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FIFA to experiment with goalmouth referees

by Soccer America

Soccer’s 3-to-22 officials-to-player ratio is significantly lower than all major sports. Finally FIFA, the game’s world governing body, has approved an experiment with two additional referees. At the Club World Cup competition in Japan in December, two goalmouth referees will be used in addition to the referee and the two assistant referees (linesmen). FIFA’s new Strategic Committee, chaired by
UEFA president Michel Platini, confirmed the experiment during the first meeting of FIFA’s new Strategic Committee. What exact role the two goalmouth referees will play has not yet been determined.

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Klinsmann Turns Down Coaching Jobs

by Soccer America

U.S. soccer fans will recognize the attitude displayed by former Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann in a recent interview with the London Times. The Southern California resident makes it abundantly clear that he isn’t going to work on anyone’s terms but his own. Last April, then-Portsmouth football directorAvram Grant traveled to Klinsmann’s California home to try […]

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Larkin’s Log

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[MAKING A LIST] At 10-0-2, No. 15 BYU has the best winning percentage of any team in NCAA Division I women’s soccer. The Cougars have only scored 14 goals in their 12 games, but they have dependable Katie Larkin to thank for much of their success. The junior from Draper, Utah, has scored 10 goals, nine of them game-winners. Remarkably, eight of the nine wins were decided by one goal.

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U.S. U-17s dominate at Development Academy’s Fall Showcase

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[VIDEO] The U.S. Soccer Development Academy’s Fall Showcase Weekend wrapped up on Monday at The Home Depot Center, where the U.S. U-17s ’90/91 team defeated the U-18 Richmond Kickers, 1-0, and the U.S. U-17 ’92 team beat the Kickers’ U-16s, 7-0. Jack McInerney led the ’92 team with a hat trick, and Stefan Jerome added two goals. The U.S. U-17 teams both swept both games at the Fall Showcase. The De Anza Force of Northern California was the only club to sweep all four games. Other teams to sweep both games were the La Jolla Nomads, Schulz Academy, Kendall Soccer Alliance and Crossfire Premier (U-16s) and San Diego Surf (U-18s). No club left Carson without at least a point for one of its two teams.

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What They’re Saying

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“Personally, I’m not ashamed because I see how in a short time they have made very good progress, because I have taken them away from their women, from their wives. We went to the [training] base, because women in soccer are a scourge. They do not understand that men need to work, that they have a hard job to do.”

— Dynamo Kiev coach Josef Sabo, upon being asked by a female reporter if his team’s poor early-season performances as defending champion were shameful. (Reuters)

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Soccer On TV

by Soccer America

The Copa Sudamericana quarterfinals kick off on Wednesday. Thursday night’s ESPN2 MLS game pits FC Dallas against Chivas USA. European Championship qualifying continues this weekend, which is also when South American World Cup qualifying kicks off. South American qualifying games will be broadcast by Gol TV and are available pay-per-view on DishNetwork. Click HERE for info on DishNetwork packages.

(All times Eastern unless noted. TV programming is always subject to change. Check your local listings and soccerTV.com)

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World Cup players come to Portland’s rescue

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Portland women’s team got a much-needed boost from World Cup veterans Stephanie Lopez and Sophie Schmidt and rolled past Oregon, 4-0, on the road Friday night. Lopez, the starting left back for the U.S. national team in China, made her 2007 debut for the Pilots and recorded an assist, while Schmidt scored two goals in her first appearance as a forward at the collegiate level.

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