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Duke, ranked No. 2 in the Soccer America Men's Top 25, beat Alabama A&M for the first time in four meetings, downing the Bulldogs, 4-1, in a game played in a steady rain on Tuesday night. A&M is not the program it was in the early 1980s when it beat Duke three times, but it […]

William & Mary's Claire Zimmeck is the Soccer America Women's Player of the Week after scoring seven of the Tribe's eight goals, including all three game-winners in three conference victories. The sophomore forward from Fairfax, Va., recorded her second career hat trick in a 3-1 victory over James Madison, had both goals in a 2-0 […]

Twice defender Julian Valentin scored to give streaking Wake Forest 1-0 road wins over Soccer America Top 25 teams and earn Soccer America Men's Player of the Week honors. The Lancaster, Pa., native notched the golden goal in the 103rd minute at Connecticut, heading in a free kick from senior Ryan Solle. Three days later, […]

Manchester United and Lyon maintained their perfect starts to the UEFA Champions League with their third straight wins on Tuesday. Manchester United leads Group F after a 3-0 victory over FC Copenhagen at Old Trafford. Paul Scholes, John O'Shea and Kieran Richardson scored for United in a match notable for 20-year-old Wayne Rooney's debut as […]

Sonny Guadarrama, who has played for the U.S. under-18 and under-20 national teams, has been called into a Mexico U-20 national team camp this week in Mexico City. The 5-foot-7 Guadarrama, the second leading scorer in the NCAA Division I ranks as a freshman in 2005 for Campbell, left school this summer to join Mexican […]

By Ridge Mahoney It could prove be nothing more than sniping by the desperate, but scuttlebutt around the league is that D.C. United's lackluster finish to the regular season may be borne of more than indifference. A stagnant back line, a creaky Jaime Moreno, and a propensity of several players to bark at referees or […]

France leads all nations with 11 players nominated for the 2006 European Player of the Year. The Paris magazine CAMEROON (1): Eto'o (Barcelona).< ECUADOR (1): Mendez (PSV). GHANA (1): Essien (Chelsea). IVORY COAST (1): Drogba (Chelsea). MALI (1): Diarra (Real Madrid). NETHERLANDS (1): Robben (Chelsea), UKRAINE (1): Shevchenko (Chelsea).

One Louisianan could follow another as Men's Player of the Year. Last year it was Maryland's Jason Garey from Gonzales, located between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This year's surprise frontrunner is Notre Dame's Joseph Lapira from Lake Charles in Acadiana. Garey went into his senior year as a legitimate Player of the Year candidate. […]

Franklin Pierce, ranked No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division II men's poll, saw its 14-match unbeaten run to start the season come to an end with a 1-0 loss at St. Michael's in Northeast-10 action. Glenn Sherman scored the match's lone goal with a header off Sam Piotrowski 's corner kick. Freshman Jason Burnett […]

It was never going to be close: Navy, 15-0-0, going against Howard, 0-13-0, on Monday night in Annapolis, Md. The No. 17 Midshipmen, the only unbeaten and untied team in women's soccer, put 10 goals past Howard in the first half before shutting down for the evening. The 10-0 win extended Navy's winning streak to […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR 19 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 15 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 14 Charlie Davies, Boston College, Jr. 14 Jarrod Smith, West Virginia, Sr. 13 Steven Holloway, Monmouth, Sr. 13 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. 13 Jeffrey Gonsalves, Rhode Island, Sr. 12 Patrick Nyarko, Virginia Tech, Soph. 12 Riley O'Neill, Kentucky, […]

Less than six weeks before Canada enters CONCACAF qualifying for the 2007 Women's World Cup, a dispute has surfaced pitting three veteran stars, all residing in the United States, against Canada coach Even Pellerud, the Canadian Soccer Association and millionaire Greg Kerfoot, owner of the W-League champion Vancouver Whitecaps and financial backer of Canada's full-time […]

FIFA will pay out $6 million to the 16 finalists at the 2007 Women's World Cup, including a $1 million bonus to the champions. China '07 will mark the first time FIFA will pay federations for participating in the women's championship. The runners-up will receive $800,000, while the other teams will earn lesser bonuses. The […]

