[HIGH SCHOOL RANKINGS] Greenville (S.C.) High School and Apex (N.C.) High School are the top ranked boys and girls teams in the latest NSCAA/adidas High School Spring Rankings.
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Mexico’s Club America battles on two fronts
[TV PREVIEW] It will be a busy week for Mexican giant Club America. It began Tuesday night in Santiago, Chile, where the Eagles fell to Colo Colo, 2-1, in the second leg of their Libertadores Cup series but moved into the quarterfinals with a 4-2 aggregate win. America returns home for two games in the quarterfinals of Mexico’s Torneo Clausura.
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Schellscheidt calls in 36 players for U-14 program
[U.S. U-14 BOYS ROSTER] Head coach Manny Schellscheidt has called in 36 players for the U.S. under-14 boys national development program May 12-19 at U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center at The Home Depot Center.
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U.S. U-15 girls head to Home Depot Center
[U.S. U-15 GIRLS ROSTER] U.S. U-15 girls head coach Tad Bobak has called in 24 players, all born in 1992, as the youngest of the USA’s five youth national teams holds a camp May 19-25 at the Home Depot Center.
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Valdano Attacks Mourinho, Benitez Tactics
Jorge Valdano, a legend with Real Madrid and Argentina, has launched a scathing attack directed at Liverpool’s Rafael Benitez and Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho, who are “ruining” soccer in his opinion. In a column appearing in the Madrid daily La Marca, the former World Cup winner accuses both managers of mistrusting talent because of their own […]
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Time to Name Bradley U.S. Coach
“Time’s up Mr. Gulati!” exclaims Paul Gardner in his latest New York Sun column. And he’s right: it’s May already, the month when U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati said he would make a decision as to who will coach the U.S. national team-presumably through South Africa 2010. It’s a decision that “has been delayed […]
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EPL Sues Google for YouTube Infringement
The English Premier League, the most prominent and powerful league in world soccer, headed a list of plaintiffs that filed suit against Google’s YouTube last Friday for copyright infringement. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the EPL and music publisher Bourne Co. jointly sued the online video provider, […]
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The EPL’s Top 10 Worst Signings
ESPN Soccernet’s Norman Hubbard compiles a list of the top 10 worst transfers in the English Premier League this season. It betrays little suspense to cut right to the chase: Hubbard rates Chelsea’s Andriy Shevchenko the worst transfer of the 2006-2007 season. It’s true, four goals and six assists for $60 million is a terrible […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
MLS Players Union Looks for DP Windfall
Do rising tides lift all boats? It depends: if you’re talking about Major League Soccer and the mean rise in player salaries, this has been brought on by a handful of players signed under the new designated player rule, most notably David Beckham, who’s base annual salary is $5.5 million for the five years he’s […]
Posted inSoccer America Magazine, Story
Tapping Into a Gold Mine
Major League Soccer is finding ways and means to exploit the rapidly growing Hispanic sports marketplace while it steadily grows and improves its own product.
Two years ago, a pair of international soccer games were played simultaneously in Southern California. Staged less than 30 miles apart they, in effect, took place on different worlds, so vastly different were the cultures they attracted and the atmosphere they generated.
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Chivas USA Project, Year 3
The departures of head coach Bob Bradley, striker Francisco Palencia and midfielder Juan Pablo Garcia aren’t the only changes at Chivas USA. The club is reaching deeper into the Mexican-American community with programs and promotions as it strives for greater success on the field.
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The Latino Equation
How far has American soccer come in providing opportunities for young Latino players?
Financially, it’s a struggle,” says Paul Walker, the founder and president of Southern California youth club Barcelona USA. “But I come from the point of view of being the underdog. I don’t know why, it’s just the way I grew up. I took on all challenges.”
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U.S. Talent Heads South
Mexican pro clubs and Mexico’s national team program have started plucking talent from the USA.
Edgar Castillo is 20 years old and he just bought a house. A year ago, he made his Mexican First Division debut with Santos Laguna. This season, he starts at left back.
