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First Round Group A DateMatchSite June 8England vs. SwitzerlandLondon June 10Netherlands vs. ScotlandBirmingham June 13Switzerland vs. NetherlandsBirmingham June 14England vs. ScotlandLondon June 18Scotland vs. SwitzerlandBirmingham June 18Netherlands vs. EnglandLondon Group B DateMatchSite June 9Spain vs. BulgariaLeeds June 10Romania vs. FranceNewcastle June 13Bulgaria vs. RomaniaNewcastle June 15Spain vs. FranceLeeds June 18France vs. BulgariaNewcastle June 18Romania vs. […]

The following is the order for the MLS College and Supplemental Drafts to be held March 4 beginning at 10:00 a.m. EST in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.: 1. Washington. 2. New York/New York. 3. *San Jose. 4. Tampa Bay. 5. Kansas City. 6. New England. 7. Los Angeles. 8. Dallas. 9. 9. Colorado. 10. Columbus. * […]

The NCAA men’s Division I soccer committee has recommended that 11 conference champions get automatic bids into the 1996 Men’s Division I Tournament: ACC, Big East, Big Ten, CAA, Ivy League, MCC, Mid-American, Missouri Valley, MPSF, North Atlantic and WCC. The following are the proposed play-in pairings: Conference USA vs. Mid-Continent; TAAC vs. Sub Belt; […]

There will be no news posted Monday, 26 February, or Tuesday, 27 February. There is not anticipated to be any interruption of access to Soccer America Online, but we will be unable to post any new news due to the fact that our Internet Service Provider, The Cedro Group/Sportsite, will be moving their offices on […]

The following are the selections in the first A-League draft held Dec. 4: Rochester (local round) Miles Joseph (Clemson); (l) Rikki Dadason (Columbia); (2) Jesse Marsch (Princeton); (3) Jason Walker (Rochester); (4) Chris Doyle (Loyola, Md.); (5) Scott Lamphear (Wisconsin); (6) Mark Phillips (Kenyon); (7) John McCallion (Syracuse); (8) Ola Olsen (Boston Univ.); (9) Brandon […]

Dec. 2 in Durham, N.C. Duke 3, James Madison 2. Goals: Kwon (Smith) 54:00, Kelly (Henderson) 59:03, Heaps (Kelly) 65:15; Ensley (Honeysett) 36:14, Edwards (Fairchild) 53:01. Duke — Morton, Dunne, Whitfield, Jeidy, Smith, Maynard, Heaps, Moghim, Kwon, Shattuck, Kelly. Subs: Henderson, Stein, Otto, Vulpe. James Madison — Purcell, Coker, Miles, Fairchild, Edwards, Takatalo, McSorley, Ensley, […]

Chad Cole scored in the 63rd minute to give Wisconsin a 2-0 lead over Duke in the NCAA Division I men’s final.

Tickets for the 1996 Gold Cup can be purchased by calling (800) 811-GOLD. Tickets range in price from $15-25 for the first-round matches Jan. 10-16, $18-30 for the semifinals Jan. 18-19 and $20-35 for the third-place game and championship doubleheader Jan. 21. Additional information may be obtained by calling (310) 767-4994.

More problems for Mexican national team coach Bora Milutinovic: he finally succumbed to the pressure from the Mexican press and recalled several veterans, including MLS-bound Jorge Campos, for Mexico’s last friendly before the Gold Cup. Unfortunately, Mexico fell to lowly Slovenia’s under-23 team 2-1 before 20,000 stunned fans in the Mexican city of Hermosillo Dec. […]

American Paul Caligiuri’s days at German First Division club St. Pauli appear numbered. He’s played only one game — as a second-half substitute — in the last month, and he’s been left off the roster for the Hamburg club’s final game before the winter break against Uerdingen Dec. 8. Following St. Pauli’s game with Karlsruhe […]

U.S. Boys Under-18 All-Star Team The following was the U.S. under-18 all-star team picked at the ODP national trials in Cocoa, Fla., over the Thanksgiving weekend: Ubuauka Abukusumo (Albuquerque, N.M.), Josh Anderson (Bethesda, Md.), Espen Baardsen (Lafayette, Calif.), Jason Barroni (Westerville, Ohio), Ryan Cox (Broadview Heights, Ohio), Derrick Dyslain (La Canada, Calif.), Brian Freeman (Safety […]

The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) announced the winners of its first writing contest at the 49th annual NSCAA Convention in Philadelphia, Pa. Two Soccer America writers were among the four award recipients. Winning first prize in the best column category was Soccer America Youth Soccer Letter editor Dan Woog for his piece […]

StateNameYearPos.School AlaskaPaul GonzalesSr.DDimond ArizonaSasha HunterSr.FCorona del Sol CaliforniaSasha VictorineSr.MFRio Americano ColoradoWesley HartSr.MFColumbine ConnecticutAndrew McConvilleSr.MFDaniel Hand DelawareColin CarewSr.DNewark FloridaDustin ReinekeSr.FWilliam R. Boone GeorgiaJosh WolffSr.FParkview HawaiiDereck HeresaJr.FIolani School IdahoPhillip HarrisSr.MFMeridian IllinoisNino DaSilvaJr.FSaint Viator IndianaKei TennysonJr.FNorth Central IowaMichael EnrightSr.MFBettendorf KansasCory EngkjerSr.MFWichita Northwest KentuckyDavid WrightSr.MFBallard LouisianaTy MontetSr.DSt. Louis Catholic MaineJosh McGeacheySo.MFCape Elizabeth MarylandBrian WestFr.FCentennial MassachusettsBen FigueiredoSr.MFNew Bedford MichiganAnders KeltoSr.MFTraverse […]

