[SUPERLIGA] One year after coming within one goal of reaching MLS Cup, the Chicago Fire came within one kick of winning the third edition of SuperLiga, but couldn’t convert a sellout home crowd and an early goal into a victory.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
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Marquez likely miss Azteca showdown
[USA-MEXICO] Mexico national team captain Rafael Marquez tore a muscle in his left calf in practice Wednesday morning before Barcelona’s game against MLS’s Seattle Sounders FC and will be out for about two weeks, meaning he will likely to miss the Tri’s crucial World Cup 2010 qualifier against the United States Aug. 12.
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Sky Blue wins in Rampone’s coaching debut
[WPS] U.S. national team captain Christine Rampone won her first game as coach of Sky Blue FC — the team’s third coach of the season — as the New Jersey team kept its playoff hopes alive with a 2-0 win over FC Gold Pride Wednesday before a sellout crowd of 5,455 at Yurcak Field. Rampone’s first game didn’t exactly start smoothly as she had to replace goalkeeper Karen Bardsley for Jenni Branam in the starting lineup at the last minute, forcing Sky Blue FC to use one of its substitutions.
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What They’re Saying
“At the time I thought, ‘This is the way it must feel when your legs start to go.’ So I was delighted when it just turned out to be swine flu!”
— Graham Kavanagh, the 35-year-old player-coach of English club Carlisle United, who has made full recovery from the H1N1 flu. (The Times & Star)
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Texas rivals meet for third time
[MLS PREDICTIONS] FC Dallas aims to keep its playoff hopes and home winning streak alive when Houston comes north for a Thursday night clash. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney makes his prediction. …
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Scotland Squad to be Sans Alcohol for Qualifier
Hoping to avoid the unfortunate scene this past March when all-night boozing at the team hotel followed by obscene gestures by Allan McGregor and Barry Ferguson from the bench during a defeat to the Netherlands resulted in lifetime bans for the veteran Scotland national team midfielders, officials have declared a ban on all alcohol surrounding […]
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Mexico’s Torrado Says ‘Forget Gold Cup’
Nobody around Concacaf is looking for Mexico to rest on its laurels after serving up a humiliating 5-0 defeat to the USA in the Gold Cup final. While much of that squad was rewarded with call-ups for the Aug. 12 match at Azteca, captain Gerardo Torrado says they still know that they have a lot […]
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Berhalter: U.S. Has ‘Nothing to Lose’ at Azteca
You can train at altitude and in poor air conditions for weeks on end, you can pump your body full of supplements, and you can pipe in a recreation of the crowd noise to get used to the din, but when you step on the field at Azteca with the sun at its highest point […]
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Qatar Confident About Hosting All-Indoor World Cup
The USA isn’t the only country out there actively and aggressively lobbying for attention to their bid for a World Cup that is almost 13 years away. “Far, far in the western-most corner of Asia, a tiny country is putting its nose up at the football establishment with a bid for the 2022 World Cup […]
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Grass Good for Guests, But Not For Best of MLS?
When is what’s good for the goose not good for the gander? Apparently, when it comes to the expenditure of putting player-preferred grass down rather than enduring artificial turf at marquee MLS events, suggests Goal.com’s Andrea Canales. For a pair of this Summer’s “meaningless exhibition matches, MLS has ponied up the money to replace the […]
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Alonso the Last Piece to Real Madrid Puzzle
Although there are still changes within the club to be made, it appears today’s official signing of extraordinary Liverpool talent Xabi Alonso has wrappedup Real Madrid’s runaway Summer spending spree. The addition of the Spanish international represents “a change in focus for Los Blancos, who will now turn their attention to trimming the squad rather […]
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‘La Masia Magic’ Sets Barca Above the Rest
The tradition at FC Barcelona is “the sort of tale that historians love, the sort that spans centuries and weaves together past, present and future,” dotes the LA Times’ Grahame Jones, as the European champion is midway through its U.S. tour and meets the Seattle Sounders FC tonight at 10:30 pm ET on ESPN. Jones […]
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Soccer America Classifieds
Welcome to Soccer America Classifieds, Soccer America’s email newsletter connecting soccer companies and organizations to Soccer America members each week. Soccer America Classifieds feature soccer classified advertisements on the latest soccer job openings, soccer products and soccer opportunities. Read Soccer America Classifieds each Wednesday
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Surf Cup Results
The upper divisions of the 29th annual Surf Cup completed play on Monday. Atlanta’s Concorde Fire won the U-19 boys academy division with a 6-1 win over Pateadores, while Real So Cal claimed boys (U-17) and girls (U-19) super divisions. For the results of all the finals …
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Illinois girls excel at National Cup
Illinois was the only state to claim multiple winners at U.S. Club Soccer’s 2009 National Cup VIII Finals at the Hampton Roads Soccer Complex in Virginia Beach, Va.
