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A-C-L. They can be the most frightening three letters an injured player hears. The anterior cruciate ligament. Pliable although not elastic, it connects the bones and pretty much holds the knee together. Three prominent U.S. players suffered torn ACL's in 2002. Chris Armas missed the 2002 World Cup after going down a month before the […]

The inevitable is hap-pening. Those stalwarts who were inspired during the NASL years and witnessed its demise are leaving MLS, which they helped found. Eric Wynalda, Marcelo Balboa and Tab Ramos each played in three World Cups. John Harkes played in two. Peter Vermes' only showing was in 1990, but if not for Walter Zenga's […]

April 25 Richmond 3 (Russell 34, Jeffrey 49, Testo 90) Indiana 0. Charlotte 0 Pittsburgh 5 (Woolfolk 4, Evans 13, Martins 14, 32, Villar 70). El Paso 0 Minnesota 1 (Morehead 14). April 26 Atlanta 2 (Nusum 26, Asad 60) Pittsburgh 2 (Woolfolk 4, Martins pen. 70). Virginia Beach 2 (Washington 15, Fenger 38) Indiana […]

Kim Pickup's famed ''flip-throw'' led to the winning goal Sunday as San Diego beat toothless San Jose, 2-1, before 5,965 at Torero Stadium. Julie Fleeting scored one goal and played a role in the winner as the Spirit (2-1, 6 points) rallied from a second-half deficit and moved above .500 for the first time in […]

April 26 at Washington Washington 1 Atlanta 1. Goals: Golebiowski 67; Dominguez 67. Washington — Mullinix, S. Little, Moore, Grubb, Barr, Stoecker, Jones, Lindsey, Golebiowski (Gerardo, 78), Schott (Hamm, 63), Wambach. Atlanta — Scurry, Bivens, Nonen (J. Augustyniak, 93+), N. Augustyniak, Gaston, Miller, Serlenga, Crumpton, Sawa, Dominguez, Hooper (Dieke, 87). Yellow cards: Washington — Golebiowski […]

April 26 at Columbus Columbus 0 MetroStars 1. Goal: Magee 59. Columbus — Busch, Hejduk, Clark, Dunseth, Denton (Walsh, 84), Paule (West, 65), Maisonneuve, Martino, Garcia, Cunningham, McBride. MetroStars — Howard, Leitch, Jolley, Pope, Ziadie, Clark, Mathis, Williams, Wolyniec, DiGiamarino, Moreno (Magee 22; LeBlanc, 86). Yellow Cards: Columbus û Maisonneuve 31; MetroStars û Williams 10. […]

Siri Mullinix stopped a penalty kick and benefited from her woodwork on Saturday as the Washington Freedom held off an inspired Atlanta Beat for a 1-1 draw in the battle of the WUSA unbeatens at RFK Stadium. Atlanta's Maribel Dominguez and Washington's Kelly Golebiowski scored goals 43 seconds apart as the host Freedom (3-0-1, 10 […]

Shannon MacMillan scored four goals and Kristine Lilly earned her world-record 250th cap on Saturday as the U.S. women's national team blitzed a Canadian B side, 6-1, before 5,693 in the rain at RFK Stadium in Washington. MacMillan tallied on a terrific free kick from 20 yards in the 16th minute to pull the Americans […]

Club America lost, 3-1, in its second leg, quarterfinal match against Costa Rica's Alajuela on Wednesday but advances 5-3 on aggregate to an all-Mexican final four. Club America, which won 4-0 at Azteca Stadium last week, faces Toluca. Morelia meets Necaxa. First- and second-leg games for both series are tentatively set for April 30 and […]

Paul Sapsford, who last fall helped guide Stanford University's women's team to a 21-1-1 record and the NCAA quarterfinals, was named as the new head coach at St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., replacing Paul Ratcliffe, who left the Gaels to become the Stanford coach. Sapsford and fellow co-coach Stephanie Erickson were selected Soccer America's […]

Ajax AmsterdamÆs John OÆBrien, the first American to play in the quarterfinal stage of European Champions League, saw his dream of reaching the semifinals end when Jon Dahl Tomasson scored a stoppage time goal to give AC Milan a 3-2 home win the second leg of the quarterfinal series. Having tied 0-0 in Amsterdam two […]

Player of the Week: Roland Aguilera (Virginia Beach Mariners) Team of the Week: G — Eric Pattison (Cincinnati) * Shutout in 1-0 win at Charlotte D — Mark Watson (Charleston) * Solid defensive effort in 2-0 win at Richmond D — Kevin O'Brien (Charlotte) * Solid defensive effort in 1-0 loss against Cincinnati D — […]

Unable to secure travel visas to the United States, Nigeria's women's national team has dropped out of Saturday's exhibition match against the U.S. women at RFK Stadium in Washington and been replaced by Canada. The Nigerians earlier had canceled a pair of closed-door friendlies with the Canadians scheduled for last week in South Carolina. ''We […]

