D.C. United Coach Ben Olsen's affiliation with the MLS team dates to 1998 as a rookie midfielder. He was MLS's Rookie of the Year. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) ...

Ben Olsen, the former D.C. United player and coach who helped steer the Washington Spirit through turbulent times and to the National Women’s Soccer League championship last season, stepped down ...

The Houston Dynamo will look to snap their six-game winless run in all competitions when they travel to face Austin FC.

Seeing Ben Olsen in orange has taken some getting used to. There are few figures in MLS who were more closely associated with a club than Olsen with D.C. United.

If you’ve watched most of the Houston Dynamo’s first five matches of the 2024 season, it’s hard not to come away relatively impressed with how difficult Ben Olsen’s side have made games on ...

But Olsen — fairly or not — also has the reputation of a manager who can do more with less but not more with more, whose tactics aren’t particularly progressive and who generally loses on ...

WASHINGTON – Last week D.C. United head coach Ben Olsen and I had a wide-ranging, thought-provoking conversation about the suspended MLS season, the COVID-19 pandemic and other topics.

D.C. finished in last in the Eastern Conference last season, but have not finished out of the playoffs in back-to-back seasons since 2011, Olsen’s first full season in charge.

My Ben Olsen anecdote has to do with the second phase of his career. It was June 28, 2007 and the U.S. was playing Argentina in the Copa America.

Ben Olsen is the head coach of D.C. United and he would like to see his city the same way — united. Now is in his 10th full season in charge of the team he joined as player in 1998, Olsen, his ...

After a decade in charge, Olsen is out at D.C. United, bringing an end to a unique era for a coach who was a visible link to the club's proud past and whose value wasn't only measured by results.