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 ...

Ben Olsen has spent his entire adult life in Washington, D.C. “It’s hard to believe,” he said from behind the desk in his office, stray soccer balls on the floor in the corner, an old-time ...

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. Aside from a brief spell at ...

Ben Olsen left the National Women’s Soccer League’s Washington Spirit on Monday after eight months as club president that included a championship. Olsen was hired by the Spirit in September ...

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 ...

Ben Olsen blasted his team’s first-half performance in a 1-0 loss to Nashville SC Wednesday night, saying D.C. United were “a bunch of frauds,” in the opening 45 minutes.

Olsen was fired in 2020 after United got off to a 2-9-5 start in league play and was replaced by Argentine coach Hernán Losada, who was fired after less than a year on the job. Prior to his run ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.