Author Archives: Soccer America

Four years after the WUSA folded following three seasons, Women’s Soccer Initiative, Inc., has announced the commitment of six investment groups to launch a new major pro women’s soccer league in 2008. The six announced charter teams will be led by the following investors: AEG: Greater Los Angeles John Hendricks, Freedom Soccer LLC: Washington D.C. […]

Freddy Llerena, who suffered a broken leg while playing for American University in a 2003 scrimmage against D.C. United, has filed a lawsuit against D.C. United, its former investors (Anschutz Entertainment Group), MLS and Hristo Stoitchkov. The Washington Post reported that Llerena is seeking $5 million in compensatory damages from all parties and $5 million […]

U.S. under-16 girls national team player Mariah Nogueira and U.S. women’s national team player Casey Nogueira are not sisters. Yael Averbuch played for the USA in the 2004 Under-19 Women’s World Cup.

U.S. women’s soccer legends Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy will be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the Player Category for the class of 2007 — the first all-female class inducted in the Player Category. The 2007 induction ceremonies will be held on Aug. 26 at the National Soccer Hall of Fame […]

“If I was hiring the president of IBM he would be hired already. It doesn’t take that much time to hire a national team coach. … The program has not moved forward as much as it should because of that [delay], so that’s what I’m critical of. I invested eight years into that thing and, […]

Mexico and Costa Rica clinched the final spots in the 2007 U-20 World Cup (July 1-22 in Canada) last weekend to complete the 24-team field. The USA qualified from Concacaf’s Group A along with Panama. Mexico hosted and topped Group B play with 2-0 wins over Jamaica and St. Kitts & Nevis, before tying Costa […]

Brazilian Rodrigo Martins Cintra has been banned indefinitely for ejecting the wrong player in a Corinthians-Rio Branco game. In the first half, Rio Branco’s Josias tripped a Corinthians player but Cintra showed a yellow card to Felipe, who, because he had already been cautioned, was red-carded. “He thought it was one player but it was […]

The USA’s fifth friendly of the year and final warmup before this summer’s Gold Cup and Copa America will be against China at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, Calif., June 2 (8 pm ET/5 pm PT, live on ESPN2 and Galavision. The USA and China have met seven times. The USA has won four of […]

The U.S. Soccer Federation board unanimously approved a quest to bid for the 2018 World Cup during the federation AGM in Los Angeles. The USA hosted the 1994 World Cup, which remains the best attended finals ever. Also aiming to host the 2018 finals is England. The 2010 World Cup is set for South Africa. […]

The 16-team Clericus Cup kicked off at the Vatican last weekend as Mater Ecclesiae (Mother of the Church College), a team comprised mainly of Mexican priest trainees, defeated the all-Brazilian students of the Pontifical Gregorian University, 6-0. The game opened the 16-team tournament in which 311 priests and seminarians — from countries including Italy, the […]

By Ridge Mahoney Kansas City defender Jimmy Conrad has agreed to terms of a four-year deal to stay in MLS after drawing some interest from foreign teams. Swedish club Lillestrom FC tendered a transfer offer of $550,000 last month that was rejected by the league, and agent Lyle Yorks said there was also interest from […]

"I had the idea to phone all our season-ticket holders. I didn’t actually realize we had quite so many.” — Bob Gunton, director of English fifth-tier team Gravesend & Northfleet FC, who called the club’s 210 season-ticket holders to inform them the team’s game against Morcambe FC would kick off 30 minutes earlier because of […]