Category: Soccer America Daily

“If you listen to me speaking, I tell these kinds of words 10 times in every 15 words. I tell this to myself when I am not happy with something, I tell it to my players, I tell it when the ball hits the post. I can be emotional but polite. But I don’t want […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor A match held Sunday to honor the late Lamar Hunt featured one of those outstanding college players who helped his team win a national title and then snubbed MLS to test out Europe. Fortunately, for Columbus and MLS, Stefano Miglioranzi came back to the league last year as a discovery […]

UEFA held the draw for the quarterfinals and semifinals of the UEFA Champions League on Friday. The semifinal winners progress to the final on May 23 in Athens. Quarterfinal draw AC Milan vs. Bayern Munich PSV Eindhoven vs. Liverpool Roma vs. Manchester United Chelsea vs. Valencia (First legs: April 3-4; second legs: April 10-11.) Semifinal […]

“I’ve seen a lot of sporting events all around the world, but nothing comes close to that.” — American Tom Hicks, who along with fellow American George Gillett assumed full control of Liverpool on Friday, securing more than 80 percent of the shares in the English club, on the crowd at the game two days […]

The Los Angeles Galaxy announced plans for a four-team tournament in July involving English champion Chelsea, Tigres of Mexico, Suwon Bluewings of South Korea and the MLS club. The 2007 World Series of Football will feature doubleheaders on July 17 and July 21 at the Home Depot Center. The July 21 game between the Galaxy […]

Both Premier League leader Manchester United and second-place Chelsea rallied to force replays in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup. Manchester United drew, 2-2, at Middlesbrough thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo‘s tying goal on a 68th-minute penalty. Lee Cattermole and George Boateng scored for Middlesbrough on either side of halftime after Wayne Rooney had given United […]

Barcelona and Real Madrid put aside their disappointing exits from the UEFA Champions League to play a thrilling 3-3 tie at the Nou Camp on Saturday night. The clásico featured four goals in the first half hour, a last-gasp equalizer and loads of chances by both teams. Teenager Lionel Messi snatched the equalizer to complete […]

Brad Friedel and Jay DeMerit both started in winning efforts as their clubs moved into the semifinals of the English FA Cup. Friedel recorded his fourth straight shutout in the FA Cup as Blackburn Rovers beat Manchester City, 2-0, in Sunday’s quarterfinals. DaMarcus Beasley came on in the second half for City. DeMerit needed three […]

For the second straight game, Carli Lloyd had the winning goal, scoring the only goal in the USA’s 1-0 win over Finland Friday at the Algarve Women’s Cup in Ferreiras, Portugal. Lloyd, one of five U.S. players to come on after halftime, responded with the lone goal on her first touch of the ball. She […]

The German soccer federation’s Kontrollausschuss, its disciplinary committee, handed American Gregg Berhalter a three-game suspension for an incident in 1860 Munich’s 2-0 win over Eintracht Braunschweig on Sunday. Berhalter, who scored the second goal against Braunschweig from the penalty spot, was found to have kneed Braunschweig’s Moldovan striker, Alexandru Golban, in the sixth minute of […]

(Note to Sunday morning TV viewers: Daylight savings time starts on Sunday, so remember to move your clocks forward an hour.) Manchester United and Chelsea, 1-2 in the English Premier League and both through to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League, are in action on a third front this weekend when they play in […]

Where do Barcelona and Real Madrid go following their exits this week from the UEFA Champions League? Right into Saturday’s clásico at the Nou Camp (TV: GolTV, live, 4 pm ET). Following their exits from the Champions League, media in both cities are looking for recriminations. The main target at Real Madrid was Italian coach […]

The Columbus Crew won the rights to U.S. U-20 national team forward-midfielder Robbie Rogers Thursday afternoon in a weighted lottery. The 19-year-old Rogers has been signed to a developmental contract and will not occupy one of the Crew’s 18 senior roster spots. Rogers recently secured his release from Heerenveen of the Dutch Eredivisie, with which […]

By Mike Woitalla Executive Editor The New York Red Bulls, whose youth program was considered one of the league’s most advanced as MLS launched its Youth Development Initiative for the 2007 season, have fired their Director of Youth Soccer and Player Development, Giovanni Savarese. Savarese was hired by the club in 2005, two years after […]

Who gets first crack at David Beckham has been debated over the past few weeks, and on Friday, AEG and the Galaxy will announce a match against Chelsea. Both the weekend before and after the All-Star Game (July 19 in Dicks’ Sporting Goods Park) are open dates, and the Galaxy opens play in the SuperLiga […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor Discussions between Chicago/AEG and Mexican international Cuauhtemoc Blanco have gone far enough that the two sides are juggling salary terms and length of contract, playing the money against the risk. According to a source who has spoken to people involved in the negotiations, to get Blanco the Fire would have […]

“We didn’t want to be a commissioner. We were Jewish kids. We didn’t want to be an owner. We didn’t want to be broadcasters. I wanted to be Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe. That didn’t happen.” — MLS commissioner Don Garber about his ambitions while growing up in Queens, N.Y. Garber, who was referring to New […]

Fox Soccer Channel and sister network Fox Sports en Espanol have signed a three-year deal for English-language and Spanish-language TV rights for Italy’s Serie A. Kicking off in late August, the networks will showcase up to four matches from Serie A each weekend. In addition, there will be preview and recap shows and some select […]

The USA stretched its unbeaten streak under Coach Greg Ryan to 35 games with a 2-1 victory over China on goals by Kristine Lilly and Carli Lloyd Wednesday in its opening game of the 2007 Algarve Cup in Silves, Portugal. Starting with a 3-4-3 formation that Ryan employed for the first time in their 2-0 […]

Arsenal’s problems have part due to the absence of French star Thierry Henry. The Gunners had only managed seven goals in this year’s UEFA Champions League before Wednesday’s game against PSV, and they only managed to score thanks to an own goal by PSV defender Alex in a 1-1 tie that sent the Dutch through […]

In less than two weeks, Arsenal went from contending in three cup competitions to being alive in none. On Feb. 25, the Gunners lost to Chelsea, 2-1, in the English League Cup final and then were bounced out of the FA Cup three days later by Blackburn Rovers, 1-0, in a replay. On Wednesday night […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor Preseason is for experimentation, and what a team looks like and where a player plays in March sometimes has no bearing on what transpires after that. A revolving door of non-roster players and invited trialists — the Galaxy, to name one team, has players on trial this week from China […]

“The risk is vast. One of the problems in the sports industry is when you are relegated to relying on an athlete’s performance, you can be in big trouble. Whenever you align yourself with one athlete, you lack diversification.” — David Carter, the head of the Sports Marketing Group and a professor at USC’s Marshall […]

The USA opens play against China on Thursday (kickoff: 11:15 am ET) at the 2007 Algarve Cup in Silves, Portugal, and the tournament will mark the first action of the 2007 season for  captain Kristine Lilly, who heads into the Algarve Cup with 117 career goals, second on the all-time goal scoring list for women […]

Fourteen former players are on the National Soccer Hall of Fame’s Veteran’s Final Ballot,   All Hall of Famers are eligible to vote on the final Veteran’s Ballot. The Veteran receiving the most votes is elected to the Hall of Fame as long as the vote total is at least 50 percent of the ballots […]