Helio dos Anjos became the fourth coach to depart struggling Brazilian club Sao Caetano this season when he quit after its 2-0 loss at home to Gremio, the seventh loss in seven games since he took over. ''I couldn't go on losing,'' he said. Sao Caetano, runner-up in the 2002 Libertadores Cup, is 19th in […]

Brian McBride celebrated his 100th appearance in the English Premier League with the first goal in Fulham's 2-1 victory over Charlton on Monday night. McBride struck from the edge of the box in the 65th minute with a low shot that was deflected before beating Charlton keeper Antti Niemi. It was the second straight Monday […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK(Last week's results) 1. SMU (13-0-2) 1 10/11 Tulsa 2-0, 10/14 UCF 2-2, OT 2. Duke (10-2-1) 4 10/11 Davidson 3-1, 10/15 N.C. State 4-1 3. Wake Forest (12-2-1) 5 10/11 Connecticut 1-0, OT, 10/13 North Carolina 1-0 4. Virginia (12-2-0) 6 10/11 Maryland 3-0 5. West Virginia (12-1-2) 8 10/11 American […]

Charlie Davies showed why he just might be the best player in college soccer, scoring Boston College's first two goals and assisting on the third as the Eagles upset Maryland, 3-1, Friday night before 6,214 fans, the second-largest crowd ever at Ludwig Field. Davies, the ACC leader in goals and points entering the match, recorded […]

It's been a season of disappointment for the Connecticut women, but they held No. 1 Notre Dame to a 0-0 tie on Friday night, snapping the Irish's 20-game regular-season winning streak. UConn (7-7-1 going into the game) is the first opponent to hold Notre Dame scoreless in almost two years. Canadian keeper Stephanie Labbe was […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK(Weekend Results) 1. Notre Dame (14-0-1) 1 10/13 Connecticut 0-0, OT, 10/15 Providence 5-02. North Carolina (16-1-0) 2 10/12 Boston College 3-1, 10/15 Virginia Tech 1-03. Florida State (11-1-2) 3 10/11 Stetson 2-1, 10/15 Miami, Fla., 2-04. UCLA (12-2-0) 6 10/15 USC 2-1, OT5. Portland (12-2-2) 4 10/13 San Francisco 1-1, OT, […]

Chelsea heads into its Champions League showdown against Barcelona with a goalkeeping crisis after its top two goalies were hurt in the 1-0 win at Reading on Saturday night. Czech star Petr Cech had surgery for a skull fracture after being hit in the face by the knee of Reading midfielder Stephen Hunt. Chelsea manager […]

Benny Feilhaber, a 21-year-old Californian product who left UCLA last year to join Hamburg SV, made his German First Division debut, coming on at halftime of a 2-1 loss to Schalke. The score was tied 1-1 when he replaced 21-year-old Dutch international Nigel de Jong. It took an own goal — Ivar Ingimarsson deflecting a […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor, Soccer America Tales of D.C. UnitedÆs impending demise may yet prove to be greatly exaggerated, but United has certainly given its rivals hopes of knocking off the Eastern Conference champion in the playoffs by losing five of the last seven games. Chicago beat D.C. Sunday, 3-2, with goals by Gonzalo […]

Nicolas Mazzola scored in stoppage time to give host Argentina a 2-1 victory over the USA Friday night in the final of the Torneo Internacional Sub-17 in San Luis. Ellis McLoughlin scored to give the USA a 1-0 lead it carried late into the second half before surrendering two goals in the final 20 minutes. […]

Oct. 14 in East Rutherford, N.J. New York 3 Kansas City 2. Goals: Guevara pen. 31, Guevara pen. 60, Guevara 75; van den Bergh 23, Sealy (Victorine) 83. New York — Conway, Wynne, Mendes, Parke, Dunivant, Guevara, Kovalenko, Henderson (Schopp, 61), Stammler, Altidore (Wolyniec, 81), Djorkaeff (Jolley, 94+). Kansas City — Oshoniyi, Garcia, Conrad, Raybould […]

Harvard crushed No. 15 Brown, 6-2, for a big Ivy League win on the road. Sophomore midfielder Michael Fucito had a monster game with two goals and three assists, while Charles Altchek had two goals in a two-minute stretch early in the second half to put the game out of reach. The Crimson is now […]