Midweek action includes European Champions League action, starting Tuesday with Manchester United-Roma and VfB Stuttgart- Barcelona clashes. Also on Tuesday, D.C. United takes a 2-1 lead to Guadalajara for the second leg of their Copa Sudamericana round of 16 series. FC Dallas and New England meet in the U.S. Open Cup final on Wednesday.
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Big Crowds Highlight Week 27
The last month of the MLS regular season begins on the back of an outstanding week for crowds. According to Ian Plenderleith of USSoccerPlayers, there was an average of 23,100 for last week’s seven games, including two Beckham-less “Beckham” games and Cuauhtemoc Blanco’s Los Angeles debut against Chivas USA. Aside from these expected average boosters, […]
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A Shameful Return for Botafogo
Brazilian fans are a notoriously fickle bunch: not only are their teams expected to win but they’re supposed to do it with style, and in the same week that the Brazilian women’s national team won new fans with beautiful flowing samba-style futebol, Botafogo, one of the country’s biggest clubs, saw its stock sink to a […]
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Messi Inspires Barca
It was a full week in Spain’s La Liga, and once again Phil Ball of ESPN Soccernet has the roundup. The story over the last seven days has been the dramatic fall of FC Sevilla and the return to prominence of the Leo Messi-inspired Barcelona. After a shaky start to the season, Barca has won […]
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Despite Final Loss, a Victory for Brazil
Germany may have shut out the Brazilian women in successfully defending its second successive Women’s World Cup final, but the Brazilian team’s remarkable campaign — highlighted by the 4-0 shalacking it gave the U.S. women in the semifinal — could prove to be a watershed moment in the history of women’s soccer. It certainly went […]
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Morgan propels Cal past depleted Santa Clara
[UPSET] California picked up the biggest win since Neil McGuire took over as women’s head coach on Sunday when the Golden Bears knocked off No. 1 Santa Clara, 2-0, on the road. Freshman forward Alex Morgan opened the scoring with her fourth goal of the weekend.
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Canadian Lang celebrates UCLA return in style
[COMEBACK] After missing all of last year with a knee injury and the first seven matches of this season while representing Canada at the Women’s World Cup in China, UCLA forward Kara Lang celebrated her return to college soccer with two goals in the Bruins’ 2-1 overtime win over No. 2 Portland Friday night.
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Soccer America Men’s Top 25
Connecticut returns to No. 2 behind unbeaten and untied Wake Forest in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25. Villanova is the only new team in this week’s Top 25. For the complete Top 25 rankings …
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CROWD COUNT: College Soccer’s Largest Crowds
The weekend drew some of the largest men’s crowds on record. Virginia set a Klockner Stadium attendance record for its game against Virginia Tech with 7,906 fans, the largest crowd of the season in men’s soccer. Saint Louis drew the second largest crowd in Hermann Stadium history, while Connecticut also drew more than 5,000 fans. Wake Forest and Clemson both attracted their largest crowds of the season.
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Soccer America Men’s Top 25 Results
No. 1 Wake Forest knocked Maryland out of the Top 25. Indiana handed Michigan its first loss. In other Top 25 showdowns, Virginia-Virginia Tech and Tulsa-SMU matches ended in ties, while West Virginia split a pair of games against Top 25 opponents. For complete Top 25 results and goalscorers …
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Soccer America Women’s Top 25 Results
Cal beat No. 1 Santa Clara. No. 2 Portland lost twice. Defending champion North Carolina lost for the third time this season. It was not a good weekend for women’s soccer’s traditional powers. For all the Top 25 results and goalscorers …
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Soccer America Women’s Top 25
Stanford climbs two spots into the top spot in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 after Santa Clara and Portland (twice) lost. Texas and UCLA move up to No. 2 and No. 3, respectively. For the complete Top 25 rankings …
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NCAA Division I Women’s Unbeaten Teams
[MAKING A LIST] Santa Clara was one of six unbeaten Division I women’s teams to lose this past week. Only three teams remain unbeaten.
