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Sept. 23 #1 New Mexico 2 (Wright 41, 53) SMU 0. #2 North Carolina 1 (Campbell 62) Clemson 0. #16 Connecticut 0 #6 St. JohnÆs 0 (OT). (Game draws 5,271 fans at Morrone Stadium.) Tulsa 1 (Wear 57) #9 Creighton 0. #10 UC Santa Barbara 3 (Byrne 23, Becerra 53, 57) Alabama A&M 1 (Kimbugwe […]

MLS Summaries (Sept. 24-25) Sept. 24 in Foxboro, Mass. New England 1 Metrostars 0. Goal: Riley (Twellman, Noonan) 85. New England – Reis, Heaps, Parkhurst, Franchino, Ralston, Dempsey, Hernandez, Joseph, Leonard (Riley, 62), Twellman, Noonan. MetroStars – Meola, Leitch, Agoos, Mendes, Ward, Gaven (Galvan Rey, 81), Bradley, Guevara, Magee (Lisi, 74), Djorkaeff, Razov. Yellow Cards: […]

Sept. 23 Seattle 2 (Sturm 10, OÆBrien 22) Montreal 2 (Gbeke 86, 88). Richmond 3 (Delicate 12, 55, Worthen 65) Rochester 1 (own goal 15). Sept. 25 Montreal 1 (Gbeke 72) Seattle 2 (Whitfield 59, Levesque 90). (Seattle wins 4-3 on aggregate.) Rochester 1 (Miller pen. 90) Richmond 1 (Delicate 51) (Richmond wins 4-2 on […]

Roger Levesque scored in the 90th minute to give the visiting Seattle Sounders a 2-1 victory over the defending champion Montreal Impact before 10,124 fans in Montreal and a 4-3 victory on aggregate in the USL Division I semifinals. The Sounders, last yearÆs runners-up, advance to the final at home Oct. 1 against Richmond. The […]

Sept. 23 #1 New Mexico 2 (Wright 41, 53) SMU 0. #2 North Carolina 1 (Campbell 62) Clemson 0. #16 Connecticut 0 #6 St. JohnÆs 0. (Game draws 5,271 fans at Morrone Stadium.) Tulsa 1 (Wear 57) #9 Creighton 0. #10 UC Santa Barbara 3 (Byrne 23, Becerra 53, 57) Alabama A&M 1 (Kimbugwe 71). […]

Group A Sept. 16 in Trujillo Costa Rica 1 (Carrillo 10) China 1 (Tang 17). Peru 1 (Chavez pen. 12) Ghana 1 (own goal 62). Sept. 19 in Trujillo Costa Rica 1 (Borges 47) Ghana 1 (Quartey 58). Peru 0 China 1 (Deng 13). Sept. 22 in Iquitos Peru 0 Costa Rica 2 (Solorzano 45, […]

Sept. 23 #2 Portland 3 (Sinclair 19, 27, Rapinoe 32) #21 Arizona 0. #3 Penn State 2 (Aden-Buie 37, Weimer 64) Indiana 0. #4 UCLA 1 (Adams 56) Denver 0. #5 Notre Dame 4 (Dew 16, Bock 40, Hanks 70, 76) Cincinnati 0. (Irish home unbeaten streak against Big East foes is 61 games.) #6 […]

The United States tied Ivory Coast, 1-1, Friday in its final game of group play at the Under-17 World Championship in Peru. The Americans won Group C with the tie and move into the quarterfinals, where they face Gambia, Brazil or the Netherlands on Monday. Jeremy Hall scored on a header for the Americans in […]

Winners: Chilean club UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA overcame a two-goal deficit to down D.C. United, 3-2, in a round of 16, second-leg match in the Copa Sudamericana to advance, 4-3, on aggregate. United had gone ahead on a Christian Gomez goal and an own goal off the back of keeper Jose Maria Buljubasich, who was hit by […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor Soccer America Magazine With D.C. United defender Bobby Boswell probably having lost his spot to Argentine import Facundo Erpen, the only rookie college products starting regularly on the back line in MLS team are Michael Parkhurst (Revolution), Tim Ward (Metros), Ugo Ihemelu (Galaxy), and Hunter Freeman (Rapids). For much of […]

Fans of the Bundesliga team that ends Bayern Munich's record winning streak — currently at 15 games – will be given 10,000 liters (2,643 gallons) of beer by the Bitburger brewery. Supporters of Hamburg SV, which faces Bayern Saturday, have the first chance at the dry, full-bodied pilsner. ''We're hoping that this will encourage the […]

