Monthly Archives: July 2009

[MLS] Chicago Fire striker Brian McBride, who leads the team with six goals, could miss the rest of the season after undergoing shoulder surgery. The 37-year-old had played in all of the Fire’s 16 games this season, scoring six times and assisting on one goal.

[WPS] Saint Louis Athletica moved into second place in Women’s Professional Soccer with a 1-0 win over Sky Blue FC — its third one-goal win over the New Jersey team — on a goal by England international Eniola Aluko three minutes into the second half.

[MLS] FC Dallas, which is third-to-last in the overall standings, added Colombian Jair Benitez to its backline. The 30-year-old was acquired on loan from Deportivo Cali.

[U.S. WOMEN] Teenager Christine Nairn lived up to her reputation as one of the top prospects in the U.S. women’s national team program, scoring in the 89th minute to give the USA a 1-0 win over Canada Wednesday in Charleston, S.C., and a sweep of their three-game series.

[WORLD FOOTBALL CHALLENGE] The Georgia Dome’s second 50,000-plus crowd in a month watched American Oguchi Onyewu make his debut for Italian club AC Milan on Wednesday. It was an inauspicious debut, however, as Onyewu was the defender beaten on Club America’s first goal — well-taken by Enrique Esqueda — 10 minutes after entering the game and the Mexican club went win, 2-1.

[WORLD CUP 2014] The price tag for Brazil’s 2014 World Cup could top $40 billion. That’s the estimate of a report released Wednesday on stadium and infrastructure spending projects planned by the 12 cities that will host the competition.

[GOLD CUP] One game away from a chance to win its third straight Gold Cup, the USA plays Honduras for the third time in the past seven weeks Thursday (TV: Fox Soccer Channel & Telefutura, 7 pm ET) with a different team than it used the last two times.

[MLS] A match that was more of a training exercise, with reserves on the BMO Field surface and liberal substitution rules in effect, produced a 4-3 shootout win for Argentine team River Plate against Toronto FC Wednesday in a friendly in front of 20,005 fans.

[NSCAA] Longtime soccer executive Joe Cummings is leaving his post as president and general manager of WPS’s Boston Breakers to become the new CEO and executive director of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.