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Qualifying for the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland continues with games Saturday and next Wednesday, the first of five double dates in 2007. Here's a look at Groups 4 and 5: GROUP 4. Germany travels to Prague for its showdown with the Czech Republic for first place without a full squad. Striker Miroslav […]

Ecuador's roster for its friendly against the USA on Sunday (noon ET on ESPN2 & Galavision) includes 11 players from its 2006 World Cup team, which reached the second round with wins over Poland and Costa Rica and lost, 1-0, to England in the round of 16. The USA squad also includes 11 players from […]

Mexico's March 28 friendly in Oakland, Calif., at McAfee Coliseum has already sold out. All 47,416 tickets, priced from $25 to $200, were sold by March 14. ''We probably could have sold another 50,000 tickets,'' David Alioto, executive vice president for Earthquakes Soccer, which is hosting the game, told the Sacramento Bee. ''We had to […]

Mexico's Necaxa beat Sao Paulo, 2-1, on Wednesday in Libertadores Cup play to end the Brazilian champion's 29-game undefeated streak, which included 13 games in last year's Brazilian league play, 14 in this year's Paulista championship and two in Libertadores Cup play. Sao Paulo goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni missed a penalty kick in the loss at […]

This impasse between Shalrie Joseph and the Revs/MLS is about more than money, and Joseph can prove it, or at least so claims his agent, Ron Waxman. ''He will play for any other team in MLS under his current contract,'' says Waxman of a deal that will pay Joseph a base salary of $157,500, plus […]

(Soccer America begins its countdown to the 2007 MLS season, which starts on April 7 with a look at the Colorado Rapids. The Rapids open with a nationally televised game against D.C. United, the first played at their Dick's Sporting Goods Park.) By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor Soccer America The next MLS team to play […]

Brazilian great Romario goes for his 1,000th career goal when Vasco da Gama plays at Gama in the capital Brasilia on Wednesday in a Copa Brasil game. According to Vasco da Gama, Romario enters the game with 998 goals, though many came early in his career at the youth level or others more recently in […]

Univision's prime-time coverage of Mexico's SuperClßsico between Club America of Mexico City and Guadalajara Sunday in Mexico City drew 4.3 million viewers ages 2 and over, making it the largest audience for a club soccer game on American television in the past 13 years. The viewership of the America-Chivas game surpassed the U.S. viewership of […]

Qualifying for the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland continues with games Saturday and next Wednesday, the first of five double dates in 2007. Here's a look at Groups 1-3. GROUP 1. Portugal, currently tied for fourth place in Group 1, faces two critical Euro 2008 qualifiers in the next week. The Euro 2004 […]

This impasse between Shalrie Joseph and the Revs/MLS is about more than money, and Joseph can prove it, or at least so claims his agent, Ron Waxman. ''He will play for any other team in MLS under his current contract,'' says Waxman of a deal that will pay Joseph a base salary of $157,500, plus […]