[NAIA MEN] No. 17 seed MidAmerica Nazarene, No. 18 Mid-Continent and No. 19 Embry-Riddle all pulled upsets Wednesday on the opening day of the NAIA Men’s National Championships in Olathe, Kan. Play continues Thursday with Wednesday’s four winners taking on the top four seeds. For all the results and goal scorers …
Monthly Archives: November 2007
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McKendree and Southern Nazarene pull upsets in first round
[NAIA WOMEN] The NAIA Women’s National Championships produced two upsets on the first day of play. No. 17 McKendree and No. 18 Southern Nazarene both advanced to Thursday’s second round with wins over higher seeds. Host Embry-Riddle, the No. 20 seed in the 20-team field, fell to Kansas Wesleyan, 2-0. For all the results and goal scorers …
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TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: Men’s Soccer
America East top seeds Binghamton and Vermont moved into Saturday’s final with wins on Wednesday. Campbell (Big South) and Niagara and Siena (MAAC) all lit it up for six goals in first-round victories. For all Wednesday’s tournament results and goalscorers and Thursday’s schedules …
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NJCAA Division I Men’s Preview
The NJCAA Division I Men’s National Championships begin Thursday and continue through Sunday in Tyler, Texas. Defending champion Jefferson is joined by traditional powerhouses Mercer County, Yavapai and Georgia Perimeter, the No. 1 seed, and resurgent CCBC Essex in the eight-team field. This year’s surprise is Iowa’s Marshalltown featuring Grenadian scoring sensation Arkenson Neckels, who set a JC national record with 13 goals in one game this season. For a breakdown of the quarterfinal matchups …
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2007 WCC Women’s Awards
WCC champion Portland swept this year’s conference individual awards. Angie Woznuk was the sixth UP player to be selected as the WCC Player of the Year in the last 15 years, while fellow senior Stephanie Lopez garnered WCC Defensive Player of the Year honors for the second time in her career. Keelin Winters was named the Freshman of the Year, while Pilot head coach Garrett Smith was selected as the Coach of the Year for the second time.
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OFF THE POST: Slot scheme to fund Hungarian soccer
Two Hungarian businessman are hoping to revive Hungarian soccer by raising money for youth soccer with slot-machine earnings. Lajos Marton and Gabor Csendes have started installing hundreds of soccer-themed slot machines in bars around the country.
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Strike threatens World Cup stadium construction
Construction workers in South Africa are threatening to stop work at stadiums being built for the 2010 World Cup over a wage dispute at the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban.
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Mexico’s Club America in Copa Sudamericana final
Mexico’s Club America beat Colombia’s Millonarios, 2-0, with two goals by Uruguayan Hernan Lopez in the second leg of the Copa Sudamericana semifinal for a 5-2 aggregate win that sets up a final clash with Argentina’s Arsenal, which downed River Plate on penalty kicks after both legs ended in scoreless ties. Club America aims to become the second Mexican team to win the competition in its six-year history. Pachuca’s won the title last year.
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What They’re Saying
“We’re the English Premier League, yet the majority of the teams at the top of the Premiership have very few English players.”
— Reading coach Steve Coppell, who is advocating a limit on foreign players in the English Premier League, a sentiment seconded by England captain Steven Gerrard, who said, “Something has got to happen otherwise there will be more and more foreigners and they will take over.” (Reuters)
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Free transport to MLS Cup for Revs fans
The Kraft Family, investor/operators of the New England Revolution, are providing free round-trip bus transportation for Revs fans to the Sunday’s MLS final in Washington, D.C.
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Revs’ varied midfield could strain Dynamo
[MLS CUP PREVIEW] In the second installment of our stories setting up the MLS championship game between New England and Houston at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney looks at the midfield matchup.
Big games, like cup finals and most other matches as well, are won and lost in the middle of the field. Yet mano-a-mano skirmishes are just one facet of the overall battle, so the duels of Dynamo Dwayne De Rosario and Rev Shalrie Joseph will be fascinating but not necessarily definitive as to which team wins.
