Monthly Archives: January 2004

The following is Denmark's '' Ligalandsholdet'' team — Super League all-stars — for matches against the United States Jan. 18 at the Home Depot Center and Aguila of El Salvador Jan. 23 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Denmark has sent its Super League all-stars on tour to warm-weather venues every winter since 1983 to give […]

* Claudio Reyna (Manchester City, PL), at Leicester, 3-1. DNP. Goals in the 90th minute by Nicolas Anelka and Jonathan Macken gave City the road win. FA CUP, FOURTH ROUND DRAW Matches to be played Jan. 24-25: *Man. City (PL) vs. *Tottenham (PL) Swansea (D3) vs. *Preston North End (D1) Northampton (D3) vs. *Man. Utd. […]

QUARTERFINALS First Leg March 17 Saprissa (Costa Rica) vs. Pachuca (Mexico) San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad & Tobago) vs. Chicago Fire (USA) Monterrey (Mexico) vs. FAS (El Salvador) Alajuela (Costa Rica) vs. San Jose Earthquakes (USA) Second Leg March 24 Pachuca (Mexico) vs. Saprissa (Costa Rica) Chicago Fire (USA) vs. San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad & Tobago) […]

Manny Lagos, who helped the San Jose Earthquakes win MLS titles in 2001 and 2003, will join the Columbus Crew in exchange for a third round draft pick in 2005. ''I am incredibly excited,'' said Lagos. ''I am from the Midwest and Columbus is a great club. They have great facilities and it is a […]

St. John defender Chris Wingert and SMU midfielder Ramon Nunez have signed MLS contracts and will be available in Friday's MLS SuperDraft. Wingert, 21, just completed his senior season at St. John's, helping it reach the 2003 NCAA Division I final, where it lost to Indiana. He won the 2003 MAC Hermann Trophy and is […]

By Scott French Soccer America Magazine Senior Editor in Carson, Calif. Major League Soccer's pre-draft player combine closed Tuesday at the Home Depot Center with UCLA's Matt Taylor scoring a hat trick in the finale, boosting his stock following a solid performance at the three-day event. Taylor was one of several players who helped themselves […]

By Scott French Soccer America Magazine Senior Editor in Carson, Calif. Phil Hucles, an outside back from William & Mary, could make history at Friday's Major League Soccer draft in Charlotte, N.C., becoming half of the first brother-sister tandem in professional soccer. His big sister, Angela, is a U.S. national team player who spent three […]

Tom Soehn, a Chicago Fire assistant coach for the past three years, has been named Peter NowakÆs assistant at D.C. United. The club, which hired Nowak to replace Ray Hudson (2002-03), plans to hire a second assistant prior to the beginning of preseason training. Assistant coach John Trask and goalkeeping coach David Vanole will not […]

North Carolina's women make their case as best in college history, roaring through a tough, controversial NCAA draw to win the Tar Heels' 18th national title. In the end, it really didn't matter how badly the NCAA had screwed up the seedings and brackets for its 22nd women's soccer championship. They could have made North […]

* Claudio Reyna (Manchester City, PL), at Leicester, Wednesday. * Marcus Hahnemann (Reading, D1), vs. Preston, 1-2. Started: 90 minutes. Royals fell behind by two goals after 47 minutes. Bermudan Shaun Goater scored consolation goal in 84th minute. * Eddie Lewis (Preston North End, D1), at Reading, 2-1. DNP. Preston travels to Swansea for fourth […]

The German press reports that American Cory Gibbs will move from Third Division FC St. Pauli to Second Division Jahn Regensburg on an estimated $115,000 transfer. Gibbs, a Florida native who played college ball at Brown, joined St. Pauli in 2001 when the club was in the First Division and quickly won a starting spot. […]

By Scott French, Senior Editor in Carson, Calif. Two days into Major League Soccer's pre-draft player combine at the Home Depot Center and the buzz was all about Stanford defender Chad Marshall and his man-among-boys performance on the first day of the camp. Everybody, it seemed, had Marshall on his mind — nobody else was […]

