-time under Tony Popovic, in what is fast becoming almost a Socceroos rite of passage.
Giovanni Reyna scored on his return to the starting lineup, and Folarin Balogun added a second as the USMNT beat Paraguay in Chester, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
Socceroos coach Tony Popovic will look to quickly move on from a frustrating 1-0 defeat to Venezuela and hope his younger, inexperienced players learn from it too.
The benefit of qualifying early means Tony Popovic and the Socceroos have been afforded the luxury of time. However, the scope for experimentation is rapidly shrinking. Sooner rather than later, the process of actualisation needs to occur.
Lionel Messi got on the scoresheet and added an assist for Lautaro Martínez as Argentina ran out 2-0 winners away at Angola.
France and Brazil will face off in a friendly at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in March ahead of the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, a source told ESPN.