Monthly Archives: January 2003

Let's set aside the marketing and iconic appeal of Landon Donovan. As important as they are, his development into a great player is crucial and it can't be done if he stays in MLS indefinitely. As a league entering its eighth season, MLS ain't bad and is getting better. As a testing ground for brilliance, […]

ENGLAND * Brian McBride (Everton, PL) vs. Sunderland, 2-1. Started: 90 minutes. McBride, who last week scored 10 minutes into his English Premier League debut, followed up in the second game of his three-month loan spell with two goals in six minutes. McBride equalized the game in the 51st minute when his bicycle kick, from […]

* Brian McBride (Everton, PL) vs. Sunderland, 2-1. Started: 90 minutes. McBride, who last week scored 10 minutes into his English Premier League debut, followed up in the second game of his three-month loan spell with two goals in six minutes. McBride equalized the game in the 51st minute when his overhead volley of a […]

The Unites States opened its 2003 international season with a 4-0 win over Canada before 6,549 fans at Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Carlos Bocanegra, Clint Mathis and Chris Klein scored to give the Americans 3-0 lead after 32 minutes. The goals for Bocanegra and Klein were the first of their international careers. Sub […]

ROUND 1 1 D.C. United — F Alecko Eskandarian (Univ. of Virginia, Jr.). 2 MetroStars — M Ricardo Clark (Univ. of Furman, Soph.). 3 Chicago — M/F Nate Jaqua (Univ. of Portland, Jr.). 4 MetroStars — F Mike Magee (U.S. under-20 national team) (1). 5 D.C. United — D David Stokes (Univ. of North Carolina, […]

ROUND 1 1 D.C. United — F Alecko Eskandarian (Univ. of Virginia, Jr.). 2 MetroStars — M Ricardo Clark (Univ. of Furman, Soph.). 3 Chicago — M/F Nate Jaqua (Univ. of Portland, Jr.). 4 MetroStars — F Mike Magee (U.S. under-20 national team) (1). 5 D.C. United — D David Stokes (Univ. of North Carolina, […]

BY RIDGE MAHONEY The top two choices didn't surprise anybody. The consensus is that #1 Alecko Eskandarian is far enough along in his development that he won't struggle to contribute offensively as many first-round picks have done and #2 Ricardo Clark has the quickness, speed and tenacity to anchor a midfield. #3 Nate Jaqua has […]

1 D.C. United — F Alecko Eskandarian (Univ. of Virginia, Jr.). 2 MetroStars — M Ricardo Clark (Univ. of Furman, Soph.). 3 Chicago — M/F Nate Jaqua (Univ. of Portland, Jr.). 4 MetroStars — F Mike Magee (U.S. under-20 national team) (1). 5 D.C. United — D David Stokes (Univ. of North Carolina, Jr.). 6 […]

The USA plays it first game of 2003 tomorrow in Ft. Lauderdale, where Bruce ArenaÆs squad faces Canada in a friendly at Lockhart Stadium. The 7:30 pm ET game is available to DirectTV subscribers for $19.95 (1-800-531-5000). The North American neighbors last met in the 2002 Gold Cup semifinals, a 0-0 tie in which the […]

Florida International University announced on Thursday that it is eliminating its men's soccer program, which was one of FIU's five charter intercollegiate programs when the University opened in 1972. The demise of Coach Karl Kremser's highly successful program coincides with the arrival of football to the FIU campus. Fielding a football team, the most costly […]

ROUND 1 1 D.C. United — F Alecko Eskandarian (Univ. of Virginia, Jr.). 2 MetroStars — M Ricardo Clark (Univ. of Furman, Soph.). 3 Chicago — M/F Nate Jaqua (Univ. of Portland, Jr.). 4 MetroStars — F Mike Magee (U.S. under-20 national team) (1). 5 D.C. United — D David Stokes (Univ. of North Carolina, […]

Twenty-nine MLS games will be televised on national networks in 2003. ESPN2 will broadcast 26; ABC has the league opener, All-Star Game and MLS Cup 2003. The schedule (all times Eastern) ABC Saturday, April 5 — Los Angeles at Columbus 4:00 pm Saturday, August 2 — MLS All Star 3:30 pm Sun., Nov. 23 — […]

