Category: Soccer America Daily

Recently elected captain Kasey Keller helped Borussia Moenchengladbach start its 2006-07 German First Division season with a home win in front of 47,638. The keeper made a couple of outstanding saves was one of Kicker Magazine’s two highest rated players in the 2-0 win over newly promoted Energie Cottbus. … Hannover 96 disappointed its 49,000 […]

Barcelona downed the New York Red Bulls, 4-1, while Real Madrid beat Real Salt Lake, 2-0, on Saturday in the final games of the Spanish clubs’ U.S. tours that drew huge crowds in five American cities. 1. 92,650 (Chivas Guadalajara 1 Barcelona 1) in Los Angeles. 2. 79,002 (Red Bulls 1 Barcelona 4) in East […]

THE WORST. The Columbus Crew is now winless in its last 12 games, having been thumped, 4-0, by the Kansas City Wizards, who snapped a nine-game winless streak. The Crew, which Coach Sigi Schmid took over this season, is in danger of finishing the season with the fewest goals and points in club history. Its […]

"Two more – he only needs two more!" — What Colchester fans chanted after referee Graham Poll yellow-carded Colchester midfielder Kem Izett in a English second-tier match on Saturday. Poll infamously showed three yellow cards to Croatian Josip Simunic at the 2006 World Cup. (BBC)

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The German First Division has drawn the world’s biggest crowds since the 2003-04 season, when it surpassed the English Premier League, and the 2005-06 season’s 38,191 average set a Bundesliga record for the fifth straight year. The 2006-07 Bundesliga season kicks off this weekend riding the tide of the summer’s hugely successful World Cup, at […]

The Premier Development League, the 59-team fourth tier of U.S. soccer — after MLS, USL1 and USL2 — will crown its 2006 champion when the Michigan Bucks meet the Laredo Heat in the final on Saturday in Laredo, Texas. The Bucks have reached the playoffs in 10 of their 11 years in the league but […]

Former USA coach Bruce Arena makes his debut on the sidelines of the New York Red Bulls in MLS’s latest test against a world renowned club. Following the MLS All-Stars’ 1-0 win over Chelsea last Saturday, and D.C. United’s 1-1 tie with Real Madrid on Wednesday (a month after D.C. United’s 4-0 win over Scottish […]

A win over the Colorado Rapids would do wonders for the Los Angeles Galaxy’s playoff chances. The defending champion Galaxy is in danger of missing the playoffs for the first time in club history. But coming off a 1-0 win Wednesday against Houston, the Galaxy faces a foundering third-place Colorado, which has lost its last […]

"I’m honored and very happy, but it doesn’t make a big difference for me — I’ve always spoken my mind anyhow." — American goalkeeper Kasey Keller after his Borussia Moenchengladbach teammates elected him captain prior to this weekend’s kickoff of the 2006-07 Bundesliga season. (Reuters)

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“Barcelona and Real Madrid both played on US soil last night, but no soccer moment yesterday moved me as much as the footage of Santino Quaranta‘s astonishing left-foot volley just minutes into his LA debut at Houston. Here was one of the country’s most promising young players doing exactly what we’d been hoping for over […]

Beck’s, one of Germany’s top breweries, ran out of beer in July and has announced it will not be able to fill all of its August orders. The shortage has been blamed on increased consumption by German and visiting fans during this summer’s World Cup and extraordinarily hot weather. Beck’s bottling lines are working overtime […]

Larry Monaco has replaced David Messersmith, who reached his term limit, as president of US Youth Soccer, the largest youth sports organization in the country that registers more than 3.2 million players Monaco won the election against current US Youth Soccer vice president, Eveyln Gill and former Oregon Youth Soccer Association president, Steve Baker. Monaco, […]

Winners Four days after the MLS All-Stars beat Chelsea, 1-0, D.C. United provided another impressive showing for MLS when it played Real Madrid to a 1-1 tie in front of 66,830 fans in Seattle. As the All-Stars, also under the direction of Coach Peter Nowak, did against the England champ, D.C. United played attacking soccer […]

"On every corner kick, [Kansas City defender] Nick Garcia should be put up on charges. Every time there is a corner, they are grabbing and holding. We have players with a reputation for kicking people and as soon as they do it, they get a yellow card." — New England goalkeeper Matt Reis after a […]

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Santino Quaranta, a 21-year-old who has been in MLS for six seasons, is leaving from D.C. United for the Los Angeles Galaxy in exchange for a partial allocation and a conditional 2008 draft pick. The midfielder has notched 14 goals and 13 assists in his 62 MLS appearances. He has 11 U.S. caps. … Midfielder […]

In the second game of the English second-tier 2006-07 season, American Eddie Lewis scored on a volley for Leeds in a 2-2 tie with Queens Park Rangers on Tuesday. Lewis also forced a good save on a free kick. Leeds won its opener, 1-0, over Norwich on Saturday. Last season, Lewis scored five goals in […]

It may have been a disappointing World Cup year for the world’s greatest soccer power, but Brazil is again dominating the Libertadores Cup. Last year, in the first final that featured two teams from the same nation since the competition’s inception in 1960, Sao Paulo beat Atletico Paranaense. Sao Paulo is back for its sixth […]

Soccer in America floweth over this Wednesday as seven MLS teams take the field in three league games and an exhibition against a world power. In addition, Houston hosts Barcelona’s friendly with Mexico’s Club America, part of a doubleheader with the Dynamo’s match against the Galaxy. WEDNESDAY GAMES D.C. United-Real Madrid (Spain) in Seattle 11 […]

"I’ve done everything I said I would do. I brought the team here, I’ve underwritten all the costs, and now with our team of people, we’ve succeeded in bringing one of the greatest teams [Real Madrid] in the world to play here and be here all week. If that doesn’t demonstrate to everyone involved that […]

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Los Angeles coach Frank Yallop has brought in left back Ante Jazic, who played for Yallop when he was at the helm of the Canadian national team that failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. Jazic arrives from Russian club Kuban Krasnodar. “[He] will bring some much-needed composure and bite to the position,” said […]

Miami area power West Kendall and the Washington Freedom claimed the first USL Super-20 League titles at the finals in Epping, N.H. Led by former U.S. U-20 keeper Diego Restrepo, West Kendall prevailed over the New York Red Bulls, 7-6, on penalty kicks after their game ended in a 1-1 tie. The Freedom also needed […]