HAVANA — The Cubans are getting all dressed up their qualifier with the United States on Saturday. When I arrived at Estadio Pedro Marrero, they were painting the place — it’s now blue rather than a kind of orange. There…

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Things I forgot to mention:

Not that they don’t trust us, but when you arrive in Cuba from the United States, you have to go through a metal detector and have your bags X-rayed again before leaving the airport.

The Hotel…

HAVANA – The flight from Miami to Havana doesn’t take that long, maybe an hour on the chartered prop plane, but there’s very much a feeling of going back in time when you hit Cuba. The cars are old, the…

Sorry I haven’t written about this sooner amid the hubbub of the past two days, but I’ve been digging through a lot of college football.

In the next six months, whether or not St. Louis gets an MLS team should be…

The St. Louis team in WPS, the women’s professional league that starts next year, will announce on Wednesday that Jorge Barcellos, the coach of Brazilian women’s national team, will be their first coach and GM. There’s a story about it over…

SLU soccer followers will recall that the school has had trouble finding a consistent scorer since Vedad Ibisevic abruptly left SLU to play in Europe. Several years later, he has played a role in a surprising start for a surprising…

The United States defended its Olympic gold medal with an extremely hard-fought 1-0 win over Brazil in Beijing. Carli Lloyd had the game’s only goal, goalkeeper Hope Solo, who was benched for the U.S.-Brazil semifinal at the World Cup last summer,…

A 1-0 win over Guatemala on a wet and dark field in Guatemala City gave the United States a big first step up in the semifinal round of World Cup qualifying.

Now, if the Americans can win their three home matches,…

Last year, no one got in off the general voting for the Soccer Hall of Fame. No one got the 75 percent of the ballots needed. So the Hall has changed the rules, dropping the amount of ballots you need…

The Hermann Trophy watch list is sort of a preseason rundown of the best players in the nation. There are 48 players on the list, though I’m pretty sure that even if you’re not on the list, you could still…