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By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor The Revs and Fire remain winless, San Jose gets off the schneid, Fabian Taylor upstages Freddy's first goal, and Tony Meola's 50th shutout helps Kansas City to victory. BEST GOAL: Bikes are hard to beat and Dwayne DeRosario's overhead strike keyed a rally that powered San Jose past New England, […]

April 17 Puerto Rico 0 Toronto 1 (Garba 100). Richmond 0 Charleston 2 (Simmonds 31, Goos 54).

Hope Solo, the former University of Washington All-American and Philadelphia Charge goalkeeper, notched her second shutout for Kopparbergs/Goteborg, leading the club to another 1-0 Damallsvenskan victory, this time over Sjalevads IK in K/G's home opener. Solo, who shutout Sunnana SK the previous week, faced few tests in shutting down Sjalevads, and Sofia Palmqvist netted K/Goteborg's […]

WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE April 16 Central California Gold 2 (Tafolla 9, Van Dyke 26) California Storm 5 (Whitney 11, Sissi 15, Phillips 48, Burt 80, Hemoch 90)

The Baltimore Blast, defending Major Indoor Soccer champion, and the Milwaukee Wave advanced to the MISL championship series with one-sided victories in Friday's semifinals. The Blast scored the first four goals and held the visiting Dallas Sidekicks scoreless until the second half in a 6-1 romp at 1st Mariner Arena. Milwaukee also netted the first […]

April 17 in East Rutherford, NJ Metrostars 3 DC United 2. Goals: Taylor 50, Wolyniec (Guevara) 57, Taylor (Gaven) 63; Olsen (Kovalenko, Moreno) 26, Adu (Gros) 75. MetroStars – Walker, Ziadie, Bonseu, Pope (Parke, 66), Leitch, Vaca, Guevara, Lisi (Clark, 73), Gaven, Wolyniec, Magee (Taylor, 46). DC United – Warren, Namoff, Carroll, Nelsen, Petke, Stewart, […]

Former Atlanta Beat defenders Julie and Nancy Augustyniak meet up with ex-UCLA standout Tracey Winzen on Sunday when FFC Turbine Potsdam is home against VfL Wolfsburg in German League action. Turbine, featuring the Augustyniak twins, are one point behind FFC Frankfurt in the Frauen-Bundesliga. Wolfsburg, with Winzen (who was in the San Diego Spirit's preseason […]

The USA's final game before the start of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup will pit Bruce Arena's men against Honduras, which is coached by former U.S. national team coach Bora Milutinovic (1991-95). Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., will host the game June 2, 11 days before the USA faces Grenada June 13 in the […]

Ajax Amsterdam has extended American John O'Brien's contract through the summer of 2005. O'Brien, 26, has played only four Dutch League games this season because of various injuries. The Californian, who joined Ajax as a teenager, played every minute of the USA's five games at the 2002 World Cup after helping Ajax win the 2001-02 […]

(Home teams listed first) Saturday, April 17, 4 pm ET/1 pm PT METROSTARS (1-0-0, 3 pts) vs. DC UNITED (1-0-1, 4 pts). TV: ESPN2. Key Players Out: Metrostars – none; DC United — FW Santino Quaranta (adductor tear), FW Eliseo Quintanilla (R fibula fracture), FW Thiago Martins (L ACL surgery). Referee: Alex Prus. Saturday, April […]

Swedish national-teamer Therese Sjogran netted a pair of goals as Malmo FF, with former Rutgers University standout Denise Reddy in central defense, routed host Balinge IF, 5-1, Thursday in a Swedish Damallsvenskan opener. Sjogran's 25th-minute goal broke a 1-1 tie, and Malmo added three goals in the final 22 minutes — including Sjogran's 75th-minute strike […]

The Chicago Fire fell, 2-0, to Costa Rican club Saprissa Wednesday in the first-leg of their CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinal series. Both goals came in the second half with each team playing a man down. Saprissa's Victor Cordero was ejected in the 29th minute on a straight red following his foul on C.J. Brown. Two […]

Geoffrey Bennett, who guided the women's soccer programs at St. Bonaventure and Rhode Island before returning to Hartwick College, his alma mater, was announced Wednesday as the new head coach of Colorado College's women's program. Bennett, who led Rhode Island to the NCAA tournament in 2002, served last season as assistant coach for Hartwick's men's […]

