Indy 11 ties Loudoun United 1-1 hosts Tampa Bay Rowdies Sat 7 pm Fan Appreciation Night
Leesburg, Va. – Indy Eleven forward Bruno Rendon made the most of his return to the lineup after missing two games, scoring his 10th goal this season to help the Boys in Blue to a 1-1 road draw at Loudoun United FC and former Indy 11 GK Jordan Farr. With 3 weeks left in the regular season, Indy Eleven is in 9th place in the Eastern Conference, trailing 8th-place Miami FC by two points for the final playoff position. Miami has two games left in its regular-season schedule. The top 8 teams in the East after Decision Day on October 24 will compete in the playoffs. The final Indy Eleven home match of the regular season is “Fan Appreciation Night” on Saturday at 7 p.m. vs. USL Players’ Shield leader Tampa Bay Rowdies. Join us for giveaways, discounted merchandise offerings, and a full-team autograph session after the match. Discounted tickets start at $14 online only and fans can add on a knit scarf at checkout for $20. Ticket options include Family Four-Packs, The Family Four-Pack can be purchased online only. Priced at just $49, the Family Four-Pack includes four tickets, FREE parking, $20 in Concession Vouchers, and a 20% Merchandise Discount, along with access to the Fun Zone/Kids Activation Area.
High School Soccer Sectionals Begin this Week
The Fourth Ranked Carmel’s Girls will face #3 Westfield @ Westfield on Wed at 5:45 pm while #7 Noblesville faces Pike at 7:30 pm. The winners will meet Sat at 2 pm. (Tix https://ihsaa.eventlink.com/Tickets?s=Soccer&g=Girls&l=Westfield+High+School+%28Westfield+High+School+Soccer+Stadium%29) Full Girls Sectionals Schedules https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/girls/soccer/2026-27-tournament?round=sectionals.
The unranked Carmel boys will host their sectional – starting Tues looking to recreate the magic that carried them to a state title last season. Three Ranked teams are in this sectional (North Central 11, Zionsville 10, Noblesville 17). Carmel (5-4-5) will host Pike Tues at 7:30 pm. (Schedule & Tix) https://myihsaa-prod-ams.azurewebsites.net/api/schools/public-draw/90132b42-b556-4402-99ab-a290b9924905
Jason Christopher Brenneman, an active volunteer soccer coach for Carmel FC (Carmel Dads’ Club), passed away on September 25, 2026, at the age of 42. He has 4 sons in the program and will be missed by all. In addition to coaching youth soccer, Brenneman was deeply involved in the community, volunteering with the M.O.R.E. group at Carmel Elementary and Middle School, as well as the Carmel High School Marching Band. Memorial contributions may be made to GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-brenneman-family-through-this-difficult-time-g7pc2); or Carmel Elementary PTO (https://www.ccs.k12.in.us/pto-ces/fundraising) for new soccer goals. RIP Jason!
