Monthly Archives: July 1999

July 14 in Blaine, Minn. Minnesota Thunder (A-League) 1 Tampa Bay Mutiny (MLS) 0. Goal: Saunders 10. Minnesota — Warren, Coughlin, Abboud, Gramenz, Raines, Otto, Zeba, Mladenov, Schneider, Saunders, Labastida. Subs: Lagos, Leventhal, Bankov. Tampa Bay — Kirk, Sa.George, Trittschuh, Porter, Alvarado, Dougherty, Salcedo, Quill, Ramos, Marino, Sequeira. Subs: Keller, Houser, Shannon, McCarty. Att.: 4,804. […]

Third Round July 14 in Rochester, N.Y. Rochester Rhinos (A-League) 1 Chicago Fire (MLS) 0. Goal: Allnutt (Kirmse) 51. Rochester — Onstad, Kirmse, Demmin, Schweitzer, Sedgewick, Daligcon, Tanner (Dietrich, 89), Biello, Allnutt, Tilley (Walton, 87), Miller (Restrepo, 80). Chicago — Thornton, Kubik, Okaroh, Soehn (Kovalenko, 85), Marsch, Lagos (Klopas, 63), Gutierrez (Kotschau, 80), Podbrozny, Nowak, […]

Here are quotes from Bruce Arena’s July 15 media teleconference call about the upcoming Confederations Cup: On the exclusion of midfielder Claudio Reyna: I know a lot of you are probably wondering why Claudio [Reyna] is not on the roster, but I weighed the pros and cons of his personal struggle to be a regular […]

MLS announced today that Columbus Crew forward Stern John has been added to the Eastern Conference All-Star team for Major League Soccer’s fourth All-Star game on Saturday, July 17 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. John will join Crew teammates Brian McBride, Thomas Dooley, Brian Maisonneuve and Robert Warzycha, all of whom were named to […]

Semifinal July 14 in Ciudad del Este Brazil 2 Mexico 0. Goals: Amoroso 25, Rivaldo 43. Brazil — Dida, Cafu, Joao Carlos, Antonio Carlos, Roberto Carlos, Emerson, Flavio Conceicao (Ronaldinho, 78), Ze Roberto, Rivaldo, Ronaldo (Beto, 75), Amoroso (Alex, 80). Mexico — Campos, Marquez, Suarez, Carmona, Pardo, Terrazas (Ramirez, 46), Torrado, Palencia (Osorno, 55), Blanco, […]

The Chicago Fire has acquired John Ball from the Cleveland Crunch of the indoor National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) as a “discovery” player. Ball, a right-sided midfielder and defender, is recovering from a grade 2 left MCL sprain suffered in the final game of the 1998-99 NPSL finals, will likely be available for the Fire […]

Third Round July 13 in Piscataway, N.J. MetroStars (MLS) 2 Staten Island Vipers (A-League) 3 (OT). Goals: Walsh (Kelly) 69, Walsh 81; Inneh (Mohammed) 32, Tschantret (Johnson) 85, Ke.Wilson (Tschantret) 95. MetroStars — Ammann, Petke, Semioli, Khakpour, Corrales, Duhaney (Kalonji, 46), Villegas (Knight, 84), Walsh, Kelly, Chung, Hurtado. Staten Island — Zaratin, da Silva, Mohammed, […]

Fortunately for the United States, goalkeeper Briana Scurry has put law school and her hoop dreams on hold. Since junior high, Briana Scurry wanted to be a lawyer. A corporate lawyer, to be exact. She has been sidetracked. Becoming the world’s best female goalkeeper created the diversion. As her college soccer career was coming to […]

Midfielder Mark Chung has been selected by Eastern Conference All-Star coach Thomas Rongen to replace the injured Tab Ramos at the MLS All-Star Game in San Diego, California, on July 17. Chung, 29, has started every game for the MetroStars this season, and is tied for the team lead in assists. The left-sided midfielder was […]

FEATURES Final Provides Storybook Ending By Dean Caparaz U.S. Spells Victory With A ‘D’ By Scott French Inside WWC ’99: U.S. Women Grow Richer Edited by Scott French A Few Good Women By Dean Caparaz Bruce Arena: ‘You Have To Be Fair To Everybody’ Interview by Mike Woitalla Marco Etcheverry: Now On To Mexico As […]

July 13 in Asuncion Uruguay 1 Chile 1 (Uruguay wins 5-3 on penalties). Goals: Lembo 23; Zamorano 63. Uruguay — Carini, Del Campo, Picun, Lembo, Bergara (Callejas, 81), Coelho, Fleurquin (Guigou, 65), Garcia, Magallanes, Zalayeta, Alvez (Alonso, 52). Chile — Ma.Ramirez, Vargas, Reyes, Mi.Ramirez, Acuna, Palacios, Aros, Estay, Sierra (Pizarro, 73), Zamorano (Gonzalez, 89), Salas. […]

