Monthly Archives: April 2008

SoccerTimes’ Robert Wagman hits out at comments made by MLS Commissioner Don Garber in a recent Soccer America report. After watching D.C. lose 2-0 to Pachuca in Mexico, Garber said, “Boy, we’ve got to do better. For this league to win over the core audience, we’ve got to be able to be among the best […]

Reading goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann is heavyhearted about this weekend’s match-up against Fulham FC. The Cottagers, Hahnemann’s former team and the current employer of five of his American compatriots, are teetering on the brink of relegation; defeat would almost certainly send them down. Reading is also hovering near the relegation zone, and will be looking to […]

Three of the six Cuban players who defected to the U.S. last month have been given a tryout with the Los Angeles Galaxy, the L.A. Times Grahame L. Jones reports. Jose Manuel Miranda, Yenier Bermudez and Yordany Alvarez were members of the Cuba U-23 team that saw six players and one assistant coach defect while […]

Reports all over the place are claiming that Ronaldinho’s transfer to AC Milan is an all but done deal. Spanish paper El Mundo Deportivo reported that the Barcelona playmaker would sign with Milan for about $47.4 million, after the two sides reached what Bloomberg News described as an “outline agreement” for the player’s transfer when […]

Goal.com’s Pat Walsh tries to look on the bright side of D.C. United and the Houston Dynamo’s failure to advance to the Champions Cup semifinals. He says that American teams are no longer the embarrassment they used to be in international competitions. “Gone are the days where American sides are dispatched in the way that […]

There’s something oddly familiar about this year’s Champions League semifinal lineup: it looks a lot like last year’s. Three of four teams are English, the same three teams that featured at this stage last year. One of the matchups is exactly the same, and has been now for three of the last four years. UEFA […]

Despite being soundly beaten, 3-0, on aggregate over two legs, AS Roma coach Luciano Spalletti believes that Manchester United was superior to his team only in its finishing. “I didn’t see United create much more than we did over the two legs,” Spalletti told reporters of Roma’s Champions League quarterfinal defeat, adding that overall, Roma […]

The U.S. national team moved up seven spots in FIFA's World Rankings to 21, thanks to that impressive 3-0 win over Poland in Krakow last month. The loss set the Poles back four places to No. 28. This is the highest the U.S. men have been ranked since coming in at No. 20 last December. […]

It wasn’t particularly surprising that D.C. United and the Houston Dynamo failed to advance to the Champions Cup final, given the huge hole these teams dug for themselves in their first-leg matches, but “at least United can rightly claim to have made a game of it,” says ESPN’s Jeff Carlisle. Indeed, it was a little […]