U.S. Olympic gold-medalist Amy Rodriguez scored the first hat trick of her collegiate career when she scored three goals in No. 5 USC’s 7-0 win over Cal State Bakersfield on Thursday. ALSO: North Carolina, Virginia, Florida State and Boston College were Top 25 teams to win ACC games.
Monthly Archives: October 2008
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SCOREBOARD: Soccer America Women’s Top 25
All conferences are in full swing except the Pac-10 and WCC, which conclude non-conference play with several traditional rivalries on Friday: Santa Clara-Stanford, Portland-Washington and UCLA-Pepperdine. For this week’s complete Soccer America Women’s Top 25 …
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INTERVIEW: Michigan’s Peri Marosevic
SOCCER AMERICA interviews Peri Marosevic, one of the top strikers in men’s college soccer. The Michigan junior had an outstanding season for the rising U.S. under-20 national team and has helped the Wolverines get off to a solid start this fall.
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MORNING BRIEFING: UIC remains unbeaten
No. 6 UIC improved to 8-0-2 with a 1-0 victory over over Marquette at Valley Fields on Thursday night. ALSO: Connecticut will be collecting soccer balls for those attending Friday’s sold-out game against West Virginia as part of its support for an organization started in memory of Nick Madaras that collects soccer balls to send to children in Iraq.
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SCOREBOARD: Soccer America Men’s Top 25
The top clash of the weekend is a match between Midwest powers — No. 3 Saint Louis at home against No. 7 Creighton on Saturday. For this week’s complete Soccer America Men’s Top 25 …
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Scheduling vitriol is heating up
The 2008 MLS season is far from over, yet Commissioner Don Garber has already begun lobbying for 2009 to be the Year of the Conflict. Next weekend numerous MLS teams will be again be deprived of players called up to play for their national teams in World Cup qualifiers, and league executives will again jab, duck and parry the inevitable criticisms of teams stripped of important players as the playoff chase intensifies. That’s just a warmup for next year.
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UEFA Cup Results
AC Milan, Sevilla and Tottenham were among the winners as the first round of the UEFA Cup concluded Thursday. For all the results and goal scorers …
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Marseille passes the hat to get home
[OFF THE POST] Players and staff of French club Marseille had to pass the hat and pool their money to pay for the fuel their charter plane needed to get them home from Madrid after their 2-1 loss to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday.
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Onyewu and Friedel advance in Europe
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Oguchi Onyewu won his team’s battle with Tim Howard‘s Everton when Standard Liege beat the Toffees, 2-1, and advanced to the group stage of the UEFA Cup with a 4-3 victory on aggregate.
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Dicey decisions leave MLS playoff hopefuls tied
An unfair decision but perhaps a fair result left both FC Dallas and San Jose wishing they’d done more in their 1-1 tie Thursday night at Pizza Hut Park.
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What They’re Saying
“The one thing I may have going for me that is hard to quantify is that I’ve been a Seattle Sounder since I was 17 years old. The pride that I have in that fact gives them another guarantee that it’s not just a job for me. It’s who I am.”
— Brian Schmetzer, who played on the NASL’s Seattle Sounders, coached the USL-1’s Sounders and is among the candidates for the MLS Sounders FC head coaching job. other candidates are reported to be Columbus Crew coach Sigi Schmid, New England Revolution assistant Paul Mariner and Kansas City technical director Peter Vermes. (Seattle Press-Intelligencer)
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Americans fall again in Brazil
[FUTSAL WORLD CUP] The USA fell to 0-2 at the Futsal World Cup in Brazil when it gave up six unanswered goals and lost to Italy, 6-1.
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‘Unpredictable’ Alvarez A Work In Progress
You may have lost count of the newspaper and internet columns hailing the arrival of English striker Darren Huckerby as the reason for San Jose’s turnaround this season. But Huckerby wasn’t coach Frank Yallop’s only signing. Midfielder Arturo Alvarez, who played for Yallop in the Quakes’ earlier MLS incarnation, has also made a huge difference […]
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Jimmy Conrad Likes The Cribs
“I’ve been listening to and have been enjoying their latest effort, Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever, so I’ll throw them on the list as the last record I’ve purchased.” Guest blogger and Kansas City defender Jimmy Conrad is a fan of U.K. band The Cribs, from the glorious town of Wakefield in Yorkshire. Not a […]
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Why Celtic Always Loses Away In Europe
“It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that the only thing preventing Celtic and their ilk winning more often on their travels are simple human frailties: insecurity and fear.” Barry Glendenning searches for clues to solve the mystery of Glasgow Celtic’s terrible Champions League road form.
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Eight Potential Buyers For Newcastle
“I know for a fact [Newcastle owner] Mike [Ashley] is talking to eight consortiums about [buying] the club,” says Newcastle’s interim manager Joe Kinnear.
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Get Marta!
Austin Kelley hopes that the still nameless L.A. team set to compete in Women’s Professional Soccer next year will pull out all the stops to sign Brazilian Marta, after winning the somewhat flimsy right to try and negotiate a deal with the player in the league’s ‘international draft’ last week. “Start the bidding war,” writes […]
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Zenit Refutes Bribery Allegations
In other alleged bribery news, Zenit St .Petersburg has denied allegations that it paid Bayern Munich to throw last season’s UEFA Cup semifinal. Spanish newspapers El Pais and ABC reported that a leading Spanish judge has heard a taped telephone conversation in which Russian criminal Gennadios Petrov claimed to have paid the German team “vast […]
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English FA Turned Down World Cup Bribes
The tell-all memoir of David Davies, the former executive director of the English Football Association, continues to leak its pre-publication scoops to the U.K. media. The latest revelation is that the FA was offered the chance to buy votes while bidding for the 2006 World Cup. The call to the FA offering to set […]
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Montreal’s Philosophy: Work Hard And Believe
Montreal Impact coach John Limniatis explained his team’s incredible 2-1 Concacaf Champions League away victory at Olimpia of Honduras with simple words. He said the win, which came in the middle of a seven-game stretch in 15 days, was a result of industry and self-belief. This is in stark contrast to the attitude of at […]
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MORNING BRIEFING: Freshman leads Michigan State
With 12 goals in 11 games, freshman Laura Heyboer has been a big reason why Michigan State is 10-1-0 and ranked No. 20 in the country.
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MORNING BRIEFING: Notre Dame falls to Michigan
Michigan again showed why it is one of the most dangerous teams in the country as the unranked Wolverines defeated No. 14 Notre Dame, 3-1, Wednesday afternoon in a game played at Eastern Michigan University’s Scicluna Field. ALSO: Wins for Wake Forest, Creighton, Ohio State and Loyola (Md.) and ties in a pair of major West Coast showdowns.
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SCOREBOARD: Soccer America Women’s Top 25
The two top-ranked ACC teams meet in the NSCAA Women’s Game of the Week Thursday when No. 9 Duke hosts No. 6 North Carolina. For this week’s complete Soccer America Women’s Top 25 …
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SCOREBOARD: Soccer America Men’s Top 25
No. 1 Wake Forest improved to 9-0-0 with a 3-0 win over Elon. For this week’s complete Soccer America Men’s Top 25 …
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INTERVIEW: Notre Dame’s Kerri Hanks
SOCCER AMERICA interviews top-ranked Notre Dame’s Kerri Hanks, who will go down as one of the great strikers in the history of women’s college soccer. The 2006 Hermann Trophy winner ranks 17th in NCAA Division I history with 208 points (74 goals and 60 assists). She says the Irish are finding ways to finish early and late, making them a favorite to return to the Women’s College Cup.