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Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Jason Kreis 27 27 2409 11 13 35 82 41 61 51 14 5 4 0 15 Ariel Graziani 24 24 2138 15 3 33 74 45 58 62 37 7 6 1 23 Oscar Pareja 29 27 2354 […]

Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Junior Agogo 22 21 1936 10 7 27 102 48 44 39 37 3 2 0 7 Paul Bravo 27 24 2009 7 3 17 51 22 36 28 7 0 3 0 8 Jorge Dely Valdes 20 13 […]

April Heinrichs switched personnel and tactics after taking charge of the U.S. women’s team last winter. Has the reigning world and Olympic champion evolved enough to contend with China and Norway in a brutal first-round group at the Sydney Games? The names are the same, for the most part, and so is the aim, but […]

Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Wolde Harris 31 31 2608 15 7 37 101 46 57 65 25 1 1 0 4 Imad Baba 30 29 2508 9 8 26 70 37 38 40 9 26 3 0 12 Mauricio Ramos 21 21 1677 […]

Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Diego Serna 31 25 2236 16 10 42 87 41 83 77 22 10 8 0 28 Roy Lassiter 27 20 1838 8 9 25 54 38 18 31 45 1 3 1 8 Martin Machon 24 21 1952 […]

BY SCOTT FRENCH in Canberra, Australia Chris Albright and Josh Wolff scored on first-half tap-ins and the U.S. men’s Olympic team dominated much of its Sydney Games opener against the Czech Republic on Wednesday night before settling for a 2-2 draw before a sellout crowd of 24,800 at Bruce Stadium in the Australian capital. Albright, […]

Mike Gaire San Jose, Calif. To Ridge Mahoney: Why on earth do you think Lothar Osiander deserves another season as coach of the San Jose Earthquakes? What has he done apart from trade one of our very best ever players for a couple of old “has-beens,” one of whom he has then played out of […]

RIDGE MAHONEY, Senior Editor of Soccer America Magazine, will have a live chat session with fans on BigSoccer.com Thursday, Sept. 14 (not Friday as originally scheduled) at 2 p.m. EDT. To log on to BigSoccer.com, the popular soccer online community site, go to: http://www.bigsoccer.com. Mahoney’s MLS Beat — a look at important issues facing Major […]

POSITION/PLAYER G Anne-Lise Nilssen (Hartford) (1) Freshman makes 7 saves to shut out Virginia D Jenny Fejes (Detroit Mercy) (1) Freshman’s first goal beats Minnesota D Susie Woodson (Hartford) (1) Game-winning goal against Virginia M Emma Breland (Florida State) (1) 2 goals in 4-1 rout of Texas A&M M Anne Makinen (Notre Dame) (1) Goal, […]

CLIVE CHARLES U.S. Men’s Olympic Team head coach On how much respect he thinks the U.S. team earned after tonight’s competition: “I know that sometimes the United States is considered a basketball country and a gridiron country, but I tell people all the time that we’ve got players in the United States who can play […]

POSITION/PLAYER G Henry Ring (South Carolina) (1) Made 10 saves in 1-0 win over Maryland D Cory Gibbs (Brown) (1) Tourney Defensive MVP also scored on PK D Chris Churchill (Pittsburgh) (1) Assisted on winner vs. St. JohnÆs M Robert Russell (Duke) (1) Classic MVP had 2 goals and 4 assists M Logan Pause (North […]

The opposition may be frightful, the competition intense, the stakes enormous, but the group that will represent the United States in the Olympic men’s soccer competition couldn’t care less. That might be the best manner in which to approach the Sydney Games – no worries, no hassles – considering what the Yanks are up against. […]

Group C Cameroon 1. BEKONO Daniel 2. MEYONG ZE Albert 3. WOME Pierre 4. MIMPO Serge 5. ABANDA Patrice 6. BEAUD Clement 7. ALNOUDJI Nicolas 8. GEREMI 9. ETOO Samuel 10. MBOMA Patrick 11. NGOM KOME Daniel 12. LAUREN 13. NGUIMBAT Aaron 14. SUFFO Patrick 15. EPALLE Joel 16. MBAMI Modeste 17. BRANCO Serge 18. […]

Group B Chile 1. TAPIA Nelson 2. ALVAREZ Cristian 3. MALDONADO C. 4. HENRIQUEZ David 5. CONTRERAS Pablo 6. REYES Pedro 7. GONZALEZ S. 8. PIZARRO David 9. ZAMORANO Ivan 10. ARRUE Francisco 11. NAVIA Reinaldo 12. TAPIA Hector 13. NUNEZ Rodrigo 14. TELLO Rodrigo 15. IBARRA Manuel 16. OLARRA Rafael 17. ORMAZABAL Patricio 18. […]

