Category: Soccer America Daily

[YOUTH] The United States won the the Future Stars Tournament for under-17 girls in New Zealand Saturday when it beat Germany, 3-2. Captain Kristen Mewis scored her second goal of the game to break a 2-2 tie in the 81st minute for the Americans, who had earlier in the week had beaten Australia, 6-0, and host New Zealand, 5-0, in Auckland.

[ENGLAND] Who needs Thierry Henry? Emmanuel Adebayor is thriving as the main threat in the Arsenal attack since Henry’s departure to Barcelona. The Togolese striker scored twice to lift his league tally to 18 goals and extend his scoring streak to eight straight games as the Gunners regained the lead in the English Premier League when they beat Manchester City, 3-1.

The German Bundesliga resumes after its winter break. Leader Bayern Munich is in action on Friday when it travels to Hansa Rostock. American goalkeepers will square off when Brad Friedel‘s Blackburn hosts Everton’s Tim Howard in English Premier League action on Saturday. Ajax and Feyenoord clash Sunday in a clash of the Netherlands’ two biggest clubs. For all the weekend international action …

[YOUTH] The U.S. under-20 national team finished with a 1-1-3 record at the Copa Chivas in Mexico and did not advance to the quarterfinals. It did find a new talent in 17-year-old Felix Garcia, a high school student at L.B. Johnson High School in Laredo, Texas, and a member of the 2007 PDL champion Laredo Heat.

[AMERICANS ABROAD] On the final day of the January transfer window, unsettled Lee Nguyen left Dutch champion PSV for Danish SuperLigaen club Randers FC, where Will John, who didn’t play an MLS game for the Kansas City Wizards the last two season, also signed. A dozen Americans left home to sign with foreign pro clubs during January transfer window. Seven were from MLS clubs. Another 10 players, all foreigners, left U.S. teams for clubs overseas

For the first time since Soccer America began its annual rankings of the Best Boys Clubs, the Dallas Texans are No. 1. They edged the Chicago Magic, first the last three years. Arsenal FC of Southern California again completed the podium. For Soccer America’s Top 25 Boys Clubs …

For the second year in a row, Eclipse Select and the Dallas Texans are 1-2 in Soccer America’s rankings of the Best Girls Clubs. Southern California’s Slammers moved up two spots to No. 3. For Soccer America’s Top 25 Girls Clubs …

Teams from Southern California powers Irvine Strikers and Pateadores both went 3-0-1 against visiting teams from Washington Premier and the Colorado Rush in the U-17/18 and U-15/16 age groups in U.S. Soccer Development Academy play. Teams from the U.S. U-17 residency program swept a pair of games against the AFC Lightning. For all Development Academy results and goal scorers …

Striker Samuel Eto’o scored twice in Cameroon’s 3-0 victory over Sudan and set an African Nations Cup record for career goals he shared with former Ivory Coast star Laurent Pokou, who scored the last of his 15 goals 38 years ago. In Wednesday’s other game, Egypt clinched first place in Group C ahead of the Indomitable Lions with a 1-1 tie with Zambia. For all the African Nations Cup results and schedule …

[OLYMPIC WATCH] Argentina barely qualified for the 2008 Olympics when it beat Uruguay, 1-0, on a 92nd-minute goal dubbed a “miracle” on the final day of qualifying at the Sudamericano 2007, but it heads into 2008 favored to defend its gold medal in men’s soccer. Los Angeles soccer fans will get a chance to watch Argentina’s Olympic hopefuls when they face Guatemala next Wednesday at the Coliseum. Among the players in the squad arriving on Friday is national team star Juan Roman Riquelme, whose presence in the squad for the Guatemala is an indication that he should be one of Argentina’s three overage players at this summer’s finals.