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A stoppage-time goal gave Fulham a 2-1 win against Everton in the English FA Cup, advancing to play West Ham in the next round. Carlos Bocanegra had a superb performance for the home team. Kasey Keller, meanwhile, was on the wrong end of one of the greatest comebacks in FA Cup history. Manchester City, missing […]

Seven more WUSA veterans, including U.S. national team pool players LaKeysia Beene and Lorrie Fair and Mexican national-teamer Monica Gonzalez, have signed contracts to play this year with the California Storm of the Women's Premier Soccer League. Their additions give the Sacramento-based team 10 players who competed last season in the WUSA. Four of the […]

The Los Angeles Galaxy has signed 35-year-old Austrian midfielder Andreas Herzog, who has played for Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich and Rapid Vienna. Herzog, who has represented Austria 103 times, scoring 26 goals, joins a team that after last season bid farewell to playmaker Mauricio Cienfuegos, who retired at age 35. Herzog played eight seasons in […]

The U.S. U-23s took a 3-0 lead within the first 30 minutes of its Olympic qualifying opener against Panama before notching a 4-3 win thanks to Bobby ConveyÆs 79th minute goal Feb. 3 in Guadalajara, Mexico. ''We're always happy to get three points, but we're just disappointed about the manner in which we did it,'' […]

BY RIDGE MAHONEY To qualify for the 2004 Olympic soccer tournament, much depends on how the U.S. team handles the harshness of playing a crowded schedule in Mexico. The eight-team tournament, from which two teams qualify, began Monday night with the host beating Trinidad & Tobago, 3-1, and Costa Rica thumping Jamaica, 3-0. Group B […]

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RESULTS GROUP B Feb. 2 in Guadalajara Costa Rica 3 (Myrie 68, 73, Araya 90) Jamaica 0. Mexico 3 (Rodriguez 44, Perez 60, Cacho 90) Trin. & Tobago 1 (Mitchell 19). Standings: Costa Rica, Mexico 3 points; Trin. & Tobago, Jamaica 0. Att.: 15,000. SCHEDULE (All games in Guadalajara, Mexico; all times are ET.) GROUP […]

Lindsay Tarpley netted her third goal of the tournament and the U.S. women's national team notched its third successive shutout Tuesday, dominating Canada, 2-0, to win the Four Nations tournament for the second year in a row. Tarpley scored in the 13th minute and Joy Fawcett added an 81st-minute penalty kick and the Americans limited […]

Mark Salisbury, who guided Central Michigan University to the past five Mid-American Conference tournaments, has been hired as Idaho State's women's soccer coach. Salisbury, 36, takes over for Gordon Henderson, who left Pocatello in mid-December to take charge at Arkansas. Henderson led the Bengals to the NCAA tournament the past three seasons. Salisbury, who started […]

There is a strong U.S. presence to the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament that kicks off tonight in Guadalajara. There are 32 players taking part in the qualifying who played in U.S. leagues in 2003: 17 in MLS, 10 in college and 5 in the A-League. Besides the 16 MLS veterans on Glenn Myernick's U.S. roster, […]

COSTA RICA Goalkeepers: Victor Bolivar (Municipal Liberia), Adrian De Lemos (Herediano), Nieghel Dormond (Alajuelense); Defenders: Junior Diaz (Herediano), Roy Myrie (Alajuelense), Michael Rodriguez (Alajuelense), Pablo Salazar (Cartagines), Erick Scott (Alajuelense), Michael Umana (Herediano), Jose Villalobos (Cartagines); Midfielders: Leonardo Araya (Santos de Guapiles), Pablo Brenes (Municipal Perez Zeledon), Warren Granados (Alajuelense), Carlos Hernandez (Alajuelense), Jose Luis […]

USA Goalkeepers: D.J. Countess (Dallas Burn), Doug Warren (D.C. United); Defenders: Nat Borchers (Colorado Rapids), Jose Burciaga (Kansas City Wizards), Ricky Lewis (Los Angeles Galaxy), Chad Marshall (Columbus Crew), David Stokes (D.C. United), Zak Whitbread (Liverpool/ENG), Chris Wingert (Columbus Crew); Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman (Colorado Rapids), DaMarcus Beasley (Chicago Fire), Brian Carroll (D.C. United), Bobby Convey […]

