The U.S. women will try to give Abby Wambach, 34, a World Cup title before she retires, the Galaxy will try life without Landon Donovan for the first time in a decade and U.S. men's national team Coach Juergen Klinsmann will try not to continue making enemies by speaking his mind and looking...

• It was another banner year in 2014 for Germany and the Galaxy

Defender Patrick Doody, a Naperville native who starred at Indiana, signed Monday with the Chicago Fire as the club's sixth Homegrown Player.

• Fire sign Ghana's David Accam to multi-year designated player deal

Striker David Accam averaged nearly a goal every two games in his last stop, the kind of offensive punch the Chicago Fire now hope he’ll replicate here.

The full schedule has yet to be finalized but the Fire at least know three of their early 2015 opponents as Major League Soccer announced home opening games and dates on Friday.

• Fire lose three more players

MARRAKECH, Morocco -- FIFA's executive committee has unanimously agreed to allow the publication "in an appropriate form" of the report on the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, but gave no indication of when it might happen.

The Chicago Fire’s roster revamp continued on Thursday with the departure of three more players, including two who had frequent starting roles.

Chicago will again be among host cities for biennial men’s CONCACAF  Gold Cup next year.

The Fire are reportedly set bring Ghanian forward David Accam aboard as a designated player.

The decision to come home and play for the Chicago Fire was an easy one for midfielder Michael Stephens.

Ronaldo is joining forces with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers.

The Chicago Fire have left 14 players unprotected for this week’s Major League Soccer expansion draft but can’t lose any more than two as new teams in New York and Orlando, Fla. stock up for inaugural seasons in 2015.

GATINEAU, Quebec -- Concerns over artificial turf were replaced by worries over opponents as No. 1-ranked Olympic champion the United States found itself in the "Group of Death" at the 2015 Women's World Cup draw on Saturday.

LONDON -- Chelsea missed out on setting a club-record unbeaten run when Newcastle United's Papiss Cisse struck twice Saturday in a 2-1 victory that rocked the Premier League leaders.

Two international signings this week are just the start of Fire coach Frank Yallop’s offseason reconstruction project.

The Chicago Fire added more youth and speed Wednesday with the signing of Joevin Jones, a versatile defender/midfielder from Trinidad.

The Fire hope they have found one answer to their scoring problems with the acquisition of Swedish/Nigerian striker Kennedy Igboananike.

Chicago Fire legend C.J. Brown has resigned his position as assistant coach with the team for an irresistible chance to partner again with former boss Jason Kreis.

Thierry Henry is leaving Major League Soccer's New York Red Bulls, the former France striker said on Monday.

SEATTLE -- Landon Donovan will get a chance to go out on top, and the Los Angeles Galaxy will play for the MLS Cup title.

SAO PAULO - Brazilian soccer great Pele, who is in a Sao Paulo hospital for treatment for a urinary tract infection, has been moved to a hospital wing where he won't be besieged by as many visitors, his spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Lionel Messi set a new Champions League scoring record with a hat trick and Luis Suarez netted his first for Barcelona in a 4-0 victory over APOEL Nicosia on Tuesday.

Chicago Fire rookie Harry Shipp is up for two MLS postseason awards, the league announced Thursday.

ZURICH -- World soccer's governing body FIFA on Tuesday lodged a criminal complaint over the “possible misconduct of individual persons” in connection with the awarding of hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

The Chicago Fire declined contract options on 11 players Tuesday, but some still could be back for the 2015 season.

A report intended to clear FIFA of wrongdoing in its vote to place the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar has instead plunged global soccer's powerful governing body into civil war at the same time U.S. law enforcement officials are stepping up their own investigation into the...

Brazilian soccer legend Pele is doing "fine" and will be discharged from a Sao Paulo hospital early on Thursday after he was admitted for stomach pains, one of his aides told Reuters.

David Beckham's eldest son Brooklyn is apparently determined to follow in his famous father's footsteps. He's just not going to follow very closely.

With FIFA's international break falling directly in the middle of the Major League Soccer playoffs, U.S. national team Coach Juergen Klinsmann largely steered clear of postseason participants when selecting the 25 players for U.S. national team friendlies with Colombia and Ireland over the next...

A FIFA official warned this week that the 2018 World Cup in Russia could be boycotted by black players unless Russian President Vladimir Putin gets tougher on racism.

Sepp Blatter, the controversial president of world soccer's governing body, generally travels with a security detail. On Tuesday he needed riot police as well when demonstrators interrupted a speech he was making at a university in Zurich, Switzerland, where FIFA is based.

While much of MLS remains focused on the current playoffs, for the Fire it's already 2015.

Fire coach Frank Yallop discusses the 2014 season.

The newest professional sports franchise in Southern California doesn't have a name, a home, any players or even a coach.

Russia unveiled its logo for the 2018 FIFA World Cup from the International Space Station Tuesday night during a talk show based in Moscow, the host city for the games.

Russia revealed the 2018 FIFA World Cup logo in ceremonies on Tuesday.

Juergen Klinsmann, who led the U.S. national team to the Round of 16 in last summer's World Cup, is one of 10 finalists for FIFA's World Coach of the Year award.

Chicago Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson swept a pair of postseason team awards announced Monday.

What began 10 years ago with a lot of hope and expectation ended quietly in a staff meeting at the StubHub Center on Monday as Chivas USA employees were told that the Major League Soccer franchise was ceasing operations.

With expansion commitments in place in New York City, Atlanta and Orlando, Fla., Major League Soccer could be eyeing a Midwest city for its next franchise.

Fire owner Andrew Hauptman said he shares fan frustrations over another difficult season and that a turnaround under new on-field staff this season wasn't expected to occur overnight.

Logan Pause reflects on his final game after 12 years in the MLS.

It has been a bittersweet week but Fire midfielder Logan Pause has no regrets as he prepares for the final game of his career.

TV/radio: 7 p.m. Friday; NBCSN, WLEY-FM 107.9.

The first clue Randy Waldrum had that something might be wrong with his soccer team came in a pre-dawn phone call from the Dallas airport.

The U.S. fell six spots to No. 23 in the monthly FIFA world rankings released Thursday, the team's lowest ranking in more than a year.

Fire midfielder Patrick Nyarko is expected to miss the next six to eight months after suffering a pair of injuries to his right knee in last Saturday’s loss at D.C. United.

The U.S. men's national soccer team has added a second game to its November visit to Europe, securing a Nov. 14 friendly in London against Colombia, one of the surprise teams in last summer's World Cup.