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Will Los Angeles Galaxy star Cobi Jones go ahead with his plans of retiring at the end of the 2007 season? Jones, the only player since with the same MLS team for all 12 years of league play, never figured he’d being going out on team that’s won five league games in five months. Jones […]

United Aims for Revenge Against Chivas

D.C. United faces a familiar foe Wednesday night when it opens play in the Copa Sudamericana, South America’s fall international club competition. The MLS club hosts Guadalajara, a team it played — and lost to — in last spring’s CONCACAF Champions Cup. United continued its recent pattern of just falling short in international play when […]

Grassroots Soccer Biz, Story

Tournaments: Who To Blame When It Rains?

What can a host club do when rain pours on its tournament?

Who missed the point-after attempt?

[SMALL COLLEGE] Division II Florida men’s schools Saint Leo and Rollins produced one of the highest-scoring games in recent memory when Saint Leo prevailed, 7-6, in overtime on Friday night.

Giusfredi, the long-range bomber

[VIDEO] One of the longest goals of the season came last Monday night when Seton Hall’s Eliseo Giusfredi scored off the kickoff from 60 yards to give Seton Hall a 4-3 win over New Jersey rival Princeton.

NCAA Women’s Division I Scoring Leaders

With four more goals this past week, Japanese international Mami Yamaguchi has scored 13 goals in eight games for Florida State and leads all NCAA Division I women’s goalscorers. For the Top 10 goal scorers …

NCAA Men’s Division I Scoring Leaders

Aaron Volanski‘s hat trick in Centenary’s 4-3 loss to IUPUI on Sunday catapulted him into first place on the NCAA Division I men’s scoring charts. For the Top 10 goal scorers …

Men’s & Women’s Small College Rankings

There were no changes at the top of the NSCAA/adidas rankings for NCAA Division II and III schools. All are still unbeaten and untied: Lynn (DII men), Trinity, Texas (DIII men), Grand Valley State (DII women) and Wheaton, Ill. (DIII women).

Players nominated for first Lowe’s Senior Class award

[NOMINEES] The Lowe’s Senior Class Award will add men’s and women’s soccer to its list of NCAA sports that are included in the national award program dedicated to senior student athletes. For the 40 men and women nominated …

CROWD COUNT: College Soccer’s Largest Crowds

Seven different men’s schools have drawn crowds in excess of 5,000, and Indiana and Creighton are both averaging more than 4,000 fans a game. On the women’s side, Texas A&M is the only team to draw more than 5,000 fans for a home game.

Soccer America Daily, What They're Saying

What They’re Saying

“Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.”

— Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson on coping with incovenient scheduling to accommodate TV broadcasts, which will earn the English Premier League $3.4 billion for this season and the next two. (BBC)

Convey goal overshadowed by $50 million man

[AMERICANS IN ENGLAND] Bobby Convey volleyed home from 17 yards for Reading to tie up its third-round English League Cup game with Liverpool. It was the 24-year-old’s eighth goal in all competitions since joining the club in 2004. But a second-half hat trick by Fernando Torres gave Liverpool a 4-2 win.

High School Girls Fall Rankings

Sycamore of Cincinnati moved up three spots to No. 1 in this week’s NSCAA/adidas Boys National Rankings. Ali Shewmon leads the Aviators with eight goals and two assists. Sycamore is ranked ahead of Acton-Boxborough (Mass.) and Downingtown West (Pa.). For the complete Top 25 …

High School Boys Fall Rankings

Long Island’s Chaminade, which beat defending New Jersey state champion Harrison, 1-0, at last week’s Kearny (N.J.) Festival, is the new No. 1 team in this week’s NSCAA/adidas Boys National Rankings. Last week Chaminade was No. 13. DeMatha Catholic, last week’s No. 1, fell to No. 4. For the complete Top 25 …

The case of Juventus

After Juventus earned a 1-1 tie with Roma in its first big test since returning to Serie A after its year of punishment in the second level of Italian soccer, the Italian papers immediately began to make Juve a title favorite. “Juve for the Scudetto,” blared Corriere dello Sport, while “Juve can win it all” was […]

MLS version of the Superclasico

One of the most intriguing MLS matches of the year will take place on Saturday at the Home Depot Center, and it won’t involve David Beckham or his Los Angeles Galaxy. Chivas USA hosts the Chicago, and it will be “El Emperador” (Claudio Suarez) vs. “El Cuau” (Cuauhtemoc Blanco) and Chivas (the parent club of […]

Platini attacks influence of foreign money interests

Can Michel Platini, the president of UEFA, stop what he calls “the malign and ever-present influence of money” that is distorting sporting values in European soccer? Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune says Platini’s bid to stop business tycoons from taking over clubs as business transactions without any allegiance or historical ties to the […]

Tight leash for Beckham

David Beckham’s first MLS season appears to be over, and Los Angeles Galaxy president Alexi Lalas hopes to avoid the problems that arose in Year 1 — most notably issues surrounding Becks’ fitness. “Just because David says he is healthy, that does not mean he is healthy,” Lalas told Yahoo! Sports. “When we see he […]

Scary moment in Provo

[MONDAY ACTION] BYU’s shutout string ended at 849 scoreless minutes, but the Cougars, ranked No. 17 in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25, recovered to beat visiting Washington, 2-1, and give BYU head coach Jennifer Rockwood her 200th victory. The game featured a scary moment as BYU junior Katie Fellow was knocked unconscious after falling to the ground early in the game.

Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week

U.S. international Lauren Cheney became just the third player in UCLA history to score four goals in a match, leading the Bruins to a 6-0 victory over visiting Hawaii on Sunday and earning Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week honors for games played Sept. 17-23.

Soccer America Women’s Team of the Week

James Madison’s Annie Lowry was the lone senior named to the Soccer America Women’s Team of the Week for games played Sept. 17-23.

Soccer America Men’s Team of the Week

Brown’s Kevin Davies and Michael Ferguson of Loyola, Ill, both had outstanding weekends at the San Diego adidas Classic and were named to the Soccer America Men’s Team of the Week for games played Sept. 17-23.

Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week

Midfielder Carl Pett, who scored two goals and added an assist in unbeaten Northwestern’s 4-0 victory at Ohio State on Sunday, is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week for games played Sept. 17-23.

Arsenal proclaimed England’s richest

Arsenal, whose major shareholders include American Stan Kroenke, has laid claim to being England’s richest club after reporting an income of $400 million for the year ending May 31, 2007. Operating profits increased 274 percent, to $103.7 million, from the previous year.

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