Andrew Leigh

17 hours ago | hudsonriverblue.com | Andrew Leigh

This is part of our 2025 Midterm Reports for the New York City FC squad. You'll find past midterm reports and final grades here. At age 38 and in his ninth season with New York City FC, Maxi Moralez remained an every-match starter through the first half of the MLS season. The midfielder started all 17 of the team's MLS matches and was out there for 89.4% of the available 1,530 league minutes.

1 day ago | hudsonriverblue.com | Andrew Leigh

Game Day Essentials • International Friendly: United States vs Türkiye • Date and Time: Saturday, June 7, 3:30 pm ET • Venue: Rentschler Field at Pratt & Whitney Stadium, East Hartford, CT • Forecast: Cloudy with the possibility of a thunderstorm, 73F/22C • Watch: TNT (English), plus Telemundo and Universo (Spanish); Streaming on Max (English) and Peacock (Spanish); "Alt Cast" featuring Men In Blazers and Clint Dempsey available on truTV and Max • Broadcast Team: (English) Luke Wileman...

1 day ago | hudsonriverblue.com | Andrew Leigh

Brooklyn FC made some transfer history this week as the USL Super League club announced the sale of goalkeeper Neeku Purcell. Purcell is joining Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League for an undisclosed transfer fee, and technically as a short-term replacement player, becoming the first player ever to be sold from the USL Super League to the NWSL.

4 days ago | hudsonriverblue.com | Andrew Leigh

Is How We Votedat risk of turning into a column all about Lionel Messi? To spoil the mystery that should have been spoiled upon seeing the headline, for a second straight round of matches, I voted for Messi for MLS Player of the Matchday when submitting my ballot to the North American Soccer Reporters – and he won the final vote, handily. This column exists to explain my choices, though Matchday 17 also felt like one of the easiest rounds of voting I've faced in my few years casting ballots.

5 days ago | afr.com | Andrew Leigh

Australia is a country rich in talent, ambition and opportunity. But when it comes to building the basics – housing, infrastructure, clean energy, research – we’ve made it too hard to deliver. Across these sectors, the problem isn’t a shortage of ideas, capital or demand. It’s a shortage of systems that work. Projects stall, costs blow out and delays become routine.