Monthly Archives: August 2009

[USL-1] The Portland Timbers extended their unbeaten streak to 18 games, but Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Minnesota left it two points behind Charleston (with two games in hand). Carolina joined the Timbers in a tie for second place thanks to its 3-0 victory over Austin. For all the USL-1 results and standings …

[HALL OF FAME] Jeff Agoos and Joy Fawcett received their red jackets as National Soccer Hall of Fame members at the Induction 2009 Ceremony Sunday in Oneonta, N.Y. Also honored was retired New York Times sports writer Alex Yannis, who received the Colin Jose Media Award for career excellence in soccer communications.

[USL-1] The Portland Timbers extended their unbeaten streak to a USL-1 record 18 games, but Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Minnesota left them two points behind Charleston (with two games in hand). Carolina joined the Timbers in a tie for second place thanks to its 3-0 victory over Austin. For all the USL-1 results and standings …

[PDL] The Chicago Fire will play in the Premier Development League final for the first time since finishing as runner-up in 2003 when it travels to face the Ventura County Fusion in Saturday’s final.

[W-LEAGUE] The Pali Blues and Washington Freedom, winners of the last two W-League championships, will meet Friday in the 2009 final after earning victories in the semifinals. The Pali Blues crushed the Hudson Valley Quickstrike Lady Blues, 4-0, while the Freedom ended the Ottawa Fury’s bid to return to the finals for a third straight year with a 3-1 win on penalty kicks after their game ended in a scoreless tie.

[WPSL] The Long Island Fury won the 2009 Women’s Premier Soccer League with a 1-0 win over California’s Ajax America on a goal by 18-year-old Molly Bruh at Adelphi University’s Competition Field.

[AMERICANS ABROAD] Goalie Brad Guzan stopped two shots to help Aston Villa win the Peace Cup with a shootout victory over Italian giant Juventus in the final in Seville, Spain. The final marked the third straight game 20-year-old defender Eric Lichaj started at right back for Villa.

[WPS] Thomas Anderson, a volunteer as a locker-room attendant at FC Gold Pride games, was charged with eight felony counts of a lewd or lascivious act on a child younger than 14 after two witnesses reported seeing him acting inappropriately with a child at a July 19 WPS game at Buck Shaw Stadium.

The 2009-10 season began in Belgium and the Netherlands. Having lost American star Oguchi Onyewu to AC Milan, two-time Belgian champion Standard Liege had to settle for a 2-2 tie at home with St. Truiden. Dutch champion AZ lost at Heracles, 3-2. For all the results and goal scorers …

[WPS] With one week remaining in the regular season, Saint Louis Athletica clinched second place in Women’s Professional Soccer and the home-field advantage in the Super Semifinal thanks to its 1-0 victory over the Boston Breakers and the Washington Freedom’s 3-2 loss to FC Gold Pride.

[MLS NAMES & NUMBERS] A day after losing star Kenny Cooper, who signed with German second division club 1860 Munich, FC Dallas exploded for a 6-0 rout of the Kansas City Wizards that featured four goals by Jeff Cunningham and two by Brazilian David Ferreira. After the best of his four goals, Cunningham, who has scored seven goals in his last four games, ran to the stands to beat on a fan’s drum.

[BARCELONA TOUR] Major League Soccer had a lot to be excited about Saturday’s Los Angeles Galaxy-Barcelona friendly at the Rose Bowl won by the Spanish champions, 2-1. The game drew a crowd of 93,137 — the largest ever for a game involving an MLS team and the largest U.S. crowd since the 1994 World Cup — and it featured a superb goal by David Beckham on a patented free kick — No. 1 on ESPN Sports Center’s top 10 plays of the day. Despite boos from the crowd throughout much of the game, Beckham said afterwards he intended to return next season for a fourth season with the Galaxy.

Columbus and Chicago stayed 1-2, separated by one point in the Eastern Conference, with wins over the weekend. Houston opened up a six-point lead in the Western Conference thanks to its 4-3 win over D.C. United and Seattle’s 4-0 loss at San Jose on Sunday. For all the game summaries, conference standings and leading scorers …