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Texas A&M, with a large, skillful group that Aggies coach G. Guerreri calls the best in school history, sits atop Soccer America's list of the nation's Top 10 college women's soccer recruiting classes. A&M's No. 1 class features 11 standouts, including five Parade and/or NSCAA Youth All-Americans and four players on Soccer America's Top 25 […]

Forward Shannon MacMillan, stunningly left off the 18-player Olympic roster, has returned to the U.S. women's national soccer team's Residency in Carson, Calif., as one of four alternates for the Athens Games. Midfielders Lorrie Fair and Tiffany Roberts also have returned to camp as alternates, and Sweden-based goalkeeper Hope Solo will join the U.S. squad […]

Mike Woitalla Executive Editor Soccer America Magazine With Paul Kennedy & Bryan Alvarez 1. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING 2. WINNERS & LOSERS: Mathis breaks drought; Yanks abroad benched 3. OFF THE POST: Dog-induced bike crash downs Depor defender 4. FOR THE RECORD: MLS summaries, College scores and game reports, USA-Iceland women's friendly * BEST OF THE […]

The MLS San Jose Earthquakes advanced to the quarterfinals of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup with a 3-0 win over the A-LeagueÆs Portland Timbers on Wednesday. July 14 in Portland, Ore. Portland 0 San Jose 3. Goals: Ekelund (pen.), 18, Corrales (Ching) 55, De Rosario (Mullan) 80. Portland — J.Saunders, S. Saunders, Wilkinson, Morrison, […]

TAYLOR TWELLMAN scored twice then received a red card as New England beat Chicago, 3-1, to extend the FireÆs winless streak to six games. … In Denver, Los Angeles and Colorado played to a scoreless tie. (home team listed first) July 14 in Foxborough, Mass. NEW ENGLAND (4-8-4, 16 pts.) 3 CHICAGO (4-6-6, 18 pts) […]

MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced Wednesday that Salt Lake City will be the home to the 9-year-old league's 12th team. Chivas USA, the other expansion team for the 2005 season, has yet to announce where it will play. MLS kicked off its inaugural season in 1996 with 10 teams. In 1998, the Chicago Fire and […]

Lori Chalupny, among the final players cut from the U.S. Olympic women's soccer roster, will head to Iceland instead of Greece — as part of the under-21 team seeking the United States' sixth successive Nordic Cup triumph. Chalupny, a junior at the University of North Carolina, is one of four players making their third appearances […]

U.S. under-20 national team coach Thomas Rongen has has two MLS players on his 18-man roster for the 2004 Milk Cup, which takes place in Northern Ireland July 16-23. The Americans face Denmark (July 17), Turkey (July 19) and Wales (July 21) in group play. Rongen's team is preparing for the CONCACAF U-20 qualifying tournament […]

Coach John Ellinger's U-17 U.S. boys national team travels to Blaine, Minn., to play Canada (July 17 & 20) and the youth team of Mexico's Cruz Azul (July 17). Ellinger is preparing a team the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in April or May for the 2005 U-17 World Cup. U-17 ROSTER: GOALKEEPERS Marcus Rein (Modesto, Calif.) […]

American defender Gregg Berhalter was named the fifth best central defender in the German Second Division by German magazine Kicker in its annual season-end rankings. Berhalter, 30, played 31 games and scored five goals during the 2003-04 season for Energie Cottbus, which missed promotion to the First Division on goal difference.

For the second time in three games, host Peru came back from a two-goal deficit to salvage a 2-2 tie. Monday's tie against Colombia came after both had clinched a second-round spot because of Bolivia's 1-1 tie with Venezuela earlier in the day. (Peru had tied Bolivia, 2-2, in their opener.) Bolivia's tie with Venezuela […]

Hope Solo leads Kopparbergs/Goteborg against Sunnana SK on Wedensday, seeking its second successive victory and a winning record heading into the Swedish League's Olympic break. Solo, formerly with the Philadelphia Charge, posted her seventh shutout of the season in a 3-0 victory Sunday over Sjalevads to snap a six-match winless streak. After the match with […]

WOMEN'S PREMIER SOCCER LEAGUE July 3 Northern California Blues 6 (Schindler 18, Fry 28, 78, Shim 39, Martin 58, Miller 64) Central California Gold 0 Ajax of Southern California 2 (Colen 10, Bucciarelli 45) California Storm 3 (Alberico 8, Schott 9, Sissi 14) SWC Houston Stars 2 (Echavarry 26, Garcia 58) Denver Diamonds 0 July […]