Winners: In the English Carling League Cup, BRIAN McBRIDE saved Fulham against fourth-tier Lincoln City by scoring a gamewinner in the 120th minute of a 5-4 barn-burner. BLACKBURN, with Brad Friedel in goal, downed third-tier Huddersfield, 3-1. Defender Jonathan Spector went 90 minutes in CHARLSTON's 3-1 win over third-tier Hartlepool. Keeper Marcus Hahnemann played but […]

Nearly 300 fans of Gambia's U-17 team made it on time to the West African team's world championship game against Qatar in Piura, Peru, because the pilots faked an emergency landing. The jet, chartered by President Yahya Jammeh, was headed to Lima, 550 miles to the south of Piura. The connection in Lima would have […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor Soccer America Magazine Shelved by Bora Milutinovic, utilized by Steve Sampson and platooned by Bruce Arena, U.S. keeper Kasey Keller has outlasted dozens of national team players as well as several coaches to emerge as the undisputed No. 1 keeper. Nearly every time Kasey Keller puts on the U.S. jersey, […]

By Mike Woitalla, Executive Editor Soccer America Magazine Minnesota coach Buzz Lagos moves on after 16 years in charge of the minor league power. Buzz Lagos knew nothing about the sport until he hit his 20s. He hadnÆt even seen a soccer game. Then in 1966 he started working toward a math PhD. at the […]

By Paul Kennedy, Managing Editor Soccer America Magazine ROMARIO REVELATIONS '100 percent unfaithful' Certain Brazilian stars have a reputation for being womanizers. Romario, star of BrazilÆs 1994 World Cup championship team, goes so far as to admit heÆs ''100 percent unfaithful.'' He told the Sunday magazine Tudo de Bom that during USA 1994 he brought […]

By Mike Woitalla, Executive Editor Soccer America Magazine Going from the sheltered life of the college campus to professional sports presents a number of challenges. HereÆs how a quartet of MLS rookies have coped and excelled. Chris Rolfe (Chicago) MAKING IT IN THE WINDY CITY He grew up in Kettering, Ohio, a city of 57,000, […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor Soccer America Magazine Earlier this year, MLS officials volunteered to experiment with goal-line cameras to determine whether or not the ball crossed the line. ''Lipstick'' cameras – so named because they are the about the size of a tube of lipstick – could be installed and operated at little cost […]

Which of these future U.S. World Cup players from the University of Virginia didnÆt in an NCAA title during his stint in Charlottesville? a. Jeff Agoos b. John Harkes c. Tony Meola d. Claudio Reyna ANSWER: John Harkes, who played for the Cavs in 1985-87. They didn't win their first title until 1989, sharing the […]

U.S. coach John Hackworth On the victory: ''We came out and we executed our game plan. We didnÆt finish any chances in the first half which was unfortunate because I really thought we played well for 45 minutes and we should have gone into halftime with something better than 0-0. But we came out of […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor Soccer America Magazine Revs players complained that several of the MetroStars' goals in their 5-4 win over New England Saturday appeared to be offside, but of the nine goals, only two – one for each side – are in doubt. More concerning to Stevie Nicol and his players, however, is […]

After a less than impressive showing in its opening win against North Korea Saturday, the USA put it all together in a 3-1 win over Italy that moved it into the quarterfinals of the Under-17 World Championship in Peru. A terrible blunder by U.S. keeper Bryant Rueckner – his second in two games – gifted […]

The following is the Soccer America College Men's Top 25. This week's scores and goalscorers and schedules appear below. TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. New Mexico (6-0-0) 2 2. North Carolina (5-0-1) 3 3. Maryland (5-2-0) 6 4. California (5-0-1) 8 5. Indiana (4-0-2) 4 6. St. JohnÆs (4-1-1) 9 7. Duke (4-1-1) 10 8. […]

Omar Cummings (Cincinnati), Jr. Twice scores from long distance – 50-yard lob, then 25-yard bullet – in BearcatsÆ 2-0 victory over then-No. 1 UConn.

GOALKEEPER Brian Levey (New Hampshire), Jr. Extends shutout streak to just over 550 minutes before conceding goal in 2-1 win over Furman, then makes key late save in 2-0 victory over Coastal Carolina at Harvard Invitational. DEFENDERS Eric Brunner (Ohio State), Soph. Leads OSU defense that shuts out Cal State Fullerton, then assists on go-ahead […]