Group A Australia 1. MILOSEVIC Danny 2. COLOSIMO Simon 3. LAZARIDIS Stan 4. FOXE Hayden 5. SKOKO Josip 6. LAYBUTT Stephen 7. EMERTON Brett 8. NEILL Lucas 9. VIDUKA Mark 10. WEHRMAN Kasey 11. ZANE Clayton 12. BLATSIS Con 13. GRELLA Vince 14. RIZZO Nick 15. BRESCIANO Marco 16. CULINA Jason 17. CURCIJA Michael 18. […]

GROUP A Australia Italy Nigeria Honduras GROUP B South Korea Spain Morocco Chile GROUP C United States Czech Republic Cameroon Kuwait GROUP D Brazil Slovakia South Africa Japan GROUP A Sept. 13 in Adelaide Nigeria vs. Honduras Sept. 13 in Melbourne Australia vs. Italy Sept. 16 in Adelaide Italy vs. Honduras Sept. 16 in Sydney […]

Coverage of men’s and women’s soccer will be largely be restricted to NBC affiliates MSNBC and CNBC available on those cable systems that have been an agreement with NBC over Olympic coverage. There will be no live coverage. Since the coverage is taped, the air times are the same for ET and PT (just like […]

China 1. HAN Wenxia 2. WANG Liping 3. FAN Yunjie 4. BA Jie 5. XIE Huilin 6. ZHAO Lihong 7. SHUI Qingxia 8. JIN Yan 9. SUN Wen 10. LIU Ailing 11. PU Wei 12. WEN Lirong 13. LIU Ying 14. PAN Lina 15. QIU Haiyan 16. ZHU Jing 17. ZHANG Ouying 18. GAO Hong […]

Australia 1. WHEELER Tracey 2. McSHEA Kate 3. STARR Bridgette 4. GARRIOCK Heather 5. ALAGICH Dianne 6. TANN-DARBY A. 7. FORMAN Alison 8. SALISBURY Cheryl 9. MURRAY Julie 10. HUGHES Sunni 11. BLACK Sharon 12. DUUS Bryony 13. FERGUSON Alicia 14. WAINWRIGHT S. 15. HEPPERLIN P.C. 16. WILSON Amy 17. GOLEBIOWSKI Kelly 18. TRIMBOLI Leanne […]

Group D Brazil 1. HELTON 2. BAIANO 3. FABIO BILICA 4. ALVARO 5. MARCOS PAULO 6. FABIO AURELIO 7. RONALDINHO 8. FABIANO 9. EDU 10. ALEX 11. GEOVANNI 12. ROGER 13. ANDRE LUIS 14. LUCIO 15. MOZART 16. ATHIRSON 17. LUCAS 18. FABIO COSTA 19. FLAVIO 20. ALEXANDRE 21. LEANDRO 22. JULIO CESAR Japan 1. […]

U.S. fans make their team feel at home The strategic ticket sales by the D.C. United staff stirred up considerable discussion prior to Guatemala’s visit to RFK Stadium. United officials readily confessed that they sold as many lower bowl tickets as possible to U.S. Soccer, youth soccer state federations, Sam’s Army and their own fan […]

Semifinals Sept. 12 in Uniondale, N.Y. MetroStars 2 Miami 3. Goals: Walsh (Ramos, Comas) 40, Valencia (Gomez, Mathis) 84; Williams (Sahaydak) 11, Welton (Serna) 61, Serna (Welton) 61. MetroStars — Grafer, Jolley, Walsh, Matthaus, Petke, Chung, Ramos, Villegas (Gomez 76), Myers, Valencia, Alex Comas (Mathis 63). Miami — Rimando, Marshall, Sahaydak, Mastroeni, Heaps, Rooney, Machon, […]

The following are quotes from the Sept. 12 MLS conference call featuring MLS executive vice president Ivan Gazidis, Kansas City Wizards coach Bob Gansler and MetroStars coach Octavio Zambrano. Gazidis’ Opening Comments The Olympic team has a very big game tomorrow and we wish them all the best. The Czech Republic is a tough team. […]

GROUP E Australia Germany Sweden Brazil GROUP F United States Norway China Nigeria SCHEDULE GROUP E Sept. 13 in Canberra Australia vs. Germany Sept. 13 in Melbourne Sweden vs. Brazil Sept. 16 in Sydney Australia vs. Sweden Sept. 16 in Canberra Germany vs. Brazil Sept. 19 in Sydney Australia vs. Brazil Sept. 19 in Melbourne […]

Seven of the eight Women’s World Cup quarterfinalists join host Australia for the second Olympic women’s soccer tournament, and at least one world power won’t be in the running for a medal. June’s draw left the world’s top three teams – the United States, China and Norway – battling in Group F for two semifinal […]