Monthly Archives: July 1997

Standings Eastern Conference Northeast GP W L GF GA P Toronto 13 10 3 27 17 28 Rochester 13 9 4 32 22 27 Montreal 11 9 2 22 3 25 Long Island 15 7 8 20 19 17 Connecticut 12 6 7 10 18 10 Worcester 15 3 12 12 22 9 Atlantic GP […]

Quick action by its booster club has saved Cal State-Northridge men’s soccer program for the time being. Just a few weeks after Cal State Northridge announced plans to cut four popular men’s sports, university president Blenda Wilson restored the program for the ’97 season after boosters came up with the funds to cover the program’s […]

Hoffman’s team looks ahead to Sydney 2000 The U.S. under-20 national team’s dream of matching the performances of the last two U.S. teams that played in the World Youth Championship ended when Uruguay dispatched of the United States 3-0 in the second round June 25 in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Shah Alam. The ’89 […]

Game enlivens city but U.S. State Department delivers undiplomatic blow Thursday, June 26 Hoping for tourists A surreal sight at the Costa Del Sol, a beach resort some 30 miles southeast of San Salvador. Seven uninterrupted miles of white sand, blue skies and sea, with scarcely a person in sight. Suddenly a herd of Brahma […]

Striker Roy Lassiter came off the bench to score the U.S goal against El Salvador. SOCCER AMERICA: How difficult is it for you to change the coachÆs mind and earn a starting spot? ROY LASSITER: Score the goals. Scoring them makes it harder for him to decide whether to start me or to play me […]

U.S. attack finds second-half stride against El Salvador at Cuscatlan, but settles for tie They came looking for three points and walked away with one. In Steve Sampson’s words a tie would be “acceptable but not desirable,” but the sentiment after the U.S. national team tied El Salvador in front of 28,000 noisy Salvadoran fans […]