Goalkeeper Brad Friedel and his Blackburn teammates emerged with three crucial points after Jonathan Stead's 75th-minute goal broke a 3-3 tie with Fulham for a 4-3 win. Blackburn is in 16th place in the English Premier League, three points above the relegation zone. In Germany, Tony Sanneh finally made his first appearance of the season […]

Former Philadelphia Charge goalkeeper Hope Solo turned in a clean sheet in her Swedish League debut as Kopparbergs/Goteborg toppled host Sunnana SK, 1-0, in a Damallsvenskan opener Monday. Brazilian midfielder Daniela, who played for the San Diego Spirit last season, scored the lone goal, in the 65th minute. Former Atlanta Beat defender Nancy Augustyniak played […]

Fresh off a red-card suspension, Daniel Hernandez scored on a long-range free kick for Necaxa's lone goal in a 3-1 loss to Cruz Azul. It was the Texan's second goal of the Torneo Clausura. In Germany, Hannover picked up its second straight win, pulling Clint Mathis and Steve Cherundolo's team to 11th place and four […]

The U.S. under-16 national team finished last in the eight-team Montaigu Tournament in France when it fell to Cameroon, 2-0, on two late goals in the seventh-place game on Monday. The Americans had opened with a 1-1 tie with Italy but lost their next two group games (3-1 to England and 1-0 to Ivory Coast). […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor Ties all around, even in Edmond, Okla., where the Wizards and Burn play a 1-1 stalemate in an exhibition. In league action, the Fire goes goalless for the second straight week yet ties the Quakes, 0-0; and the Galaxy and D.C. United finish up with a goal apiece. GOALS: Good […]

Renate Lingor scorched a Malmo FF defense featuring former Rutgers University standout Denise Reddy for three goals on Sunday as FFC Frankfurt returned to the UEFA Women's Cup final with a 4-1 romp in the second leg of the semifinals. Frankfurt, which won the inaugural title in 2002 but was ousted in the semifinals last […]

April 10 in San Jose. San Jose 0 Chicago 0. San Jose – Onstad, Hart, Dayak, Robinson, Agoos, Mullan, Ekelund, Mulrooney, Corrales, Donovan, De Rosario (Ching, 71). Chicago – Ring, Gray, Curtin, Griffin (Mapp, 74), Whitfield, Jaqua, Armas, Williams, Beasley, Razov (Selolwane, 89), Ralph. Yellow Card: Chicago – Ralph 90. Red Card: San Jose – […]

The Dallas Sidekicks and Kansas City Comets scored late goals Saturday night to advance to the Major Indoor Soccer League semifinals. The Sidekicks rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the visiting Cleveland Force, 7-4, before 3,238 at Reunion Arena. Dallas, the Western Division champion, will play at Eastern champ Baltimore in a semifinal match […]

After two largely disappointing displays and early elimination from title contention, the U.S. under-19 women's team broke out in Saturday's finale at the four-nation tournament in Carson, Calif., routing China, 4-0, as Angie Woznuk netted a pair of goals. Japan, which clinched the Philips Lighting Women's Tournament championship with a victory Thursday night over the […]

Saturday, April 10, 4 pm ET/2 pm CT/1 pm PT SAN JOSE (0-1-0, 0 pts) vs. CHICAGO (0-0-1, 1 pt). TV: ESPN2 Key Players Out: San Jose — DF Ryan Cochrane (L torn meniscus), DF Chris Roner (R ankle surgery), DF Craig Waibel (red card suspension); Chicago – MD Jesse Marsch (R ankle cartilage damage), […]

The U.S. U-16 national team lost, 3-1, to England in its second game at the Montaigu Tournament in Montaigu, France. Newcomer Preston Zimmerman scored the only goal for the Americans off Michael Balogun's cross to give them the lead early in the second half, but the English recovered to score three unanswered goals. April 8 […]

An Aya Miyama header from a sharp cross led Japan's under-19 women's team past the United States' U-19s, 1-0, on Thursday night to clinch the title of a four-nation tournament at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. Miyama nodded home Nahomi Kawasumi's cross from the right wing in the 79th minute as the Japanese, […]