National Teams

Ellis names 25-player USWNT roster for April 4 match against New Zealand

U.S. Women's National Team head coach Jill Ellis has named a 25-player roster that will train in Los Angeles for a week before traveling to St. Louis for the USA's first domestic match of the year against New Zealand on April 4 at Busch Stadium. Ellis will name 18 players to suit up for that game.

Is everything going to be fine now that the USWNT won Algarve Cup? Well…

Last week the USWNT knocked off France to win the 2015 Algarve Cup, good news for a side that surely needed some, and will presumably a confidence boost for U.S. players and coach Jill Ellis as the team heads into the run-up to this summer’s World Cup. Does this result show that the USWNT has (finally) begun to resolve some of their problems? Not necessarily, says SoccerWire's Mark Shawhan.

Richie Williams, U.S. U-17s fulfill World Cup quest: “People are very quick to judge the youth teams”

The U.S. U-17 Men's National Team qualified for their World Cup by the skin of their teeth over the weekend, via a penalty-kick shootout win over Jamaica. Did Richie Williams' side doggedly fulfill a treacherous mission, or stumble across the finish line of minimum expectations? And, wonders Charles Boehm, why do we keep asking these questions of our YNTs?

U.S. U-17 MNT on to 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup after PK win over Jamaica

The U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team is headed to the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup after beating Jamaica 5-4 in a penalty-kick shootout in the final 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship playoff match at Estadio Francisco Morazán. The game was decided by penalty kicks after the end of a goalless regulation period against the Caribbean nation.

U.S. U-17 MNT facing Jamaica on Sunday seeking 2015 U-17 World Cup berth

The U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team will play Jamaica in a playoff match on Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET at the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship for a chance to earn a berth to the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

USWNT: SoccerWire’s Mark Shawhan curates a conversation on Algarve Cup

The U.S. Women's National Team won the Algarve Cup tournament with a 2-0 win over France in Portugal on Wednesday, but the their Women's World Cup prospects remain far from certain. Even after many months and matches under Ellis' regime, many of the same issues linger doggedly, frustrating fans and clouding the team's true outlook. SoccerWire.com columnist Mark Shawhan took part in some spirited conversations about the topic on Twitter. Here is a selection of those tweets, compiled by Shawhan on Storify.

Defending CONCACAF Gold Cup champion USA placed in Group A for 2015

The U.S. Men's National Team will begin its title defense and open Group A action of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup against the winner of the Honduras/French Guiana playoff on Tuesday, July 7, at 9:30 p.m. ET, at Toyota Park in Frisco, Texas.

USMNT featured in CONCACAF Gold Cup doubleheader at Toyota Stadium in Dallas on July 7