Soccer America, the oldest soccer-specific media publisher in the United States, was founded in 1971 by Clay Berling in Albany, California.

[1] Soccer America launched its web site in 1995, its e-letters in 2001, and discontinued its print magazine in 2017.

Gardner won the National Soccer Hall of Fame Colin Jose Media Award [2] in 2010.

Editor in Chief Paul Kennedy won Colin Jose Media Award in 2017.

[4] Current free-lance contributors include Andrea Canales, Beau Dure, Scott French, Ahmet Guvener, Dr. Dev Mishra, Arlo Moore-Bloom, Ian Plenderleith, Brian Sciaretta, Randy Vogt and Dan Woog.