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Brazil, which faces Switzerland in a friendly on Wednesday (TV: Live on Fox Soccer Channel & Fox Sports en Espanol, 2:30 pm ET), hopes to extend its four-game unbeaten run, which started after Dunga took the coaching helm following the Brazilians' disappointing World Cup '06 showing. After a 1-1 tie at Norway, Dunga guided the […]

Before Freddy Adu, Junior Agogo was supposed to be MLS's big Ghana-born star. Agogo, born in Accra, played for five English clubs before moving to MLS, where he debuted at the age of 20 for the Chicago Fire in 2000. But after one game, he was traded to Colorado, and then moved to San Jose, […]

Injuries are forcing national team coaches to make last-minute moves before Wednesday's Euro 2008 qualifiers and international friendlies. But as Germany coach Joachim Loew discovered, it's important to have to have the right telephone number when making these callups. Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Paul Freier almost missed his call-up as a replacement in Germany's squad for […]

CANADA GK: Leisha Alcia (Ottawa Fury), Erin McLeod (Vancouver Whitecaps); DF: Sasha Andrews (Vancouver Whitecaps), Melanie Booth (Univ. fo Florida/USA), Candace Chapman (Vancouver Whitecaps), Martina Franko (Vancouver Whitecaps), Robyn Gayle (Univ. of North Carolina/USA), Randee Hermus (Vancouver Whitecaps), Kristina Kiss (no club), Isabelle Morneau (Laval Cometes), Sophie Schmidt (Vancouver Whitecaps); MD: Diana Matheson (Princeton Univ.), […]

MLS Best XI GOALKEEPER: Troy Perkins (D.C. United) DEFENDERS: Bobby Boswell (D.C. United), Jose Burciaga Jr. (Kansas City Wizards), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards) MIDFIELDERS: Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Clint Dempsey (New England Revolution), Dwayne De Rosario (Houston Dynamo), Christian Gomez (D.C. United), Justin Mapp (Chicago Fire) FORWARDS: Jeff Cunningham (Real Salt Lake), Jaime Moreno […]

Another Division I men's soccer program has been dropped. The University of Central Arkansas has announced the elimination of the men's intercollegiate soccer program, which played its first season of Division I ball in 2006. The move stems from UCA's failure to find a D1 soccer conference in which to play. Athletic Director John Thompson […]

Texas, one of four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Division I Women's Tournament, earned a shootout victory over Connecticut Monday afternoon in a game delayed 24 hours because of inclement weather and moved from UConn's Morrone Field to Yousef Al-Marzook Field on the campus of the University of Hartford. The Longhorns edged UConn, 3-1, […]

Michael Videira of No. 1 Duke leads the 15 players named as semifinalists for the 2006 Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Trophy. Videira and Notre Dame < >Greg Dalby are the only repeats from last year's short list. Notre Dame (Joseph Lapira and Dalby), SMU (Bruno Guarda and Jay Needham), Maryland (Maurice Edu and Stephen King) […]

Ever wished your school could appeal its non-selection to the Big Dance? That's what NAIA school Oklahoma Christian University did — and it won. It was successful in its appeal of the selection process for the 2006 NAIA women's championships and was granted a berth in the national tournament after first being overlooked in favor […]

North Carolina forward Heather O'Reilly and Nebraska midfielder Brittany Timko have been named to the women's short list for the Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Trophy for the third straight year. Both Notre Dame selections — midfielder Jen Buczkowski and Kerri Hanks — are repeat semifinalists. North Carolina Yael Averbuch and O'Reilly) and Portland (Stephanie Lopez […]

American Afshin Ghotbi, an assistant coach with South Korea's national team, was denied a visa to enter his native Iran, where Iran and South Korea are set to square off in an Asian Cup qualifier on Wednesday. Ghotbi, 42, left Iran in his early teens and now has American citizenship. He joined the South Korea […]

By Ridge Mahoney Starting next season, MLS teams will be required to field at least two youth teams, the first step in a program of club-driven player development. Ultimately, each league team will field six youth teams ranging in age from U-14 to U-25. Each youth team will include up to 18 players and teams […]

Two MLS head coaching jobs are open and a third may be also if Sigi Schmid leaves Columbus to work with Juergen Klinsmann, whose employment as U.S. national team head coach is drawing near. As to this possibility, Schmid said only, ''You'd have to ask [U.S. Soccer president] Sunil Gulati or Juergen.'' Schmid has stated […]

