Monthly Archives: November 2001

No. 1 SMU remained the only unbeaten and untied team in the country with a pair of 1-0 wins on the road against Missouri Valley opponents Southwest Missouri State and Evansville. Mustangs goalkeeper Byron Foss has five straight shutouts. No. 2 Virginia exploded for 10 goals in a 7-1 win over UNC Greensboro and a […]

G KRISTIN SLATER (Arizona State) (1) Sun Devil senior makes five saves to shutout Stanford in OT win, seven to hold Cal in 1-1 tie D ANNA KRAUS (Santa Clara) (1) Senior center back dominates vs. Portland, holding Christine Sinclair without a shot, and in Broncos’ shutout of San Diego D CHELSEA MONTERO (St. Mary’s) […]

Tony Sanneh and Cory Gibbs suffered big losses with their German First Division teams, but Hannover 96, with Steve Cherundolo and Conor Casey, notched an emphatic win in the German Second Division. Gibbs scored a 5th-minute own goal in St. Pauli’s 3-0 loss to 1860 Munich. Netherlands ò John O’Brien (Ajax, D1) vs. De Graafschap, […]

Third-ranked Santa Clara swept No. 3 Portland and San Diego to claim the West Coast Conference title and grab an NCAA berth, one of four teams to nail down a spot in the NCAA tournament during Week 10 of the college women’s soccer season. Freshman defender Jessica Ballweg and sophomore forward Veronica Zepeda scored goals […]

It was a big year for American players. The United States qualified for the 2002 World Cup, and U.S. players had big roles in MLS. Here's your chance to pick the 2001 American Player of the Year, based on play on the U.S. national team and at the club level in MLS and abroad.

Mixed results for two U.S. midfielders in Thursday’s UEFA Cup action: Claudio Reyna (Glasgow Rangers) and John O’Brien (Ajax Amsterdam) each played the full 90 minutes in their teams’ second round, second-leg games. Rangers thumped Dynamo Moscow, 4-1, in Russia to advance to the third round, 7-2, on aggregate. The Scottish club, which faces Paris […]

Mexico coach Javier Aguirre has named a 19-man roster, including four European-based players, for the Nov. 11 game against Honduras that will determine both teams’ World Cup fate. Mexico will qualify with a tie or a win in the Azteca Stadium clash. The foreign-based players on Mexico’s roster are: Cuauhtemoc Blanco (Real Valladolid/Spain), Francisco Palencia […]

More than a year of frustration ended when Joe-Max Moore scored twice against Jamaica to lead the U.S. into the World Cup. For a player who flies about the field in a controlled fury, Joe-Max Moore can be stunningly stoic. A brief training session one day before the crucial qualifier against Jamaica had been completed. […]

A day that started in a most unsettling manner ended with all the right results for the U.S. national team. The news of air strikes in Afghanistan broke about 90 minutes before the scheduled kickoff. The press box, formerly buzzing with soccer conversations, halted in silence. Attention was riveted on the televisions as President Bush […]

Needing a win against Colombia’s Millonarios to earn passage into the second round of the Merconorte Cup, the MetroStars lost, 1-0, Wednesday in East Rutherford, N.J. Millonarios, which scored in stoppage time through midfielder Johan Viafara, edges Venezuela’s Deportivo Italchacao on goal difference for first place in Group B and a semifinal date with Mexico’s […]

Chile’s Universidad Catolica, with American Jonny Walker in goal, lost the second leg of its Mercosur Cup quarterfinal clash, 2-0, to Brazil’s Corinthians in Sao Paulo on Wednesday. Corinthians wins the series, 3-2, on aggregate.