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Chicago Fire midfielder DaMarcus Beasley, who has three goals in his first two games in World Youth Championship, had this to say on the eve of the final game against Costa Rica March 22 (Galavision, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT, delayed): “This qualifying reminds me a lot of Jamaica and qualifying for the Under-17 World […]

The only constant in the five-year history of MLS in San Jose is disappointment. In what is potentially one of the league’s best markets, it has had only one winning season – in 1999 – and that team missed the playoffs. Perhaps that elusive element luck will lift the San Jose Earthquakes out of the […]

A summary of MLS transactions for March 2001: March 21 Columbus Crew — Traded midfielder Miles Joseph to the Dallas Burn for a conditional fourth-round draft pick in 2002. Dallas Burn — Traded a conditional fourth-round draft pick in 2002 for midfielder Miles Joseph. Kansas City Wizards — Announced retirement of defender Uche Okafor (Nigeria). […]

Leo Perez Jr. of San Antonio, Texas, asks: Was Hugo Perez the first and the last Mexican-American to play for the U.S. national team? Is he still in U.S. Soccer as a coach? Mike Woitalla: Leo, Hugo Perez is a native of El Salvador who immigrated to the United States as a boy and became […]

A summary of MLS transactions for March 2001: March 20 New England Revolution — Re-signed defender Rusty Pierce to a multi-year contract. March 19 Colorado Rapids — Traded forward Matthew Okoh and a second-round pick in the 2002 SuperDraft to the New England Revolution for midfielder Imad Baba and Carlos Parra and the rights to […]

Miami scored a pair of second half goals to defeat San Jose 2-1 in MLS Spring Training Preseason action March 20 at Lockhart Stadium. Fusion SuperDraft pick Greg Simmonds scored the game-winner in the 86th minute. The first-year Miami forward collected a through ball from midfielder Ian Bishop and blasted a left-footed shot from 18 […]

Ian Sawyers was happy as a golf pro. Over the last several years, he has kept himself busy by playing golf and following his wife’s career with the U.S. national team. Sawyers is married to Julie Foudy, whom he wed in 1995. Sawyers was an assistant coach at Stanford for three years during Foudy’s time […]

1 Only one American, Ricky Davis, has ever bagged a hat trick in the CONCACAF Youth Tournament. Davis tallied three times in a 9-0 win against the Dominican Republic on Sept. 26, 1976, in Puerto Rico. 3 Trinidad & Tobago fell, 3-0, to Costa Rica in the tournament opener Sunday night, giving up three goals […]

Major League Soccer’s Competition Committee announced today that the MLS Cup Playoffs will retain the “first team to five points” format for the 2001 MLS Postseason. In addition, the Substitution Rule will remain as 3 + 1. The Competition Committee has also approved adding “Fewest Disciplinary Points” awarded to a team during the regular season […]

D.C. United D.C. United midfielder Bobby Convey scored twice to lead the United States under-20 national team to a 5-0 win against Guatemala in the team’s first match of the CONCACAF Under-20 qualifying tournament March 18 in Tunapuna, Trinidad … United and the Tampa Bay Mutiny will play a scrimmage March 21 at 10 a.m. […]

Tampa Bay rallied to earn a 2-2 draw with Los Angeles at Lockhart Stadium on March 20. Both teams are now 1-0-1 in MLS’ Spring Training 2001 Preseason Tournament. Following a wild finish to regulation, both teams continued to generate chances in the two overtime sessions. Mutiny guest player Paul Schneider headed an easy chance […]

Lafayette coach Tim Lenahan has been named the new Northwestern coach. Lenahan led the Leopards to two Patriot League titles in three years. He had previously built Richard Stockton into a Division III power. Among the players he had at the New Jersey school was Real Madrid midfielder Santiago Solari. Lenahan’s assistant Dennis Bohn takes […]

