Monthly Archives: January 2007

U.S. national team stars Landon Donovan and Pablo Mastroeni talk with USA Today about their experience training with interim national team coach Bob Bradley. They say his training sessions are marked by intensity, competitiveness and physical play. “He wants to make sure that this isn’t a Club Med gathering,” Mastroeni says. “Everyone’s got to earn […]

If nothing else, Real Madrid’s players are united in contempt of Ramon Calderon, after the club’s president delivered a loose-lipped speech at a local university where he harshly criticized Real’s players-David Beckham in particular. In an hour-long meeting arranged by club captains Raul, Guti and Roberto Carlos, Beckham and others dug into Calderon for the […]

For neutrals, it’s all about Liverpool-Chelsea at Anfield and Arsenal-Manchester United at Emirates Stadium in the Premiership this weekend. Man United and Chelsea are the EPL’s top two teams with 57 and 51 points, respectively; it will be more important for them not to lose these tough away fixtures than to walk away with three […]

It will be a decidedly green United States team that steps into the Home Depot Center in Carson Saturday to play Denmark (TV: ESPN2, 4:40 pm ET). Eleven of Bob Bradley’s squad of 28 players have yet to earn their first cap; only two in the squad-Landon Donovan and Pablo Mastroeni-are veterans of the last […]

Due to surging demand in Asia and the Middle East, the English Premier League is set to reel in some $1.2 billion from overseas television rights over the next three years. On Thursday, the English Football Association, which runs the 20-club league, said it had sold its broadcasting rights in 81 overseas blocs spanning 208 […]

The public feud between Andriy Shevchenko and Jose Mourinho is heating up to be almost as bad as the rift between David Beckham and Real Madrid’s management-and that one seems to be cooling already. Echoing the Beckham party’s stance against Real, Shevchenko today told ESPN Soccernet “‘I am being made a scapegoat for things that […]

For a manager who claims that no individual is greater than the team, and that not even he matters, only the club matters, it’s ironic to see Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho try to hold its owners hostage by declaring that he will only stay with the Stamford Bridge club if the board starts treating him to […]

Manchester United’s young American striker, Giuseppe Rossi, has been loaned to Serie A club Parma, which will be facing a stiff battle to avoid relegation for the remaining four months of the season. Rossi had only just returned to Old Trafford after a disappointing loan spell with Newcastle United, where the 19-year old started just […]

The Columbus Dispatch was displeased to report Thursday that Brian McBride will not be returning home to MLS and the Columbus Crew. The 34-year-old Fulham FC striker has surprised everyone by turning in what might be the best season of his three-and-a-half-year career with the club. McBride scored his ninth goal in all competitions on […]

Will Real Salt Lake ever get its stadium? The Deseret Morning News offered mixed news on Thursday, but the deal still only hangs by a thread. Officials from Sandy, the Salt Lake suburb where the stadium would be built, said it would put up money, but the $15 million initially pledged had been scaled back […]