Monthly Archives: March 2004

The best of MLS was no match for CONCACAF rivals on opening day of the 2004 CONCACAF Champions Cup. Costa Rican powerhouse Alajuela crushed MLS champion San Jose, 3-0, and Caribbean champion San Juan Jabloteh of Trinidad & Tobago humbled the Chicago Fire, 5-2, Wednesday night in the first leg of the quarterfinals. Both games […]

Florida native Luchi Gonzalez, who won the 2001 Hermann Trophy after a collegiate career at SMU, made his Libertadores Cup debut on Wednesday for PeruÆs Sporting Cristal. Gonzalez, 23, who joined Sporting Cristal from Swedish Second Division club Bodens BK, played 47 minutes for the San Jose Earthquakes in 2002. In 2003, he played 29 […]

Peter Reynaud, who won 245 games in 22 seasons as an NCAA women's head soccer coach, announced his retirement Tuesday after three seasons at Long Beach State. Reynaud won an NCAA Division II championship at Sonoma State and also was head coach at California and Fresno State before heading to Southern California in 2001. ''After […]

Angela Hucles scored another goal and the U.S. women's national team won its second Algarve Cup match, edging Denmark, 1-0, Tuesday in Quarteira, Portugal. Hucles, who scored twice in the Americans' 5-1 rout of France in Sunday's Algarve opener, tallied in the 60th minute from Abby Wambach's 35-yard ball into the box. The Americans need […]

Claudio Reyna and Marcus Hahnemann left their respective matches this weekend because injury, while Eddie Lewis may miss up to six weeks after requiring hernia surgery. Reyna helped Manchester City orchestrate a devastating 4-1 upset of Manchester United but left at halftime with an ankle injury that does not appear to be serious. Hahnemann sprained […]

March 16 Kansas City at Academica (Portugal D1) March 17 Chicago at San Juan Jabloteh (Trin. & Tobago), CONCACAF Champions Cup New England at Santa Clara (Portugal D1) San Jose at Alajuela (Costa Rica), CONCACAF Champions Cup March 19 Dallas March 19 at Virginia Beach Mariners March 20 Columbus at Wilmington Hammerheads, Carolina Challenge Cup […]

The USA was in danger of suffering one of its most embarrassing defeats in history when Danny Califf chested the ball into the Haitian goal four minutes into stoppage time to secure a 1-1 tie in SaturdayÆs friendly at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The Haitians, who have been training in Florida under American coach […]

RESULTS March 9 Sabadell (Spain D3) 1 Columbus 1 Guadalajara (Mexico D1) 1 D.C. United 1 Marinhense (Portugal D3) 3 Kansas City 4 Los Angeles 4 UC Irvine 0 Uniao Micaelense (Portugal D3) 0 New England 1 March 10 Chicago 0 U.S. national team 0 Malaga B (Spain D2) 0 Colorado 0 March 11 Barcelona […]

The United States will meet Grenada in the second round of World Cup qualifying in the CONCACAF zone. Grenada wrapped up its first-round World Cup qualifying series with Guyana with a 3-1 victory Sunday before 2,000 fans in Berbice to take the two-game series, 8-1, on aggregate. USC-Spartanburg star Ricky Charles, Jason Roberts of England's […]

Former Atlanta Beat defender Julie Augustyniak and former UCLA standout Tracey Winzen scored their first Frauen-Bundesliga goals as their clubs romped to easy victories in Germany on Sunday. Augustyniak, who came off the bench for the second week in a row, tallied the fifth goal in league leader FFC Turbine Potsdam's 6-0 romp over lowly […]

Angela Hucles scored two goals and the U.S. women's national team romped to a 5-1 triumph over France in its Algarve Cup opener Sunday in Ferreiras, Portugal. Abby Wambach tallied for the sixth successive game, and Mia Hamm and Lindsay Tarpley also scored for the Americans. Sonia Bompastor scored early in the second half for […]

RESULTS March 9 Sabadell (Spain D3) 1 Columbus 1 Guadalajara (Mexico D1) 1 D.C. United 1 Marinhense (Portugal D3) 3 Kansas City 4 Los Angeles 4 UC Irvine 0 Uniao Micaelense (Portugal D3) 0 New England 1 March 10 Chicago 0 U.S. national team 0 Colorado vs. Malaga B (Spain D2), no report Columbus 4 […]