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Alabama club succeeds with free soccer
While the rising costs of youth soccer are colliding with the downward turn in the economy, one Alabama youth club in Alabama is trying to stem the tide with free soccer. The Vestavia Hills Soccer Club in Birmingham just concluded its first summer of the program, titled Team Adidas.
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MLS teams dominate boys Super-20
Red Bull New York and Triangle FC won titles at the fourth annual USL Super-20 League North American Finals in Rockford, Ill.
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U.S. under-14 boys national development camp roster
The annual U.S. under-14 boys national development camp, led by veteran coach Manfred Schellscheidt, is in the midst of its annual identification camp in Concord, Mass. For a list of all the 118 players, their club affiliations and hometowns …
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U.S. takes fifth at U-18 Milk Cup
The USA survived an eight-round shootout and defeated Israel in the fifth-place game in the U-18 Elite division at the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland.
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U.S. U-20s take second in Rosario
The U.S. under-20 national team finished second at the Copa Ciudad de Rosario in Argentina when it fell to Australia, 3-1, in its final group game of the round-robin tournament.
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Sounders launch youth program
Seattle Sounders FC, MLS’s widely popular first-year team, will launch regional training centers across the state of Washington this fall in its first youth soccer initiative in partnership with Washington Youth Soccer.
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What They’re Saying
“I am proud of the growth of soccer in Encinitas over the past decade and now feel that the time is right to pass the baton on to the next generation of coaches. Youth soccer is now big business in San Diego County and it is my sincere wish that the person who takes over will be able to build on what we have created here and make the club the best in the area.”
— Former NASL and MISL star Juli Veee, who is retiring after 15 years as director of coaching at the Encinitas Express. The Hungarian-born Veee, one of the first U.S. internationals to play in Europe, is also an accomplished artist whose works have appeared at many shows in California, Arizona and New Mexico. (Daily San Diego Soccer News)
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D.C. United ekes out Champions League win
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Since the advent of the Concacaf Champions League last year, D.C. United has failed to win a game in eight attempts. But by rallying from a 1-0 deficit in a hostile environment and fighting through fatigue during a draining overtime, United prevailed in a two-game series to reach the group phase.
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Second straight zero eliminates TFC
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] The scorer of six goals against rival Montreal in its final Nutrilite Canadian Championship game couldn’t get the goal it needed to keep alive its hopes of reaching the group phase. Toronto FC, which lost the first leg at BMO Field, 1-0, last week, labored through a 0-0 tie in Bayamon Tuesday night and fell to Puerto Rico Islanders by that single goal. The USL-1 Islanders, which stunningly reached the semifinals last year, advance to group play that begins in two weeks.
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Club-by-club summer moves
[GERMANY] Two Americans were involved in moves involving clubs in the German First Division, which opens the 2009-10 season this weekend. Nurdin Hrustic became the latest Bosnian-American to join the Bundesliga when Bochum signed him out of the University of Jacksonville. Kamani Hill left champion Wolfsburg for Portuguese club Vitoria Guimaraes on a free transfer. For all the club-by-club Bundesliga summer moves …