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STANDINGS EASTERN WLPGFGASOWStreak Tampa Bay42121390Won2 Columbus33914100Won1 New England234791Lost 2 DC United1637130Lost 2 MetroStars232592Won2 WESTERN WLPGFGASOWStreak Los Angeles50151150Won5 Dallas52111092Won2 San Jose3491080Lost 1 Kansas City34713181Lost 3 Colorado236990Lost 2 LEADING SCORERS NameTeamGPGAP 1Brian McBrideCLB65212 2PrekiKC74311 3Paul BravoSJ74210 4Jason KreisDAL7328 –Washington RodriguezDAL7408 –Giovanni SavareseMET5408 7John KerrDAL7317 8Raul Diaz ArceWAS7306 –Vitalis TakawiraKC7226 –Ivan McKinleyTB6226 –Diego VieraTB5306 –Marcelo BalboaCOL4306 GOALKEEPING LEADERS […]

Goalkeeper Mark Dougherty (1) Tampa Bay Defenders Cle Kooiman (1) Tampa Bay Brandon Pollard (1) Dallas Mike Burns (1) New England Midfielders Carlos Valderrama (1) Tampa Bay Billy Thompson (1) Columbus Missael Espinoza (1) San Jose Jason Kreis (1) Dallas Forwards Paul Bravo (1) San Jose Brian McBride (3) Columbus Paul Keegan (1) New England […]

Select League Eastern Conference No. AtlanticGPWLGFGAP Connecticut3301149 Delaware532677 Long Island4229106 Cape Cod220626 Richmond211343 NY/NJ Stallions5055190 So. AtlanticGPWLGFGAP South Carolina431639 Tampa Bay6331689 Raleigh422656 Hampton Roads211523 Carolina312673 Western Conference CentralGPWLGFGAP New Orleans844161610 Milwaukee440638 Minnesota523976 Ohio5148143 Chicago101340 PacificGPWLGFGAP El Paso5321299 California5321379 New Mexico532889 Sacramento6339119 Reno422354 Leading scorers: Wellington (New Orleans) 17 points; Chantler (South Carolina) 15; Adair (Carolina) […]

May 12 in Washington, D.C. D.C. United 1 MetroStars 2. (MetroStars win shootout 2-1). Goals: Harkes (Sanneh) 11; Savarrese 64. D.C. United — Causey, Agoos, Peay, Pope, Huwiler, Sanneh, Williams, Harkes, Etcheverry, Suarez, Diaz Arce. Subs: Medved for Sanneh in 64th minute, Crawley for Suarez in 70th minute. MetroStars — Meola, Restrepo, Knowles, Caricola, Harty, […]

May 12 in Worcester, Mass. USA 6 Canada 0. Goals: Foudy (Hamm) 5, Milbrett 18, MacMillan 52, Gabarra (Akers) 63, Parlow 77, Roberts 79. Half: 2-0. USA — Scurry, Overbeck, Fawcett, Roberts, Lilly (Staples, 73), Venturini (Fair, 75), Foudy (Parlow, 64), MacMillan, Milbrett, Akers, Hamm (Gabarra, 59). Canada — Singfeld, Neil, Wood, Muir, Sedgewick (Drolet, […]

May 11 in Denver Colorado 1 Tampa Bay 2. Goals: Harbor (pen.) 10; McKinley (Kooiman, Pittman) 62, Ralston (McKinley) 76. Colorado — Woods, Kmosko, Hamlett, Butterworth, Cannon, Benedetti, Balboa, Trittschuh, Henderson, Harbor, Bartlett. Subs: Wegerle for Bartlett in 58th minute, Sharpe for Cannon in 78th minute. Tampa Bay — Dougherty, Pittman, Kooiman, Yallop, Vasquez, McKinley, […]

May 11 in London Manchester United 1 (Cantona 85) Liverpool 0. Half: 0-0. Manchester United — Schmeichel, Irwin, May, Pallister, P. Neville, Beckham (G. Neville, 89), Keane, Butt, Giggs, Cantona, Cole (Scholes, 63). Liverpool — James, Scales, Wright, Babb, McAteer, Redknapp, Barnes, McManaman, Jones (Thomas, 85), Fowler, Collymore (Rush, 75). Attendance: 79,007.

Features Draw Gives U.S. Teams Big Mountain To Climb By Doug Cress Angry Arena Interview by Mike Woitalla The Method To This Goalkeeping Madness By Scott French Pittman Likes New Challenge By Bill Ward Donadoni Wanted Back Home By Frank Giase American Soccer’s 25 Most Influential People By Paul Kennedy 25 Years of Anecdotes A […]

May 10 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada 3 (De Vos 8, Nash 41, Thompson 80) Jamaica 0. Half: 2-0. Att.: 7,029.

May 11 in Edmonton, Alberta Mexico 3 (Blanco 47, 75, Abundis 76) El Salvador 0. Half: 0-0. Att.: 4,112. Costa Rica 4 (Soto 25, Gomez 30, 46, 79) Trinidad & Tobago 2 (Dwarika 29, John 74). Half: 2-1. Att.: 4,157.

