Monthly Archives: February 2004

The CONCACAF Olympic women's qualifying tournament in Costa Rica has been a hat-trick party, with five players scoring a threesome through the first six matches. Canadian high-schooler Aysha Jamani did them one better on Saturday, scoring four goals to pace a 6-0 rout of Panama that secured Canada its berth in Wednesday's all-important semifinals. Jamani, […]

Feb. 28 in La Manga San Jose (MLS) 2 Stabaek (Norway) 1. Goals: Walker (Corrales) 34, Ching (Levesque) 73; Poljac 32. San Jose — Conway, Waibel, Cochrane, Agoos (Hart, 60), Corrales, Mullan, Mulrooney (Dombrowski, 65), Ekelund, Russell (Alvarez, 46), De Rosario (Ching, 60), Walker (Levesque, 60). Stabaek — Knudsen, Skjonsberg (Fazlagic, 80), Kjolo, Holter, Olsen, […]

FIRST ROUND, FIRST LEG Feb. 28 Grenada 5 (Bishop 39, Phillip 44, Augustine 79, A.Modeste 85, Rennie 90) Guyana 0. Aruba 1 (Escalona 88) Suriname 2 (Felter pen. 54, Zinhagel 61). Feb. 29 Bermuda vs. Montserrat

With U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena on hand to get his first look at the first U.S. opponent in 2006 World Cup qualifying, host Grenada crushed Guyana, 5-0, Saturday night in the first leg of their first-round qualifying series in the CONCACAF zone. Grenada scored two late goals in the first half and put […]

Friday-Saturday highlights: Two goals for Conor Casey, who now has nine goals for German D2 club Karlsruhe. First pro goal for Oguchi Onyewu in 3-2 win for La Louviere over Standard Liege. Tim Howard sits out first Premier League game and Man. Utd. falls into third place, nine points behind leader Arsenal. Pro debut for […]

Cindy Parlow netted a hat trick on Friday as the U.S. women's national team celebrated head coach April Heinrichs' 40th birthday with an 8-0 rout of Haiti at the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in Costa Rica. The U.S. women, who opened the eight-nation tournament Wednesday with a 7-0 victory over Trinidad & Tobago, secured its […]

Christine Sinclair notched the third hat trick of the CONCACAF Olympic women's soccer qualifying tournament as Canada on Thursday romped to a 6-0 victory over Jamaica in its Group A opener in Heredia, Costa Rica. Sinclair, a University of Portland striker, netted all three of her goals in the second half as the Canadians, dominant […]

The United States gets its first glimpse of its first obstacle on the road to the 2006 World Cup when Grenada and Guyana meet in the first leg of their first-round qualifying series Saturday at the National Stadium in St. George's, Grenada. Neither team is ranked highly in the Caribbean — Grenada is 8th in […]

ENGLAND * Brad Friedel (Blackburn, PL), vs. Southampton, Saturday. Season league stats: 26 games; 1 goal. * Tim Howard (Manchester United, PL), at Fulham, Saturday (TV, Closed-Circuit/PPV, live, 10 am ET; Fox Sports World, delay, noon ET). Season league stats: 26 games. * Kasey Keller (Tottenham, PL), no game (Middlesbrough in League Cup final). Season […]

Feb. 26 in La Manga Odd Grenland (Norway) 2 Dallas (MLS) 1. Goals: Fevang 31, 45; Rhine 72. Odd Grenland — Holtan, Aas, Deila, Nornes, Rambekk, Fevang, Toresen (Amundsen, 68), Dale (Ruud, 8), Hoff, Wiig (Bomhoff, 79) Henriksson. Dallas — Garlick, Salyer, Jolley (Miranda, 72), Behncke (Goodson, 46), Wagenfuhr, Rhine (Maurin. 72), Stone, O'Brien (Davis […]

U.S. SOCCER: Arena calls up 18 player for Haiti game Bruce Arena named the 18 players to face Haiti March 13 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla. (TV: HDNet, DirecTV pay-per-view, live, 8 pm ET). Fulham defender Carlos Bocanegra is the only foreign-based player. He is currently serving a three-game suspension from all English […]

UNITED STATES (with college or WUSA affiliation, caps/goals) Goalkeepers Siri Mullinix (Washington Freedom), 42/0 Briana Scurry (Atlanta Beat), 129/0 Defenders Joy Fawcett (San Diego Spirit), 227/27 Amy LePeilbet (Arizona State Univ.), 2/0 Kate Markgraf (Notre Dame), 107/0 Heather Mitts (Philadelphia Charge), 8/0 Christie Rampone (New York Power), 110/4 Catherine Reddick (Univ. of North Carolina), 44/3 […]

Shannon Boxx scored three goals and Mia Hamm added a pair, plus two assists, as the U.S. women's national team destroyed Trinidad & Tobago in its opener Wednesday at the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying opener. Kristine Lilly and Abby Wambach also tallied in the Americans' 7-0 romp, in which they dominated from start to finish. The […]

