Women’s Professional Soccer today, March 12, announced that Citigroup Inc. had signed on as a founding partner for the league. As a result of the deal, Citi’s logo will be placed on the backs of all the team uniforms below the numbers, the first-ever national jersey partnership for WPS. The league also released information about ticket sales and sponsorships as part of the announcement.

Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber realizes the standard of play in the United States will lag behind that of its global counterparts if we aren’t . So partnerships, investments, more preseasons in Europe or South America, anything that will make MLS more global is what he’s talking about. Mainly, however, in this instance, he wants investors. Plus player signings by Toronto FC and Colorado Rapids and more

We are pleased to announce a partnership with The Midnight Ride, whereby TMR’s sole proprietor, Hank Alexandre, will become managing editor of ASN’s New England Revolution page. In this role, Alexandre will oversee the creation and publication of all content on Revs.AmericanSoccerNews.net, and will continue to write his own stories that to date would have appeared on TMR.

Yesterday’s report about D.C. United seeking new “investment partners” did not set off alarm bells among Major League Soccer fans in the nation’s capital. It probably should have.

The immediate catalyst for this editorial was a post last month by A More Splendid Life, but really this topic has captivated us for some time. As anybody in or near the media industry knows, there simply does not appear to be any way of making money as a provider of original (print) content. The [...]

Fox Soccer Channel today put out a press release on the growth of its ratings numbers over the past year, its first as a Nielsen-rated channel. Among reports of increases in Serie A and English Premiership viewers, the statement also points out that “Major League Soccer audiences are up 89%, averaging 51,000 viewers last month [...]

Football Partnerships, which bills itself as “the leading business-to-business networking group for football industry professionals” is launching regional hubs to better serve its upcoming functions. (p.s. by “football” they do in fact mean soccer).

Former professional soccer player Jared Montz has rolled out what is believed to be the first of its kind online soccer academy. “The idea came to me this summer,” said Montz, a former defender who most recently played for the United Soccer Leagues’ Puerto Rico Islanders. “I have been working just about 24 hours a [...]

Keystone Sports and Entertainment, LLC, the MLS Philadelphia 2010 ownership group, named Panasonic as the “Official Technology Partner” of its new stadium and waterfront complex, according to the Sports Business Journal. When the new MLS stadium and waterfront complex opens in 2010 just south of Philadelphia, it will be “Powered by Panasonic” with Panasonic as [...]

Soccer United Marketing and ESPN have sold international broadcast rights for all Major League Soccer games to MP & Silva in an eight-figure agreement that extends through 2013, according to Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal.