[OFF THE POST] A K-League game was postponed after players from Gwangju Sangmu suffered severe food poisoning from a dish of raw beef mixed with rice served at a popular restaurant in Gwangju during their team meal. “This is the first time an incident like this has caused a delay in games,” said a K-League official.
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What They’re Saying
“I think we should welcome all peaceful people to our country. They get to pursue the ‘American Dream’ and we get to benefit from all the wonderful things that immigrants bring to our country — like good old fashioned soccer. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.”
— Drew Carey, TV star and part owner of the Seattle franchise that will join MLS in 2009 (REASON.TV)
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Teen Bojan, a pleasure to watch
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] True to its principles, Barcelona went to Germany with the idea to attack Schalke 04, and, sure enough, scored an early goal by 17-year-old Bojan Krkic that held up for a 1-0 victory in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal series on Tuesday. His goal made him the second youngest player to score in the Champions League.
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Cristiano Ronaldo, a man for all situations
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Whether he plays wide or in the middle, whether it’s up front or in midfield, whether it’s on the ground or in the air, there’s no stopping Cristiano Ronaldo. The 23-year-old Portuguese star scored his 10th goal in his last 11 appearances in Europe and 36 goals in all competitions this season to lead Manchester United past Roma, 2-0, in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal series on Tuesday in Rome.
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U.S. Youth Soccer Girls ODP Rosters
[YOUTH] U.S. Youth Soccer ODP girls teams are participating in an international tournament, beginning Thursday in San Jose, Costa Rica. The four regional teams are made up of U-15 and U-16 players to compete against the U-17 national teams of Trinidad & Tobago and Costa Rica and the U-20 national teams of Chile and Honduras. For complete rosters …
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Soccer Job Openings
[EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES] Soccer America provides the latest on employment opportunities for soccer-related positions. They include college coaching opportunities, as well as opportunities in pro soccer, youth soccer, the soccer industry and television.
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Roma, Barcelona without Key Players For CL Quarterfinals
Manchester United and Schalke will be lifted by the news that both Roma and Barcelona will be missing key players for their respective Champions League quarterfinal first-leg clashes. Roma will be without talismanic captain Francesco Totti, who tore a muscle against Cagliari over the weekend. “The team loses in percentage terms for the extraordinary things […]
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United Forced to Fight the Odds Against Pachuca
D.C. United and the Houston Dynamo, Major League Soccer’s Concacaf Champions Cup representatives, had poor showings over the weekend in their league debut, losing 2-0 and 3-0, respectively. Of course, it’s no secret that both teams had bigger fish to fry: United has a Champions Cup semifinal date at 7,900 feet with the competition’s defending […]
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Revs’ Gambians Leave Favorable Impression
Saturday night was quite a coming out party for the New England Revolution’s Gambian pair, Kenny Mansally and Sainey Nyassi, says the Boston Globe’s Frank Dell’Apa. The 19-year-olds each played a part in the Revs’ 3-0 thumping of 2007 MLS champ Houston, and will likely retain their starting spot for Thursday’s visit to Chicago. Nyassi […]
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McBride Interested in Olympic Return
Soccer By Ives is reporting that Fulham forward Brian McBride may come out of a two-year retirement with the U.S. national team in order to play with the U-23s at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. According to the report, McBride, 35, has been in discussions with Olympic team coach Peter Nowak about being one of […]
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L.A.’s Galactic Mess
Along with his other opening weekend notes, ESPN’s Jeff Carlisle has plenty to say about the L.A. Galaxy’s humiliating 4-0 loss to what looked like a Colorado Rapids reserve squad. Sure, a poor penalty decision changed the game, but the greater problem, Carlisle says, is that L.A. quit. “If one bad call in Commerce City […]
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USA splits at U-16 Mondial Minimes under new coach Cabrera
[YOUTH] In the first international tournament under new U.S. under-17 national team coach Wilmer Cabrera, the USA finished with two wins and two losses and captured seventh place at the 36th annual Mondial Minimes hosted by tiny French club FC Montaigu. Carlos Martinez led the Americans with three goals, including the winner against England. Luis Gil, who scored against China, and Alex Shinsky, who had an assist in the win over China, were the youngest members of the team at age 14.
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UEFA Champions League TV Schedule
The UEFA Champions League moves into the quarterfinals with games Tuesday and Wednesday this week and next. Action kicks off Tuesday with a pair of games: Roma-Manchester United and Schalke-Barcelona. For all this week’s Champions League action …
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U.S. women headed to Juarez
[WOMEN’S OLYMPIC QUALIFYNG] U.S. women’s national team head coach Pia Sundhage named her 20-player roster for 2008 Concacaf Olympic women’s qualifying tournament that begins Wednesday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The squad includes four relative newcomers who spent last fall playing in the U.S. college ranks — Rachel Buehler, Tobin Heath, Lauren Cheney and Amy Rodriguez — and Kacey White, whom Sundhage knows from having spent two years playing club ball in Sweden.
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Beckham to appear on Jay Leno Show
[TV] David Beckham, who earlier in March was featured on “60 Minutes,” will appear on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on Tuesday (NBC, 11:35 pm ET/PT)
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Hugo Sanchez gets the boot
[MEXICO] Hugo Sanchez, whose 16-month stint as Mexican national team coach included two losses to the USA and one tie with the archrival, has been fired. Sanchez’s ousting comes two weeks after he failed to qualify Mexico for the 2008 Olympic Games.
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What They’re Saying
"I don’t have to stand here like a rocket scientist and tell you what we need because I think it’s pretty obvious what we need. We need creative players who can put the ball in the back of the net. And we’re working tirelessly on bringing those players here."
— John Carver after his first game as Toronto FC coach, a 2-0 loss to Columbus on Saturday. (The Globe & Mail)
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Player attacks ball boy and fan
[OFF THE POST] Gustavo Semino of Chilean club Huachipato was red-carded for pushing a ball boy and then punched a field-invading fan. Semino, whose strike reportedly knocked a tooth out of the fan’s mouth, was apprehended by police and arrested, as was the fan.
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Manchester United Thrash Like Champions
Manchester United 4-0 drubbing of Aston Villa at Old Trafford on Saturday might have been best team performance by any club this season. It was certainly Manchester United’s best team performance. Striker Wayne Rooney, scorer of two of United’s four goals, said it best: “Growing up I used to love watching Brazil and the football […]
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Rome Could Lose ’09 Champions League Final
Soccer’s European governing body on Monday warned Roma fans that the 2009 UEFA Champions League final could be moved from their beloved Stadio Olimpico if any trouble arises when Roma faces Manchester United in the Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday night. When the two sides met at the same stage in Rome last year, 10 […]
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Business as Usual is Bad for RSL
Real Salt Lake coach Jason Kreis cut an unhappy figure at the press conference after Cuauhtemoc Blanco and the Chicago Fire stole at the last minute what looked like a 1-0 home victory for the Royals. Before the first reporter could even finish asking his question after the game ended in a 1-1 tie, Kreis […]
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Galaxy Whines After Colorado Thrashing
Hours after his former Manchester United teammates put in a vintage 4-0 display at Old Trafford, David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy found themselves on the receiving end of a thumping by the same score at the hands of the Colorado Rapids. Said the L.A. Times Grahame L. Jones: “The record 18,713 fans at […]
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Platini Seeks to Ban the Transfer of Minors
UEFA President Michel Platini on Monday directed harsh criticism at England’s big four over their policy of recruiting young players from overseas and planned to work with politicians to ban the signing of 16-year-old boys from foreign countries. Should he succeed, the move would have huge implications for these clubs, which have come to rely […]
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What They’re Saying
“I’m finding it hard not to criticize some of the decisions tonight but I’ve just been told I’ll be fined if I do. I don’t want that to happen. Referees have a tough job, but some decisions change games, and that’s happened tonight.”
— Thrifty David Beckham pinpoints the reason his Los Angeles Galaxy lost 4-0 to the Colorado Rapids, which last season finished 10th in MLS’s overall standings. (AP)
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EPL’s ‘American team’ sinks further; Derby goes down.
[AMERICANS ABROAD]Chances that Fulham — the English Premier League team with five Americans – might avoid relegation took another blow when it could muster only a 2-2 tie with the league’s worst team, Derby. The tie made Derby, which has two Americans in its ranks, the first team in the 16-year history of the Premier League to be relegated by March.