Monthly Archives: March 1999

Both the U.S. U-21 women’s and U-18 girls’ national teams opened their European tour with wins over their German counterparts in chilly weather in Ebersberg, Germany. The U-21s rallied from a two-goal deficit with three strikes in the final 25 minutes for a 3-2 win. 1998 SA Freshman of the Year Mary Frances Monroe of […]

San Jose Clash forward Eric Wynalda will be sidelined for most of the Major League Soccer season after undergoing surgery March 10 to repair a knee injury suffered while playing with Mexican First Division club Leon. Wynalda, the all-time leading scorer on the U.S. national team, is expected to miss 5-6 months after arthroscopic surgery […]

MLS commissioner Douglas G. Logan announced that tickets go on sale Thursday, March 11 at 9:00 AM (PT) for the 1999 MLS All-Star Doubleheader on July 17, 1999 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, marking the first time in the league’s four-year history that the annual showcase will be held on the West Coast. Logan […]

MATCH USA vs. GUATEMALA (U.S. Cup) March 11 (8:30 pm ET) at Los Angeles Coliseum (Television: ESPN live) HISTORY Though the largest Central American country, with a population of 12 million, and home to a relatively strong domestic league, Guatemala remains Central America’s great underachiever. While El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica have all managed […]

FEATURES 1999 MLS PREVIEW The Year 4 Challenge by Ridge Mahoney SA Editors’ Predictions Soccer America Q&A: Doug Logan Interview by Mike Woitalla Eastern Conference Outlook by Ridge Mahoney Western Conference Outlook by Scott French The Changing of the Guard: Twelve of the new, young American MLS stars Team Previews COLUMNS Soccer Talk — Preventing […]

The U.S. women’s national team will face 1996 Olympic semifinalist Brazil at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla., on May 22 as part of the “Nike Road to Pasadena” tour that will take the USA to nine cities across the country. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. ET and the match will be televised live on […]

Chicago Fire 2/10 — Coastal Carolina 4-0. 2/13 — D.C. United 2-1. 2/25 — Jaguares (Mexico) 2-0. 2/27 — Atlas (Mexico) 1-2. 3/1 — Univ. de Guad. (Mexico) 1-2. 3/3 — UAG (Mexico) 3-4. 3/6 — Colorado Rapids 0-0 (Colorado wins shootout 3-1). Colorado Rapids 2/14 — San Jose Clash 1-0. 2/17 — San Jose […]

Major League Soccer’s Director of Project-40 Todd Durbin announced March 9 that through the Los Angeles Galaxy’s January Project-40 combine, 19-year-old Marvin Quijano was identified and has joined the Project-40 Class of ’99 as a member of the Galaxy. A native of San Salvador, El Salvador, Quijano joined the club in early February after participating […]

The 1999 MLS season is set to kick off March 20, and we'd like to know which team you think will capture the 1999 MLS Cup.

Here are the results of the February poll, in which 1,132 fans voted on which MLS teams have improved the most and the least during the offseason. Which MLS team has improved the most? Team Votes (Pct.) San Jose Clash 265 (23.1%) Tampa Bay Mutiny 203 (17.7%) Kansas City Wizards 199 (17.3%) New England Revolution […]

The U.S. U-21 and U-18 girls’ national teams departed on a two-game tour of Europe March 5. Both teams will face Germany and Denmark, playing doubleheaders in Munich on March 10 and Copenhagen on March 13. It will be the first time that the two youth national teams have played doubleheaders abroad and the matches […]

U.S. women’s national team coach Tony DiCicco has announced his 18-woman roster that will depart for Portugal on March 9 to compete in the 6th Algarve Cup, the eight-team international tournament held on the coast in the Southern tip of the country. “Algarve has been trouble for us in the past,” said DiCicco, who has […]

An 89th-minute goal by U.S. midfielder Joey Worthen (Salt Lake City, Utah) gave the USA U-20 national team a 1-1 draw against club team Seleccion Haiti, in front of 5,500 fans at the Ted Hendricks Stadium in Miami, Fla. on March 6. U.S. forward Jamar Beasley (Ft. Wayne, Ind.) was knocked unconscious in the 75th […]

