Major League Soccer and the U.S. Soccer Federation will implement concussion substitutions for 2021 in a pilot program aimed at player safety, replacing those with head injuries regardless of prior substitutions. The move, pending FIFA approval, will see two concussion substitutions allowed per game no ...
Toronto midfielder Tsubasa Endoh awaits breakthrough moment for MLS in Japan
When newly minted FC Cincinnati striker Yuya Kubo makes his MLS debut in March, few will be more eager to welcome him than Tsubasa Endoh. The Toronto FC midfielder, who in 2016 became the first Japanese player selected in the MLS SuperDraft, told From the ...
Former Japan defender Akira Kaji will transfer to Major League Soccer's Chivas USA, his J. League first-division club Gamba Osaka announced on Tuesday. The 34-year-old Kaji, who appeared in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, will speak at a news conference on Thursday. A native of ...
Kosuke Kimura, the first Japan-born player in America's Major League Soccer, will begin his seventh pro season on Sunday as the newest member of a star-studded New York Red Bulls team seeking its first MLS Cup championship. The 28-year-old defender, who was drafted in 2007 ...