With this week's announcement that Fresno State is dropping men's soccer, the number of NCAA Division I men's soccer programs eliminated in the last decade is 13. That number could grow to 15 if The Citadel and Marshall drops men's soccer. School officials told the military academy's Board of Visitors last Friday it might be […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor HERO: Wizards' keeper Tony Meola helped his team steal a point in San Jose by thwarting Landon Donovan and Brian Mullan with superb saves in their 1-1 tie. Meola dived left to foil Donovan on a long-range drive and snuffed Mullan in overtime for two of his nine saves. HEROIC: […]

Eddie Lewis scored his sixth goal of the season in Preston North End's 2-0 victory over Sheffield United in the English First Division. In the Premier League, Brad Friedel was unable to halt Manchester United and Kasey Keller split two games. ENGLAND * Brad Friedel (Blackburn, PL) at Manchester United, 3-1. Started: 90 minutes. Monday […]

ATLANTA BEAT March 7 — U. of Nebraska at Lincoln, Neb. 3-0 (Miller, Burt, Antongiovanni) March 8 — Philadelphia at Lincoln, Neb. 1-2 (Sawa) March 12 — U. of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tenn. 3-0 (Burt 2, Pohlers) March 15 — Auburn U. at Fayetteville, Ga. 5-0 (Sawa, Crumpton, Gragg, Burt, Warren) March 19 — Carolina […]

By Scott French, Senior Editor COURAGE CRUMBLES: Reigning WUSA champ Carolina is 0-2 following another home loss, this one to Boston, which ran up a three-goal lead before Birgit Prinz ended the shutout bid. Maren Meinert and Dagny Mellgren each scored their second goals of the season as the Breakers bounced back from last week's […]

MLS veteran Dante Washington scored twice, including the gamewinner in the 90th minute, to lead the Virginia Beach Mariners past the Cincinnati Riverhawks, 3-2, in his Mariners' debut Friday night. Also debuting for the Mariners were MLS vets Hamisi Amani-Dove, Roland Aguilera and all-time leading goalscorer Roy Lassiter. Cincinnati turned around the next night to […]

The U.S. under-17 national team had to settle for second place in the Super Group at the Dallas Cup Sunday when it lost to Tigres of Mexico, 2-1 in the final. The U-17s were trying to become the first American team to win the U-19 Super Group but fell behind on two goals in the […]

April 19 at New York New York 0 San Diego 2. Goals: MacMillan (Wagner) 16, Fleeting (MacMillan) 28. New York — Smolak, Pearce, Salisbury (Peters, 47+), Orlandos, Tietjen, Boxx, Janss (Baumgardt-Yamada, 79), Rapp, Pearman (Davey, 78), Milbrett, Welsh. San Diego — Pagliarulo, Connors, Fawcett, Pickup, Daniela, Foudy, MacMillan, Wagner (Fair, 77), Zhang (Krzykowski, 64), Sullivan […]

The Washington Freedom extended its regular-season unbeaten streak to 12 games Saturday with a 2-0 decision over host San Jose in the opener of an MLS-WUSA doubleheader before 17,032 at Spartan Stadium. Mia Hamm converted a ninth-minute penalty kick and Lori Lindsey headed home Jacqui Little's cross in first-half stoppage time for the Freedom (3-0-0, […]

April 19 at Foxboro, Mass. New England 1 Columbus 2. Goals: Ralston (Noonan) 86; Denton 1 (McBride) 12, McBride 1 (Cunningham) 53. New England — Brown, Heaps, Pierce, Franchino, Kante, Ralston, Cullen, Hernandez (Joseph, 45), Kamler (Noonan, 56), Harris (Moore, 80), Twellman. Columbus — Busch, Clark, Hejduk, Denton, Dunseth, Paule, Maisonneuve (Oughton, 75), Martino, Garcia […]

April 19 at Foxboro, Mass. New England 1 Columbus 2. Goals: Ralston (Noonan) 86; Denton 1 (McBride) 12, McBride 1 (Cunningham) 53. New England — Brown, Heaps, Pierce, Franchino, Kante, Ralston, Cullen, Hernandez (Joseph, 45), Kamler (Noonan, 56), Harris (Moore, 80), Twellman. Columbus — Busch, Clark, Hejduk, Denton, Dunseth, Paule, Maisonneuve (Oughton, 75), Martino, Garcia […]

April 19 at New York New York 0 San Diego 2. Goals: MacMillan (Wagner) 16, Fleeting (MacMillan) 28. New York — Smolak, Orlandos, Pearce, Salisbury (Peters, 46), Tietjen, Boxx, Janss (Baumgardt, 79), Rapp, Milbrett, Pearman (Davey, 78), Welsh. San Diego — Pagliarulo, Connors, Fawcett, Pickup, Foudy, Daniela, Wagner (Fair, 77), Zhang (Krzykowski, 64), Fleeting, MacMillan, […]