Tom Carlin (Villanona), Gareth Elliott (Siena) and Ralph Polson (Wofford) landed NCAA Division I men’s head coaching positions. On the women’s side, Hershey Strosberg (Virginia assistant) was named Clemson’s new head coach, and Ball State head coach Michelle Salmon filled the Cincinnati vacancy. For all the coaching moves …
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
Collegians attend under-23 women’s camp
Five first-team members of the 2007 Soccer America MVPs head the players called into the first-ever U.S. under-23 women’s camp being held this week at the Home Depot Center.
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Yamaguchi takes Women’s Hermann Trophy
Florida State’s Mami Yamaguchi won the 2007 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy, edging UCLA’s Lauren Cheney and Texas A&M’s Ashlee Pistorius.<
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UConn’s White wins Hermann Trophy
Connecticut’s O’Brian White became only the second who had not previously resided in the United States before entering college to win the Men’s Hermann Trophy.
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
Division II Concord adds men’s soccer
Concord University is adding men’s soccer and women’s golf, starting next fall. CU women’s soccer coach Steve Barrett will take the reigns of the fledgling men’s program.
Posted inCollege Soccer Reporter, Story
Soccer Job Openings
[EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES] Soccer America provides the latest on employment opportunities for soccer-related positions: college coaching opportunities, positions in the pros, youth soccer, the soccer industry, even television.
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Team-by-team MLS SuperDraft Preview
Ridge Mahoney on the MLS SuperDraft
How can MLS teams give themselves a boost from Friday’s draft? Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney provides analyses of each club’s needs, their options and the possible moves they might make before the SuperDraft Friday in Baltimore. Here are the teams listed in reverse order of their regular-season finish in 2007, starting with the expansion Quakes, which Tuesday traded the top pick to Kansas City in exchange for defender Nick Garcia.
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
MLS Offseason Player Moves
The Kansas City Wizards continued to clean out their backline when they dealt Jose Burciaga to Colorado for a second-round pick in the 2009 SuperDraft. The trade follows the deal that sent Nick Garcia to San Jose for the No. 1 pick in Friday’s SuperDraft. For all the team-by-team MLS offseason player moves …
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Giants fall in domestic cup competitions
[EUROPE] It was a bad night for European powerhouses in domestic cup competitions.
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
Sixth tier Havant & Waterlooville hits jackpot
[ENGLAND] Havant & Waterlooville, which plays in the sixth level of English soccer, won Wednesday’s English FA Cup third-round replay with a 4-2 win over League One (third division) leader Swansea City to set up a date in the fourth round at Liverpool that could earn it $2 million in revenues
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Sundhage delighted with U.S. showing in debut match
[REACTION] Pia Sundhage‘s reign as U.S. women’s national team coach began with an emphatic 4-0 victory over Canada Wednesday at the Four Nations Tournament in Guangzhou, China. The Swede was delighted with the USA’s new attacking look, in particular the play of USC’s Amy Rodriguez, who scored twice in her first start.
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U.S. U-20 preparations kick off with mega-camp
[U.S. YOUTH ROSTERS] A new cycle for the U.S. under-20 national team begins Thursday in Bradenton, Fla., with the start of a mega-camp for players born in 1990. They will be joined on Sunday by 16 players — including Generation adidas signees Josh Lambo and Brek Shea — who will form the core of the team U-20 head coach Thomas Rongen is taking to the Copa Chivas that begins next week in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Posted inSoccer America Daily, What They're Saying
What They’re Saying
“I got him a pair as a present, and he took a picture and sent it back to me, and I was like, ‘They look cool!’… We are talking about making a slipper together. So when I stop rapping and he stops soccer we can kick back and slip on a house shoe.”
— Rapper Snoop Dogg announces plans to design house shoes with pal David Beckham. (MTV UK)
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Fulham’s Americans Fighting Relegation
Even without Kansas City forward Eddie Johnson, who’s currently negotiating a transfer to the club, Fulham FC of the English Premiership is recognized across the world for its considerable American contingent. Former U.S. international Brian McBride is the club’s captain, while current U.S. internationals Clint Dempsey, the club’s leading scorer with six goals, and Carlos […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Newcastle Appoints Keegan as Coach
Newcastle United ended its long search for a successor to Sam Allardyce on Wednesday by reinstating former manager Kevin Keegan in the role he occupied from 1992-1997. During that time, Keegan drove the club to promotion from the English First Division in 1993, progressing all the way to the runner-up slot in the 1995-96 EPL […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Red Bull Should Jump at Zidane Opportunity
Zidane rumors are flying across the Web again, and a hopeful Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports says that the time is now for MLS to find out exactly what the three-time World Player of the Year meant when he told French magazine L’Equipe: “I have no goal but coming back into football… Then, in which […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
Real Top of the Class
Say what you want about Real Madrid’s first half of the La Liga season, but the Merengues’ sensational tally of 47 points from 19 games is still a record. It’s also a considerably better situation than Real found itself in under Fabio Capello at this stage last year. As ESPN’s Phil Ball says, “the brave […]
Posted inSection 2 Around the Net, Story
U.S. Set to Lose Rossi Forever
It looks like U.S. Soccer has lost the battle to get Italian American Giuseppe Rossi to play for the Red, White and Blue. The Villarreal striker turns 21 on Feb. 1, at which point he will have to choose between playing for World Champion Italy or the U.S., the country where he was born. U.S. […]
Posted inSoccer America Daily, Story
‘New’ Wizards taking shape
[MLS WATCH] Whether it improves or plummets from how it performed last season (11-12-7), Kansas City won’t be the same. Two days after striker Eddie Johnson left the U.S. training camp in Southern California to talk contract with English Premier League club Fulham came the announcement of Nick Garcia‘s departure. The team’s all-time leader in appearances is bound for San Jose in exchange for the No. 1 pick in the MLS SuperDraft. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney examines the trade. …
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Why Ruud likes Ruiz
[MLS WATCH] They’ve squared off against each other for club and country, and circumstances swept one out of town to make room for the other. Now Landon Donovan and Carlos Ruiz, catalysts and protagonists in many a soccer drama, are teammates.
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Who will be No. 1 draft pick?
Ridge Mahoney on the MLS Draft
Play at the MLS Combine in Ft. Lauderdale provided further clues on which players will be coveted during the MLS SuperDraft on Friday in Baltimore. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney takes a position-by-position look at the top candidates to break into MLS …
Posted inSoccer America Daily, What They're Saying
What They’re Saying
“This is open-heart surgery. We’re hemorrhaging.”
— Martin Stringer, coach at Santa Ana Mater Dei in Southern California, where high schools are losing star players to elite clubs competing in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. (Los Angeles Times)
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2008 MLS SuperDraft Order
The Kansas City Wizards now hold (for now) the top pick in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft, which will be held next Friday at the NSCAA Convention in Baltimore (TV: ESPN2, 2 pm ET).
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U.S. Soccer Development Academy Results
U.S. Soccer Development Academy play in Southern California resumed last Saturday when Pateadores beat the Irvine Strikers, 3-2, in the U-15/16 age group. In the highlight of a busy weekend of action in the Mid-Atlantic, CASL won both games at the Richmond Kickers and Richmond Strikers in U-15/16 play. For all the results and goal scorers …
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Soccer Job Openings
[EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES] Soccer America provides the latest on employment opportunities for soccer-related positions: college coaching opportunities, positions in the pros, youth soccer, the soccer industry, even television.