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MLS NEXT Pro announces 2025 Golden Boot and Playmaker of the Year Awards
Jason Shokalook and Marcos Dias won the awards.
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Sporting KC signs 15-year-old Gianluca Busio as Homegrown Player
Sporting Kansas City announced on Friday the signing of 15-year-old forward Gianluca Busio as a Homegrown Player. At 15 years and 89 days, Busio became the second-youngest player all-time to sign an MLS contract and the youngest active player in Major League Soccer.

Briana Scurry, Dr. Joe Machnik elected to National Soccer Hall of Fame
Briana Scurry and Dr. Joe Machnik have been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2017. Scurry was selected on the Player Ballot and Machnik on the Builder Ballot. Details about the induction ceremony will be released at a later date.

U.S. Youth National Team players among additions to MLS Homegrown Team
MLS Homegrown Team coaches Brian McBride and Mike Magee have called Sporting Kansas City defender Erik Palmer-Brown, Atlanta United midfielder Chris Goslin and Real Salt Lake midfielder Jose Hernandez to participate in the 2017 MLS Homegrown Game.

Former USMNT coach Bob Bradley becomes first LAFC head coach
The Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) announced today that Bob Bradley has joined the Club as the first head coach in its history.

Q&A: LA Galaxy’s Brian Kleiban on the lessons of GA Cup
Coach Brian Kleiban led the LA Galaxy squad at the 2017 Generation adidas Cup – the Under-17 tournament that ranks as the top youth event in Major League Soccer – at FC Dallas’ Toyota Soccer Center last week. SoccerWire.com caught up with Kleiban, an accomplished developer of talent, after the tournament to learn about the lessons learned from the high-level competition.

Soccer history made as DC United stadium finally set to `go vertical`
It did not crackle with the noise and euphoria of an injury-time equalizer or a World Cup knockout match. But on Thursday night, one of the biggest victories in this city’s illustrious soccer history was achieved in a cramped hearing room in one of the many squat office buildings clustered at Judiciary Square, half a mile northwest of the U.S. Capitol.

Twelve groups submit MLS Expansion Applications, seeking four spots
Major League Soccer has announced that 12 ownership groups and markets have submitted official applications for the League’s next round of expansion. MLS will add four expansion teams in the coming years, growing to 28 clubs.

Four Seattle Sounders Academy players training with first team
As the Seattle Sounders prepare for the 2017 MLS season, there is a distinct local influence in preseason camp. In addition to Homegrown players Aaron Kovar, Victor Mansaray, Seyi Adekoya and Henry Wingo - as well as new S2 signing Lorenzo Ramos - four standouts from the Academy joined up with the reigning MLS Cup champions.
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College coaches weary of recruiting at MLS academies as more young players go pro
College coaches are adjusting their recruiting strategies.
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