Category: Soccer America Daily

Germany ended the USA’s run of seven straight Nordic Cup titles when it beat the Americans, 2-0, in the championship game of the under-21 women’s competition. For more on the Nordic Cup: https://www.socceramerica.com/article.asp?Art_ID=562137422

Defender Cat Whitehill scored twice and forwards Heather O’Reilly, Abby Wambach and Natasha Kai also scored goals as the USA beat Ireland, 5-0, Sunday in San Diego. The game drew only 3,574 fans — the smallest crowd ever to watch the U.S. women play in California. For more on USA-Ireland: https://www.socceramerica.com/article.asp?Art_ID=562137421

The defending champion Seattle Sounders were the big winners in USL-1, sweeping a home-and-home series with Portland to move from ninth to a tie for fifth. The PDL and W-League playoff fields are set. In the PDL, the Abbotsford Rangers, Orange County Blue Star, Williamsburg Legacy and Michigan Bucks grabbed the final four spots of […]

The Daily Breeze reported that a Dominguez Hills, Calif., police officer required medical treatment after being hit in the chin with a rock during a battle between about 150 Chivas USA and Club America fans that involved rock and bottle throwing outside the Home Depot Center on Sunday. Ten officers in riot gear and took […]

A 1-1 tie at Chicago ended D.C. United’s win streak at six games but its undefeated run extended to 14 games thanks to Alecko Eskandarian‘s 74th minute goal while Chicago played a man down (yellow-red to Logan Pause, 51st minute). Nate Jaqua scored his fifth goal of the season for the Fire. Peter Vagenas‘ first […]

“But he is exploring business options, including in the United Kingdom where he’s been involved in the business community since 1993. He’s always maintained other businesses outside the Browns.” — Bill Bonsiewicz, spokesman for the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, on reports that Browns owner Randy Lerner is considering purchasing English club Aston Villa. In 2005, Tampa […]

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UCLA’s Danesha Adams scored a hat trick to lead the U.S. under-21 women’s national team to a 4-0 victory over host Norway and advance to the championship game of the Nordic Cup for the ninth consecutive year. The USA will face Germany in the title game on July 22 at Viking Stadium in Stavanger. Noelle […]

Chivas Guadalajara upset Argentine club Velez Sarsfield, 2-1, in Buenos Aires to advance to the Libertadores Cup semifinals for the second straight year. Ramon Morales scored from the penalty spot in the first half and Adolfo Bautista increased the lead while Chivas played with a man down after Diego Martinez‘s ejection. “If you ask me […]

Chivas USA rookie Jonathan Bornstein scored twice, including a long-range shot that gave his team a 3-2 lead in stoppage time, but Colorado scored two minutes later despite playing a man down (yellow-red to Mike Petke) to earn a 3-3 tie. Jacob Peterson tapped in the tying goal after a fine assist by Terry Cooke, […]

This weekend’s MLS action features several clashes between the hot and cold. COLUMBUS CREW (winless in a club record nine games; three straight losses) vs. LOS ANGELES GALAXY (unbeaten in five games; five straight shutouts) Saturday, 4 pm ET, live on ESPN2. KANSAS CITY WIZARDS (six straight losses) vs. NEW YORK RED BULLS (two straight […]

“I think he [Don Garber] was very encouraged by the progress that’s being made and the vision the prospective group has for soccer here and a stadium and facility and all that. He was very upbeat.” — Kansas City general manager Curt Johnson on MLS Commissioner Don Garber‘s visit to Kansas City to speak with […]

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Klaus Augenthaler, coach of German club Wolfsburg, says his players earn too much money to be affected by fines. That’s why players guilty of tardiness and dress-code violations are being punished by having to tell jokes or sing in front of the entire squad. Augenthaler says his German players are free to choose a song […]

The U.S. under-21 women’s national team had to settle for a 1-1 tie with Iceland in the second group match for both teams at the 2006 Nordic Cup in Norway. UCLA’s Danesha Adams tallied on a penalty kick for the lone U.S. score. Iceland’s Margaret Vidarsdottir had scored off a direct free kick after Adams […]

Veteran Chris Henderson beat Columbus keeper Noah Palmer from a tight angle and Jerrod Laventure lobbed him from 28 yards as the New York Red Bulls notched a 2-0 win in Columbus in their first game since Bruce Arena was named head coach. Interim head coach Richie Williams was still on the sidelines for the […]

FIFA has suspended Italian defender Marco Materazzi for two games and fined him $4,000 for provoking French captain Zinedine Zidane to head-butt him during the World Cup final. Both players agreed that Materazzi’s insults were defamatory but not of a racist nature, according to FIFA’s statement, which did not expand on whether the world governing […]

“I think I felt a combination of shock and disappointment. We feel we as players let [Bob Gansler] down.” — Kansas City goalkeeper Bo Oshoniyi after Coach Bob Gansler tendered his resignation at general manager Curt Johnson‘s request. (The Kansas City Star)

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Construction of England’s new Wembley Stadium, already stalled by several delays, suffered another setback when it had to send back hundreds of urinals because the name of their manufacturer, Armitage Shanks, was on the front of them, a violation of the stadium’s non-advertising rules designed to protect official sponsors. Once completed next year, the stadium […]

U.S. midfielder Shannon Boxx tore the anterior cruciate ligament and the medial collateral ligament in her right knee during training on July 17 and will be out six to eight months. The injury occurred during scrimmage collision.. Boxx, who made the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup squad without ever previously having earned a cap, now […]

Carlos Alberto Parreira‘s resignation 10 days after the end of the 2006 World Cup means that only 15 of the 32 World Cup coaches are still at the helm/   Still in charge: Angola: Luis Oliveira Goncalves. Czech Republic: Karel Bruckner. Ecuador: Luis Fernando Suarez. France: Raymond Domenech. Netherlands: Marco van Basten. Paraguay: Anibal Ruiz. […]

Bob Gansler, Kansas City Wizards head coach since 1999 and winner of the 2000 MLS title, has resigned. In seven seasons with the Wizards, the former U.S. national team coach (1982 and 1989-90) compiled a regular-season record of 86-85-51 and a playoff record of 9-8-3. This season, the Wizards are 6-10-2 and are in the […]

“I weighed the Brazilian offer and decided to go with the Red Bulls.” — Bruce Arena, joking upon being named head coach of the New York Red Bulls. (New York Times)

“The fitness coach recently attended a demonstration of a system that can track the movement of the players by satellite. One or two of the first team players were not too pleased as they thought the manager could locate them at any time, not that anyone would be somewhere they shouldn’t.” — Manchester United assistant […]