WUSA Preseason: Complete waiver draft results Here are the results from today’s waiver draft, which began at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. Each draft pick is listed by team, player, the player’s position and the player’s former team. Some teams picked up players they had cut on March 18: First Round Bay Area — Amber Reynolds, […]

National team head coach Bruce Arena has selected 20 players to represent the United States when the team takes on Honduras in its first road World Cup qualifier of the final round on March 28, 2001. That match, which will kick off at 8:30 p.m. ET, will be available to over 45 million U.S. households […]

Saint Louis midfielder Brad Davis came off the bench to score the fifth goal in the 5-0 win over Guatemala. He had this to say on the eve of the match against Trinidad & Tobago March 20. “When we got to the stadium yesterday, walking in to see the crowd — what a great feeling. […]

The U.S. under-20 national team qualified for the World Youth Championship for the third straight time and ninth all-time when it beat host Trinidad & Tobago, 5-1. The victory, coupled with Costa Rica’s 8-1 win over Guatemala, gave the United States and Costa Rica six points after two games. Trinidad & Tobago and Guatemala have […]

The Carolina Courage has waived seven players, reducing its preseason roster to 22 players and making itself eligible for the Tuesday waiver draft. The seven players released are Kelly Berrall, Tracy Grose, Asta Helgadottir, Megan Jeidy, Jessica Post, Staci Reynolds and Erica Westrich. All waived players will be entered into a waiver draft, to be […]

A summary of MLS transactions for March 2001: March 19 Colorado Rapids — Traded forward Matthew Okoh and a second-round pick in the 2002 SuperDraft to the New England Revolution for midfielder Imad Baba and Carlos Parra and the rights to defender Alan Woods. Columbus Crew — Waived defender Matt Chulis and forward Phil Karn. […]

Brian McBride had a pair of goals as Columbus knocked off D.C. United, 3-1, March 19 in MLS Spring Training 2001 action. The Crew (1-0-1) now have eight tournament points, currently good for second place in the preseason tourney standings. “We are getting better each day, today was pretty good after a slow start,” Crew […]

Atlanta won two preseason scrimmages on March 17, defeating Vanderbilt and Florida by identical 1-0 scores at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga. The Beat edged Vanderbilt on a goal from Kerry Gragg in the 35th minute. The goal came off a misplayed ball that fell to the feet of Beat midfielder Nicole Lamb. Lamb […]

Petter Villegas had two goals and an assist as the MetroStars dismantled Dallas 5-0 in MLS Spring Training action on March 19 at a soggy Lockhart Stadium. Both of Villegas’ goals were setup by the hard work of striker Adolfo Valencia. In the 58th minute, Villegas carried the ball down the right wing and played […]

All eight teams released players to meet the league’s March 18 roster cut-down deadline Teams needed to cut their rosters down to 24 players by the deadline. Those that have less than 24 players can participate in the March 20 waiver draft: Atlanta Waived Bryn Blalack, Kim Engesser, Melissa Roth, Wynne McIntosh and Abigail Gillard. […]

In Holland, Earnie Stewart scored an injury-time goal to bring NAC Breda a tie against Heerenveen. Ante Razov, meanwhile, had a bad day with penalty kicks in his team’s 2-1 loss against Universidad in the Spanish second division. Croatia Erik Kuster, Cakonec (D1) DNP vs. Dynamo (0-3). Denmark Will Orben, Viborg (SL) DNP vs. Brondby […]

Julie Foudy, Shannon MacMillan and “Marvelous” Mercy Akide all scored as the San Diego Spirit defeated Beijing FC, 3-0, March 18 at the ARCO Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. The loss ends the Chinese club’s U.S. tour with a 1-3-0 record. It’s only win came in its previous game, a 2-1 result against […]

Recent signing Neathan Gibson had a pair of goals to lead Colorado past New England, 4-2, on Saturday afternoon in MLS Spring Training preseason action. The Rapids (1-1) have scored seven goals in two games in Ft. Lauderdale. “As long as we don’t run out of goals, we’ll be all set,” first-year coach Tim Hankinson […]