Taking a brief break from our spirited debate about minor-league soccer — looks like there could be some more news this week — we briefly divert back to the possibility of a future World Cup in America. In case you haven’t…

John Kristick, the operations manager for the USA World Cup 2018/2022 bid committee checked out the Edward Jones Dome on Monday as U.S. Soccer closes in on the cities it will submit in its World Cup bid to FIFA.

Kristick met…

Ricardo Clark scores in the 62nd minute from about 25 yards as the United States gets three badly needed points in Port of Spain, Trinidad. I’ll look at the CONCACAF qualifying situation at the end of the night, after the other two…

As an earlier post says, St. Louis and the Edward Jones Dome made the latest cut as U.S. Soccer determines potential venues for its 2018 and 2022 World Cup bid. From the start, I’ve considered St. Louis a longshot on…

I think the odds are long, but the Edward Jones Dome is one of 32 stadiums in 27 cities still being considered as venues by the bid committe for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Their latest round of editing…

The bid committee running the U.S. bid to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022 has narrowed its field of potential sites to 45 stadiums in 37 cities, including St. Louis. Those cities have been sent RFPs, requests for…

U.S. Soccer put out the list of venues that responded that they would be interested in hosting World Cup matches if the U.S. hosted the tournament in 2018 or 2022. Fifty-eight venues in 49 markets said they were interested. St. Louis,…

I haven’t tried, but you’re welcome to think of a football stadium that holds more than 40,000 people and see if it’s not on the list of stadiums (below) that the World Cup bid committee has contacted about potentially hosting…

U.S. Soccer officially announced that it is bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups on Monday. One of them is very likely to go to Europe, the other somewhere else — America, Mexico, Australia or Asia. Right now, the…

Notebook cleaning:

The WPS general draft is Monday, starting at 1 p.m., and you can follow it online here. This is for domestic players not part of the national team pool (though some former national team players will be involved) and…