Author Archives: Soccer America

“It’s been a while since this club has been through the playoffs. There is always a little bit of apprehension, a little bit of tentativeness. To get the first game under our belt knowing we didn’t play our best game and being able to come out on equal footing was very important for our team.” […]

“We were two minutes away from accomplishing what we set out to do when you come on the road. It’s unfortunate and we’re disappointed, upset. But it’s halftime and we’re going home. We’d have to score a goal to advance anyway.” Chivas USA veteran midfielder Jesse Marsch looks ahead to his side’s Western Conference semifinal […]

A TV camera reportedly caught Barcelona’s Lionel Messi spitting at Malaga player Duda during Barcelona’s 4-1 weekend win.

Italy’s World Cup-winning defender Marco Materazzi has won undisclosed damages from U.K. tabloid The Daily Mail over its claim that the player racially insulted Zinedine Zidane during the 2006 World Cup final.

It's always been clear that Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich has been an exceedingly wealthy man ever since he bought formerly state-owned Russian oil company Sibneft for peanuts in 1995, then sold it 10 years later for $12 billion. A ruling by the Royal Courts of Justice in London, however, has outlined in detail the […]

Egyptian champion Al-Ahly took a two-goal lead in the first leg of the African Champions Cup final Sunday against Cotonsport of Cameroon in front of 70,000 fans in Cairo. The second leg will be played November 16 in Cotonsport’s home city, Garoua. Al-Ahly struck twice early on through a header from defender Wael Gomaa in […]

Gareth Wheeler addresses the dilemma facing Toronto FC in the offseason. Does the team follow the lead of the newest MLS franchise, Seattle Sounders FC, and try to sign a Designated Player? Wheeler lauds the Sounders’ boldness in signing former Arsenal midfielder and Swedish international Freddie Ljungberg, 31, and says that signing a DP is […]

New York could have enjoyed the same advantage as Salt Lake if it had held on to its one-goal lead at home to the Houston Dynamo Saturday in what Joshua Robinson describes as a "messy, physical game." Houston's late equalizer, though, means the Texan team would certainly argue that playing at home second is best. […]

When the Major League Soccer postseason begins, the debate about home advantage kicks off too. Whichever team plays home first claims that this is the better deal. The team playing home second argues otherwise. For Real Salt Lake players traveling to L.A. next weekend to face Chivas USA with a one-goal lead in its pocket, […]

“I’m going to a country where they adore me because of the goal against the English.” New Argentina coach Diego Maradona expects a friendly welcome in Scotland, where he will likely be in charge for next month’s Scotland-Argentina exhibition game in Glasgow.

“There are those who will say that instead of condemning the pair [Joey Barton and Wayne Rooney] we should applaud them for engaging in an ancient British tradition that dates all the way back to the 1990s, even though it might have made sounder economic sense for them to kiss their boot manufacturers’ logos or […]