Several pundits have noted that Landon Donovan’s name seems to draw all kinds of reactions from American soccer fans. Many of these are equally ambivalent about the 25-year-old striker, who last week won an unprecedented fourth Honda U.S. Player of the Year award, but most, if not all, would begrudgingly accept that Donovan is the […]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
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Klinsmann Turns Down Coaching Jobs
U.S. soccer fans will recognize the attitude displayed by former Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann in a recent interview with the London Times. The Southern California resident makes it abundantly clear that he isn’t going to work on anyone’s terms but his own. Last April, then-Portsmouth football directorAvram Grant traveled to Klinsmann’s California home to try […]
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Larkin’s Log
[MAKING A LIST] At 10-0-2, No. 15 BYU has the best winning percentage of any team in NCAA Division I women’s soccer. The Cougars have only scored 14 goals in their 12 games, but they have dependable Katie Larkin to thank for much of their success. The junior from Draper, Utah, has scored 10 goals, nine of them game-winners. Remarkably, eight of the nine wins were decided by one goal.
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Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week
Sophomore midfielder Michelle Makasini, who scored three goals to lead the LSU to a 3-0 victory over No. 7 Tennessee on Friday night and a 1-1 draw with No. 18 Georgia on Sunday afternoon, is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week for games played Oct. 1-7.
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Soccer America Women’s Team of the Week
Canadian World Cup players Diane Matheson, who had the goal or assist on seven of eight goals scored by Princeton players in a pair of big wins, and Sophie Schmidt, who scored two goals in her debut as a forward off the bench for Portland in a 4-0 win over Oregon, were among the players named to the Soccer America Women’s Team of the Week for games played Oct. 1-7.
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Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week
UC Santa Barbara junior Chris Pontius, who scored four of five Gaucho goals in a pair of wins, is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week for games played Oct. 1-7.
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Soccer America Men’s Team of the Week
Alejandro Bedoya (Boston College), Robert Edmans (Virginia Tech) and O’Brian White (Connecticut) make their second appearances this season on the Soccer America Men’s Team of the Week. They were selected to the team of the week for games played Oct. 1-7.
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OBITUARY: Cal State Northridge’s Jay Singh (1987-2007)
Jay Singh, a 20-year-old junior whose coach called him “Beckham” for the way he could strike a ball, died unexpectedly Sunday night at his home in San Bruno, Calif. Singh was redshirting at Cal State Northridge after transferring from Loyola Marymount. According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the cause of death is still under investigation and results of an autopsy done on Monday would not be known for several weeks.
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Will Armas stay or go?
Galaxy midfielder Cobi Jones isn’t the only MLS original reconsidering his announcement to retire. Chris Armas, a former teammate of Jones in Los Angeles, has played the last 10 seasons with Chicago and might try to squeeze out one more. Maybe.
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Stoitchkov picks win to say goodbye to Celta
Less than six months after quitting as Bulgaria’s national team coach to charge of Spanish club Celta, Hristo Stoitchkov has left the Vigo club.
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World Cup qualifying kicks off in Asia with revenge match
The United Arab Emirates gained revenge for its loss to Vietnam in the quarterfinals of this summer’s Asian Cup with a 1-0 win on the road Monday in the first leg of their first-round World Cup 2010 qualifying series, the first step in Asian qualifying for the South Africa finals. The only other team to lose its home leg was Palestine, a 4-0 loser to Singapore.
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U.S. U-17s dominate at Development Academy’s Fall Showcase
[VIDEO] The U.S. Soccer Development Academy’s Fall Showcase Weekend wrapped up on Monday at The Home Depot Center, where the U.S. U-17s ’90/91 team defeated the U-18 Richmond Kickers, 1-0, and the U.S. U-17 ’92 team beat the Kickers’ U-16s, 7-0. Jack McInerney led the ’92 team with a hat trick, and Stefan Jerome added two goals. The U.S. U-17 teams both swept both games at the Fall Showcase. The De Anza Force of Northern California was the only club to sweep all four games. Other teams to sweep both games were the La Jolla Nomads, Schulz Academy, Kendall Soccer Alliance and Crossfire Premier (U-16s) and San Diego Surf (U-18s). No club left Carson without at least a point for one of its two teams.