College Soccer
Homestand Continues as No. 2 Hoosiers Host Kentucky Tues
No. 2 Hoosiers Flip Through No. 4 Terps, 3-1
Notre Dame at #13 with former Carmel FC defender Maverick McCoy https://fightingirish.com/sports/msoc/roster/player/maverick-mccoy
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TV Schedule
Mon, Oct 5 (Nations League)
12 noon FS2 Cyprus vs Latvia
2:45 pm FS2 Italy vs Turkey
2:45 pm FuboTV France vs Belgium
6 pm FS2 Matinique vs El Salvador
10 pm FS2 Honduras vs Jamaica
Tues, Oct 6 (Nations League)
2:45 pm fuboTV Croatia vs Spain
2:45 pm FS2 England vs Czech Republic
8 pm TNT/HBO/Tele USMNT vs Canada Minn
Fri, Oct 9
2:30 pm Peacock Dortmund vs Werder Bremen
3 pm CBSSN West Ham United vs QPR
7 pm Fubu TV Canada Women vs Denmark
Sat, Oct 10
7:30 am USA Arsenal vs Leeds United (Aaronson)
7:30 am CBSSN Swansea City vs Norwich
9:30 am Peacock Ausburg vs Bayern Munich
10 am Para+ Derby County vs Wrexham
10 am USA Aston Villa vs Brentford
10 am ? Chelsea vs Bournemouth (Adams)
12 noon Para+ Inter Milan vs Parma
12:30 pm NBC Man United vs Tottenham
12:30 pm ESPN+ Barcelona vs Getafe
2:30 pm TNT. HBO USWNT vs Spain DC
3 pm ESPN+ Real Madrid vs Villareal
7 pm ESPN+ INdy 11 vs Tampa Bay Rowdies
7:30 pm apple Inter Miami vs DC United
7:30 pm Apple Orlando City vs Columbus Crew
7:30 pm Apple Atlanta United vs Cincy
Sun, Oct 11
6:30 am CBSSN Como vs Roma
9 am USA Crystal Palace (Richards) vs Nottingham Forest
9 am NBCSN Hull City vs Everton
11:30 am NBC Liverpool vs Man City
12 noon PAra+ AC Milan (Musah, Pulisic) vs Sassuolo
2:45 pm PAra+ Calgliari vs Juventus (McKinney)
7 pm Apple St Louis City vs LA Galaxy
Tues, Oct 13
7 pm TNT, HBO USWNT vs Spain Philly
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USA
2026 USMNT Friendly: Scouting Canada
Poch: Exhausted U.S. ready to finish perfect window against Canada
Teenage dream continues for USMNT in destruction of Mexico
Cavan Sullivan becomes youngest USMNT goal-scorer in win over Mexico
USMNT’s young stars shine to give Pochettino ‘fantastic problem’ Jeff Carlisle
Cavan Sullivan makes USMNT history vs. Mexico: ‘It’s the best feeling I’ve ever experienced’
The USMNT’s kids are thriving, and ‘they have a bit of swag to them’
Musah credits Milan coach Amorim for resurgence, USMNT return
USA vs. Mexico, 2026 Friendly: Man of the Match
USA vs Mexico, 2026 “Friendly”: Community player ratings
World Cup starter to USMNT outsider. Yunus Musah is starting over at 23
Marsch: No grudge with USMNT, but Canada rivalry ‘something big’
CONCACAF king? Canada coach takes aim at USA, Mexico
Marsch: No grudge with USMNT, but Canada rivalry ‘something big’
US Women
Spain versus the USWNT. The top two teams in the world. …
Naomi Girma off USWNT squad due to injury
Sam Coffey withdraws from USWNT roster vs. Spain with injury
Sam Coffey ruled out for USWNT October matches, replaced by Jaelin Howell
Ashley Sanchez on USWNT roster, Shaw left out
Thompson goal sees Chelsea end Arsenal’s 20-game unbeaten WSL run
Hayes hopes Macario back for U.S. in January with eye on World Cup
Reyna legacy grows with Carolina named to U.S. U17 WWC roster
World – Messi’s Final Game for Argentina
Messi bids Argentina farewell
A kit fit for the GOAT: Messi’s special jersey for final Argentina match unveiled
Argentina won’t rush to re-assign Messi’s No. 10
Messi’s Argentina stats as he prepares for final match
Messi set for emotional Argentina farewell in Buenos Aires friendly vs Benin
Siu soon? Coach says Ronaldo will decide his Portugal future
1:26- video Ronaldo leaving Portugal is latest sad sign in end of international career
Kochen Is The Key, Citizens Could Suffer, CR7’s Prolonged Goodbye
Mancini earns applause from media and confident Italy youth will flourish
Romano: ‘I chose Italy with all my heart, see strong team going forward’
Scamacca ‘very happy’ with first Italy goal in three years
Olise scores twice in late comeback win for France
Michael Olise’s incredible stats for France 🔥
Man City verdict will leave a stain and stench on a Premier League era
Goalkeeping
Is it Diego Kochen’s time to be USMNT’s top keeper?
