☕️💌⚽️ Good morning everyone. Yesterday, the USMNT made a surprise announcement as it gears up to play in arguably it’s biggest test outside of the World Cup. On June 12th, the USMNT will be heading to Orlando to play against 5 time World Cup winner, Brazil. This match up continues to prove that the team understands if it wants to win big tournaments, it has to play big teams. Tickets are set to go on sale this Friday, March 1st.

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Premier League
Everton win appeal on 10 point deduction

⚖️🕴️Everton win appeal, and reduce their 10 point deduction. How do you win 4 points without even playing? Get yourself a good lawyer like Everton did. Everton appealed their 10 point deduction immediately, and it was recently ruled that the 10 point deduction will be reduced to only 6 points, updating the premier league table immediately. This allowed Everton to jump from 17th place to 15th place.

Read about the details of the sanction here

Wednesday’s ICYMI

England- FA Cup

English Premier League

Italy- Serie A

Spain- Copa del Rey Semi-Final

France- Coupe de France Quarter Final

Serie A
Spy-Gate

👀🌳🔍️ I always feel like somebody’s watching me, and there’s no privacy, or so sings AS Roma. Jose Mourinho’s former side Roma reportedly caught a staff member of their opponents Torino at their training ground spying on them. Roma hosted Torino for the 26th Round of this year’s Serie A.

• On Monday Roma and Torino faced each other in a thrilling 3-2 victory for the Romans

• 2022 World Cup winner Paulo Dybala came in heavy with a hattie to snag Roma the W

• The current head to head record for the teams are Roma 16 win(s), Torino 4 win(s), and 5 draw(s)

• A spy was caught hiding from a far with binoculars at Roma’s training session

🔦🚨👮 Suspect in Custody, Police have caught the Torino spy secretly watching Roma’s training session ahead of their Serie A clash. Reports indicate that Michele Orecchio, who writes opposition scouting reports for Ivan Juric at Torino, was apprehended by Roman officials. Roman police further reported that Orecchio was dressed in black and was found hidden among the trees around Trigoria taking notes. Officials removed him from the area.

• Orecchio taking notes from the tree when officials caught him in the tree

• Mourinho’s assistant, Nuno Santos reportedly first caught Orrechio and informed authors

• It is said that De Rossi immediately halted Roma’s session until the coast was clear

• It remains unknown how long he was hidden in the tree for or how much intel he gathered from De Rossi’s training session

🔜🧑‍⚖️💼 Mission failed? Not only did Orrecchio get busted, but Torino conceded a penalty within the first half, and barely managed their second goal through a Roman own goal. There has not been any reported punishment/fine of any kind for the Torino man.

• This “Spy-Gate” is very reminiscent of the infamous debacle between Leeds and Derby, where then Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa sent a staff member to watch then Derby manager Frank Lampard’s side before their league match up… however plans were foiled as the Leeds man was caught in the act.

De Rossi’s men currently lie sixth in the table after winning four of their last five games, including their match against Torino. As for Torino, they are sitting pretty in tenth and just one pointt behind reigning champions Napoli.

Quick Bites 🍕

Big opening weekend for MLS

No return for Aguero

USMNT to play Brazil in Orlando

Canadian Alphonso Davies to join Madrid

Matches to Catch

Saudi Pro League

English FA Cup

Italy- Serie A

Spain- Copa del Rey Semi-Final

Portugal- Taca de Portugal

CONCACAF Champions Cup

Banter of the Day

Football, by the fans for the fans

In search of a pub? Ever find yourself in a new city and are desperately searching for a local soccer pub? Who would have thought that the premier league took time out of their day to create a bar finder. There really is nothing better than catching an early premier league game on the weekends with fellow fans of the game, and finding that bar that will actually have the game sound on just got that much easier.

USA Bar Finder. Bar finder, aka Intern Jose’s nickname in college. Easy to use search platform on the premier leagues website. It has most major cities included, and they’re even accepting updates to their list if you email them at [email protected]

Find your local soccer pub here.