Monthly Archives: September 1999

Here’s a look at MLS games on television this week: Date Matchup Kickoff (ET) Television September 17 Tampa Bay at Chicago 8:30 p.m. No TV September 18 Columbus at New England 7:30 p.m. Fox Sports New England September 18 MetroStars at D.C. United 7:30 p.m. NewsChannel 8/ESPN Dos/MSG September 18 Los Angeles at Colorado 9:00 […]

March 28-29, 2000 Argentina vs. Chile Colombia vs. Brazil Ecuador vs. Venezuela Peru vs. Paraguay Uruguay vs. Bolivia April 25-26, 2000 Bolivia vs. Colombia Brazil vs. Ecuador Chile vs. Peru Paraguay vs. Uruguay Venezuela vs. Argentina June 3-4, 2000 Argentina vs. Bolivia Colombia vs. Venezuela Paraguay vs. Ecuador Peru vs. Brazil Uruguay vs. Chile June […]

Longtime Bay Area resident and former United States national team coach Lothar Osiander, who led the Los Angeles Galaxy to the first Major League Soccer championship game and also coached the U.S. in two Olympic Games, was named today as the new coach of the San Jose Clash. “Over the past 20 years, at every […]

Group E Sept. 15 in Athens Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece) 3 Real Madrid (Spain) 3. Goals: Giovanni 10, 64, Zahovic 67; Savio 24, Roberto Carlos 32, Raul 80. Half: 2-1. Att.: 80,000. Sept. 15 in Molde Molde (Norway) 0 Porto (Portugal) 1. Goal: Deco 88. Halftime: 0-0. Att.: 9,000. Club GP W T L GF GA […]

MEN’S NCAA DIVISION II Central Region 1 Truman State 4-1-1 LH Lewis 1-3, DH WI-Parkside 1-0 2 WI-Parkside 4-1-0 DA Rockhurst 2-0, LA Truman 0-1 3 Lewis 3-2-0 DA Truman 3-1, DA Rockhurst 2-0 4 IUPU-Fort Wayne 4-1-0 DH St Francis 7-0, DA Hillsdale 5-0 5 Rockhurst 3-2-0 DH UMSL 3-0, LH WI-Parkside 0-2, LH […]

EASTERN CONFERENCE Columbus Crew — OUT: D/M John DeBrito (broken right wrist), GK Juergen Sommer (right knee ACL tear). D.C. United– PROBABLE: D Carlos Llamosa (left quadricep strain), M John Maessner (neck strain), GK Tom Presthus (left knee MCL sprain); DOUBTFUL: D Eddie Pope (left knee MCL sprain). MetroStars– QUESTIONABLE: M Mark Chung (left hamstring […]

WOMEN’S NCAA DIVISION II Central Region 1 Northern Kentucky 5-0-0 DA Wheeling Jesuit 4-0 2 North Dakota State 5-0-1 TA Minnesota State 0-0, DN Indianapolis 1-0 3 St. Joseph’s 4-1-0 DA Indiana Wesleyan 3-2 4 Minnesota State 4-2-1 TH North Dakota State 0-0, DH Winona State 3-0 5 UMN-Duluth 3-1-0 DA Northern Michigan 5-0 6 […]

Chris Caron Wilmington, N.C. Why doesn’t the MLS build more Stadiums like the one in Columbus? If getting money is a problem why don’t they just go public and or sell seat licences like the NFL’s Panthers did to help finance their stadium. Ridge Mahoney: Chris, The “public” in most American cities couldn’t care less […]

WOMEN’S NCAA DIVISION I SCHOOL RECORD PTS. 1 Santa Clara 5-0-0 299 2 North Carolina 4-1-0 281 3 Nebraska 4-0-0 268 4 Florida 6-0-0 263 4 Penn State 3-1-0 263 6 Notre Dame 2-1-0 250 7 Hartford 3-0-0 219 8 Texas A&M 6-0-0 211 9 Duke 5-1-0 206 10 USC 4-1-0 200 11 BYU 4-0-0 […]

WOMEN’S NCAA DIVISION III Central Region 1 Washington U. 5-0-0 DH Principia 5-1, DH Kalamazoo 7-0, DH Wittenburg 6-2 2 WI-Stevens Point 4-0-0 DA Gustavus Adolphus 4-1, DH St. Benedict 1-0, DH Macalester 4-1 3 St. Benedict 3-1-0 DH WI-Eau Claire 2-0, LA Stevens Point 0-1 4 Macalester 2-1-0 LA WI-Stevens Point 1-4 5 Wheaton […]

MEN’S NCAA DIVISION I SCHOOL RECORD PTS. 1 Creighton 2-0-0 465 2 Penn State 3-0-0 437 3 St. John’s 3-0-1 411 4 Duke 3-0-1 401 5 Maryland 3-1-0 373 6 Santa Clara 4-0-0 358 7 So. Methodist 3-0-0 311 8 Indiana 2-2-0 276 9 CS Fullerton 4-0-0 262 10 Yale 2-0-0 251 11 Furman 4-0-0 […]

The A-League’s Rochester Raging Rhinos completed their dramatic run to the Open Cup title by downing the Colorado Rapids, 2-0, to win the 1999 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup title in front of a pro-Rochester crowd of 4,455 in Columbus. The improbable victory marked the first time in the tournament’s last four years that a […]