Vitalis “Digital” Takawira will get down on his hands and knees for the fans who were so quick to give him star status. Postgame in the Kansas City locker room and the members of the Wiz are taking stock of the walking wounded. A marathon shootout victory over the Clash after a hard-fought 2-2 tie […]

Saturday, May 11 Tampa Bay at Colorado Location: Mile High Stadium Kickoff: 4:30 p.m. (EST) Televsion: ESPN2 Satellite: Galaxy 5, Tr. 14 Preview: The Rapids succumbed meekly to the Clash on Wednesday night, missing two good chances after SJ goalie Tom Liner pushed a cross into Marcelo Balboa’s body from whom the ball caromed into […]

A-League Address: 2 Village Road, Suite 5, Horsham, PA 19044. Telephone: (215) 657-7440. Atlanta Ruckus Address: 539 West Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30305. Telephone: (404) 233-9627. Goalkeepers — Mun Young Yi, Dave Barrueta. Defenders — Greg Sheen, Tag Gambatese, Tom Wurdack, Rich Richmond, Sylvan Bednar (’95 team: Clemson Univ.), Scott Halkett (USC Spartanburg). Midfielders […]

U.S. national team coach Steve Sampson, sidelined briefly by acute appendicitis, has been following closely the MLS launch as well as scouting future prospects at the recent CONCACAF U-20 tournament in Mexico. SOCCER AMERICA: First of all, what were your impressions of the CONCACAF tournament? How did the U.S. team perform, and what did you […]

MLS Saad Alnabulsi Englewood, Colo. My local newspaper (The Rocky Mountain News) lists the MLS goal tallies for a shootout as one goal-for awarded to the winner, and a goal-against is awarded to the loser. This is on top of the regulation time goals. Is this correct? RM: No. MLS started the season by adding […]

Don’t let all this euphoria keep you from noticing U.S. soccer’s steps backward. Large MLS crowds and exceptional media coverage for the new league come a year after the U.S. national team a strong fourth at the Copa America. Then we look at what the U.S. U-20 team did at the CONCACAF championship last April. […]

May 8 in Tampa Tampa Bay 2 Kansas City 0. Goals: Valderrama 41, Viera (Kooiman) 50. Tampa Bay — Dougherty, Pittman, Kooiman, Yallop, Vasquez, McKinley, Ralston, Wise, Valderrama, Lassiter, Viera. Sub: Hunjak for Pittman in 88th minute. Kansas City — Harrington, Ekeme, Okafor, Bowers, Gutierrez, Wright, Sorber, Preki, Chung, Klopas, Johnston. Subs: Uderitz for Sorber […]

Features Soccer America Q&A: Steve Sampson U.S. national team coach Steve Sampson, sidelined temporarily by acute appendicitis, has been closely following the MLS launch as well as scouting future prospects at the recent CONCACAF U-20 tournament in Mexico. Interview by Ridge Mahoney Learning To Crawl Vitalis “Digital” Takawira will get down on his hands and […]

May 8 in Brussels Paris St. Germain (France) 1 (N’Gotty 29) Rapid Vienna 0. Paris St. Germain — Lama, Fournier (Llacer, 80), N’Gotty, Roche, Le Guen, Colleter, Bravo, Guerin, Djorkaeff, Rai (Dely Valdes, 12), Loko. Rapid Vienna — Konsel, Hatz, Guggi, Ivanov, Schoettel, Stoeger, Stumpf (Barisic, 46), Marasek, Jancker, Kuehbauer, Heraf. Att.: 37,500.

It went with hardly a whimper. Men’s soccer at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock joined a cemetery that opened two years for Division I men’s teams. It includes North Texas, Central Michigan and Illinois State, and in each death gender equity could be blamed to some extent. But in Little Rock, the program was so […]

Kansas City at Tampa Bay Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. (EST) Television: WIZ TV Preview: Porous defense, potent attacks. These two teams consist of contrasting personnel, but they both have fearsome attacks and woeful defenses, and both are coming off discouraging weekend defeats. The Wiz attack must get some credit; after all, how many teams could come […]

This has not been a banner year for American goalkeepers playing abroad. English soccer’s regular season concluded May 5, leaving three U.S. keepers — Queen’s Park Rangers’ Juergen Sommer, Luton’s Ian Feuer, Millwall stalwart Kasey Keller — with the unappealing prospect of playing in lower divisions next season. Sommer’s QPR was relegated from the Premier […]

STANDINGS EASTERN WLPGFGASOWStreak Tampa Bay226980Lost 2 Columbus2361180Lost 2 New England224561Lost 1 Washington1536120Lost 1 MetroStars131481Won 1 WESTERN WLPGFGASOWStreak Los Angeles4012940Won 4 Dallas428772Won 1 Kansas City32711131Lost 1 Colorado216740Won 2 San Jose236650Won 1 LEADING SCORERS NameTeamGPGAP 1Brian McBrideCLB5328 2PrekiKC5237 3Raul Diaz ArceWAS6306 –Vitalis TakawiraKC5226 –Washington RodriguezDAL6306 –Giovanni SavareseMET4306 7Jason KreisDAL6215 –John KerrDAL6215 –Eric WynaldaSJ5215 –Mauricio CienfuegosLA4215 –Roy LassiterTB4215 […]

The advent of MLS has given U.S. national team coach Steve Sampson the opportunity to see a host of new players on a regular basis, and the first player to benefit is Tampa Bay midfielder Martin Vasquez, who is on a list of 20 players he intends to call up for the United States-Scotland game […]

Goalkeeper Tom Liner (1) San Jose Defenders Mark Semioli (1) Los Angeles Denis Hamlett (1) Colorado Ben Iroha (1) San Jose Midfielders Steve Trittschuh (1) Colorado Jorge Salcedo (2) Los Angeles Tab Ramos (2) MetroStars Chris Henderson (1) Colorado Evans Wise (1) Tampa Bay Forwards Giovanni Savarese (1) MetroStars Diego Viera (1) Tampa Bay In […]