July 5 Virginia Beach 2 (Fenger 17, Washington 80) Syracuse 1 (own goal 61). July 7 Richmond 0 Syracuse 2 (Maher 72, Vendegh 77). Montreal 1 (Grande 52) Rochester 0. Seattle 1 (Sakuda 38) Edmonton 0. Portland 6 (Gordon 11, 49, 60, Alvarez 72, 88, Antoniuk 77) Edmonton 1 (Fraser 17). July 8 Toronto 0 […]

July 6 Fort Collins 0 Vancouver 2 (Haxton 9, Trotman 49 July 7 Long Island 2 (OÆBrien 6, Pardini 82) Long Island 0. Seattle 2 (Gamble 13, Frimpong 86) Edmonton 1 (Flock 52). Denver 2 (Theurer 46, Kemp 60) Vancouver 5 (Hermus 37, 66, Allen 55, Neil 64, Franko 77). Carolina 0 Asheville 3 (Potts […]

D.C. United's Freddy Adu is the among 15 reserve players added to the rosters for the July 31 MLS All-Star game. Adu and Dallas forward Jason Kreis were commissioner's picks. The other reserves were selected by All-Star Game coaches Sigi Schmid and Peter Nowak. They are: EAST Jon Busch (Columbus Crew), Bobby Convey (D.C. United), […]

Below are the 22 starters for the 2004 MLS All-Star Game July 31. They were elected through voting by (a) fans, (b) media, (c) players and (d) coaches and general managers with each group representing 25 percent of the final tally. The 17-year old MetroStars midfielder Eddie Gaven becomes the youngest player ever selected to […]

Carlos Bocanegra's goal two minutes from the final whistle gave the United States a 1-1 tie with Poland Sunday before 39,529 fans at Chicago's Soldier Field in its last game before opening the semifinal round of World Cup qualifying. The tie increases the U.S. undefeated streak to seven games. Its is 5-1-3 in 2004. Bocanegra's […]

Three Americans scored goals in European women's action over the weekend, leading their clubs to victories in Finland and Iceland. Rachel Kruze made her debut for Iceland's IBV, and her former Philadelphia Charge teammate Hope Solo posted her seventh shutout for Sweden's Kopparbergs/Goteborg. Former Duquesne University defender Becky Barritt scored her first Finnish League goal […]

July 10 in East Rutherford, NJ Metrostars 2 San Jose 0. Goals: Wolyniec (Ziadie, Guevara) 63, Guevara pen. 93+. MetroStars – Walker, Ziadie, Arena, Parke, Leitch, Vaca, Clark, Magee (Glen, 89), Wolyniec, Guevara, Galvan Rey (Brenes, 76). San Jose – Onstad, Waibel, Cochrane (Alvarez, 32), Dunivant, Agoos, Mulrooney, Corrales (Dombrowski, 74), Hart, Ekelund, De Rosario, […]

The USA faces Poland in Chicago on Sunday (7 pm ET, live on ESPN2) in its the final tune-up before the start of the semifinal round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying, which the USA kicks off Aug. 18 at Jamaica. The USA, which lost to Poland, 3-1, in the first round of the 2002 World […]

CLINT MATHIS, who established himself as Hannover 96's attacking midfielder after joining the German First Division team at the winter break of last season, will get competition next season from 25-year-old Portuguese Ricardo Sousa, whom Hannover signed from Boavista to a three-year contract. ''He is just the player I wanted,'' said Hannover coach Ewald Lienen. […]

IBV and Stjarnan, both with two Americans on their rosters, look for spots in the Icelandic Women's Cup final four this weekend. IBV, making its debut in the VISA-Bikar Kvenna, takes on lower-division Throttur Reykjavik in a quarterfinal match Friday. Former Philadelphia Charge defender Rachel Kruze hopes to make her club debut in the match […]

Saturday, July 10, 4:00 pm ET/1:00 pm PT METROSTARS (5-6-4, 19 pts) vs. SAN JOSE (4-5-5, 17 pts) TV: ESPN2. Key Players Out: San Jose – DF Chris Roner (R ankle surgery), DF Eddie Robinson (L hamstring rupture), FW Brian Ching (national team duty – USA), MD Brian Mullan (national team duty – USA), MD […]

Day 3 of the Copa America produced the lowest-scoring action of the tournament after its first four games averaged four goals per game. Paraguay needed a penalty kick to down Costa Rica while an incohesive Brazil mustered a win over Chile with a Luis Fabiano header from a stoppage-time penalty kick. Group C July 9 […]