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The Ivorian striker came on late and made the biggest impact possible for his new club.

Portland Thorns owner Merritt Paulson and president of soccer Gavin Wilkinson enabled former Thorns manager Paul Riley’s abuse of their players and protected him in its aftermath, an independent yearlong investigation into alleged misconduct in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) has found. Top Thorns officials are also accused of attempting to impede the investigation commissioned by the US Soccer Federation and led by former US Attorney General Sally Yates. As a whole, the report...

No rest for the wicked: The Timbers host Houston on a quick turnaround.

As the Oregon’s poet laureate Anis Mojgani said in a video preceding Saturday’s MLS Cup between the Portland Timbers and New York City FC at Providence Park, this town shows up. It has showed up where it has mattered most, in the streets for 100 consecutive days last year after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, despite a federal occupation of its downtown, despite unrelenting police violence and outcries from wealthy business owners. It has,...

Had the season ended several weeks ago, we might have written this was the year that Portland fell out of love with the Timbers. After selling out every single regular season home match for the first nine years of their MLS existence, the Timbers only sold out a single game this season—in part, certainly, due to the ongoing pandemic—and lost that match in humiliating fashion, 6-2 to their arch rival the Seattle Sounders. In August,...