Texas Longhorn defenders Stephanie Logterman and Kasey Moore are firing on all cylinders. AND: Young Aggies take on familiar foe.
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Ronaldinho and the Brazilians
[ITALY] AC Milan’s signing of Brazilian star Ronaldinho was the big signing of the summer in Italy, but each of the five Serie A title favorites spent big on a Brazilian. Here’s a look at the players who could play key roles in the race for the Scudetto that begins this weekend …
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MORNING BRIEFING: Injuries wipe out UCSB’s backline
Six minutes into UC Santa Barbara’s exhibition against Westmont, senior defender Kyle Kaveny fractured his left ankle, and last week junior midfielder C.J. Cintas broke his left foot during practice. Both are lost for the season. AND: ODU’s injury loss and colleges take on pros.
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MORNING BRIEFING: Milwaukee beats up on Big Ten foes
For the second time in less than a week, Wisconsin-Milwaukee beat a Big Ten opponent. Nicole Sperl scored on a penalty kick in the 88th minute to give the Panthers a 4-3 win over Ohio State in a wild game in Milwaukee. AND: Hawaii-LBSU barnburner and new Virginia keeper.
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Firsts for Cyprus and Belarus
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Barcelona (surviving without Olympic gold-medalist Lionel Messi), Liverpool (needing a goal in the 118th minute to beat Standard Liege and its American star, Oguchi Onyewu), Arsenal and Juventus all won as expected their Champions League qualifying series, while upstarts Aalborg (Denmark), Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus) and BATE Borisov (Belarus) qualified to enter Thursday’s group stage draw in Monaco.
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Olympic hoax costs prep coach job
For years, soccer credentials of a dubious nature have been thrown about freely, but Josh Muscadin is one of the few ex-players to get caught telling a tall tale. References he made about having played on the 1984 U.S. Olympic men’s soccer team cost him his job at a Maine prep school when a newspaper’s work on a feature on Maine Olympians revealed the hoax.
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MORNING BRIEFING: UCLA gets scare in opener
Freshman forward Sydney Leroux, who has represented the USA and Canada internationally, saved No. 3 UCLA in its opening game. ALSO: Purdue comeback, new Niagara stadium and third-generation Bavasi makes college soccer debut.
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MORNING BRIEFING: SIU-E returns to Division I
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville takes its first baby steps in the move back to Division I men’s soccer when it travels to Des Moines, Iowa, this weekend to face Missouri State and Drake. SIUE has an illustrious past, having captured the NCAA Division I title in 1979, but the Cougars won’t be playing in the NCAA Tournament any time soon. ALSO: Motivation for Penn State.
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College Cup hero Tracy leads Deacs
[PRESEASON NO. 1] Wake Forest won its first NCAA championship thanks to a spectacular Men’s College Cup by Marcus Tracy, who returns for his senior season.
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MORNING BRIEFING: Goalie scores from 90 yards!
Freshman goalie Mo Isom was in shock after she scored on a free kick from 90 yards in LSU’s 4-1 win over BYU in Baton Rouge. Monday also produced the first major upset of the women’s college season …
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St. Louis prep star leads village to top of Bundesliga
[GERMANY] Hoffenheim, a village with a population of 3,272, is the surprise leader of Germany’s Bundesliga after two days, and its star is a former St. Louis prep star.
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MORNING BRIEFING: Rough start for Greg Ryan
Two days after watching the U.S. women’s national team do in the Olympic gold-medal game what it couldn’t do 11 months earlier with him in charge — beat Brazil — Greg Ryan began his new job as head coach of the Michigan women’s team. The result? A 7-0 loss at Notre Dame.
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MORNING BRIEFING: Festival atmosphere
The men’s regular season doesn’t begin until Friday, but preseason games are taken seriously. About 7,000 fans showed up at the annual National Soccer Festival in Ft. Wayne, Ind., to watch the showcase match of the three-day tournament — Indiana’s 3-0 win over North Carolina.