MEN’S NCAA DIVISION III Great Lakes Region 1 Ohio Wesleyan 5-0-0 DH Eastern Mennonite 3-0, DH Alma 1-0 2 Otterbein 5-0-0 DH Kenyon 3-1, DH Wilmington 1-0 3 De Pauw 3-0-0 DA Bates 2-0, DA Colby 1-0 4 Earlham 5-0-0 DA Wilmington 2-1, DN Frostburg 1-0, DN Kalamazoo 1-0 5 Heidelberg 5-0-0 DA Oberlin 5-1, […]

Goalkeeper Tony Meola (1) Kansas City Defenders Robin Fraser (1) Los Angeles Richard Farrer (2) Dallas Carlos Llamosa (4) D.C. United Greg Vanney (3) Los Angeles Midfielders Mike Burns (3) New England Ted Chronopoulos (2) New England Manny Lagos (3) Tampa Bay Forwards Roy Lassiter (5) D.C. United Giovanni Savarese (3) New England Henry Zambrano […]

WOMEN’S NCAA DIVISION I Midwest Region 1 Nebraska 6-0-0 DH Portland 3-2, DH UConn 4-1 2 Texas A&M 6-0-0 DH Navy 6-0, DH Ohio State 2-1 3 Baylor 5-1-0 DA Maryland 4-0, DA Pitt 3-1 4 Missouri 5-1-0 DH Kansas 4-0, DH Illinois 3-2 5 Iowa State 5-1-0 DH Minnesota 1-0, DH Iowa 2-1 6 […]

MEN’S NCAA DIVISION I Far West Region 1 Santa Clara 4-0-0 DH UC Santa Cruz 2-0, DN CS Northridge 4-0, DN Loyola (IL) 3-0 2 CS Fullerton 4-0-0 DN Sac State 3-0, DN Oregon State 3-2 3 San Diego 4-0-0 DH Oregon State 4-0, DH CS Northridge 2-1, DH Sac State 4-2 4 UCLA 3-1-1 […]

3: Anderson crosses from the left to Dely Valdes at the top of the box. Dely Valdes chests down and tries to split two defenders, but is stripped as he enters the area. 6: Dely Valdes races toward goal with Restrepo hanging all over him, and gets off a shot as he is pulled down, […]

Dutch clubs have won six European Cup titles, more than any other country can claim except Italy, Spain and England, but they face long-term problems because of the flight of young talent. While youth development remains critical, alternative business arrangements are now essential to clubs’ continued success. The landscape has been drastically altered since Ajax […]

Group A Sept. 14 in Leverkusen Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) 1 Lazio (Italy) 1. Goals: Neuville 14; Mihajlovic 18. Half: 1-1. Att.: 22,500. Sept. 14 in Kiev Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 0 Maribor Teatanic (Slovenia) 1. Goal: Simundza 74. Half: 0-0. Att.: 30,000. Club GP W T L GF GA P Maribor Teatanic 1 0 0 0 […]

Round of 16 Sept. 10 in Rochester, N.Y. Rochester 2 Lehigh Valley 1. Goals: Zavala 70, Biello 72; Checcio 89. Rochester — Onstad, Restrepo, Schweitzer, Walton, Daligcon (Zavala, 63), Young (Kirmse, 54), Allnutt, Sedgewick, Biello, Tilley (Dietrich, 86), Tim Hardy. Lehigh Valley — Dutra, Franzke, Zaun, Dale Edwards, Imler, Oudin, Stockton (Boney, 63), B.Marshall (Houser, […]

First Round, First Legs Sept. 14 in Sofia Crvena Zvezda Belgrade (Yugoslavia) 0 Montpellier (France) 1. Goal: Loko 6. Half: 0-1. Att.: 8,500. Sept. 14 in Heerenveen Partizan Belgrade (Yugoslavia) 1 Leeds United (England) 3. Goals: Tomic 20; Bowyer 26, 82, Radebe 39. Half: 1-2. Att.: 4,950. Sept. 14 in Bucharest Steaua Bucharest (Romania) 2 […]

NEW ENGLAND 3 KANSAS CITY 2 Sept. 7 Att.: 7,260. Goals New England: Savarese (Moore) 67, Savarese (Moore, Torres) 81, Moore (Beasley, McKinley) 87. Kansas City: Preki 8, Henderson (Bunbury, Klein) 49. SA Report Card New England: Zenga 6 (Causey, 87th, NR), McKinley 6, Gori 6, Parra 5 (Torres, 51st, 5), Burns 7, Harkes 5, […]

Frank Lopez San Francisco, Calif. I read in one of your past publications (I’m a subscriber) about a soccer tournament in Las Vegas that is part of the World Club Championship playoffs. I would like to find out more so that I might attend and I cannot find anything about it anywhere. Mike Woitalla: The […]

Stan Sansone Houston, Texas What constitutes, or what is the definition of, a shot and an assist? Are there definitions or conventions associated with statistical record keeping? Mike Woitalla: Let’s start with assists, Stan. Coincidentally, Soccer America Magazine columnist Paul Gardner wrote an in-depth article about the concept of awarding assists in his “SoccerTalk” column […]

South Jersey Coach Matt Driver circled 12 players on his roster as starters, before realizing he had one too many. After losing to Western Mass in front of a pro-Pioneer crowd of 5,223, he probably felt as though he played a man short. Playing in front of a club-record home crowd at Lusitano Stadium, the […]