STANDINGS Eastern Conference Northeast GP W L GF GA P Rochester 15 13 2 28 13 53 Staten Island 14 10 4 25 14 41 Long Island 15 10 5 26 20 39 Boston 17 7 10 26 22 35 Pittsburgh 14 7 7 27 21 32 Toronto 16 7 9 17 16 30 Connecticut […]

STANDINGS North GP W L GF GA P West. Mass. 11 9 2 32 16 39 South Jersey 11 9 2 28 14 39 Reading 11 8 3 24 21 38 New Jersey 11 6 5 22 17 27 North Jersey 11 5 6 29 21 25 Cape Cod 10 5 5 18 13 24 […]

STANDINGS Eastern Conference Northeast GP W L GF GA P New York 11 6 5 27 21 31 C. Jersey 10 5 5 27 21 27 Westchester 11 6 5 15 18 24 Brooklyn 11 5 6 19 29 20 Vermont 11 2 9 21 32 12 NY Capital 10 1 9 11 41 5 […]

U-15 STANDINGS Northeast Division — Central Jersey 20 points; Brooklyn 18; Westchester, No. Virginia 9; Staten Island, Ironbound 0. Southeast Division — Miami T. 10 points; Bradenton, Pinellas Utd., Stone Mountain, Tampa Wanderers, Miami B. 0. West Division — Calif. Central Elite 23 points; SCYSO 13; San Fern. Valley 8; Calif. Jaguars 5; Central Coast, […]

MLS and the world-famous Tahuichi Soccer Academy, based in Bolivia, have established a relationship to give some of the finest young talent in the world a home in the United States. Tahuichi traditionally signs approximately 10 players each year to professional contracts, when the players reach the age of 16-17 years old. Under the new […]

John Kerr, Jr., the Herrman Trophy winner who led Duke to the 1986 NCAA championship and is currently player-coach of the A-League’s Boston Bulldogs, has been named the head men’s coach at Harvard. Kerr, who made 16 appearances for the U.S. national team, replaces Steve Locker as the Crimson coach. Kerr’s wife, Tracy, is a […]

U.S. women capture America’s heart en route to final Tiffeny Milbrett considered how things have changed in so short a span. One moment, she could walk down any street unperturbed. Now? Impossible. Her face, it seems, is familiar to all. She and the other U.S. women have learned firsthand about life in the spotlight these […]

The MetroStars have made another international player move, adding Colombian forward Henry Zambrano to the roster Zambrano, 25, recently played for Colombia in the Copa America in Paraguay, making one start and appearing as a substitute in two games. He collected an assist when he backheeled a ball to set up Neider Morantes’ goal against […]

W-1 STANDINGS Northern GP W L GF GA P Long Island 13 9 4 24 10 41 NJ Stallions 11 9 2 35 11 39 Maryland 10 8 2 35 6 39 Boston 12 9 3 26 10 38 Laval 11 3 8 13 27 14 Delaware 10 1 9 4 34 2 Southern GP […]

After going down 1-0 in the first half, the U.S. national team made wholesale substitutions at halftime and took it to Derby County to earn a 2-1 decision in front of 20,376 fans in an exhibition at Mile High Stadium on July 13. U.S. midfielder Eddie Lewis led the U.S. attack, scoring the equalizer in […]

University of Virginia striker Chris Albright has signed a Project-40 contract, joining MLS’ three-year old venture with the United States Soccer Federation as the 12th member of the Class of 1999. Although he was also courted by clubs overseas, Albright opted to remain in the U.S. “Today is an exciting day for the league,” said […]

The prestigious CONCACAF Champions’ Cup, will be held in the renovated, 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, from Sept. 28 to Oct. 3. The Champions’ Cup is the symbol of club supremacy among the 38 Members of CONCACAF — the Football Confederation controlling the soccer activities of the countries of North America, Central […]

Third Round July 12 in Saginaw, Mich. Mid Michigan Bucks (PDL) 1 Tampa Bay Mutiny (MLS) 2. Goals: Armstrong 74; Shannon (Valderrama) 2, Shannon (Quill) 70. Mid Michigan — Placek, Hall, Dodd, Djeuking (Schomer, 86), Scicluna, Schomaker, Armstrong, Emert (Stockyi, 75), Mack (Nelson, 78), Snape, Costa. Tampa Bay — Garlick, George, McCarty, Trittschuh, Kinnear, Keller, […]

COLUMBUS 1 D.C. UNITED 2 (SO) July 7 Att.: 18,101. Goals Columbus: John (Maisonneuve, Farrell) 56. D.C. United: Wood (Aunger, Lassiter) 27. SA Report Card Columbus: Dougherty 5, Lapper 5, Clark 5, Dooley 5 (Thompson, 38th, 5), Yeagley 5, Maisonneuve 5 (West, 86th, 5), Farrell 4 (Cunningham, 57th, 6), Elcock 5, Warzycha 5, John 5, […]