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MLS STATS: Standings, top scorers, attendance & scoring average
MLS STATISTICS (through May 6) STANDINGS Eastern Conference Team W-L-T PTS Kansas City 4-1-0 12 New England 3-1-2 11 New York 3-0-2 11 Chicago 3-1-1 10 Columbus 1-1-3 6 D.C. United 1-3-1 4 Toronto FC 0-4-0 0 Western Conference Team W-L-T PTS Houston 2-2-1 7 Colorado 2-2-1 7 FC Dallas 2-3-1 7 Chivas USA 2-3-0 […]
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MLS Golazos
[VIDEO] Goals by Dwayne DeRosario, Jose Burciaga, Jeff Larentowicz, Christian Gomez and Chris Brown are this week’s MLS Sierra Mist Goal of the Week candidates.
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AMERICANS ABROAD: Bradley, Castillo in playoffs
In the Netherlands, Heerenveen (Michael Bradley) finished in fifth place, which is good enough for a UEFA Cup spot but also puts it into the playoffs for Champions League qualification. Heerenveen faces Ajax Amsterdam in the first-leg of the semifinal qualifying playoffs on Wednesday. In Denmark, Nat Borchers scored in Odd Grenland’s 2-1 loss to Viking. In Mexico, Edgar Castillo and Santos Laguna’s first-leg quarterfinal game against Pachuca will be televised on Azteca America at 7 pm ET. Last weekend in Chile, Chase Hilgenbrinck was named man of the match for his 90 minute effort for Nublense in its 1-1 tie with Cobresal.
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Beckham, Blanco, Angel & Reyna are top earners
The MLS Players Union’s publication of the league’s players’ salaries for the 2007 season reveals that after Englishman David Beckham‘s $6.5 million in guaranteed annual income, the league’s top earners are Chicago’s Mexican forward Cuauhtemoc Blanco $2.7 million, New York’s Colombian forward Juan Pablo Angel $1.6 million, and New York’s Claudio Reyna, who is the highest paid American in the league at $1.25 million.
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"The reason that we published the numbers was the hope that it creates upward pressure on salaries. We hope Beckham can create that upward pressure. I don’t want to overstate the influence of one player but it helps. Average salaries have been increasing in the past year."
— Bob Foose, the executive director of the MLS Players Union, which has made public the MLS players’ salaries. David Beckham, at $6.5 million per year in guaranteed income, is tops, earning is more than 50 times the average for the league. (Reuters)
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Loss drops Charlton from English Premier League
Charlton became the second team from the Premier League to be relegated after losing, 2-0, at home to Tottenham on Monday. Bulgarian forward Dimitar Berbatov and Jermain Defoe scored for Spurs.
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Ex-MLS player Francisco Gomez leads Bakersfield
[PDL RESULTS] The Bakersfield Brigade and Ventura County Fusion are the only teams to go 2-0-0 after two weeks of play in the Premier Development League.
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U.S. U-15 boys go 2-1-1 in Argentina
The U.S. under-15 boys national team went 2-1-1 during its stay in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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U.S. U-20 women kick off England tour
[U.S. U-20 WOMEN’S ROSTER] The U.S. under-20 women’s national team begins its three-game tour of England on Tuesday with a game against the Everton Ladies.
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OFF THE POST: Peace beats War in shootout
Peace took an early lead but War recovered in the second leg to force a penalty-kick tiebreaker in which Peace prevailed to lift the Tolstoy Cup in England last weekend. The clash between Bradford University’s Peace Studies and Kings College’s War Studies FC included undergraduates, MA and PhD students from the two institutions. “There was no love lost on the field,” said Peace FC player/coach Adam Baird, a PhD student.
Posted inSoccer America Confidential, Story
Ref Watch
If the MLS disciplinary committee can review incidents like Andy Herron‘s elbow into Jay Heaps‘ face and Sacha Kljestan‘s tackle from behind on Andy Williams and mete out fines and suspensions after the fact, why can’t red cards like the one Terry Vaughn handed out to Shalrie Joseph in last week’s Revs-D.C. game be reviewed and perhaps rescinded?
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Draw is a Win for RSL, a Loss for NYRB
What felt like a win for Real Salt Lake certainly felt like a loss for the New York Red Bulls, which dominated Saturday’s affair at Rice-Eccles Stadium for 88 minutes before conceding two goals in the final minutes, reducing a certain win to a 3-3 draw. Before then, Bulls General Claudio Reyna controlled midfield with […]