Author Archives: Soccer America

“It is officially confirmed that the trio’s contracts have been terminated. We tried our best but failed to get work permits for them.” Jimmy Haewsanti, marketing manager of Manchester City (Thailand), announces that the three Thai internationals signed under previous owner Thaksin Shinawatra and farmed out to Grasshopper Zurich (Switzerland) and Club Brugge (Belgium), have […]

“We had enough chances in the second half to at least get another goal. I think a draw probably would have been fair, but we didn’t get the win, which is disappointing.” San Jose coach Frank Yallop reflects on the 2-1 defeat in Houston that effectively ended his team’s playoff chances.

Two of David Beckham’s sons turned up to watch their older brother Brooklyn play wearing lurid Chelsea away shorts. Put on your shades to view the pictures, and take with a pinch of salt the Mail’s unfounded assertion that Beckham is “reportedly unhappy at the struggling Galaxy.”

D.C. United goalkeeper Louis Crayton received 150 letters of apology from Houston Dynamo supporters after an individual aimed a racial slur at him following last Sunday’s game in Houston. One of the apologies came from the fan who had verbally abused him. Dynamo President Oliver Luck and coach Dominic Kinnear also wrote to Crayton.

“It would be good to have more balance, to put the brakes on globalization a little, so that not all teams are made up entirely of foreigners and there’s a percentage of domestic players. But European law does not allow it. This path cannot be taken. Nothing can be done.” Former Italian goalkeeper Dino Zoff […]

England’s best form for four years has been driven by the resurgence of Wayne Rooney, 22, who has scored five goals in England’s last three World Cup qualifiers. But “Rooney’s resurgence as a match-winner for his country can be measured beyond the uplifting statistics,” writes Matt Dickinson. The Rooney reminiscent of his teenage years was […]

The scoreline should have read Veterans 2, Neophytes 1 after the U.S. national team’s youthful lineup lost in Trinidad & Tobago Wednesday, writes Jeff Carlisle. The young American players showed that while they are “indeed talented, they’ll need considerably more seasoning before being trusted with, say, a road match” in Mexico or Costa Rica. The […]

Another absentee from the submissions was the mooted Las Vegas franchise, previously championed by the Californian businessman Mark Noorzai, the leader of an investor group that is pursuing an ownership stake in the Columbus Crew, writes Shawn Mitchell. Noorzai had wanted an MLS franchise to be the primary tenant of a new $500 million, retractable-roof […]

MLS talk Wednesday was all about the seven bids submitted to start new teams in 2011, but there were some conspicuous absences too. The much-vaunted New York Mets bid has been put off until 2012, writes Michael Lewis, because there are no “concrete” plans for a stadium. “It’s something that we still have a very […]

When Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber glibly referred to the New England Revolution as a “model franchise” after it won the Eastern Conference playoff title a year ago, he passed over one aspect of its model behavior where information has always been sparse — the location and timing of a new soccer stadium for […]

Perhaps one should take FC Dallas striker Kenny Cooper’s decision to turn down an offer to join the U.S. national team for its World Cup qualifying game in Trinidad & Tobago Wednesday at face value. He’s been nursing an ankle injury and a bout of “flu-like symptoms,” and so it was best to concentrate on […]