Category: Soccer America Daily

[ROSTERS] The U.S. U-16 and U-17 girls national teams are capping off their 2007 seasons with trips to South America. The U-17s are in Buenos Aires until next Monday, while the U-16s are in Rio de Janeiro until Sunday.

Porto, Liverpool, Schalke 04, Real Madrid and Olympiakos clinched berths in the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League with wins on Tuesday in Matchday 6. For all the results and goal scorers …

Rangers hopes to join Glasgow rival Celtic in the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League. It only needs to tie French champion Lyon at Ibrox on Wednesday to advance. The only other berth still up for grabs is in Group G, where Fenerbahce leads PSV by one point in the battle for second place. For all Wednesday’s TV listings …

Of the 80 players named to the 2007 NSCAA/adidas Boys High School All-America Team, nine players were repeat selections: Sam Arthur (Greater Atlanta Christian School, Ga.), Patrick Cates (Dutch Fork, S.C.), Coleton Henning (Aquinas, Kan.), Matt Kassel (Bridgewater Raritan, N.J.), Colin Monasterio (Wayzata, Minn), Brett Uttley (North Kingstown, R.I.), Chris Agorsor (McDonogh School, Md.), Will Bruin (DeSmet, Mo.) and Casey Townsend (Traverse City West, Mich). The selections include players who played high school soccer last winter and spring and are now in college.

[CLUB WORLD CUP] Japan’s Urawa Red Diamonds beat Iran’s Sepahan, 3-1, Monday to move into the semifinals of the Club World Cup against AC Milan. The match was a repeat of last month’s Asian Champions League final.

Five berths in the round of 16 in the UEFA Champions League will be on the line on Tuesday. Marseille, only 13th in France’s Ligue 1, can clinch a berth in the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League with a win against Liverpool at the Stade Velodrome. OM, which has won all six home games it’s played against English clubs, will also advance with a tie unless Besiktas wins at Porto. Liverpool will probably be knocked out unless it wins. In Group C, all four teams remain in contention, though the top two teams, Real Madrid and Olympiakos, are both at home. For all Tuesday’s TV listings …

U.S. wide midfielder DaMarcus Beasley will be sidelined for four to six months after undergoing surgery on his right knee, injured Nov. 27 in a collision with VfB Stuttgart keeper Raphael Schaefer. Beasley, who scored four goals in 19 games for Glasgow Rangers in all competitions since joining the Scottish power last summer, has 73 U.S. caps and 15 goals.

[MEXICO] In its first season since leaving Mexico City for the resort town of Cancun, Atlante won Mexico’s Torneo Apertura with a 2-1 victory over UNAM in the second leg of the final.

[VIDEO] Remember these names: Joseph-Claude Gyau, Charles Renken, Carlos Martinez and Stefan Jerome. They showed tremendous promise in attack Saturday as the U.S. under-17 ’92 boys national team gained a 2-0 victory over Brazil — its first-ever over Brazil at the Nike Friendlies.

CONCACAF champion Pachuca lasted all of game at the Club World Cup, falling to Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel, the African club champion, 1-0, on Sunday.

[VIDEO] Michael Bradley scored a hat trick for his Dutch Eredivisie club Heerenveen in a 4-2 win over FC Groningen on Saturday. The 20-year-old American midfielder, son of U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley, now has six goals in 14 leagues games for Heerenveen, which is in fourth place, five points behind leader Ajax Amsterdam.

[MEXICO] Atlante held UNAM to a 0-0 tie Thursday in the first leg of the Torneo Apertura finals played in Mexico City, its old home.