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The U.S. U-16 national team rallied from two goals down to beat the Czech Republic, 3-2, Tuesday at the Ballymena Showgrounds in the second game of the 2007 Ballymena International Tournament in Northern Ireland. Dersu Abolfathi, Ryan Finley and captain Kofi Sarkodie scored for the USA to move into first place in Hroup B and […]

U.S. U-17 boys national team coach John Hackworth named his 20-player roster for the CONCACAF Under-17 Group B Qualifying Tournament April 28-May 6 in Kingston, Jamaica. All but one of the players selected are currently in in U.S. Soccer's Under-17 Residency Program based in Bradenton, Fla. Defender Tommy Meyer, who was formerly in Residency for […]

Manchester United will take a 3-2 lead over Italy's AC Milan to the San Siro Stadium for next Wednesday's second leg of their UEFA Champions League semifinal series after coming back from 2-1 down at halftime to win Tuesday thanks to two goals from Wayne Rooney, the second on stoppage time. Manchester United led at […]

Alan Ball, the youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup championship, has died of a heart attack at the age of 61. Ball, whose father of the same name was a soccer player and manager, starred for Everton, Arsenal and Southampton and won 72 caps for England. He was an all-NASL pick for the Philadelphia […]

WEDNESDAY: UEFA Champions League Semifinal, 1st Leg CHELSEA-LIVERPOOL (ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, 2:30 pm ET, live) Liverpool and Chelsea meet Wednesday in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semifinals series, a repeat of their 2005 series Liverpool won en route to its fifth title. Unlike Tuesday's wild-open game between Manchester United and AC Milan, […]

Defending champion Internacional of Brazil and Argentine powerhouse River Plate have already been knocked out of the Libertadores Cup, the South American club championship, and two former champions — Gremio of Brazil and Boca Juniors of Argentina — must win their last matches this week to avoid early exits. Internacional, which also won the 2006 […]

Three weeks into the 2007 MLS season … 3 teams are undefeated: New York (2-0-1), Chicago (2-0-1), Columbus (0-0-3). 5 teams are winless: Columbus, D.C. United, Toronto FC, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles. New England's Taylor Twellman is the leading scorer with 3 goals. New York's Jozy Altidore has two gamewinning goals in three games. […]

In Mexico, left back Edgar Castillo started again for Santos Laguna, which fell, 1-0, to Pachuca. There's one game left in the Clausura 2007 and Santos will be relegated if Queretaro wins its final game. Santos, for which Castillo has appeared in 13 of 16 games, is 11th in the overall standings in the 18-team […]

TUESDAY: UEFA Champions League Semifinal, 1st Leg MAN. UNITED-AC MILAN (ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, 2:30 pm ET, live) It's Manchester United's youth against AC Milan's experience in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semifinal series on Thursday United is led by the Professional Footballer's Association Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo, 22, and Wayne […]

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David Beckham celebrated his return to action after suffering a knee injury last month by setting up a crucial goal as Real Madrid kept its La Liga title hopes alive with a 2-1 victory over Valencia. The 31-year-old Englishman came on as a substitute in the second half and almost immediately made the move pay […]

Champions were crowned in four major European leagues as Inter Milan, Lyon, Celtic and Olympiakos all won their national league titles over the weekend. Italian World Cup champion Marco Materazzi, who was on the receiving end of Zinedine Zidane's head butt in the World Cup final, scored both goals to give Inter Milan a 2-1 […]

The expansion Carolina RailHawks drew a crowd of 6,327 for their first game, a 1-1 tie with Minnesota on Saturday at SAS Soccer Park. Kupono Low's goal in the eighth minute gave Carolina a 1-0 lead, but the Thunder earned its second tie in two nights on a penalty kick by Liberian Ansu Toure. Cuban […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor The New York Red Bulls and FC Dallas posted impressive home wins to set up a Thursday night showdown on ESPN2, Chicago topped Kansas City to keep pace with New York atop the Eastern Conference, and Chivas USA tuned up for the first SuperClasico of the season against the Galaxy […]

Watford's stay in the English Premier League will end after one season. The club that won promotion last season with help from American defender Jay DeMerit's playoff goal, tied Manchester City, 1-1, on Saturday to ruin any chances the last-place team had of avoiding relegation. DeMerit, in his 32nd EPL appearance, went the full 90. […]

The Women's World Cup draw is becoming quite predictable. The United States, the top seed in Group B at the 2007 Women's World Cup, will face North Korea, Sweden and Nigeria — the same three opponents it faced in the first round of the 2003 World Cup. In addition, it marked the third straight time […]

April 19 in Columbus Columbus 2 New England 2. Goals: Grabavoy (Virtuoso, Ngwenya) 8, Kamara (Hejduk, Evans) 86; Dorman (Cristman) 10, Twellman 38. Columbus – Gruenebaum, Hejduk, Gonzalez, Hendrickson, Pierce, Ngwenya (Kamara, 69), Grabavoy, O'Rourke, Gaven, Herron, Virtuoso (Evans, 62). New England – Reis, Heaps, Riley, John, Ralston, Dorman, Joseph, Larentowicz, Smith (Thompson, 60), Twellman, […]

NCAA DIVISION I MEN COLLEGE … OLD COACH … NEW COACH AIR FORCE Luis Sagastume … TBA CHARLOTTE John Tart… Jeremy Gunn (Ft. Lewis coach) DENVER Chad Ashton (D.C. United assistant) … Bobby Muuss (Wake Forest assistant) HIGH POINT Peter Broadley … Dustin Fonder (Elon assistant) HOWARD Keith Tucker … TBA IPFW Terry Stefankiewicz … […]

Big East rivals Rutgers and St. John's will meet Saturday at Raritan High School in Hazlet, N.J. in the first annual Doug Hamilton Memorial Soccer Classic, honoring Doug Hamilton, the late Los Angeles Galaxy president and an important influence within the world of American soccer who passed away suddenly in March 2006 at the age […]

Kiki Bosio (Santa Clara) and Kelly O'Hara (Stanford), 2006 Soccer America All-Freshman first-team selections, are among the players selected to the U.S. Under-21 women's national team roster for the 2007 Futbol Internacional Tournament, taking place April 22-28 at six venues throughout the state of Alabama. O'Hara and UCLA's Danesha Adams, a 2005 Soccer America MVP […]

Notre Dame's Joseph Lapira, the 2006 Soccer America Men's Player of the Year and Hermann Trophy winner, will head to Scotland on the eve of 2007 college season for a tryout at Premier League club Aberdeen. According to Aberdeen youth director Len Taylor, Lapira will arrive Aug. 5 and spend a week with the Dons. […]

St. Louis product Brandon Barklage will transfer to Saint Louis University after spending the previous two seasons at New Mexico. Barklage helped New Mexico to the NCAA Tournament the past two seasons and totaled 19 points (5 goals and 9 assists) in 42 games. Last season, the 5-foot-11 forward earned first-team Mountain Pacific Sports Federation […]

By Ridge Mahoney The Crew is still winless, but no longer is it goalless, and while tying New England, 2-2, Thursday night at Crew Stadium it exposed a few weak spots in a depleted Revs' lineup. James Riley, stepping in for the injured Michael Parkhurst in central defense, let a Frankie Hejduk cross skip under […]

The losers of two 3-4 clashes on Saturday will probably fall from contention in their respective races: Real Madrid-Valencia in Spain and VfB Stuttgart-Bayern Munich in Germany. Inter Milan and Lyon will get another chance to clinch the Italian and French league titles, respectively, but they'll have to do it on the road after putting […]