In Grenoble, a city famous for defensive fortifications, Canada emerged as a team that has found a defensive identity- and with it- a chance to win a World Cup.

If France’s golden generation finally make an international breakthrough this summer, you can bet immaculate midfielder and captain Amandine Henry will have led the way.

Neil Blackmon on Henry, and why this time, it may be different for France.

Caitlin Murray, the author of the wonderful new book “The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who changed Soccer”, joins us for a discussion of the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the USWNT.

Loaded with star power and more competitive than ever, this Women’s World Cup promises to be one of the greatest World Cups ever played. In spite of that, or perhaps because of it, the battles off the field to remedy the pay and working conditions inequities that plague women’s soccer are fiercer than ever.

We preview the tournament, which begins Friday in Paris.

The United States enter the World Cup with the deepest team in the world and plenty of star power. But there are questions in defense and midfield that leave the Yanks vulnerable. John Halloran explores the questions that linger after the Send-Off Series.

The American U20 team is giving an American fan base still reeling from the World Cup qualification failure a much-needed injection of hope for the future.

That’s tremendous, and the class has great promise.

But history instructs the hard part of development is what happens next.

With their backs to the wall, the US U20s played some of the most riveting soccer we’ve seen from an American men’s team in years Monday against Nigeria.

Our thoughts on what all that potential means for the program- and what the result means for the tournament.

The US battled and played some beautiful soccer in spells, but ultimately came up short against a Ukraine team content to stay compact and wait for chances to ruthlessly counter. Our thoughts on the game.

Paxton Pomykal, Timothy Weah and Sergino Dest lead a thrilling group of young Americans to the U20 World Cup in Poland, beginning later this month.

TYAC breaks down the US roster for you, from the starting eleven to what the future may hold for this promising group.

Jill Ellis will announce her 23-woman roster for the 2019 FIFA World Cup within the week. Here’s our guess at who will help the US defend their World Cup title.

After two camps, Berhalter’s evaluations of the US player pool are ongoing and plenty of personnel questions remain.

But the commitment to culture, system and process are encouraging.

The US have searched for a reliable CB combination for a few years.

Thanks to the emergence of Aaron Long, Gregg Berhalter and the Americans may finally have some answers.