ENGLAND (FA CUP, Third-Round Replay, Jan. 14) * Marcus Hahnemann (Reading, D1), vs. Walsall (D1), 1-1 (1-4 on penalties). The Saddlers were perfect on PKs to knock Reading out of the FA Cup. Hahnemann's hesitation on Darren Wrack's seventh-minute goal proved costly. Reading could only reply via an own goal. FRANCE (Ligue 1, Jan. 15-16) […]

Appalachian State head coach Dan Golan is the new head coach at Evansville, replacing Fred Schmalz, who retired after the 2002 season following 24 years at the Purple Aces' helm. Before taking over at Appalachian State, where he posted a 22-12-1 record in two seasons, Golan served as Mark Berson's assistant coach at the University […]

U.S. women's national team coach April Heinrichs has named a 20-player roster for the Four Nations Tournament in China (Jan. 23-Jan. 29) that includes two members of the USA's 2002 U-19 World Championship-winning squad — 19-year-old UNC freshman Lindsay Tarpley and 18-year-old high school senior Heather O'Reilly. Tarpley earned her first cap in last Sunday's […]

The MLS Combine in Florida, where MLS coaches were getting a final look at prospects in Friday's SuperDraft, concluded on Tuesday with the U.S. U-20s downing adidas Mania, 2-0. The Thomas Rongen-coached U-20s, who are preparing for the World Youth Championship (March 25-April 16), were the only undefeated team at the Combine. In the final […]

Junior McDougald, born in Big Spring, Texas, scored in his sixth straight English FA Cup game to lead Dagenham & Redbridge of the Football Conference to a 2-0 win over Plymouth Tuesday in its third-round replay. McDougald, 28, left Texas when he was 2 years old but maintains close ties to family there. McDougald had […]

D.C. United has signed U.S. national team veteran Earnie Stewart with one of its two allocations. Dallas was the other team that expressed interest in signing Stewart, but United had first crack at him because of its allocations. Stewart, the only player to start at least one game for the United States in the last […]

Trinidadian Dimelon Westfield of Clemson, who scored twice on the first day of the MLS Combine — where MLS coaches are scouting prospects for Friday's SuperDraft — struck again on Monday. Westfield scored for adidas Mania in its 1-1 tie with Supernova, which got on the board thanks to Alex Blake, a Jamaican product from […]

Five days before the MLS SuperDraft, the league signed five collegians — Pat Noonan (Indiana), Jason Cole (St. Louis), Shavar Thomas (Connecticut) and the Stanford duo of Roger Levesque and Todd Dunivant — to regular contracts and added University of Portland junior Nate Jaqua to its 2003 Project-40 class. Their bios: Jason Cole Position: Back/Midfield […]

* Kasey Keller (Tottenham, PL) vs. Everton, 4-3. Started: 90 minutes. Keller had little chance on the three goals he conceded. * Brian McBride (Everton, PL) vs. Tottenham, 3-4. Started: 90 minutes. McBride scored 10 minutes into his Premier League debut, running on to Scott Gemmill's defense-splitting through ball and nailing a low 18-yard shot […]

U.S. national team forward Shannon MacMillan was named 2002 Chevy Female Athlete of the Year. MacMillan, who plays for the WUSA's San Diego Spirit, had a breakout scoring year for the U.S. in 2002, leading the high-scoring U.S. team with an impressive 17 goals and three assists for a team-best 37 points. Lindsay Tarpley, who […]

Adidas Mania 4 Adidas X-3s 1. Goals: Gonzalez 4, Westfield 10, 22, Woodworth 70; Ralph 49. Mania — Singer, Glowienka, Stokes, Thomas, Swann (Jacquette, 46), Mack, Gonzalez (Woodworth, 46), Walsh (Gaven, 46), Noonan (Crawford, 46), Westfield, Carmichael (Quinn, 46). X-3s — Behonick, Curtis, Abrahamson, Cole (Bradley, 46), Lewis (Swenda, 46), Alvarez (El Bialy, 46), Carroll […]

The MLS Combine kicked off Sunday with a pair of games at the Sunrise (Fla.) Hilton Sports Complex. MLS coaching staffs were on hand to work with and scout college seniors, Project-40 players and other invited players for Friday's SuperDraft. The two games produced nine goals, beginning with 16-year-old Guillermo Gonzalez's 25-yard free kick. Among […]

Creating more chances but finishing none of them, the U.S. women's national team started its preparations for next fall's Women's World Cup on Sunday with a 0-0 draw against Japan before 5,099 at Torero Stadium on the University of San Diego campus. The Americans, coming off a two-month layoff and following just three days of […]