Category: Soccer America Daily

The losers of two 3-4 clashes on Saturday will probably fall from contention in their respective races: Real Madrid-Valencia in Spain and VfB Stuttgart-Bayern Munich in Germany. Inter Milan and Lyon will get another chance to clinch the Italian and French league titles, respectively, but they’ll have to do it on the road after putting […]

Millwall striker Darren Byfield decided to connect with fans by entering MillwallOnline’s chat room and offering to answer any questions. The first two queries, reports The Sunday Times, were “Why does it always rain on me?” and “Explain the theory of relativity, please.” Problem was the fans didn’t believe it was really him, so he […]

Pachuca and Chivas Guadalajara tied, 2-2, in the first leg of the CONCACAF Championships Cup final in Guadalajara on Wednesday in front of 45,000 fans. Omar Bravo notched both Chivas goals while Juan Carlos Cacho and Marvin Cabrera, who provided the late equalizer, struck for Pachuca, which hosts the second leg April 25. Pachuca and […]

Goals by Jeff Cunningham and Andy Williams gave Real Salt Lake a 2-1 win at home over the Kansas City in a U.S. Open Cup qualifying win on Wednesday. Williams’ overtime gamewinner in the 109th minute came on a 15-yard shot after receiving a pass from Cunningham, who had opened the scoring with a penalty […]

THURSDAY NIGHT PREVIEW COLUMBUS-NEW ENGLAND (ESPN2, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT) By Ridge Mahoney The cost of missing the playoffs last year and its failure to score a goal in two games this year is putting pressure on the Columbus Crew already, regardless of when Argentine attacker Guillermo Barros Schelotto‘s paperwork is completed so he […]

"Even when he is sitting on a bike, Cristiano is doing tricks. He eats with the ball, he watches TV with the ball. He probably even sleeps with the ball." — Manchester United defender Patrice Evra on Portuguese teammate Cristiano Ronaldo. (BBC)

Argentine Lionel Messi scored a goal Wednesday for Barcelona reminiscent of the goal scored by another Argentine, Diego Maradona, against England at the 1986 World Cup. (Click here to view Messi’s goal.) The goal, the first of two Messi scored in a 5-2 Barcelona win over Getafe in the semifinals of the Spanish Cup, was […]

Both Inter Milan and Lyon failed in their bids to clinch their respective league titles on Wednesday. Inter Milan lost for the first time this season when it fell, 3-1, to second-place Roma at home. Inter’s hopes of sealing its second successive Scudetto were dashed as late second-half goals from Francesco Totti and Marco Cassetti […]

David Dein, one of the most powerful figures in European soccer, has quit as vice chairman of English Premier League club Arsenal because of “irreconcilable differences” with board colleagues over the recent purchase by American billionaire Stan Kroenke of an 11 percent interest in the club. Dein is reported to have backed Kroenke’s takeover of […]

Poland and Ukraine will co-host the 2012 European Championship after beating out favorite Italy and a joint bid from Croatia and Hungary in a vote by UEFA executive committee members on Wednesday in Cardiff, Wales. UEFA awarded the tournament to an Eastern European country for the first time since Yugoslavia hosted the final four of […]

Lyon will set a record of six consecutive league titles if it beats Rennes at home on Wednesday in a makeup Ligue 1 game. A win would leave OL with a 20-point lead over second-place Toulouse with six games to play. OL would become the first team from one of the big five European leagues […]

Unbeaten Inter Milan can clinch its 15th Serie A title with a victory over second-place Roma on Wednesday at the San Siro (TV, GolTV, live, 11:30 am ET). A victory would open up an insurmountable 19-point lead with six matches remaining. Inter coach Roberto Mancini wants his team to clinch the Scudetto in style. “On […]

Who needs defenders when you have Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo up front? Wayne Rooney scored his 20th goal of the season and Ronaldo set up Michael Carrick as Manchester United cruised to a 2-0 win over Sheffield United that temporarily restored its six-point lead over Chelsea in the race for the English Premier League […]