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What They’re Saying
“Personally, I’m not ashamed because I see how in a short time they have made very good progress, because I have taken them away from their women, from their wives. We went to the [training] base, because women in soccer are a scourge. They do not understand that men need to work, that they have a hard job to do.”
— Dynamo Kiev coach Josef Sabo, upon being asked by a female reporter if his team’s poor early-season performances as defending champion were shameful. (Reuters)
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OFF THE POST: ‘He’s clocked him one in the jewels’
[VIDEO] Midfielder Joel Griffiths of Australian club Newcastle United Jets escaped with a yellow card for striking a linesman in a manner that one TV commentator described with “He’s clocked him one in the jewels” and another called a “short jab in the nether regions.”
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Phenoms included in U.S. U-18 squad for France trip
[ROSTER] Coach Thomas Rongen will be taking the U.S. under-18 national team to France Oct. 27-Nov. 4 as preparations begin to build a team for 2009 Under-20 World Cup qualifying. While the nucleus of the team consists of players who competed at the recent Under-17 World Cup in South Korea, Rongen selected several young phenoms.
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Soccer On TV
The Copa Sudamericana quarterfinals kick off on Wednesday. Thursday night’s ESPN2 MLS game pits FC Dallas against Chivas USA. European Championship qualifying continues this weekend, which is also when South American World Cup qualifying kicks off. South American qualifying games will be broadcast by Gol TV and are available pay-per-view on DishNetwork. Click HERE for info on DishNetwork packages.
(All times Eastern unless noted. TV programming is always subject to change. Check your local listings and soccerTV.com)
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Poor Form Leaves Liverpool Manager, Captain Bemused
A bad week at Anfield was almost made worse on Sunday but for a last-minute equalizer from Fernando Torres against Tottenham. Earlier in the week, Liverpool fell 1-0 at home to Marseille in the Champions League; the Reds were on their way to another Anfield loss before $54 million man Torres headed home in the […]
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Messi Wins Battle of Maradonas
In Spain, a few themes seem to be emerging: Real Madrid will continue to grind out results, Sevilla is not the team it was last season, and both Valencia and Villarreal still flatter to deceive. Barcelona, meanwhile, is very much the team to beat as the unstoppable Leo Messi continues to orchestrate win after win […]
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Shevchenko Still Second-String at Chelsea
You can’t imagine that Andriy Shevchenko shed too many tears when Jose Mourinho departed Stamford Bridge, but if the last two matches are any indication, new manager Avram Grant rates the Ukrainian striker even lower than Mourinho. Sheva didn’t feature at all in the Champions League match against Valencia in midweek and was fourth-choice striker […]
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Young American Smith Looks Forward
Had it not been for an ill-timed ankle sprain, Johann Smith might have become a household name this summer along with the other stars of the U.S. team that reached the quarterfinals of the U-20 World Cup in Canada. As Coach Thomas Rongen tells ESPN, Smith “would have played a very important role with us” […]
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World Cup players come to Portland’s rescue
Portland women’s team got a much-needed boost from World Cup veterans Stephanie Lopez and Sophie Schmidt and rolled past Oregon, 4-0, on the road Friday night. Lopez, the starting left back for the U.S. national team in China, made her 2007 debut for the Pilots and recorded an assist, while Schmidt scored two goals in her first appearance as a forward at the collegiate level.
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Wild night in ACC country
Friday’s three men’s conference games proved why the ACC is considered the most exciting conference in the country. Virginia Tech-Wake Forest, Duke-Boston College and Maryland-Clemson produced 17 goals, dramatic comebacks and great action.
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CROWD COUNT: Men’s Soccer’s 20 Largest Crowds
Of the seven men’s crowds in excess of 3,000 over the weekend, three rank among this year’s 20 largest crowds. Creighton and Connecticut lead all schools with three crowds among the 20 largest. Ten different schools account for the top 10 crowds.
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Soccer America Men’s Top 25 Weekend Results
Four Top 10 men’s teams improved their positions with two wins on the week: Connecticut, Notre Dame, Santa Clara and SMU. For complete Top 25 weekend results and goalscorers …
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Soccer America Men’s Top 25
Connecticut climbs ahead of Wake Forest into the top spot in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25. Notre Dame and Virginia stay at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, while Boston College moves into the No. 5 spot. For the complete Men’s Top 25 …