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NCAA Division I Men’s Unbeaten Teams
[MAKING A LIST] Big Ten teams Michigan and Northwestern both lost for the first time this season, leaving only four unbeaten Division I men’s teams.
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Freddy Adu makes league debut
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Freddy Adu, who had played in a UEFA Champions League preliminary round game and scored in a Portuguese Cup game, finally made his league debut for Benfica in a 0-0 tie with Sporting Lisbon.
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Hahnemann gets hammered; Howard and Keller return
[AMERICANS IN BRITAIN] Reading goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann was on the wrong end of a 7-4 loss to Portsmouth. Goalkeeper Tim Howard made his first appearance for English Premier League Everton since dislocating a finger while playing for the USA against Brazil on Sept. 9 and celebrated a 2-0 win over Middlesbrough 2-0. Kasey Keller got his second league start since joining Fulham as the Cottagers held Chelsea to a scoreless tie. Also starting for Fulham were Carlos Bocanegra and Clint Dempsey, who broke Chelsea captain John Terry’s cheekbone with an elbow [VIDEO] .
Everton’s win moved it into fifth place. Fulham remained at 16th place, ahead of 17th place Reading on goal difference.
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What They’re Saying
“I’m in shock.”
— American goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann after falling 7-4 with Reading in an English Premier League game against Portsmouth. (Telegraph)
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Women’s World Cup Leading Scorers & Results
Brazil lost to Germany, 2-0, in the Women’s World Cup final, but Marta finished as the tournament’s top scorer.
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Lack of Soccer Culture Hurts U.S. Women
U.S. coach Greg Ryan is being blamed for the Hangzhou massacre, but he’s not the only one responsible for the defeat. Associated Press columnist Jim Litke says to play the blame game takes away from the fact that Brazil was a far superior team than the USA. Ryan’s players only occasionally demonstrate an understanding of […]
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Scurry Should Have Replaced Solo Earlier
Jere Longman, writing in the New York Times’ Goal Blog, also compares Greg Ryan’s decision to pick Briana Scurry over Hope Solo to that of a baseball manager — a manager playing the percentages with a certain hitter or pitcher. Previously, Scurry was 12-0 against Brazil and she “pitched 8 shutouts,” the last which came […]
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Will Ryan Suffer Grady Little’s Fate?
David Hirshey says Greg Ryan’s decision to drop Hope Solo for “the 136-year-old Brinna Scurry” was right out of the Grady Little playbook. For those of you who aren’t baseball fans, Grady Little was the Boston Red Sox manager whose decision to not take out ace pitcher Pedro Martinez late in Game 7 of the 2003 American […]
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Greg Ryan Speaks Out
Steven Goff of the Washington Post reports from Shanghai in his Soccer Insider that the intense media coverage of the USA’s 4-0 loss to Brazil in the Women’s World Cup semifinals and Hope Solo’s comments afterwards led to U.S. Soccer’s decision to make Coach Greg Ryan available to the media on Friday after first announcing that […]
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Freshman Klingenberg leads Carolina past FSU in marathon
[ACC WOMEN] It took more than three and a half hours to complete, but North Carolina prevailed over Florida State, 2-1, Thursday in overtime in a battle of ACC women’s powerhouses before 1,925 fans at the Seminole Soccer Complex. Freshman Meghan Klingenberg had the game-winning goal for the Tar Heels in the 95th minute after the game was delayed in each half — 109 minutes in all — because of the weather. No. 4 Virginia rolled on with a 2-0 win at Duke. Other ranked ACC women’s teams to win: Clemson and Wake Forest.
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Rossi’s golden goal leads Tennessee past South Carolina
Kylee Rossi put her early-season struggles behind her and scored a golden goal on Thursday to lead No. 10 over No. 15 South Carolina, 3-2, in the Southeastern Conference opener televised on Fox Soccer Channel.
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Concordia and Azusa Pacific remain perfect
[NAIA UPDATE] Two Southern California schools rank 1-2 in the NAIA men’s poll. No. 1 Concordia and No. 2 Azusa Pacific are both 8-0-0 after midweek victories.