[TV PREVIEW] Manchester United and Chelsea must put aside the disappointment of being eliminated from the UEFA Champions League and refocus on the English Premier League race. A huge match takes place in Spain, where third-place Real Madrid hosts second-place Sevilla on Sunday.
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USA looks to extent U-17 streaks
[MAKING A LIST] The USA can wrap a berth in the Under-17 World Cup for a record 12th straight time if it ties or beats host Jamaica Friday at CONCACAF’s Group B qualifying tournament or Canada and Trinidad & Tobago tie in the first game. The USA, which also faces group leader Costa Rica on Sunday, takes an 18-game unbeaten streak in CONCACAF qualifying into the weekend action.
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U.S. U-17s beat Canada, 2-1, to edge closer to World Cup berth
The USA remained perfect at the CONCACAF Under-17 qualifying tournament in Kingston, Jamaica, with a 2-1 victory over Canada on Wednesday night, setting the stage for the possibility of clinching a berth at the 2007 Under-17 World Cup on Friday night.
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Libertadores Cup Preview
[TV PREVIEW] Four months after quitting as Boca Juniors coach, Ricardo La Volpe returns to La Bombonera Wednesday night as coach of Velez Sarsfield for the first leg of their Libertadores Cup round-of-16 series. Mexican clubs Toluca, Necaxa and Club America have both signed reinforcements for the knockout phase. Brazilian club Santos can break the Libertadores Cup record of eight straight wins it now shares with Vasco da Gama if it beats Caracas FC in Venezuela.
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U.S. U-17 opponents raid youth ranks for players
Three of the U.S. opponents at the CONCACAF Under-17 qualifying tournament in Jamaica have American products on their roster. Canada, which faces the USA Wednesday night at 5 pm CT in Kingston, has 16-year-old defender Drew Beckie, who took up soccer at the age of 4 after moving from Canada and plays for Real Colorado. Several other players in Canada’s U-17 pool are American-based while Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica also have a U.S. connection.
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Finding Nimo, the new U-17 star
The meteoric rise of former Liberian refugee Alex Nimo continued as he scored twice on Monday night to lead the United States to a 3-0 victory over Trinidad & Tobago in its opening game at CONCACAF’s Under-17 World Cup qualifying tournament in Kingston, Jamaica.
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4. EUROPEAN RACES: United breaks into clear
Manchester United broke into the clear in the English Premier League race Saturday when it rallied from two goals down to beat Everton, 4-2, while second-place Chelsea could only tie Bolton Wanderers, 2-2, at home.
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5. MEXICO: Pachuca leads six into quarterfinals
Pachuca, which has won championships on two continents in the last six months, defeated Atlante, 4-1, to finish Mexico’s Torneo Clausura as the overall leader of the first stage with 39 points, eight more than Guadalajara and nine more than Club America. Queretaro lasted just one year back in the First Division when it was relegated after falling to Atlas, 2-0.
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6. USL: Tie for Victory in opener
USL-1 expansion team California held defending champion Vancouver to a 2-2 tie in its debut on Saturday. In the USL-2, the Bermuda Hogges made their debut with a 1-0 loss to Harrisburg before 1,666 fans at the National Stadium. Bermuda also fell to Harrisburg, 1-0, on Sunday.
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7. CHAMPIONS: Goal difference gives PSV Dutch title
PSV won the Dutch Eredivisie title for the 20th time when it beat Vitesse, 5-1, on Sunday and edged Ajax for the championship on goal difference. Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) and Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) also clinched titles as the European season begins to wind down.
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2. MLS: College picks see action
Going into the fourth weekend of the MLS season, 15 collegians taken in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft and Supplemental Draft have already made their pro debuts.
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1. Player of the Year Lapira to try out in Scotland
Notre Dame’s Joseph Lapira, the 2006 Soccer America Men’s Player of the Year and Hermann Trophy winner, will head to Scotland on the eve of 2007 college season for a tryout at Premier League club Aberdeen.
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4. U.S. ABROAD: Davies makes Sweden debut
Charlie Davies, the 2006 ACC Offensive Player Of The Year at Boston College, made his pro debut Saturday for Swedish club in a 3-0 win over Trelleborg. Davies passed on an opportunity to sign with MLS after his junior year at BC to join the AEG club in Sweden. Hammarby, tied for first place after […]
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7. WOMEN: USA crushes Mexico, 5-0
The U.S. women’s national team stretched its unbeaten streak to 40 games — 39 under Coach Greg Ryan — with a 5-0 victory over Mexico in an international friendly played Saturday as part of a doubleheader with the MLS game between New England and Toronto FC in Foxboro, Mass. The Americans opened its 2007 domestic […]
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6. BRAD FRIEDEL: Keeper to stay at Blackburn
American goalkeeper Brad Friedel signed a one-year contract extension at Blackburn Rovers the day before turning in another outstanding performance against powerhouse Chelsea in the semifinals of the FA Cup. Friedel, the longest-serving player at Blackburn, signed that extension that will keep him at Ewood Park through the 2008-09 season. “I am delighted and it […]
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5. U.S. ABROAD: Keller’s season may be over
Kasey Keller may have played his last game of the season for Borussia Moenchengladbach. The 37-year-old goalkeeper suffered a muscle tear shortly before Hamburg SV’s Paulo Guerrero scored a 90th minute gamewinner to down last-place Gladbach, 1-0. Keller, who joined Gladbach in January 2005 and has played 78 games for the club, is expected to […]
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3. FA CUP: United-Chelsea tripleheader still in cards
Manchester and Chelsea could conclude the 2007 season with a tripleheader of games with three titles at stake. They set up the possibility of a dream ending thanks to wins in the semifinals of the English FA Cup. Four days after United’s 7-1 demolition of Roma in the UEFA Champions League — arguably the most […]
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5. NEW ZEALAND: Oceania champ features four collegians
Four U.S. collegians were members of the New Zealand team that qualified for the 2007 Women’s World Cup by sweeping the Oceania qualifying tournament with wins over Tonga (6-1), Solomon Islands (8-0) and Papua New Guinea (7-0). Ali Riley, Stanford’s all-Pac 10 freshman selection, Hayley Moorwood, Tennessee Tech’s Hannah Bromley and Coastal Carolina’s Emily McColl […]
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3. DIVISION III: Colby coach goes full-time after 31 years
Mark Serdjenian, Colby’s men’s head coach for 31 years, will go full-time next fall. Serdjenian, who has a 221-178-37 career record, has coached the Mules on a part-time basis while working in the Colby Dean of Students office. Serdjenian’s other duties will be as a second assistant coach for the Colby men’s lacrosse team and […]
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1. Dorrance case could set legal precedence
A federal appeals court has ruled a jury should hear the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former North Carolina player Melissa Jennings against her coach, Anson Dorrance. Jennings accused Dorrance of sexually harassing team members by asking about their sexual activity. The decision, from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., […]