The following is the order for the MLS SuperDraft, which will be held Friday, Jan. 16, in Charlotte, N.C., beginning at 10 am ET (TV: Fox Sports World, live): 1. D.C. United 2. Columbus 3. Los Angeles 4. Dallas 5. San Jose 6. Dallas 7. Kansas City 8. New England 9. Chicago 10. San Jose […]

The following are the number of picks each team has and the order of the picks for the MLS SuperDraft, which will be held Friday, Jan. 16, in Charlotte, N.C., beginning at 10 am ET (TV: Fox Sports World, live): Chicago: 10 picks (9, 14, 19, 20, 28, 38, 39, 49, 51, 59) Colorado: 4 […]

ENGLAND * Tim Howard (Manchester United, PL) vs. Newcastle, 0-0. Started: 90 minutes. Howard was fortunate not to be whistled for a penalty-kick foul on Alan Shearer after arriving late to a weak back pass by Gary Neville. Referee Paul Durkin said later he should have called a penalty kick, admitting he was out of […]

2003 Soccer America's Men's Player of the Year Joseph Ngwenya (Coastal Carolina) The Zimbabwean striker put the Conway, S.C. school of 5,900 on college soccer's map by leading the nation in goals for second straight year. Amassed 21 goals and 14 assists in 22 games for the Chanticleers (20-3-0). Had 37 points in 12 non-league […]

Stanley Lover's latest strives for creating a better game of soccer. Why not make soccer players pass a test on the rules before allowing them to play? What's so appalling about letting referees use the TV replays that the whole world sees when making a crucial decision? Does it make sense that millionaire players are […]

Santos rallied from an early deficit to beat Toluca on Sunday and advance to the Interliga final against Atlas. Joahan Rodriguez and Hector Lopez scored second-half goals seven minutes apart as Santos claimed a 2-1 victory at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas to win Group A on total goals over Morelia and Toluca. Manuel Lopez […]

Uzziel Lozano and Miguel Zepeda scored first-half goals and Toluca held off Guadalajara, 2-1, Friday night in Houston to grab a three-point lead in Group A of the Interliga with one game to play. Lozano, who stepped in for injured Paraguayan forward Jose Saturnino Cardozo, scored in the 20th minute, and the recently acquired Zepeda […]

North Carolina's Catherine Reddick and St. John's Chris Wingert , both seniors, were announced as winners of the Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Award — college soccer's version of the Heisman Trophy — during festivities Friday night in St. Louis. Reddick, a U.S. national-team defender, is a three-time All-American who earlier captured the Honda Award as […]

By Ridge Mahoney Soccer America Magazine Senior Editor Carlos Bocanegra, 24, won an appeal to be granted a work permit to play in the English Premier League, which freed him to sign a 3 1/2-year contract with London club Fulham. His MLS contract expired Dec. 31. Bocanegra signed a four-year contract with MLS after leaving […]

Tom Fitzgerald is leaving UCLA after two years of serving as head coach and announced he will coach at the University of Tampa, where he was head coach in 1987-95. Fitzgerald, who coached MLS's Columbus Crew for six seasons (1996-2001), guided UCLA to the 2002 NCAA Division I title. Last season, UCLA won its second […]

Lindsay Tarpley, who scored 23 goals with 27 assists to lead the University of North Carolina to a 27-0-0 record and its 18th national championship, is Soccer America's choice for 2003 College Women's Player of the Year. Tarpley, a sophomore forward-midfielder who orchestrated the Tar Heels' 113-goal attack, is one of four North Carolina players […]

Eight players, including five members of the U.S. U-20 team that reached the quarterfinals at the 2003 World Youth Championship, have signed Nike Project-40 contracts, joining Freddy Adu, who signed in November. All will be available in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft January 16. Nike Project-40 players receive an educational stipend in addition to their salary […]

ENGLAND * Claudio Reyna (Manchester City, PL) vs. Charlton, 1-1. Started: 19 minutes. Left the game with a calf injury. Charlton equalized in the 84th minute on a controversial penalty kick. Robbie Fowler scored for the Blues in the first half. Manchester City remains winless in 11 straight league games. The Sun rating (10 high; […]