Category: Soccer America Daily

U.S. women’s national team head coach Greg Ryan named the 18-player roster that will face Sweden on Saturday at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn., in the first home match of the year for the USA (TV: ESPN2, live, 6 pm ET).   The match marks the 14th time the U.S. women have played in […]

California resident Juergen Klinsmann, who led host Germany to a surprisingly strong third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup, won’t stay on national team coach, according to reports in the German press. Klinsmann, whose contract expired on Sunday, came in for heavy criticism for long periods of his tenure as national team coach because of […]

“In a way, I think every new World Cup can be the ‘best World Cup ever’ because the tournament has this potential to bring even more people  together, with nations and cultures setting aside their differences in their shared appreciation of soccer.” — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on the World Cup. Clinton, who attended […]

After opening winless through 11 games, the Toronto Lynx recorded two stunning wins in a row, downing first-place Vancouver 2-1 and Charleston 1-0. Only seven points separates first from 10th and last-place Toronto, surprisingly, is only 13 points back from the playoff zone in a draw-filled USL First Division table. Teams are beginning to clinch […]

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D.C. extended its winning streak to five games and its unbeaten streak to 12 games with a 1-0 win at Columbus. Alecko Eskandarian scored on a long free kick in the 43rd minute, then was red carded in the second half after colliding with Marcos Gonzalez. — Houston’s unbeaten streak is eight games after beating […]

The Italy-France World Cup final earned a 7.0 rating on ABC, nearly three times the 2.5 rating for the 2002 World Cup final between Brazil and Germany.  This year’s telecast averaged nearly 12 million viewers (people 2+) and 7,750,000 homes. The rating was ABC’s third-highest rated men’s soccer game and also the third most-viewed since the […]

Italy won its fourth World Cup with its shootout victory over France on Sunday. All four World Cup titles have come on European soil. COUNTRY TITLES (YEARS) Brazil 5 (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002) Italy 4 (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006) Germany 3 (1954, 1974, 1990) Uruguay 2 (1930, 1950) Argentina 2 (1978, 1986) England 1 […]

“When he is calmer, he will speak. When I saw him at 2 a.m., he was very sad. He didn’t want to end his career like this. He was simply very sad. He was very sad for everything that happened, but this is life. He is a human being, not a god.” — Zinedine Zidane‘s […]

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Coach Kazbek Tambi will bring 24 players to the U.S. under-16 girls national team training camp at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., July 10-16. Tambi called up two U-15s: defender Amber Brooks and midfielder Kristen Mewis. For the U.S. U-16 girls roster: https://www.socceramerica.com/article.asp?Art_ID=562137392

Coach Erica Walsh brings 24 U.S. U-17 girls national team players for a camp July 7-17 in Seattle and Canada. The U.S. U-17s will play the W-League’s Seattle Sounders Saints (July 12) and Vancouver Whitecaps Women (July 14 and 16). Of the 24 players, Walsh is giving first looks to several players, including goalkeeper Hailee DeYoung […]

U.S. U-21 women’s national team head coach Jillian Ellis has named the 18-player squad that will travel to Norway for the 16th Nordic Cup being held July 16-22 . The Nordic Cup is the top competition in the world for U-21 women and the focus of the USA’s oldest youth national team. The USA has […]

Four MLS players — forward Quavas Kirk, midfielder Dax McCarty and defenders Nathan Sturgis and Tim Ward — were removed from the U.S. roster for games against Canada July 7 at Toronto’s SkyDome and July 9 in Kingston, Ont. Kirk and Sturgis were recalled by the L.A. Galaxy. The Columbus Crew requested Ward. McCarty was unable to […]

USL-1 club Montreal announced plans for a $15-million soccer stadium and training complex to be built near Olympic Stadium. The site became available when the Olympic Installations Board, the agency that runs Olympic Park, offered free land in the park near Olympic Stadium. Saputo Stadium, which could be ready to open by fall 2007, will […]

Tuesday’s Germany-Italy semifinal delivered a 4.1 rating, making it the highest-rated non-U.S. game ever on ESPN and the third highest-rated World Cup game ever on the network. The Portugal-France semifinal on Wednesday garnered a 2.6 rating. Here’s a look at the average ratings on the three Disney networks ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 through 62 games. […]

“SUM helped launch us into an entirely different level of respect and credibility. It’s raised the commercial value of the sport in this country. MLS is one of the boats in a rising tide.” — MLS Commissioner Don Garber on MLS’s marketing affiliate Soccer United Marketing that has had the U.S. English-language TV rights to […]

The World Cup, Bruce Arena and his players, tactics, refereeing and more. https://www.socceramerica.com/article.asp?Art_ID=562137386

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The Dallas Texans won six titles and finished second in three other age groups at the U.S. Youth Soccer’s Region III Championships in North Little Rock, Ark. The Dallas Texans Reds U-18 boys will defend title at the National Championships later this month in Des Moines, Iowa, after crushing Atlanta powerhouse Concorde Fire Elite, 4-0, in the final. […]

Youri Djorkaeff, one of the few former international superstars to have endeared themselves to New York fans for his professionalism during his stint in MLS, had indeed traveled to France to attend to “a serious family matter.” That is what Djorkaeff’s brother, Denis, told bigapplesoccer.com, a New York soccer web site. Youri had flown to Paris to […]

“For the American soccer fan, then, Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos is like a bolt of lightning on a sunny day: an explosion of sudden, blinding power that comes utterly out of nowhere, so unexpected that it leaves you breathless. It’s a wide-eyed, delirious celebration of American soccer, […]

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FC Delco and PDA won three boys and girls championships, respectively, at the U.S. Youth Soccer Region I Championships in Virginia Beach, Va.  The U-18 FC Delco Crunch earned its first trip to the National Championships after seven regional appearances. Sisters Sara Murphy (Wildcats), Erin Murphy (Pride) and Melissa Murphy (Charge) all won titles with PDA. […]

Hall of Famer Umberto Abronzino, a Northern California soccer pioneer, passed away July 1 at the age of 85. Abronzino came to the United States from Italy in 1937 at the age of 17 and moved to the Bay Area from Connecticut in 1952. He organized the Peninsula Soccer League and served as an officer in […]