The Charleston Battery remained in first place in the USL First Division with a 2-0 win over the Portland Timbers. For all the weekend results and goal scorers …
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U.S. U-17 girls crush Concacaf opponents
[YOUTH] The USA moved into the semifinals of the Concacaf Under-17 Girls Championship with a 6-0 win over Costa Rica and 9-0 win over El Salvador at Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Trinidad.
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Bays and Carmel United claim national titles
[U.S. SOCCER DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] The Baltimore Bays and Carmel United won the U-17/18 and U-15/16 age groups, respectively, at the U.S. Soccer Development Academy Finals Week, capping the first season of the U.S. Soccer national league.
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What They’re Saying
“It is my philosophy that each player must want to improve each day. I would like to take the players to the next level, if each player becomes better, so too will the team.”
— New Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann on the program he has implemented at the club’s new performance center, replete with Buddhist statues. He has banned mobile phones and implemented eight-hour training sessions at the club’s new performance center.
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Revs’ staff members subdue crazed airline passenger
[OFF THE POST] Three staff members of the New England, on an American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles, helped subdue a passenger who had stripped, put his clothes back on and then tried to open an emergency exit door.
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MLS Results
Saturday’s four MLS games all ended in ties. Real Salt Lake’s 0-0 tie at Chicago was enough to assure it of the Western Conference lead heading into the All-Star Game. For all the results, scoring leaders and this week’s schedule …
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UEFA Cup Under Way
All the scores from Thursday’s UEFA Cup first-round qualifying action. You will want to know, for example, that it was a bad night for Marsaxlokk of Malta as they crashed 4-0 to Croatian side Slaven Koprinica.
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Olympic Soccer Preview
James Walker-Roberts takes a look at the four groups of 16 teams and tips the first round winners. Perfidiously, he doesn’t back the U.S. to advance.
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Brazil To Play In Vietnam
Nike has spotted a new market — Brazil’s Olympic team will play Vietnam on its way to Beijing.
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Second-Guessing Sir Alex
With little or no action on European soccer fields right now, and with transfer talk at unprecedented levels of exhaustion, a short piece in the London-based Daily Telegraph illustrates another favored method of British journalists for filling space on a slow news day. Take any given incident from the previous 24-hour news cycle, and second-guess […]
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Publicly Funded Stadiums Create Low-Paid Jobs, New Taxes
As D.C. United and other MLS teams seek public money to help finance new stadium ventures, Mark Yost looks at the real figures behind a sports venue financed largely by the taxpayer’s cash. While there’s no denying that the neighborhood around the Washington Nationals’ new baseball stadium in southeast D.C. has undergone a renaissance in […]
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When Is A Crowd Not A Crowd?
There was an announced crowd for Thursday’s MLS game between the Columbus Crew and the Kansas City Wizards of 16,117. But how many people were actually there? Shawn Mitchell examines the discrepancy between the Crew’s announced crowds, the number of people actually showing up for the games (that is, tickets scanned on the night), and […]
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Women’s Team No Longer All About Wambach
Abby Wambach’s broken leg is a “huge blow” to the chances of the U.S. women’s Olympic team winning gold in Beijing, writes Andrea Canales, especially for a roster already robbed of experienced players such as defender Cat Whitehill and midfielder Leslie Osborne. But while many of the players that Coach Pia Sundhage takes to the […]
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Soccer on TV
The USSF Development Academy Championships are on ESPN2 and ESPNU on Friday and Saturday. Group play in the Superliga 2008 concludes Saturday and Sunday. MLS action includes a New York-Los Angeles clash, a meeting that last year attracted 66,237 fans and ended in a 5-4 Red Bulls win.
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Manchester City tries crystal power
[OFF THE POST] In addition to owner Thaksin Shinawatra‘s millions of dollars, English Premier League side Manchester City is hoping feng shui will bring trophies to the Eastlands.
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Beware the roaming doppelganger
[OFF THE POST] Mexico coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has been so busy with his coaching duties that some people have wondered how he manages to get it all done. Turns out, there are two of him.
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Wolff delivers for Wizards in barn-burner
[MLS/VIDEO] Thursday night’s ESPN audience was treated to one of the season’s best games as host Columbus tied Kansas City, 3-3, in game that featured three goals during a six-minute stretch in the first half and a tying goal by Wizards prodigal son Josh Wolff.
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The Wambach Injury
[VIDEO] The U.S. women’s national team’s leading scorer, Abby Wambach, underwent successful surgery Thursday on the broken leg she suffered Wednesday that keeps her out of next month’s Olympics. For video of Wambach’s collision with Brazilian defender Andreia Rosa. …
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Argentine refs armed with special spray
[REF WATCH] Referees in the Argentine second division will be equipped with more than just a whistle and cards when the next season kicks off. The Argentine federation has decided to outfit its referees with a vanishing white spray, too. Officials will use the spray, which disappears within a minute, to keep walls 10 yards away from the ball during free kicks.
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What They’re Saying
"I want to thank all the fans, the doctors, the players on the team and Tasha Kai for scoring the winning goal. Obviously, it’s devastating, but above everything else, I’m only one player, and you can never win a championship with just one player. I have the utmost confidence in this team bringing home the gold."
— Abby Wambach, the USA’s leading scorer, who will miss the Olympics after suffering a broken leg Wednesday during the USA’s 1-0 friendly win over Brazil. Wambach has been replaced on the Olympic roster by 20-year-old forward Lauren Cheney, an Indiana product who has 12 U.S. caps and three goals. Cheney has scored 42 goals in her first two seasons at UCLA. (AP)
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U.S. Soccer Development Academy’s Finals Week Results
Carmel United’s 2-2 tie with LAFC was good enough to win Group C and send it into Saturday’s final of the U-15-16 Group against PDA, which had already clinched first place going into . For all Thursday’s results and goal scorers and the weekend television schedule of all the placement games …
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MLS TV Schedule
New York hosts Los Angeles for the first time since a Giants Stadium crowd of 66,237 witnessed a 5-4 Red Bulls’ win over the Galaxy last season. … If San Jose ends its six-game winless streak it will be the first team to win at Toronto this season. … Real Salt Lake protects its Western Conference first-place spot win it plays at Chicago. … FC Dallas looks for its first win under Coach Schellas Hyndman when it hosts Colorado. … For all of this weekend’s MLS action on TV and the standings. …
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Zimmerman Tries Out At Westerlo
Hamburg striker Preston Zimmerman, who was promoted to Hamburg’s first-team roster at Christmas but didn’t appear in the Bundesliga in the second half of the season, is on a week’s tryout with Belgian first division club Westerlo.
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United’s Gallardo and Peralta May Face Surgery
D.C.’s injury worries increase as its Argentines face possible hernia operations.
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Glory Glory Drogheda United
Results and reports from the remaining first leg games of the UEFA Champions League opening qualifying round. Look away if you’re a fan of the Faeroe Islands’ champion, NSI Runavik.