UEFA Nations League: Incredible Goalkeeper Saves Compilation
Nations League great saves: Matchday 1 & 2 | Video
7 SAVES & 1.48 XG PREVENTED GIGI DONNARUMMA !
Senne Lammens is best goalkeeper in the world making 19 …
MLS: Best Saves of the Week
😂 Blue screen? Brazil’s World Cup villain makes bizarre errors v Portugal
Reffing
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Poch: Exhausted U.S. ready to finish perfect window against Canada
Jeff CarlisleOct 5, 2026, 01:31 PM ETFollow
ST. PAUL, Minn — United States manager Mauricio Pochettino said his side isn’t in the best condition ahead of Tuesday’s friendly against Canada, after already playing three games during this window to Canada’s two, but that his team will “be ready.” The USMNT is flying high after winning their third match in a row during the September/October window, a 3-0 victory over bitter rivals Mexico. Teenagers Julian Hall and Cavan Sullivan were among the goalscorers, with Sullivan’s tally making him the youngest scorer in USMNT history.Pochettino added that the U.S. team’s flight from Phoenix was delayed two hours, and that had affected the team’s preparations. He stressed that among his priorities is managing the load of players so that they can continue performing for their clubs.”It’s about to keep growing and I think supporting the players and to finish the [window] in a very good condition,” he said. “But I am sure that the players, even if we were competing a lot and traveling, that can affect, we are going to be ready for [Tuesday], with fresh energy. And I think it’s a good opportunity for continuous growing in that camp.”Pochettino added that there is no connection between the upcoming match and past games. That goes for last Saturday’s match against Mexico, as well as the 2025 Concacaf Nations League encounter against Canada in which the Reds prevailed 2-1 — a low point of Pochettino’s tenure.The Argentine manager indicated that focusing purely on the next match will help his side avoid an emotional letdown, even though Canada is also a rival.”Every single game is different and it’s a different world,” Pochettino said. “We cannot connect the last game with the next one. We need to build our next game in the best way to try to be competitive and be sure that we can be close to win.”As for how the two teams have evolved since their last encounter, Pochettino said both sides are embarking on new eras.”I think it’s complete a new cycle, even for Canada, for [manager Jesse Marsch]. I think the chapter was closed after the World Cup and now it’s a new chapter,” Pochettino said. “I think that is all new. The group is different than when we faced Canada before. For Canada the same. I think it’s a new, a fresh start for every single country like Mexico also that we were playing. Even if Jesse was and we were, also the expectation and everything is start from front zero and I think it’s a fresh start. It’s nothing related with the game that we played before.”Pochettino added, that he has full respect for Marsch given his past encounters going up against the Canada manager.”I know Jesse very well. I like him [as] a coach. Always difficult to play against teams that he coach,” Pochettino said. “He’s intense. Teams are aggressive. A good mix in between being aggressive without the ball and then when they try with the ball they have a lot of different [options] and then we need to be focused. And yes, it’s a very good challenge for us tomorrow and yes, hope that we can enjoy everything we can.”If the U.S. beats Canada on Tuesday, it will be 4-0 in the international window following wins over Peru and Chile before beating Mexico.
Spain versus the USWNT. The top two teams in the world. Three words: ‘What a treat’
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Tamerra Griffin Tue, September 29, 2026 at 1:31 PM EDT·
When the U.S. women’s national team and their Spanish counterparts take to the pitch at Washington’s Audi Field on Oct. 10, it will have been almost exactly four years since their previous meeting.On Oct. 11, 2022, at Estadio El Sadar in Pamplona, goals from center back Laia Codina and forward Esther Gonzalez were enough for a 2-0 win against a U.S. side looking like a shell of its usual self.That match took place a week after the damning results of the Sally Yates investigation were published, exposing the failures of the National Women’s Soccer League and U.S. Soccer to create a safe environment for players that could protect them from abuse and inappropriate behavior by coaches.On and off the field, both teams are almost unrecognizable since that game. Beyond the titles — Spain‘s 2023 World Cup, the Americans’ Olympics gold the following year — the culmination of those changes is what elevates this pair of matches from merely special to a spectacle.With another friendly to come at Philadelphia Union‘s Subaru Park on Oct. 13, these matchups could foreshadow a knockout-stage game at the World Cup in Brazil next July. They could even be a preview of the final itself. Regardless of what comes afterward, there are only three words we can use to assess Spain, the world’s No. 1 team, taking on the USWNT, ranked one place below them.
