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MLS club Red Bull New York named long-time Adelphi coach Bob Montgomery as its Director of Youth Development to oversee its player development system.

The U.S. under-15 girls national team will play its first-ever full international matches, facing the Japanese U-16 girls national team twice at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. For the complete U.S. roster …

Four young men, including three members of the Bradley men’s soccer soccer team and roommates of Dahlquist, were charged with setting a fire that led to the death of their Bradley teammate, Danny Dahlquist. The 19-year-old Dahlquist, a sophomore, died Sunday of smoke inhalation after the four men allegedly set a fire in his bedroom in their West Peoria, Ill., house by lighting a roman candle under his bedroom door that started a fire.

So it won’t be Mexico-USA at Azteca on Sept. 9.
An even better treat is in store for U.S. fans: USA-Brazil at Chicago’s Soldier Field. The game, to be broadcast live on ESPN2 and Univision, will pit the 2007 CONCACAF champion against the 2007 South American champion. Both teams are repeat champions.

With two shutouts in USL First Division action, Rochester’s Scott Vallow tied and surpassed Billy Andracki as the all-time regular-season win leader in Rhinos history. Vallow was just back after missing four months with a biceps injury. The shutouts ended a club record streak of 12 games without a shutout. Josh Wicks also had two shutouts in a pair of scoreless draws for Portland, which needs just one point to clinch a playoff berth.

[SUPERLIGA PREVIEW] The roles have reversed, somewhat, since Houston and Pachuca met in a riveting CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinal five months ago. Houston hosts Pachuca Tuesday night in the semifinals of the SuperLiga. This time around, the Dynamo is the team in the midst of its regular season. Yet it has lost its last two league games by 1-0 scores after running through its SuperLiga first-round group against D.C. United, Club America, and Morelia unbeaten.

Los Angeles (22,586), D.C. United (20,940) and Toronto FC (20,089) all average more than 20,000 fans per game and the league average is up to 15,382 fans a game. Never have three teams averaged more than 20,000 fans in a season. Three times — 1996, 1997 and 2001 — two teams surpassed 20,000 a game.

England star Wayne Rooney broke his foot in Manchester United’s 0-0 tie with Reading on Sunday and could be out for as long as three months.

Chelsea and Arsenal both rallied from early deficits to win their English Premier League openers at home. Action also began in Germany, where defending champion Stuttgart was held to a 2-2 tie by runner-up Schalke 04.

[AMERICANS ABROAD] Texas-born teen Jose Francisco Torres became one of the youngest Americans ever to start for a Mexican club when he started for 2007 Torneo Clausura champion Pachuca in a 3-1 win over Morelia.

[AMERICANS ABROAD WRAPUP] Tim Howard made a diving save late in the game to preserve Everton’s 2-1 victory over Wigan. Brad Friedel was in goal for Blackburn in a winning effort on the road, beating Middlesbrough, 2-1.