Monthly Archives: April 2007

Komi Afeto, the women's coach at NJCAA school Suffolk (N.Y.) Community College women's soccer coach, was arrested Wednesday and arraigned on Thursday for having what police called ''a sexual relationship'' with a 15-year-old girl, according to newsday.com. Afeto, a native of Togo who played at Dowling, was charged with one count of third-degree criminal sexual […]

Cameron Brown, one of the nation's top young midfield prospects, heads North Carolina's 2007 recruits. Brown, who spent time last year with the U.S. under-20 national team, has starred for Texas club Solar, where he is the career leading scorer with 154 goals and 275 assists for the three-time national runners-up. Also signed by UNC […]

NCAA DIVISION I MEN COLLEGE … OLD COACH … NEW COACH CHARLOTTE John Tart… Jeremy Gunn (Ft. Lewis coach) DENVER Chad Ashton (D.C. United assistant) … Bobby Muuss (Wake Forest assistant) HIGH POINT Peter Broadley … Dustin Fonder (Elon assistant) HOWARD Keith Tucker … TBA IPFW Terry Stefankiewicz … Mike Harper (IPFW assistant) MAINE Travers […]

The U.S. under-20 women's national team, which was dominated by collegians and high school seniors, recently completely a six-game camp in College Station, Texas, and played three games against college opposition, all 2006 NCAA Tournament teams. For the second year in a row, BYU beat the U-20s. Katie Fellows scored twice to give the Cougars […]

After one season at Creighton, Pietari Holopainen has left to sign a two-year contract with FC Haka in his native Finland. Holopainen, a second-team all-Missouri Valley selection, led the Bluejays with six assists while playing all over the field last fall. ''Creighton was a wonderful experience for me as a student and as a player,'' […]

Harvard men's team embarked on an eight-day journey to Brazil that saw the Crimson play a number of exhibition matches in addition to sightseeing and watching a number of pro matches. Results this week included a 3-3 tie with Botafogo's U-21 team and a 1-1 tie with Santa Cruz's U-21s. John Stamatis and other Crimson […]

Former U.S. international Susan Bush has been named the women's head coach at the University of Houston, replacing Bill Solberg, who resigned to accept a position with FC Milwaukee. Bush, the third head coach in program history, had spent the previous two years as Houston's top assistant and recruiting coordinator. She was once considered one […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor The MLS Preseason, also known as the Time of Posturing and Prognosticating, is over. Let the real games begin. D.C. and Houston won't have to wait until next weekend for their liberal doses of reality. They play away to CD Guadalajara (Tuesday) and Pachuca (Thursday), respectively, in the second legs […]

Manchester United is the most valuable club in the world, according to the latest valuations by Forbes magazine. United isn't just the most valuable soccer club, but it's the most valuable club in any sport, edging the NFL's Washington Redskins, who were valued at $1.423 billion in 2006. (Other 2006 U.S. sports leaders: MLB's New […]

Eintracht Frankfurt, the kind of opponent Kasey Keller and Borussia Moenchengladbach really can't afford to drop points against, tied last-place Gladbach, 1-1. Keller was beaten by an 11th minute header. With seven games left in the season, Gladbach is in last last place, five points deep in the relegation zone. Also in Germany, Steve Cherundolo […]

Ronaldinho says he wants to stay at Barcelona, and he played like he meant it, leading the Catalan club to a 2-1 victory Saturday over Deportivo Coruna that moved it two points ahead of Sevilla in the race for La Liga title. There has been extensive speculation that the Brazilian star was unhappy at Barca […]

Both Manchester United and Chelsea got scares before winning on Saturday and remain separated by six points at the top of the English Premier League. United was trailing 1-0 at halftime against Blackburn Rovers before goals from Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick, Park Ji-Sung and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sealed a 4-1 win. Chelsea kicked off later […]

… April Fools! The web was littered with April Fool's stories on Sunday. One concerned Barcelona, which has struggled this season after winning La Liga and the UEFA Champions League in 2006, and the future of its Dutch coach, Frank Rijkaard. The web site goal.comreported Sunday that Barca would replace Rijkaard with Bruce Arena next […]

By Mike Woitalla Executive Editor There were very few people in Mexican soccer who felt Cuauhtemoc Blanco didn't deserve to be on Mexico's 2006 World Cup squad. Unfortunately for Blanco, one of them was Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe, who took a lot of heat for leaving one of the greatest scorers in Mexican history […]