Weston's Bedoya Can Thank Dad If He Makes Final U.S. World Cup Roster
by Jeff Rusnak (Profile/Interview | South Florida Sun Sentinel - May 24)
If Weston resident shows 'spark' in friendly Tuesday, has shot to make the cut more details | go to article

Miami FC Moving To Fort Lauderdale's Lockhart Stadium
by Jeff Rusnak (Article | South Florida Sun Sentinel - February 27)
D-2 League team also looking to set up headquarters and practice facility more details | go to article

Miami Bid Is Yanked
by Jeff Rusnak (Analysis | South Florida Sun Sentinel - March 4)
What once seemed like a done deal became a dead deal Tuesday as FC Barcelona and businessman Marcelo Claure withdrew their bid for a Major League Soccer expansion team in Miami. more details | go to article

Miami To MLS: Let Us In By 2010
by Jeff Rusnak (Analysis | South Florida Sun Sentinel - October 16)
The bid has been submitted, a stadium deal has been signed with Florida International University, and the first charitable donation has been pledged. Now, the wait begins to learn whether Spanish giant FC Barcelona will field a sister team in Miami as part of Major League Soccer, perhaps as early as 2010. more details | go to article

FC Barcelona, Miami Businessman Join To Make Bid For MLS Team
by Sarah Talalay (Analysis | South Florida Sun Sentinel - October 15)
Spanish soccer team FC Barcelona and a Miami businessman, who owns Bolivian soccer team FC Bolivar, are scheduled today to make a bid to operate a Major League Soccer franchise in Miami beginning in 2011. more details | go to article

Fusion's Lockhart Stadium Stint Paved Way For New MLS venues
by Jeff Rusnak (Article | South Florida Sun Sentinel - October 12)
As our own Lockhart Stadium slips into obsolescence as a soccer venue, the seed it planted 10 years ago as the short-lived home of the Miami Fusion continues to bear fruit. more details | go to article

Ho-Hum U.S. Games Won't Keep Fans Tuned In
by Jeff Rusnak (Commentary | South Florida Sun Sentinel - October 5)
The United States will almost certainly beat Cuba on Saturday in Washington, D.C., to clinch a spot in next year's final, six-team qualifying phase for the 2010 World Cup. more details | go to article

U.S. National Soccer Team Visits Cuba For First Time Since 1947
by Ray Sanchez (Profile/Interview | South Florida Sun Sentinel - September 6)
The Italian restaurant at the U.S. national soccer team's hotel on the seaside Malecon promenade has an old-time baseball theme, adorned with bats and gloves, assorted caps and catcher's equipment. more details | go to article

U.S. Men's Soccer Wants To Avoid Politics Surrounding Cuba Match
by Michael Cunningham (Profile/Interview | South Florida Sun Sentinel - September 5)
They had to tell their fans they weren't allowed to travel to see them play, couldn't scout their opponent's last game in person and have seen their foe's roster weakened by defections. more details | go to article

Beckham Must Show He's More Than MLS Novelty
by Jeff Rusnak (Result | South Florida Sun Sentinel - March 23)
Major League Soccer begins its 13th season next weekend, and thanks to David Beckham, more Americans than ever may know about it. more details | go to article

At World Cup, New Era Dawns For U.S. Women
by Jeff Rusnak (Profile/Interview | South Florida Sun Sentinel - September 8)
Generation next in the U.S. women's program will find out if it can add to the legacy created by Mia Hamm, Michelle Akers, Julie Foudy et al when it begins play Tuesday in China in the FIFA Women's World Cup. more details | go to article

Adu, Altidore Rise To The Occasion
by Jeff Rusnak (Commentary | South Florida Sun Sentinel - July 8)
Maybe Freddy Adu will live up to the hype after all, or at least come close. And maybe Boca Raton prodigy Josmer Altidore will become the best pure striker the United States has produced. Anyone with a stake in the future of soccer in this country can only hope. Also: Copa fiasco. more details | go to article

FIFA Defends The Officiating
by No Author Listed (Analysis | South Florida Sun Sentinel - June 19)
BERLIN · FIFA is pleased players and spectators have noticed World Cup referees producing plenty of yellow cards for sliding tackles and reds for elbowing. The message is getting through. more details | go to article

World Cup Lives Up To Spectacular Billing
by Jeff Rusnak (Commentary | South Florida Sun Sentinel - June 18)
The first nine days of the 2006 World Cup reaffirmed what previous tournaments have already taught us. Almost no amount of hype can do justice to the reality of the event, and there is no such thing as a small World Cup game. more details | go to article

Zidane Won't Be Forgotten
by Jeff Rusnak (Profile/Interview | South Florida Sun Sentinel - April 30)
Soccer immortality is bestowed upon only a few, and among the current generation of players, no one deserves eternal reverence more than Zinedine Zidane. more details | go to article