Ben Wright

⚽️ @615soccer

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🏅 Nashville Scene's Best Sports Writer 2024 & 2025

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[Ben Wright @benwright]

Thanks, y’all!

[Ben Wright @benwright]

Meanwhile Nashville SC gave US Open Cup championship rings to all their players and coaching staff, every employee, and even media who covered the final in Austin.

[Rhys 🇦🇺‼️ @SulloReport]

What the actual fuck have I just read

[Brett Taylor @Brett_A_Taylor]

One of the most cruel things I've ever heard an organization doing.

[Ben Wright @benwright]

@NatureRoot88 louisville

[CBS Sports PR @CBSSportsGang]

CBS Sports secures exclusive U.S. Spanish-language rights for @Concacaf Champions Cup

Paramount+ is the exclusive U.S. home of every match in English and Spanish beginning in February

Full details: https://t.co/12nPIImKCa

[X - St Louis CITY SC @stlCITYsc]

Update on CITY SC Goalkeeper Roman Burki 🗞️

Following a head injury sustained during last night’s U.S. Open Cup match at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field in Columbus, St. Louis CITY SC captain Roman Burki was transported to a local hospital for further medical evaluation and testing as a precaution.

He is currently alert and in good spirits. The club’s medical staff will continue to monitor his condition and the team will provide additional updates as they become available.

Everyone at St. Louis CITY SC appreciates the concern and support.

[Ben Wright @benwright]

For @MLS: After 40 years, the US Open Cup is back where it belongs in St. Louis.

“I hope we will all look back in 20, 50 years, and be really proud of what we've accomplished together.”

https://t.co/uYsQxL11Ak

[Tom Bogert @tombogert]

St. Louis City goalkeeper Ben Lundt grabbed Roman Bürki’s jersey for the trophy lift. Nice touch. City don’t get to pens without Bürki.

[X - St Louis CITY SC @stlCITYsc]

ST. LOUIS IS YOUR 2026 US OPEN CUP CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Ben Wright @benwright]

@therealAMB haha, no way!!

[Ben Wright @benwright]

🤔

[Johnny Cortes @johnnycortes]

🚨 2026 MLS stats 🇺🇸

Most goals: Messi 🇦🇷 (25)
Most assists: Messi 🇦🇷 (15)

As it stands, he will be:
13× top scorer and top assister of the same competition, which is a record 🤯.

[Ben Wright @benwright]

@NSC_Stats @VamosNSC13 @615Soccer All four could stay and one gets loaned out

[U.S. Soccer YNT @USYNT]

Head of Goalkeeping Jack Robinson has called a 12-player roster for a domestic goalkeeping camp from Oct. 27-30 at the Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center 🧤

📝 https://t.co/LGik1Oaudu

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

People saying it’s Manchester United’s worst defeat in the Champions League since the 4-0 loss at Camp Nou in 1994. I was there for that and knew something was up when I saw Peter Schmeichel having a coffee in the press room an hour before kick-off. The 4-0 was bad but there were excuses, the 3+2 rule, Schmeichel sacrificed, and the quality of Barcelona – Romario, Stoichkov, Koeman, Guardiola.

United's 4-1 loss to Como is worse. No excuses. No energy. Just a terrible performance, bordering on the spineless, summing up all the lack of leadership and responsibility-taking at the club. So much wrong about the club, from the Glazers with their debt, to the board and naïve recruitment. The team crying out for full-backs and a back-up striker and splurging money on midfielders, including a reserve from Chelsea and a player in Tielemans whose best years are behind him, who needs legs around him and whose main attraction was arguably his release clause.

The dysfunctional, divided nature of the United family absolutely summed up by Bruno Fernandes during and after the game. A captain who failed to raise his own game or rally his players. A supposed leader who has now questioned his manager’s tactics.

Michael Carrick's tactics and changes can certainly be questioned. He may eventually pay the price for the shambles in Como. It's cheaper than shipping out the under-performing players. But Carrick is not the real problem. He doubtless sees players who lack his passion for the shirt. He could be forgiven for looking at Wilcox and Berrada and thinking how badly he was let down in the summer transfer window.

And he's on the brink. Manchester United may be ousting the one individual who cares most about the team and the club. Which sums up the total mess they are in. #MUFC

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Did Man Utd think All or Nothing was a binary choice that they had to commit to.

[Ben Wright @benwright]

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

[Tom Bogert @tombogert]

Voting for MLS end of season awards officially opened today... and I IMPLORE anyone else with an official ballot to wait until, you know, all of the games have been played to submit your ballot.

This is my uninteresting PSA. Thank you.

[Ben Wright @benwright]

MLS End of Year awards voting opens today, and Nashville SC are making their pitches for several categories.

[NSC Stats @NSC_Stats]

Surridge (17) and Mukhtar (16) are the first teammates in MLS history to both score 15+ in back-to-back seasons.

Only Messi and Suárez have also done it twice.

[Joseph Lowery @joeclowery]

Nashville SC are going to win the Supporters' Shield — and they're probably going to set MLS's single-season points record 🟡

Is there any way to slow them down? I think Bruce Arena found one over the weekend.

@TotalSoccerShow 🎙️

[SixOneFive Soccer @615Soccer]

😤 Nashville SC defender Reed Baker-Whiting and midfielder Matt Corcoran have been named to MLS's annual 22 Under 22 list!