soccer

Last night marked the end of one of the most iconic careers in American sports. Abby Wambach played her last game for the United States Women's National Soccer Team. The team lost 1-0 to China. It was the first loss for the U.S. on home soil since 2004...

The Albany area is lucky to have an elite youth soccer club in the area with Black Watch Premiere, which is now in its 20th year of operation.

It was a magical night when Odell Beckham, Jr. met David Beckham earlier this week, at least that's what Odell said.

This Yankees regular season will mark the first in which they will share the field with another team.  That other team is from Major League Soccer.   New York City Football Club will be sharing the same turf as the New York Yankees as the soccer team has yet to build its own stadium in its inaugural year in the MLS...

The Shenendehowa boys' soccer team captured its first Section II title since 2011 by beating Niskayuna, 1-0, on Monday night at Colonie High School. James Homan netted the game-winner with 29:42 left in the game and sent the Plainsmen to the regional final against either Fayettville-Manlius or Baldwinsville of Section III...

Football is not the only sport that we have playoffs starting in this week. Soccer playoffs also begin. We have put up a list of the play-in/preliminary/opening round games for each class in both boys' and girls' brackets. Matchups come courtesy of our friends at the Times Union, Jess Koehler and James Allen...

Hard to believe we are now in the fourth week of the high school sports fall season. After two straight weeks on the gridiron, we have moved to the pitch for our ESPN Radio 104.5 Athlete of the Week. Sophia Constantine is a defender on the Niskayuna Girls Soccer team...

Mario Götze scored the game-winning goal in extra time, and Germany beat Argentina, 1-0, to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup final at the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday afternoon.

With the USA's World Cup life on the line, Albany turned out in droves to support their country at Wolff's Biergarten on Thursday.

UNDATED (AP) — The U.S. was seconds away from earning a berth in the knockout stage at World Cup, clinging to a 2-1 lead deep into injury time against Portugal. But the Americans had to settle for a 2-2 tie as Varela scored on a header in the fifth extra minute to keep Portugal alive in the tournament...

U.S Men's National Team coach Jurgen Klinsmann, released his 30-man preliminary roster for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The team will begin training for the World Cup this week at Standford University. After three weeks of training, Klinsmann will make his final round of cuts and submit his final 23-man roster...

LONDON (AP) — Organizers of a major World Cup soccer conference in Rio de Janeiro say it's been called off. Soccerex, a global trade show for the soccer industry, says in an emailed statement that the Rio secretary of sport "took the political decision to withdraw their support" because of various protests in Brazil during the last several months...