Author Archives: Soccer America

Former England international Paul Gascoigne has not filed taxes for two years and could be declared bankrupt if he doesn’t pay up. The U.K. tax authorities estimate that he owes around $320,000.

Shares in L.A. Galaxy sponsor Herbalife are down more than 50 percent since the start of the year due to currency fluctuations and decelerating growth in several key markets.

AC Milan midfielder Kaka “will tell his home country of the love of God in a major televised outreach by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association” on Brazilian prime-time this weekend.

“Publicly, the Reds [Adelaide] will talk it up over the next five days leading into the second leg. Privately, they know it’s all over. [Coach] Aurelio Vidmar knows his players have a mountain to climb… Hopefully, Adelaide will make a game of it before a sellout crowd at Hindmarsh Stadium. But overhauling a three-goal deficit? […]

“Juan Pablo is being considered the same as all the other players. How he’s performing for his club will decide if he gets a recall.” New Colombian coach Eduardo Lara mulls an international recall for New York’s Juan Pablo Angel, 33. Colombia has scored just four goals in 10 World Cup qualifying games so far.

“We believe we represent a real opportunity for both of you to bring to an end a troubled period of ownership; an ‘exit strategy’ which would lead to admiration and respect from many. Doing the honorable thing and selling the club to the fans would return it to the values that made it the most […]

German actor and playwright Rainer Sievert, 43, has lived in France for almost 20 years, so has been keenly aware of the historical relationship between the neighboring countries. This has lead to him writing and performing in a new play, France-Allemagne, set on a sofa and featuring two men — one French, one German — […]

Argentina’s new coach Diego Maradona announced Liverpool’s Javier Mascherano, 24, as his new captain Tuesday. Mascherano is grateful enough to laud the new coach, despite the former star’s scarcity of coaching experience, but doesn’t yet know if he’ll accept. “It is great to have him as our manager,” said Mascherano. “We all know Diego gave […]

David Beckham helped kick up Major League Soccer attendances and TV ratings in 2007, but the league couldn’t build on that growth in 2008, reports Tripp Mickle. “This season the league suffered its first decline in average regular-season attendance and television viewership on ESPN2 in three years,” he reports. Half the teams in MLS saw […]

D.C. United will keep Tom Soehn as coach in 2009, Steven Goff reports, quoting “sources close to the club.” A formal announcement is expected within a week. “The decision was hardly a surprise,” writes Goff. “In recent days, General Manager Dave Kasper came out in support of Soehn, and club president Kevin Payne expressed empathy […]

Houston Dynamo President and GM Oliver Luck says that if the team has not reached a deal for a downtown stadium by the end of the year then it will look elsewhere, writes Bernardo Fallas. “It almost has to [happen soon],” Luck said Wednesday. “If it doesn’t happen by the end of the year, if […]