MLS Best IX GOALKEEPER: Troy Perkins (D.C. United) DEFENDERS: Bobby Boswell (D.C. United), Jose Burciaga Jr. (Kansas City Wizards), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards) MIDFIELDERS: Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Clint Dempsey (New England Revolution), Dwayne De Rosario (Houston Dynamo), Christian Gomez (D.C. United), Justin Mapp (Chicago Fire) FORWARDS: Jeff Cunningham (Real Salt Lake), Jaime Moreno […]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
4. WORLD: South Korea’s U.S. assistant Ghotbi denied entry into Iran
American Afshin Ghotbi, an assistant coach with South Korea’s national team, was denied a visa to enter his native Iran, where Iran and South Korea are set to square off in an Asian Cup qualifier on Wednesday. Ghotbi, 42, left Iran in his early teens and now has American citizenship. He joined the South Korea […]
Posted inSoccer America Confidential, Story
Coach Search
Two MLS head coaching jobs are open and a third may be also if Sigi Schmid leaves Columbus to work with Juergen Klinsmann, whose employment as U.S. national team head coach is drawing near. As to this possibility, Schmid said only, “You’d have to ask [U.S. Soccer president] Sunil Gulati or Juergen.” Schmid has stated […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
MLS CUP '06: Triumph for Houston
By Ridge Mahoney in Frisco, Texas The performance of both teams in this year's MLS championship game personified their past histories, which meant failure again for the Revs and triumph again for Houston. A turgid match, much of it as dreary as a 0-0 scoreline would indicate, lit up in the second overtime with the […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
WORLD: Barca win is potentially costly
Barcelona moved back into first place in Spain's La Liga with a 3-1 win over Real Zaragoza on Sunday, but the victory was potentially costly as Barca fears Argentine teenager Lionel Messi will be sidelined for up to three months after suffering a foot injury during the game. The 19-year-old Messi limped off in the […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
AMERICANS ABROAD: Keller hurt; Hahnemann helps Reading end losing streak
Two Americans met in Germany when Hamburg SV, with defensive midfielder Benny Feilhaber, 21, now a regular starter, tied 1-1 at Borussia Moenchengladbach, whose keeper Kasey Keller, who left the game with a shoulder injury in the 32nd minute, after which HSV got its goal. Defender Steve Cherundolo and Hannover 96 came back to earth […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
COLLEGE WOMEN: Portland leads unseeded winners
Defending women's champion Portland led a group of six unseeded teams into the NCAA Division I women's sweet 16. Soccer America's NCAA Division I Women's Tournament Scoreboard Rachael Rapinoe, twin sister of injured star Megan Rapinoe, scored the winning goal in a 2-1 win victory over BYU on Thursday, and scored two more goals in […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
COLLEGE MEN: Hat tricks propel UW and Brown
Washington's Kevin Forrest, the Pac-10 Player of the Year, and Brown's Andrew Daniels were the scoring stars of the first round of the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament, leading their teams to victory with hat tricks. Soccer America's NCAA Division I Men's Tournament Scoreboard Forrest scored three goals — the first two 75 seconds part […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
SMALL COLLEGES: Tournament Roundup
NCAA DIVISION 2 MEN. Defending champion Ft. Lewis moved into this weekend's final four in Pensacola, Fla., with a 5-2 victory over 2004 champion Seattle. John Cunliffe, who scored his 27th goal of the season, Kieran Hall and Nick Kirchhof led the Skyhawks with a goal and an assist apiece. Also moving into the final […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
COLLEGE MARATHON: D3 men's team advances, 16-15, on PKs
Upstate New York schools Nazareth and Medaille played a 20-round shootout before Nazareth prevailed in the second round of the NCAA Division III Men's Tournament on Saturday. Nazareth had leads of 1-0 and 2-1, but the host Mavericks answered each time, the second time on Ryan Mangino's Division III-leading 34th goal of the season. Regulation […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
NJCAA: Richland sweeps D3 finals
For the second time in three years, Richland College of Dallas swept the NJCAA Division II men's and women's titles. The Thunderducks won the men's final with a 3-1 win over host Herkimer County on MVP Alberto's Rodriguez's hat trick, and the women's championship with a 1-0 victory over Brookdale on Karina Davila's goal in […]
Posted inSoccer America Site, Story
COLLEGE WOMEN: Santa Clara defeat evokes memories of another tough loss
USC pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of the NCAA Division I Women's Tournament when it beat No. 1 seed Santa Clara, 1-0, in the first round on Friday night before a stunned crowd at Buck Shaw Stadium. After 11 straight years of reaching the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, fate finally caught […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Defensive Errors Down Hapless Milan