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2007 ODP Thanksgiving Interregional Girls Rosters
The following are the regional girls teams in the 1991, 1992 and 1993 age groups for the U.S. Youth Soccer ODP Girls Thanksgiving Interregionals scheduled to begin Saturday at the North Community Park and Coral Glades High School Sportsplex in Coral Springs, Fla. National teams from the United States, Canada and Chile are also participating to provide the 1991 US Youth Soccer ODP teams with international experience.
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All Eyes on Adu, Altidore This Weekend
“It can get no more thrilling for youth than this,” says Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune. Freddy Adu and Jozy Altidore, who forged a sensational pairing at the FIFA U20 World Cup last summer, have together been called up to the senior national team for the first time. Adu’s path to a third […]
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Hiddink: England Doesn’t Deserve to Qualify
England stands on the brink of elimination from European Championship qualifying, but Russia still needs to come away from Israel with a win on Saturday. Regardless, Russia coach Guus Hiddink says that Steve McClaren’s Lions don’t deserve to qualify for the finals in Austria and Switzerland. “If we analyze this group and the teams, then […]
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Angel Snubbed Again by Colombia
Colombia coach Jorge Luis Pinto made it clear that New York Red Bulls forward Juan Pablo Angel was on his radar for 2010 World Cup qualifying. Well, if 19 goals in 24 games isn’t good enough for him to earn a call-up, then what is? That Angel has been left off the Colombia squad is […]
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Same Old Story for the Red Bulls
A quick look back at New York’s MLS past reveals that history keeps repeating itself. First, a big-name coach is brought in, then promises are made about the team reaching the MLS Cup final, and finally, when that doesn’t happen, the coach is either fired or mutually agrees to leave. Then the process starts all […]
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MLS Final is Far From Sexy
Soccer columnist Paul Gardner certainly hopes that the introduction of Ruud Gullit as L.A. Galaxy coach means that so-called “sexy football,” a phrase coined by Gullit himself, is on its way to MLS next season. If sexy soccer is exciting, attack-minded play that’s easy on the eye, then Gardner says the band played by the […]
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Soccer’s Little Secret
52% of the soccer player market is female…but unisex sizing is still the norm.
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Drew Does Seattle
He’s shot pictures from the sidelines of many U.S. national team games. He pondered being part of a Cleveland MLS expansion franchise before that attempt withered. He played a drag-out video-game duel with Landon Donovan to raise money for a worthy soccer cause. Finally, Drew Carey has put his money where his heart is. He’s a minority partner in the expansion MLS Seattle franchise scheduled to start play in 2009.
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PLAYERS TO WATCH: NAIA Men’s National Championship
Steven Lenhart. Nathaniel Jafta. Amaury Nunes. Never heard of them? They are among the NAIA stars who will be on display at the 20-team Men’s National Championship, which kicks off Wednesday in Olathe, Kan., with four first-round games.
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NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament Schedule
Play begins this weekend with first- and second-round games in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. All games are Friday-Saturday except in the Texas A&M regional, which will play Thursday-Saturday. BYU, one of four teams in the regional, doesn’t play on Sundays. For all the matchups …
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2007 NCAA Division II Men’s Conference Awards
Englishmen David Clifton of Franklin Pierce and Jonathan Maloney of Montevallo, Senegalese Ahmadoul Gaye of defending national champion Dowling, Brazilian Leandro Pereira of Lincoln Memorial and Bosnian-born Berin Boracic give NCAA Division II men’s soccer an international flavor. All represent teams who have advanced to the NCAA Division II and all were honored as conference players of the year. For all the award winners …
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2007 Big East Women’s Awards
Georgetown and Connecticut each had a pair of major award winners in Big East women’s soccer. For all the individual awards and all-conference teams …
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Projected 48-team NCAA Division I men’s field (2)
Five teams — Brown, California Ohio State, Santa Clara and defending national champion UC Santa Barbara — have clinched automatic berths in the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament, and 43 spots remain up for grabs with one week left in the regular season. With the new RPI index as a guide, here’s an updated look at the 48 teams that might make the NCAA Tournament.
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UCSB’s comeback kids do it again
[BIG WEST MEN] Defending national champion UC Santa Barbara again looks to be a serious postseason threat. The Gauchos wrapped up the Big West championship and an automatic berth in the 2007 NCAA Men’s Tournament with a 3-2 comeback win at Cal State Northridge on Tuesday.