By Ridge Mahoney in Frisco, Texas The performance of both teams in this year's MLS championship game personified their past histories, which meant failure again for the Revs and triumph again for Houston. A turgid match, much of it as dreary as a 0-0 scoreline would indicate, lit up in the second overtime with the […]

Barcelona moved back into first place in Spain's La Liga with a 3-1 win over Real Zaragoza on Sunday, but the victory was potentially costly as Barca fears Argentine teenager Lionel Messi will be sidelined for up to three months after suffering a foot injury during the game. The 19-year-old Messi limped off in the […]

Two Americans met in Germany when Hamburg SV, with defensive midfielder Benny Feilhaber, 21, now a regular starter, tied 1-1 at Borussia Moenchengladbach, whose keeper Kasey Keller, who left the game with a shoulder injury in the 32nd minute, after which HSV got its goal. Defender Steve Cherundolo and Hannover 96 came back to earth […]

Defending women's champion Portland led a group of six unseeded teams into the NCAA Division I women's sweet 16. Soccer America's NCAA Division I Women's Tournament Scoreboard Rachael Rapinoe, twin sister of injured star Megan Rapinoe, scored the winning goal in a 2-1 win victory over BYU on Thursday, and scored two more goals in […]

Washington's Kevin Forrest, the Pac-10 Player of the Year, and Brown's Andrew Daniels were the scoring stars of the first round of the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament, leading their teams to victory with hat tricks. Soccer America's NCAA Division I Men's Tournament Scoreboard Forrest scored three goals — the first two 75 seconds part […]

NCAA DIVISION 2 MEN. Defending champion Ft. Lewis moved into this weekend's final four in Pensacola, Fla., with a 5-2 victory over 2004 champion Seattle. John Cunliffe, who scored his 27th goal of the season, Kieran Hall and Nick Kirchhof led the Skyhawks with a goal and an assist apiece. Also moving into the final […]

Upstate New York schools Nazareth and Medaille played a 20-round shootout before Nazareth prevailed in the second round of the NCAA Division III Men's Tournament on Saturday. Nazareth had leads of 1-0 and 2-1, but the host Mavericks answered each time, the second time on Ryan Mangino's Division III-leading 34th goal of the season. Regulation […]

For the second time in three years, Richland College of Dallas swept the NJCAA Division II men's and women's titles. The Thunderducks won the men's final with a 3-1 win over host Herkimer County on MVP Alberto's Rodriguez's hat trick, and the women's championship with a 1-0 victory over Brookdale on Karina Davila's goal in […]

USC pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of the NCAA Division I Women's Tournament when it beat No. 1 seed Santa Clara, 1-0, in the first round on Friday night before a stunned crowd at Buck Shaw Stadium. After 11 straight years of reaching the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, fate finally caught […]

MEN Semifinals Nov. 11 in Herkimer, N.Y. Herkimer County 1 Potomac State 0 Richland 2 Nassau 0 Third-Place Game Nov. 12 in Herkimer, N.Y. Potomac State 1 Nassau Final Nov. 12 in Herkimer, N.Y. Richland 3 Herkimer County 1 WOMEN Semifinals Nov. 11 in Herkimer, N.Y. Brrokdale 0 Mohawk Valley 0 (OT) (Brookdale wins 3-2 […]

First Round Nov. 8 Loras 1 Wisconsin-Oshkosh 0 UC Santa Cruz 3 Claremont 0 Villa Julie 3 Notre Dame (Md.) 1 Capital 1 Kenyon 2 Nov. 10 Ithaca 4 Brockport State 0 Messiah 6 Penn State-Behrend 0 Nov. 11 Maryville (Tenn.) 2 Methodist 0 Washington & Lee 6 Meredith 0 Montclair State 1 Nazareth 0 […]

First Round Nov. 8 Wesleyan 5 Baruch 0 Nazareth 2 Geneseo State 0 Rochester 1 Hamilton 0 Chris. Newport 4 Chestnut Hill 0 Keene St. 2 Lasell 0 Hobart 0 Elizabethtown 0 (OT) (Hobart wins 5-3 on penalties.) Bethany 0 Denison 1 Nov. 10 Washington U. 0 Wheaton (Ill.) 1 Redlands 4 Fontbonne 0 Ohio […]