It seems that every season, one of Serie A’s giants endures a run of luck that’s bad enough to amaze even neutral observers. Match-fixing and conspiracy theories aside, without a doubt the club with the unshakable black cloud hanging over its head this season is AC Milan. At the very beginning of the season, Milan […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Adu Move, ‘Beckham Rule’ Overshadow MLS Final
This year’s Major League Soccer Cup final was overshadowed by two pieces of news, writes Gabriele Marcotti of the London Times. While the Houston Dynamo and the New England Revolution battled it out for the right to be called MLS champion, the rest of the world wondered about Freddy Adu’s mysterious two-week training session with […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
MLS Formally Adopts the ‘Beckham Rule’
As expected, Major League Soccer announced that next season it will formerly adopt the “designated-player rule,” which has also been referred to as the “Beckham Rule.” This means that teams can sign any high-profile player it can afford, and have only a portion of that player’s salary count against its $2 million salary cap. Under […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Dempsey Proud in Defeat
Clint Dempsey got to play in the MLS Cup final, and he played well in the hour or so of action he was given, but it wasn’t enough to keep the fighting New England Revolution from going down in penalties. Things might have been different for the Revs had Steve Nicol given U.S. Soccer’s 2006 […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Houston Wins MLS Cup in Shootout
It was yet another shootout that decided the final game of this year’s MLS Cup: the Houston Dynamo played the New England Revolution to 90 scoreless minutes, before each team scored in a thrilling overtime period that brought the tie game to a penalty shootout that Houston won 4-3. Brian Ching, who tied the game […]
Posted inSoccer on TV., Story
2. HIGHLIGHT & MAGAZINE SHOWS: A Sampling
US Youth Soccer Fox Soccer Channel Monday 5:30 pm ET. English Premier League Review Fox Soccer Channel Monday 6 pm ET. VW Gol (Most complete soccer highlight show in USA.) Gol TV Monday, 9 pm ET. Fox Sports Report Fox Soccer Channel Monday-Sunday, 10 pm ET Sky Sports News Fox Soccer Channel Monday-Sunday, 7 pm […]
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1. GAMES: Live and same-day delay on national TV
(All times Eastern unless noted. TV programming is always subject to change. Check your local listings and soccerTV.com) TUESDAY, Jan. 2 FOX SOCCER CHANNEL England ASTON VILLA-CHELSEA (live), 3 pm. FOX SPORTS EN ESPANOL England ASTON VILLA-CHELSEA (live), 3 pm. SETANTA SPORTS USA England ARSENAL-CHARLTON (live), 2:40 pm. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 3 FOX SPORTS EN ESPANOL […]
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
1. Top-seed Santa Clara women upset in first round
USC pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament when it beat No. 1 seed Santa Clara, 1-0, in the first round on Friday night before a stunned crowd at Buck Shaw Stadium. After 11 straight years of reaching the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, fate finally caught […]
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
6. NJCAA: Richland sweeps D3 finals
For the second time in three years, Richland College of Dallas swept the NJCAA Division II men’s and women’s titles. The Thunderducks won the men’s final with a 3-1 win over host Herkimer County on MVP Alberto’s Rodriguez‘s hat trick, and the women’s championship with a 1-0 victory over Brookdale on Karina Davila‘s goal in […]
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
5. MARATHON: D3 men’s team advances, 16-15, on PKs
Upstate New York schools Nazareth and Medaille played a 20-round shootout before Nazareth prevailed in the second round of the NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament on Saturday. Nazareth had leads of 1-0 and 2-1, but the host Mavericks answered each time, the second time on Ryan Mangino‘s Division III-leading 34th goal of the season. Regulation […]
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
4. SMALL COLLEGES: Tournament Roundup
NCAA DIVISION 2 MEN. Defending champion Ft. Lewis moved into this weekend’s final four in Pensacola, Fla., with a 5-2 victory over 2004 champion Seattle. John Cunliffe, who scored his 27th goal of the season, Kieran Hall and Nick Kirchhof led the Skyhawks with a goal and an assist apiece. Also moving into the final […]
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
3. MEN: Hat tricks propel UW and Brown
Washington’s Kevin Forrest, the Pac-10 Player of the Year, and Brown’s Andrew Daniels were the scoring stars of the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament, leading their teams to victory with hat tricks. Soccer America’s NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament Scoreboard Forrest scored three goals — the first two 75 seconds part […]
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
2. WOMEN: Portland leads unseeded winners
Defending women’s champion Portland led a group of six unseeded teams into the NCAA Division I women’s sweet 16. Soccer America’s NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament Scoreboard Rachael Rapinoe, twin sister of injured star Megan Rapinoe, scored the winning goal in a 2-1 win victory over BYU on Thursday, and scored two more goals in […]