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Deco delivers again for Chelsea
[ENGLAND] Some questioned whether the diminutive Brazilian-born Portugal international Deco had the makeup to play in the English Premier League, but he has been key to Chelsea’s early success in the English Premier League and will later seek a third UEFA Champion League title with a third team.
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Players picked for final U.S. U-17 residency tryouts
U.S. under-17 boys national team head coach Wilmer Cabrera has called 25 players into a week-long mini-camp at the IMG Academies in Bradenton, Fla., that will also serve as the final tryout for for a handful of open places for the upcoming fall semester of the team’s Residency Program. For all the players participating in these tryouts …
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MORNING BRIEFING: Olympic medal tally
Welcome to College Soccer Reporter’s Morning Briefing. Find out which college produced the most U.S. women’s soccer gold-medalists and learn about North Carolina’s newest left-leaning star. We have news on Florida State’s latest import and the college star who will be red-shirting so she can play in the U-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile later in the year. For all the news and Top 25 weekend action …
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Supporting cast achieves gold
[ANALYSIS] With Mia Hamm and the other golden girls in retirement and Abby Wambach injured, the U.S. women’s national team didn’t have any big-name stars at the 2008 Olympics, but Coach Pia Sundhage put together a winning team with a collection of players who previously played supporting roles. Most notably, Angela Hucles, a reserve for much of her national team career, played every minute at the Olympics and finished as the top scorer on the tournament’s highest-scoring team. For complete player analysis …
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What’s next for U.S. women
[WPS] With the end of the Olympic women’s soccer competition, plans for the 2009 launch of Women’s Professional Soccer begin in earnest. Within a month, U.S. national team and international stars will have been allocated. Among the players WPS is reported to be targeting is Brazilian superstar Marta of Swedish club Umea.
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Freddy ready but competition stiff at upstart Monaco
[AMERICANS ABROAD/VIDEO] Just days after arriving at Monaco from the Summer Olympics in China, where he represented the USA in men’s soccer, Freddy Adu is ready to make his debut for his new French club, Monaco, but he faces stiff competition for playing time from a crop of young players who have exceeded expectations in the opening weeks of the 2008-09 season.
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USC has the players to repeat
[PRESEASON NO. 1] Amy Rodriguez parlayed a standout junior season for USC into a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. A-Rod leads a group of seniors who make the Women of Troy the favorites to repeat as national champions.
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Youth Nationals: Texans Make History
The Dallas Texans didn’t have to travel far to clean up. They made history when they won four titles at the 2008 U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in North Little Rock, Ark. Add to that a rare double by Andromeda and Solar’s McGuire Cup title, and North Texas teams finished with a record seven championships.
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Women’s College Preview ’08
FavoriteA-Rod leads USC again Amy Rodriguez and USC women's soccer seemed to be an odd match. The U.S. national team star could have chosen to attend any school in the country but says she picked USC because it was a "school where national championships are made." Football, maybe. But women's soccer had a long history […]
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Men’s College Preview ’08
FavoriteWake Forest learns life lessons A chance meeting in Santa Filomena, Brazil, located one hour outside of Sao Paulo, underscored the huge difference between American and Brazilian soccer. NCAA Division I champion Wake Forest was in Brazil for a spring tour, and Marcus Tracy, the Demon Deacons' star at the Men's College Cup, befriended a […]
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D.C. United moves in Open Cup final
Two MLS teams with different approaches met in the semifinals of the U.S. Open Cup. Playing at full strength, D.C. United beat the defending champion New England Revolution, which started only three players who have started at least half of their MLS games, 3-1, on Tuesday to advance to the final.
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MLS mid-season coaching casualties
[MAKING A LIST] Ruud Gullit is the fifth Los Angeles Galaxy coach to be fired or resign in mid-season. Only two other MLS teams (New York and Columbus) have had as many as three coaches leave in mid-season.