Monthly Archives: March 2009

Despite the fact they have yet to play an official game as part of Major League Soccer, Seattle co-owner Drew Carey will not let you refer to his Sounders as an expansion team. And when you think about it, they really aren’t, what with their multiple championship-winning coach, league-high season ticket-holding fan base, state-of-the-art stadium […]

MLS and its Commissioner Don Garber have come a long way in 10 years, writes Sport Business Journal’s Tripp Mickle, who reminds us that when Garber was named to the league’s top post in 1999, “the soccer press didn’t think he would last 10 months. He had no soccer background, attendance was in decline, two […]

Not wanting a replay of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup in which Costa Rica had three players ejected in a hotly contested match against Mexico, officials from the Costa Rican soccer federation (Fedefutbol) are up in arms over the appointment of U.S. referee Terry Vaughn for the upcoming World Cup qualifier on March 28 in […]

“I believe Liverpool have been the best team in Europe for the last five years. We have beaten Real Madrid and Manchester United in the same week — if we can beat them, we can beat anybody.” Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, feeling confident (as he should be) after decisive win and four-goal outputs against La […]

“I feel a bit like a child. Today I’m celebrating an event that fills me with pride. Three hundred goals is really a lot. I didn’t have time to prepare any celebrations. I’ve scored five goals in two weeks that I didn’t expect.” Italian mainstay Filippo Inzaghi, after scoring two goals in AC Milan’s 5-1 […]

Both England and Australia submitted their official bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups on Monday, just under the wire of the FIFA deadline and joining individual bids by Indonesia and South Korea that were filed this weekend. With the inclusion of those four nations, there are 11 total bids that FIFA will select […]

In an AP report out of Baghdad, an Iraqi player was apparently shot dead during a soccer match between amateur clubs Buhairat and Sinjar on  Sunday. According to Police Major Muthanna Khalid, a Buhairat striker was on a breakaway with just the keeper to beat in the last minute of a game Sinjar was leading, […]

FIFA handed down a tough four-game suspension and $4,200 fine to Trinidad & Tobago captain Dwight Yorke in response to a red card tirade following his country’s 2-2 draw with El Salvador on Feb. 11. Having already earned a yellow card in the run of play, Yorke was given a second yellow after making an […]

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was perhaps one of the lessons learned by D.C. United and head coach Tom Soehn in last season’s “nightmare” campaign, where “injuries, underachievement and simple bad luck conspired to produce one of the most trying years in the club’s existence,” writes MLSnet.com’s Charles Boehm. So for 2009, […]

If and when Jose Mourinho is successful in his apparent wish to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at the helm of Manchester United, he might lose his best player in the process, suggests The Daily Mirror. Giving credence to a suggested feud between Cristiano Ronaldo and the current Inter Milan coach, the 2008 World Player of […]