RESULTS March 9 Sabadell (Spain D3) 1 Columbus 1 Guadalajara (Mexico D1) 1 D.C. United 1 Marinhense (Portugal D3) 3 Kansas City 4 Los Angeles 4 UC Irvine 0 Uniao Micaelense (Portugal D3) 0 New England 1 March 10 Chicago 0 U.S. national team 0 Colorado vs. Malaga B (Spain D2), no report Columbus 4 […]

UNITED STATES VS. HAITI Orange Bowl, Miami Saturday, March 13 8 p.m. ET (pay-per-view, Direct TV) HISTORY: The United States has a 5-6-3 all-time record against Haiti, dating back to their first meeting, a 3-2 win in Port-au-Prince in 1954. Their most recent clash was a 3-0 U.S. win in Miami in February of 2000. […]

ENGLAND (First Division) * Eddie Lewis (Preston North End, D1) at Sunderland, 3-3. Started: 90 minutes. After Sunderland went ahead, 3-2, on a 79th minute penalty kick by Marcus Stewart, Eddie Lewis salvaged a tie for Preston with a curling 25-yard free kick. League stats: 25 games, 5 goals. Preston is in 10th place. ENGLAND […]

ENGLAND (Champions League, round of 16, 2nd leg) * Tim Howard (Manchester United, PL), vs. Porto (Portugal, D1), 1-1. (Porto wins, 3-2, on aggregate) Started: 90 minutes. Howard failed to hold on to Benni McCarthy's 25-yard free kick in the 90th minute, and Costinha pounced for the equalizer that knocked United out, 3-2, on aggregate. […]

RESULTS March 9 Sabadell (Spain D3) 1 Columbus 1 Guadalajara (Mexico D1) 1 D.C. United 1 Marinhense (Portugal D3) 3 Kansas City 4 Uniao Micaelense (Portugal D3) 0 New England 1 Colorado vs. Cordoba (Spain D2) in Antequera, Spain, no report SCHEDULE March 10 Chicago vs. U.S. national team in Miami Colorado vs. Malaga B […]

Defender Brandi Chastain, left off the roster the past two events, returns to the U.S. women's national team for the 11th Algarve Cup March 14-20 in southern Portugal. Chastain, defender Kylie Bivens and midfielder Lori Chalupny were named to the Americans' 20-woman roster for the annual event in Portugal after Coach April Heinrichs excluded them […]

Tim Howard advanced with Manchester United to the semfinals of the FA Cup by defeating Brian McBride and Fulham, 2-1. A blind draw Monday set up the semifinal pairings such that United faces Arsenal on April 4 in a showdown of the top two Premier League teams, while the other semifinal will feature Sunderland against […]

RESULTS March 1 Dallas 2 Stabaek (Norway D1) 1, La Manga Cup, Spain St. Raphael (France D5) 1 Los Angeles 2 MetroStars 3 Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine D1) 2, La Manga Cup semifinals, Spain March 2 Belenenses (Portugal D1) 0 Chicago 0 San Jose 1 Viking (Norway D1) 1, La Manga Cup semifinals, Spain March 3 […]

Former Carolina Courage star Birgit Prinz scored two goals Sunday and defending champion FFC Frankfurt handed FFC Turbine Potsdam its first loss of the season as Germany's Frauen-Bundesliga resumed following winter break. Nancy Augustyniak played 90 minutes in midfield for host Turbine in the 3-0 loss. Her twin sister, Julie, made her German League debut […]

Australia, to the surprise of none, on Saturday claimed the Oceania confederation's berth for this summer's Athens Olympics, routing host Fiji, 7-0, in the final game of the OFC qualifying tournament. Lana Harch netted a hat trick and April Mann scored her third and fourth goals of the three-nation tournament as the Matildas romped to […]

Mexico, looking to upset another Women's World Cup semifinalist, gave the U.S. women's national team all it could handle, romping to an early two-goal lead before the Americans rallied for a 3-2 victory Friday night in the final at the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in Costa Rica. Golden Boot winner Maribel Dominguez scored in the […]

Fresno State women's soccer coach Stacy Welp announced her resignation Friday to pursue other opportunities. In three seasons as head coach, Welp guided the Bulldogs to a 23-32-2 record, including a 7-9-2 mark last fall. She was an assistant coach at Fresno State the two previous seasons.

Mia Hamm and Michelle Akers were the only women and the only U.S. players have named to ''The FIFA 100'' — a list commemorating the 100 greatest living soccer players chosen by Pele and approved by FIFA. Hong Myung-Bo, the Los Angeles Galaxy's South Korean defender, is the only MLS player on the list. Former […]