Category: Soccer America Daily

Argentina captain Silvio Velo scored his fifth goal of the Blind World Cup to down Brazil, 1-0, in the final of the tournament in Buenos Aires. Paraguay took third-place with a 2-1 win over Spain in the five-a-side competition in which all four field players must be legally blind but the goalkeeper isn’t blind. The […]

“Survivor” star and soccer TV host Ethan Zohn, the co-founder Grassroot Soccer, which uses the sport to educate African youngsters on HIV prevention, has been working with New York-based filmmaker Silas Hagerty to raise awareness on World AIDS Day (Dec. 1). Click here to watch “Lusaka Sunrise,” a short video on how soccer has helped […]

By Ridge Mahoney As many MLS coaches descend on St. Louis for the Men’s College Cup this weekend, there’s another set of semifinalists in Dallas. FC Dallas general manager Michael Hitchcock has gone “local” and trimmed his list of head coach candidates to four: SMU coach Schellas Hyndman, current assistant coach Steve Morrow, D.C. United […]

Men who play soccer three to four times a week and who wear size 9 shoes are being sought by Reebok’s Human Performance Engineering Lab to serve as product testers. Contact Erik da Silva at: erik.dasilva@reebok.com

Austrian Max Merkel coached four clubs to league titles in three countries and coached the Dutch national team. As a player, he was capped by Germany in 1939 and Austria in 1952. As a coach and later as a columnist for Bild, Merkel was known for his sense of humor and many of his remarks […]

Pachuca tied Toluca, 1-1, in the first leg of the Mexican semifinals using mainly reserves on Wednesday. The regulars were rested for Thursday’s Copa Sudamericana first-leg final on Thursday against Chile’s Colo Colo (TV: Fox Sports en Espanol, 8 pm ET). Pachuca will advance to the Mexican league final with a tie in Sunday’s leg […]

A day after assuring Manchester City fans that he wasn’t planning on leaving for MLS in January, former U.S. captain Claudio Reyna helped Man City win its first road game of the season, 3-1 over Aston Villa. Reyna, coming off two performances that Man City coach Stuart Pearce called outstanding, was among the Blues’ highest […]

"You’d have thought after four games without a win he’d have suffered enough." — A BBC commentator after discovering that Bolton coach Sam Allardyce took a midweek trip to attend a Celine Dion concert in Las Vegas.

American Kristine Lilly is one of three finalists for the FIFA Women’s World Player award. Lilly, who game-winning goals gave the USA the Gold Cup and Peace Queen Cup championships this fall, is joined by Germany’s Renate Lingor and Brazil international Marta as finalists. Lilly, the world record holder with 319 caps, has never previously […]

The following are the US Youth Soccer boys all-star teams, as selected after the ODP Boys Thanksgiving Interregional at the Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex: 1990 US Youth Soccer Boys All Star Team Christian Barreiro (Baltimore Casa Mia Bays), Shawn Barry (Boca Juniors, Fla.), Phillip Boerger (Wings SC, Minn.), Nathan Bourdeau (Rochester Rhinos, N.Y.) […]

MLS has named the first 58 players — from 44 Division I schools — who will attend a combine in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Jan. 5-8 to be viewed by MLS coaches in preparation for the 2007 MLS SuperDraft Jan. 12 in Indianapolis. Last year, 23 of the 48 players selected in the 2006 MLS SuperDraft […]

“Juergen has told me that nothing has been decided. So, there’s no news. … It is possible that he will do it. But it’s also possible that he won’t. And Juergen does not feel he’s under time pressure.” — Roland Eitel, a spokesman for Juergen Klinsmann on chances that the former Germany coach will become […]

Argentine attacker Carlos Tevez stormed out of the stadium after being subbed by his West Ham coach Alan Pardew. Tevez quickly apologized but Pardew insisted that the 22-year-old must be punished for the tantrum and allowed Tevez’s teammates to choose the penalty. They have suggested that Tevez be forced to wear the jersey of Argentina’s […]

In the space of 24 hours, two La Liga clubs fired their coaches. Last-place Gimnastic Tarragona dropped Julio Cesar Sunday evening after its 3-2 defeat at home to Real Mallorca. On Monday, Athletic Bilbao dumped Felix Sarriugarte after its 3-1 loss at home to Sevilla left it third from last in the La Liga standings. […]

By Ridge Mahoney For MLS coaches, the Thanksgiving holiday is split between enjoying turkey with the family and finalizing which rostered turkeys need to be sliced, because contracts are either renewed or terminated Nov. 30. There are also college games to be scouted. And this offseason, barely two weeks old, is further crowded by a […]

By Paul Gardner Bruce Arena‘s performance during Monday’s phone-in will not be remembered as one of his most impressive …  and no wonder … in getting rid of Amado Guevara he has made a move that, if I detected the right meaning for all the pauses and hesitations and convoluted reasoning, he is not happy […]

“The clubs in the G-14 only have themselves in mind. I’ll say it in no uncertain terms: [Real Madrid president] Ramon Calderon and his colleagues are single combatants, as are the Italians and the English. In soccer it is pure selfishness that rules. There is little common ground among the clubs.” — Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, chairman […]

Italy World Cup captain Fabio Cannavaro won the 2006 Ballon d’or (“Golden Ball”) as European Player of the Year, beating Italy teammate Gianluigi Buffon and French star Thierry Henry in voting of European journalists conducted by the French magazine France Football. European Players of the Year (1956-2006) The 33-year-old central defender is only the third […]

The U.S. under-14 boys national team’s split squads went 3-0-1 at the US Youth Soccer ODP Thanksgiving Interregional at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Joaquin Del Rosario provided the highlight of the competition with a hat trick in the USA Blue team’s 5-0 win over Region II. USA Grey […]

CONCACAF held the draws for three regional competitions Friday during the CONCACAF executive committee meeting in Los Angeles. Two MLS teams are competing in the CONCACAF Champions Cup — the regional equivalent of the Europe’s Champions League or South America’s Libertadores Cup. U.S. youth national teams will take part in qualifying early next year for […]

Reading, with American Marcus Hahnemann starting his 14th straight game of the season, downed Fulham, 1-0, to move into sixth place of the English Premier League. The victory marked the seventh of the season for the newly promoted team that was expected to spend the season fighting for survival. Hahnemann’s U.S. teammate Bobby Convey is […]

“I look at things somewhat simplistically on occasion and the issue for me is this: who is going to be interested in spending a significant amount of money coming here on holiday, to have a good time, when you’re concerned about the possibility of getting hurt?” — Eric Bost, the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, […]

North Carolina had to twice come from behind before beating Texas A&M, 3-2, before 4,887 fans in the NCAA Division I women’s quarterfinals and returned to the Women’s College Cup after a two-year absence. The Tar Heels failed to reach the final four in 2004 and 2005 — the only two years in the 25-year […]

UCLA overcame a 2-0 first-half deficit to defeat top-ranked Duke, 3-2, Sunday in NCAA men’s quarterfinal action at Duke’s Koskinen Stadium. Sal Zizzo scored the tying goal in the 78th minute and the game-winning goal — on a preplanned play — just 30 seconds into overtime to send the eighth seeded Bruins to the College […]

Kristine Lilly scored on a penalty kick in the 120th minute to give the USA a 2-1 victory over Canada in overtime and capture the 2006 Women’s Gold Cup title. USA-Canada Game Summary The final, played before a crowd of only 6,749 fans at the Home Depot Center, was anticlimactic after the USA and Canada […]