Argentina and Mexico will meet in the 1999 Reebok Cup, which will be held Wednesday, June 9 at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Kickoff is 8:00 p.m. (CT). The two teams recently played before over 91,000 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum in a friendly match won by the South Americans 1-0. The Reebok Cup will be […]

The draw for the U-20 World Cup, in Nigeria April 3-24, put the United States into Group E with Cameroon, Japan and England. Group E will play its games in the cities of Kano and Bauchi. “We’ve never been satisfied with just qualifying for this tournament,” said U.S. U-20 head coach Sigi Schmid from the […]

Carver Doone Evanston, Ill. I am very concerned over the dismissal of Sunil Gulati as MLS deputy commissioner. I understand that his vast amount of power could lead to some favoritism and could upset people and create plenty of enemies, but it seems to me that at one time or another, practically every team in […]

The draw for the U-20 World Cup, in Nigeria April 3-24, put the United States into Group E with Cameroon, Japan and England. Group E will play its games in the cities of Kano and Bauchi. The 1999 U-20 World Cup draw Group A in Lagos Nigeria, Costa Rica, Germany, Paraguay. Group B in Kaduna […]

The Colorado Rapids have announced the allocation of Panamanian striker Jorge Dely Valdes, who has played for the last six seasons in Japan and is a starter for the Panamanian national team. The signing of Dely Valdes gives Colorado a full slate of four foreign players. Dely Valdes, 31, is a tall, speedy forward known […]

Quarterfinals, First Leg March 4 in Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow (Russia) 3 Maccabi Haifa (Israel) 0. Goals: Dzhanashia 47, 77, 89. Lok. Moscow — Nigmatullin, Arifullin (Cherevchenko, 36), Drozdov, Sarkisyan (Kharlachyov, 60), Solomatin (Lavrik, 43), Chugainov, Smertin, Gurenko, Dzhanashia, Loskov, Bulykin. M. Haifa — Davidovich, A.Harazi, Benado, Keise, Hromadko (Duro, 62), Nagar, Benayoon (Silvas 85), Zano, […]

The United States will play Mexico for the 40th time on March 13. The first encounter came in 1934, with entry into the second World Cup at stake. Hundreds of well-wishing Mexican fans bid farewell to their team at the San Lazaro train station in the nation’s capital. The train wasn’t going north. It took […]

U.S. Soccer has announed that goalkeeper Zach Thornton and midfielder Frankie Hejduk have been added to the U.S. national team roster for Nike U.S. Cup ’99 and will replace Kasey Keller (remaining with his English club Leicester) and Tony Sanneh (injured quadricep), respectively. The USA will begin training on Sunday (March 7) for the four-team […]

The Colorado Rapids have announced that midfielder Adrian Paz will not return to the team in 1999 after Paz decided not to honor his contract for the 1999 season. Paz, who has been holding out in his native Uruguay for the entire pre-season, made the decision not to rejoin Major League Soccer for the 1999 […]

U.S. midfielder Michelle Akers is scheduled to undergo minor surgery March 3 at the Orlando Regional Medical Center to remove accumulated blood and several bone fragments from her left cheek that resulted from her collision with Norway’s Linda Medalen in the match against the FIFA World Stars on Feb. 14. She will be reevaluated on […]

Not since 1995 has the United States beaten Mexico, and several Americans playing overseas have been recalled to redress that matter at U.S. Cup ’99. The U.S. plays Guatemala March 11 in the Los Angeles Coliseum, then travels south for a March 13 showdown with Mexico at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. The U.S. has […]

FEATURES Big Names Inject Excitement In Kansas City By Bob Luder Galaxy Gets A General Manager, Of Sorts By Scott French MLS Operator-Investors Increase Their Clout By Ridge Mahoney Mexico Still On World Cup High By Amparo Sim=n Guatemala Looks For Experience By Amparo Sim=n Jamaica Forces Reality Check On U.S. U-17s By Jerry Trecker […]