Brian McBride scored on a fine long-range volley after latching on to a superbly floated through-ball from U.S. compatriot Carlos Bocanegra as Fulham downed West Ham, 3-0, in a FA Cup fifth-round replay Tuesday. Three minutes after setting up 76th-minute McBride's goal, the game's first, Bocanegra dished the ball to Barry Hayles for a tap-in […]

ENGLAND (European Champions League) * Tim Howard (Manchester United, PL), at Porto (Portugal), 1-2. Started: 90 minutes. South African Benni McCarthy scored both goals for Porto. Howard had no chance on either goal. United finished with 10 men after Roy Keane was ejected in the 87th minute. * Frankie Simek (Arsenal, PL), at Vigo (Spain), […]

Feb. 25 in La Manga Viking (Norway) 1 MetroStars (MLS) 0. Goal: Kopteff 75. Viking — Olsen (Austbo 46), Dahl, Gabrielsen, Hangeland (Danielsen 86), Pereira, Sanne (Samuelsen 69), Lunde Aarsheim, Nygaard, Kopteff (Fuglestad 89), Nevland (Tengesdal 73), Sigurdsson. MetroStars — Wells, Ziadie,Leitch, Regan, McCann (Hayes 63), Guevara, Bradley (Gilberto, 63), Gaven (DiGiamarino 70), Vaca, Nugent […]

Feb. 25 in La Manga Viking (Norway) 1 MetroStars (MLS) 0. Goal: Kopteff 75. Viking — Olsen (Austbo 46), Dahl, Gabrielsen, Hangeland (Danielsen 86), Pereira, Sanne (Samuelsen 69), Lunde Aarsheim, Nygaard, Kopteff (Fuglestad 89), Nevland (Tengesdal 73), Sigurdsson. MetroStars — Wells, Ziadie,Leitch, Regan, McCann (Hayes 63), Guevara, Bradley (Gilberto, 63), Gaven (DiGiamarino 70), Vaca, Nugent […]

Diane Drake, who posted back-to-back 11-win seasons and won an ECAC championship at Georgetown University, is leaving the Hoyas to become head coach at George Mason. Drake, the winningest coach in Georgetown's 11 seasons of women's soccer, was announced as Patriots coach on Tuesday, taking over for Jac Cicala, who resigned in January after 12 […]

Former Atlanta Beat defender Nancy Augustyniak made her Frauen-Bundesliga debut Sunday for FFC Turbine Potsdam, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2-0 victory over visiting Hamburger SV. The match was a make-up game from earlier in the season; the league's winter break ends March 7. Augustyniak and her twin sister, Julie, joined Turbine […]

Logic decrees that the U.S. women's national team, regardless of how well or poorly it plays, will cruise through the CONCACAF Olympic qualifiers and nab one of the region's two berths at this summer's Athens Olympics. The Americans, a medal favorite for Greece, have dominated the rest of the region for years, and nothing exists […]

Automatic berths for final qualifying tournament Canada Costa Rica (host) United States Group 1 in Paramaribo, Suriname Nov. 9: Suriname 0 Trinidad & Tobago 2 (own goal Wilson 79, St. Louis 88) Nov. 12: Trinidad & Tobago 4 (Johnson 9, 74, des Vignes 34, 38) Suriname 2 (Uliet 18, 41) (Trinidad & Tobago wins on […]

CONCACAF WOMEN'S OLYMPIC QUALIFYING FINAL-ROUND TOURNAMENT at San Jose and Heredia, Costa Rica Group A: Costa Rica, Canada, Jamaica, Panama. Group B: United States, Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago, Haiti. Schedule Feb. 25 (Nacional Stadium, San Jose): Mexico vs. Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago vs. United States. Feb. 26 (Eladio Rosabal Cordero Stadium, Heredia): Canada vs. Jamaica, […]

American goalkeeper Brad Friedel scored a 90th minute goal for Blackburn to tie Charlton 2-2 — then was beaten on a stoppage-time volley as his team lost, 3-2, on Saturday. With his team trailing 2-1, Friedel left his goal to join a Blackburn corner kick. When Charlton failed to clear the corner kick, Friedel shot […]

CHICAGO FIRE Training: Feb. 22-March 3: Rio Maior, Portugal. March 7-March 15: Boca Raton, Fla. (Florida Atlantic Univ.) March 16: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. March 19-March 23: Chicago. March 26-April 2: Ridgeland, Miss. Matches: Feb. 8 vs. U.S. national team (0-1) Feb. 8 vs. U.S. under-17 national team (2-2) Feb. 10 vs. MetroStars (4-1) Feb. 12 vs. […]

Kansas City Wizards midfielder Preki. the MVP of the 20o03 MLS season, suffered a fractured fibula and a dislocated ankle in his left leg during an exhibition match against the Columbus Crew in Tampa on Saturday morning. Preki left the game in the 15th minute and was taken to a nearby hospital. He underwent surgery […]