Brian McBride scored the game-winning goal in his first match with his new club, Fulham of the English Premier League, in a 2-1 victory over Tottenham. Clint Mathis tallied in his Bundesliga debut with Hannover — a 3-2 win against Hamburg. Eight other Americans started for top-division European clubs over the weekend, including Carlos Bocanegra, […]

Chicago Fire goalkeeper Zach Thornton has signed with Benfica, the Portuguese First Division's most successful team with 33 league titles. Benfica, which is currently in third place, won its last league title in 1994. Thornton, 30, a Maryland product who played college soccer at Loyola (Md.), has played in MLS since its inauguration in 1996. […]

The United States and China played to a 0-0 tie Friday in their second games at the Four Nations women's tournament in Shenzhen, China. It was a evenly played match featuring strong midfield possession by the Chinese, expert backline play by the Americans, low-pressure defense from both sides, and scarce scoring chances. The result left […]

Former MLS forward Johnny Torres scored two goals as Orange County Blue Star, which plays in the fourth-division Premier Development League, held Swedish club Hammarby to a 2-2 tie Saturday in a closed-door match at Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. Torres, a 1997 Hermann Award winner at Creighton who played for the New England […]

Coach Glenn Myernick has named his 20-man roster for the U.S. U-23 men's national team, which begins its Olympic qualifying campaign on Feb. 3 in Guadalajara. The U.S. U-23s face Canada Feb. 5 and Honduras Feb. 7. The top two finishers in the group reach the semifinals, whose winners will earn a spot in next […]

Soccer America Magazine named Saint Louis forward Vedad Ibisevic its 2003 Men's College Freshman of the Year: Unpredictable on the dribble, quick on the trigger with either foot and nasty enough to intimidate some defenders, Ibisevic stormed past Brian McBride's freshman scoring record at SLU and finished with 40 points. COLLEGE: Soccer America 2003 Men's […]

Shannon Boxx scored one goal and helped set up one of two by Lindsay Tarpley as the U.S. women's national team rocked World Cup runner-up Sweden, 3-0, Friday in the opener of the annual Four Nations tournament in Shenzhen, China. Teng Wei scored twice as China dominated Canada in a 2-1 victory in the second […]

CHAD BARRETT (UCLA) Forward from Beaver ton, Ore. A hard-nosed approach yielded 10 goals 8 assists for Oregon native, the only non-Californian on the Pac-10 champion Bruins. RYAN BURKE (VIRGINIA) Goalkeeper from Cumberland Foreside, Maine Finished the season with a 1.12 GAA; helped Cavaliers win ACC Tournament by making six saves in penalty kick tiebreakers. […]

U.S. national team forward Heather O'Reilly is Soccer America's choice as the nation's top college women's freshman. The University of North Carolina star, who scored eight of her 16 goals during the Tar Heels' march through the NCAA tournament toward its 18th national championship, heads Soccer America's 2003 College Women's All-America team. The 11-player team […]

Mexico will face Chile at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 18. It will mark the Mexican national team's second appearance at the Depot, having played El Salvador there last July, a month after the stadium's unveiling. Mexico's last game on U.S. soil was a scoreless tie with Iceland in San […]

Coach John Ellinger has invited three South Californians — Eder Robles, Andreas Andrews and David Arvizu — to join his U-17 residency players in a six-camp in Carson, Calif., beginning Jan. 31. The camp will include a scrimmage with the Los Angeles Galaxy. U-17 '87s TRAINING CAMP ROSTER: GOALKEEPERS: Marcus Rein (Modesto, Calif.), Stephen Sandbo […]

Marco Etcheverry, who has left D.C. United after eight years, will play in Sunday's farewell game for Colombian great Carlos Valderrama. Valderrama, a veteran of three World Cups, played seven seasons in MLS (1996-2002) for Tampa Bay, Miami and Colorado. The game in Barranquilla will pit Colombians against a world all-star team including Eric Cantona, […]

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