Author Archives: Soccer America

"I got slammed. I got bumped. I actually had the ball in my hands, then she hit me and that's when the ball went in. I got the wind knocked out of me a little bit." Washington Freedom goalkeeper Briana Scurry, lamenting a tough "no call" by referee Kari Seitz in which Sol defender Allison […]

"We believe we can win every game and yeah, a lot of that does come from the manager. He's just brilliant. Having achieved all he has in the game, he knows what he wants from us and gets that across really well. With the players we've got playing in the Premier League, we should be […]

"El Salvador played with a tremendous about of energy, and it was our challenge to match it. When we found ourselves behind it took a great effort from our players to fight back and come away with a point. We prepared for this game knowing that El Salvador would be difficult. We found ourselves behind, […]

"I do struggle where nationalism, jingoism and patriotism stops and where actually some sort of xenophobic rhetoric takes over. And there is a certain amount of that in the football world, when I keep getting told that, 'How can English football be English football when there are not enough English players in a particular team?' […]

"We have a lot of desire to win this game. We want the three points firstly for Argentina, and also for Maradona, who deserves a win on his first official game as our coach. We hope it will be a fiesta. Diego is very calm but he is also excited. He has a lot of […]

"Looking at this current squad, with the teams doing well in the Champions League and across Europe, [we've got] some world class players. Stevie [Gerrard], [Frank] Lampard, Rio [Ferdinand], these kind of players are on fire and bringing that into the England squad. We've got some great young players coming in full of confidence and […]

Having not won a Bundesliga title since all the way back in 1931, and with a history that includes unfortunate ties to the Nazi party, the timing couldn’t be better for Hertha Berlin to win the title in the same year that the capital city will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the […]

With the inaugural weekend of the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer season upon us, Goal.com's Kathryn Knapp previews all seven teams set to compete for the first ever WPS title, highlighting both former WUSA stars while introducing the big international names coming to America. The L.A. Sol looks to lead the way at least on paper, […]

With a 10-10-10 record in the regular season, a 1-1-1 record in the playoffs and an almost identical number of goal scored and goals against (40 and 39, if you must know), for better or worse, Real Salt Lake was the definition of “average” in 2008, writes the Deseret News’ James Edward. Acknowledging last season […]

Colombian newcomer Fredy Montero wasn’t the only player turning heads as an unknown but surprisingly good commodity when the Seattle Sounders ran all over the Red Bulls last week. Osvaldo Alonso also had fans and media alike asking, “Who’s No. 6?” writes MLSnet.com’s Andrew Winner. "Osvaldo is not that big of a guy,” says coach […]

In yet another show of the best fan support within the MLS, more than 2,500 red scarf-wearing Toronto FC fans (an MLS record for away fans?) are expected to make the trip from southern Ontario to central Ohio and invade Crew Stadium for the first leg of the Trillium Cup series on Saturday. “Everyone in […]