Goalkeepers NameYearSchoolTown Doug BrooksSr.RoxburySuccasunna, N.J. Andy KirkSr.Marquette Univ. H.S.Milwaukee, Wis. Tyler PurtillSr.Loomis Chaffe SchoolWindsor, Conn. Henry RingSr.BrentwoodBrentwood, Tenn. Doug SwaneySr.CentervilleCenterville, Ohio Defenders NameYearSchoolTown Alex BradleySr.Wachusett RegionalHolden, Mass. Colin CarewJr.NewarkNewark, Del. Tim CastilloSr.Detroit Country DayBeverly Hills, Mich. Nick PanenoSr.La CanadaLa Canada, Calif. Midfielders NameYearSchoolTown Kareem AalSr.Minneapolis SouthMinneapolis, Minn. Abraham BullJr.New RochelleNew Rochelle, N.Y. Ben FigueiredoSr.New BedfordNew […]

Goalkeeper NameYearSchoolTown Mackenzie HyerJr.AltoSandy, Utah Defenders NameYearSchoolTown Amy BalavacSr.PresentationSan Jose, Calif. Kelly ErbSr.LivingstonLivingston, N.J. Sarah LohrSr.RamapoFranklin Lakes, N.J. Jill McMeekingSr.SachemLake Ronkonkoma, N.Y. Jessica NadolnySr.WashingtonvilleWashingtonville, N.Y. Jennifer O’SullivanSr.SpringsteadSpring Hill, Fla. Allison PeppersSr.West Chester LakotaWest Chester, Ohio Rebekah SplaineJr.Buck Browne & NicholsCambridge, Mass. Julie StevensSr.WinchesterWinchester, Mass. Midfielders NameYearSchoolTown Nikki ArmentoJr.South OldhamCrestwood, Ky. Gina CastellanoJr.James MartinArlington, Tex. Kesha […]

50 entrants: 14 qualify, plus host France. Group 1 — Bosnia, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Slovenia. Group 2 — England, Georgia, Italy, Moldova, Poland. Group 3 — Azerbaijan, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Switzerland. Group 4 — Austria, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Scotland, Sweden. Group 5 — Bulgaria, Cyprus, Israel, Luxembourg, Russia. Group 6 — Czech Republic, Faeroe Islands, […]

Eric Wynalda became the ninth member of the U.S. national team preparing for the 1996 Gold Cup to sign with Major League Soccer. Wynalda, who will play for either the San Jose Clash or Los Angeles Galaxy, has spent the last four seasons in Germany, first with Saarbruecken and more recently with Bochum. With both […]

Keller, Reyna and Balboa The following are the results of the recent Soccer America Online Poll in which 533 soccer fans gave their three choices for the “overage” spots U.S. Olympic team coach Bruce Arena can fill: 1. Kasey Keller 227 votes. 2. Claudio Reyna 189. 3. Marcelo Balboa 187. 4. Alexi Lalas 159. 5. […]

StateNameYearPos.School CaliforniaBeth ThompsonSr.MFMontgomery ColoradoRachel WeberSo.MFNiwot ConnecticutCarey DornSr.MFWilliam Hall DelawareKesha ChristophFr.MFThe Tatnall School FloridaJennifer O’SullivanSr.DSpringstead GeorgiaRakel KarvelssonSr.MFMcIntosh IllinoisJenny GrubbJr.MFJames B. Conant IndianaLori LindseySo.FPike KentuckyNikki ArmentoJr.MFSouth Oldham MaineChristine HuberSr.FCony MarylandLaurie SchwoySr.FMcDonogh MassachusettsGina PantuoscoSr.FCathedral MinnesotaSarah BlaskaSr.FAnoka MissouriTracy GroseSr.FHowell North New HampshireCourtney BanghartSr.FSouhegan New JerseyTricia WilliamsJr.FShawnee New MexicoJessica LarsonSr.MFLa Cueva New YorkLindsey PrevoSr.MFSouth Side North CarolinaLindsay StoeckerJr.MFBroughton OhioJessica MoormanSr.MFHudson […]

This is just a note to inform browsers that a large portion of the items from this section are currently unavailable due to technical difficulties. Unfortunately, due to the weekend and the new year, the SA News section may not be complete again until Jan. 2. We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience.

The final rounds of the MLS draft will be conducted tomorrow, 7 February 1996, in New York. Soccer America will not have an editor present to post each round as we did today. However, we will be posting the draft results as soon as we have the information. For complete details on the draft and […]

10 entrants: four qualify, plus defending champion Brazil. The nine countries — Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela — will play home and away matches against each other with the top four qualifying for France ’98.

Bob Houghton will coach the Colorado Rapids in their inaugural season, the MLS franchise announced Dec. 12. Houghton, 46, brings a wealth of experience to the Rocky Mountains, as he has spent the past two decades coaching throughout the world. Prior to taking the Rapids’ coaching job, he had been working for FIFA as one […]

10 entrants: one to advance to a playoff with a team from Asia. First-Round Byes Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti. First Round Melanesian Group — Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu. Polynesian Group — Cook Islands, Tonga, Western Samoa. Winner of Melanesian group and winner of playoff between the Polynesian Group first-place and Melanesian Group […]

36 entrants: five qualify First-Round Byes Cameroon, Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco First-Round Pairings (home teams for opening leg listed first) Sudan vs.Zambia Namibia vs. Mozambique Tanzania vs. Ghana Swaziland vs. Gabon Uganda vs. Angola Mauritius vs. Zaire Malawi vs. South Africa Madagascar vs. Zimbabwe Guinea-Bissau vs. Guinea Rwanda vs. Tunisia Congo vs. Ivory Coast Kenya vs. […]