Lincoln, Neb., police ticketed a women for misdemeanor child neglect for allegedly slapping her 15-year-old daughter in the head and dropping her off on Interstate-80 after becoming enraged over the girl’s poor play in a soccer game on Saturday at the Abbott Sports Complex. Terrell Mackey, a 42-year-old Lincoln mother, reportedly slapped her daughter for […]

BOYS 1 Marcus (Flower Mound, Texas) 30-0-0 2 Canoga Park (Calif.) 24-0-1 2 Felix Varela (Miami, Fla.) 27-1-1 4 Jesuit (New Orleans, La.) 31-0-0 5 Rider (Wichita Falls, Texas) 23-0-0 6 Auburndale (Fla.) 22-1-3 7 Kingwood (Texas) 28-2-1 8 American Heritage (Plantation, Fla.) 23-1-3 9 Wilson (Long Beach, Calif.) 25-2-4 10 Tupelo (Miss.) 25-1-1 GIRLS […]

DaMarcus Beasley again made his case for staying at Manchester City next season, scoring in its 3-1 loss at Arsenal in English Premier League action on Tuesday night. Beasley, who had a good early effort blocked by defender Kolo Toure, scored in the 41st minute on a feed from Michael Johnson for his third EPL […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor Official confirmation of Marvell Wynne being traded from Red Bull New York to Toronto FC is expected in the next day or so. A second-round draft pick in 2008 is the likely rate of exchange, according to a source. This apparently leaves Hunter Freeman, recently acquired in a trade from […]

“There is the idea with the signing of David Beckham that money grows on those palm trees. There are very few players who merit that sort of contract. So there are daily reality checks that I go through with agents all over the world, who run to our perceived wealth.” — Alexi Lalas, president of […]

Dean Duerst, the former Wisconsin women’s head coach, opened his first camp since being named the new U.S. under-17 girls national team head coach. The camp opened last weekend in Sunrise, Fla., and will run until April 21. Duerst replaced Erica Walsh, who stopped down after becoming the head coach at Penn State U.S. U-17 […]

David Beckham‘s calendar is filling up quickly. Not only with the Los Angeles play in the World Series of Football and SuperLiga, in addition to its MLS schedule, but it will also travel to the Pacific Northwest to face USL-1 defending champion Vancouver on Oct. 3 at BC Place Stadium in what will surely be […]

Charlie Davies, the 2006 ACC Offensive Player Of The Year at Boston College, made his pro debut Saturday for Swedish club in a 3-0 win over Trelleborg. Davies passed on an opportunity to sign with MLS after his junior year at BC to join the AEG club in Sweden. Hammarby, tied for first place after […]

So far, 12 players taken in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft and Supplemental Draft have made their MLS debuts. Michael Harrington made MLS history when he scored three minutes into Kansas City’s opener at D.C. United, playing an outstanding game on the left side of midfield in a 4-2 win. Harrington, taken with the third pick […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor Two more Designated Players are headed to MLS in addition to David Beckham and Cuauhtemoc Blanco, and both will bring a heavy dose of Hispanic appeal and attacking flair. There’s some baggage as well. Colombian Juan Pablo Angel, 31, will leave Aston Villa to play for Red Bull New York, […]

“It was hard for me moving my body. It was not that I was going to die, [but] I didn’t really feel like it was a wise decision to go on.” — Dutch goalie Ronald Waterreus, who had to come off at halftime of the New York Red Bulls’ 3-0 victory over FC Dallas at […]

The Rochester Rhinos gained on their weekend trip to Puerto Rico and Miami, downing Miami FC, 1-0, two days after falling to the Islanders, 2-1. Kenney Bertz scored the winner for the Rhinos off a corner kick from Johnny Menyongar in the 70th minute. Alen Marcina and Victor Herrera scored in Puerto Rico’s win in […]