What a treat.
It’s wild to consider each team’s journey since they last played each other.
Spain had not yet known World Cup glory, nor the public sacrifices and protests they would encounter as they fought for equality and better treatment. It began with a group of players who came to be known as “Las 15” sending emails to the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), announcing they had withdrawn their names from national-team consideration. They said they would not return until improvements were made to the program’s structure and then head coach Jorge Vilda had resigned.It ended (to the extent women’s-rights movements ever end) when RFEF president Luis Rubiales kissed Jenni Hermoso without her consent as she was accepting her World Cup medal during the trophy ceremony on the pitch in Sydney, Australia, igniting a global protest for women’s rights. Rubiales was found guilty of sexual assault and resigned but was not jailed.While that was all happening, Spain had been deepening its pool of generational talent. But the protests of Las 15 meant many of the Spanish players who have since become stars in their own right — Mariona Caldentey, Claudia Pina, Patri Guijarro — were not in the squad for that 2022 match. Alexia Putellas was also injured at the time — and she probably wouldn’t have been able to point out Bromley, her new home with the London City Lionesses, on a map back then.https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc_VfryCvSd/embed/captioned/?cr=1&v=14
The squad that lands on the U.S. east coast for these games will be drastically different from the one Americans last remember.
The USWNT, on the other hand, have grown and transformed, too.When they last faced Spain, they had never been humbled by a defeat of the magnitude of their 2023 World Cup round-of-16 exit on penalties against Sweden. The four-time world champions had not yet welcomed Emma Hayes as their new head coach, and they were far from experiencing her overhaul of the program. The former Chelsea Women manager has called in overlooked players and refined the national side’s youth-talent pipeline.
Alyssa Thompson had earned her first cap four days earlier, and her younger sister Gisele was still a few years from her senior debut. Lily Yohannes was six months out from signing her first professional contract with Ajax of the Netherlands at the age of 15. Naomi Girma was making waves in the NWSL with San Diego, and the USWNT was still anchored by veterans Megan Rapinoe, Crystal Dunn and Becky Sauerbrunn.Attendance at that game in Pamplona was just over 11,000, less than half capacity at El Sadar. Audi Field holds a total of 20,000, and Subaru Park holds 18,500. Both should be packed to the brim.Spain are available to play these friendlies because they have already qualified for the World Cup. The U.S. are hungry for matches after a hiatus that will have lasted four months, and newer players will be looking to make their opportunities count across two of women’s soccer’s most anticipated games of the year.Every region of the pitch will burst with its own narrative. The U.S. midfield of Lindsey Heaps, Rose Lavelle and Sam Coffey against Putellas, Guijarro and Caldentey alone is worth the cost of admission. How will Pina and Salma Paralluelo test the shot-stopping of Jordan Silkowitz? Can Spain’s back line, which is often more yielding than it should be, keep Alyssa Thompson, Sophia Wilson and Trinity Rodman at bay?
These are the questions that dilate the pupils and glue butts to seats at sports bars.
We’re unlikely to have to wait another four years before the USWNT and Spain play each other again, but with bragging rights and an extra boost of confidence on the line heading into the World Cup, it’s not worth the risk of allocating anything other than rapt attention to these two games.This article originally appeared in The Athletic.US Women’s national team, Spain, Women’s Soccer, FIFA Women’s World Cup2026 The Athletic Media Company
