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MEN’S NCAA DIVISION II Central Region 1 Lewis 9-2-2 DA St. Joseph 2-1, DA Saginaw Valley 1-0 2 Truman State 8-2-1 DA St. Joseph 3-1, DA Indianapolis 3-0 3 IUP-Fort Wayne 8-2-2 TA SIU-E 0-0 4 Rockhurst 8-3-1 DH SIU-E 2-1, TH Midwestern State 2-2 5 Quincy 7-4-2 DH Lindenwood 4-0, DH Bellarmine 4-0, DH […]

Regional club championship blighted by organizational problems on and off the field The organization formerly known as CONCACAF cannot, unfortunately, change its reputation as easily as its name. Not even the gaudiness and glitz of America’s gambling capital can cast a flattering light on The Football Confederation’s crowning of Necaxa as regional club champion. Events […]

Craig Adelman Los Angeles, Calif. The Chicago Fire has four very good foreign players on its roster and Dema Kovalenko as a Project-40 player, who doesn’t count against the team’s allotment of four foreigners. Can Kovalenko stay a Project-40 player for another year or will the Fire have to make a decision on which foreign […]

WOMEN’S NCAA DIVISION III Central Region 1 Macalester 11-1-0 DA Concordia-Moorehead 4-0, DH Bethel 3-0 2 Washington U 9-2-0 LA Rochester 1-2, DA Brandeis 2-0 3 Chicago 7-2-1 DH WI-Stevens Point 2-0, DA Brandeis 3-0, DA Rochester 1-0 3 WI-Stevens Point 11-2-0 DA La Crosse 7-0, LA Chicago 0-2, DH St. Norbert 2-0 5 Gustavus […]

POSITION/PLAYER G Jon Conway (Rutgers) (1) 12 saves in Big East wins over Seton Hall and UConn D Chad Evans (Wake Forest) (1) 3 goals in wins over Radford and N.C. State D Aaron Rickard (SW Missouri) (1) Strong D and assisted on OT winner vs. Tulsa M Sasha Victorine (UCLA) (2) Scored winners against […]

WOMEN’S NCAA DIVISION I Central Region 1 Nebraska 12-1-1 DA Denver 2-0, DA Colorado 9-0 2 SMU 10-3-0 DH Tulsa 3-1, DH UTEP 2-0 3 Missouri 10-3-0 DH Oklahoma 2-0, DH Oklahoma State 3-0 4 Texas A&M 10-4-0 LA Baylor 0-1, LA Texas Tech 0-1 5 Baylor 9-5-0 DH Texas A&M 1-0, LH Texas 2-4 […]

MEN’S NCAA DIVISION I SCHOOL RECORD PTS. 1 Santa Clara 11-0-0 479 2 Duke 7-0-2 454 3 St. Louis 10-1-1 425 4 Indiana 9-2-0 408 5 Penn State 11-1-0 375 6 UCLA 9-1-0 351 7 Wake Forest 8-0-3 330 8 San Diego 10-1-0 293 9 Maryland 8-3-0 271 10 SW Missouri 10-0-1 254 11 Furman […]

WOMEN’S NCAA DIVISION II Central Region 1 North Dakota State 9-1-1 DH Nebraska-Omaha 3-1 2 Northern Kentucky 12-2-0 LA Southern Indiana 0-2, LA SIU-Edwardsville 1-3 2 UMN-Duluth 9-1-0 DH St. Scholastica 6-0, DA Northern State 1-0, DA Minnesota-Morris 3-0 4 Minnesota State 9-4-1 DH WI-River Falls 4-1 4 Indianapolis 10-3-0 DA WI-Parkside 4-0 6 SIU-Edwardsville […]

The Rochester Rhinos got late goals from Doug Miller and Yuri Allnutt to beat the Hershey Wildcats, 3-1, and advance to the A-League championship against Minnesota Oct. 16 in Blaine, Minn. The final is a repeat of last year’s final Rochester won at home. Rochester recovered after Hershey’s Tim Leonard had tied the score in […]

Mike High Point, N.C. Is there any reasonable ongoing work by MLS with the intent to sign Americans abroad who might not be playing much or playing at a lower level, such as Jovan Kirovski, David Wagner and Brad Friedel? Ridge Mahoney: Mike, neither Kirovski nor Friedel have expressed any desire to play in MLS. […]

‘It’s got to be credible and authentic’ Since he left NFL International, MLS Commissioner Don Garber has spent much of his time learning about the sport he is responsible for marketing. SOCCER AMERICA: What have been your primary tasks during the past three months? DON GARBER: I have to explain who I am, and convince […]

Former MLS Deputy Commissioner Sunil Gulati has been named Managing Director of Kraft Soccer Properties, the group that oversees the two MLS teams it runs, the New England Revolution and San Jose Clash. Also, Brian O’Donovan was named the Chief Operating Officer of the New England Revolution and will hold overall responsibility for the business […]

Goalkeeper Scott Garlick (3) Tampa Bay Defenders Jeff Bilyk (1) Miami Ezra Hendrickson (3) Los Angeles Mauricio Wright (11) San Jose Midfielders Rich Kotschau (1) Tampa Bay Oscar Pareja (2) Dallas Mauricio Solis (1) San Jose John Harkes (1) New England Forwards Jason Kreis (8) Dallas Manny Lagos (4) Tampa Bay Eric Wynalda (1) Miami […]

Peter Charbonneau Gansevoort, N.Y. Where do I find information about soccer demographics? For example: What is the average annual income of a soccer family? What do they drink? Coke or Pepsi. Are there more soccer players in the suburbs or the cities? etc. Mike Woitalla: I don’t know how easy it would be to find […]

Here is the Soccer America Women’s Top 20, taking into account games played through Oct. 10: Rank/Team Record Last Week 1. Santa Clara 13-0-0 1 2. North Carolina 11-2-0 3 3. Florida 12-1-0 2 4. Nebraska 12-1-1 4 5. Penn State 10-2-1 5 6. Notre Dame 11-2-0 6 7. Wake Forest 8-2-0 8 8. Clemson […]

Here is the Soccer America Men’s Top 20, taking into account games played through Oct. 10: Rank/Team Record Last Week 1. Indiana 9-2-0 1 2. UCLA 9-1-0 2 3. Santa Clara 11-0-0 3 4. Penn State 11-1-0 4 5. Saint Louis 10-1-1 5 6. Duke 7-0-2 6 7. SW Missouri 10-0-1 8 8. San Diego […]

Canada and Haiti advanced to the 2000 Gold Cup (Feb. 10-27 in Los Angeles, San Diego and Miami). Canada and Haiti qualified out of a four-team playoff round-robin from which Canada finished first. Haiti, tied with Cuba on points, advanced on its head-to-head result with Cuba. Canada and Haiti complete a field of 12 Gold […]

American star Alexi Lalas announced his retirement Oct. 9 following the Kansas City Wizards’ final game of the ’99 MLS season against Los Angeles. Lalas, 29, earned 98 appearances for the U.S. national team, received the 1995 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year Award and became the only American in the modern era to play […]

First Team: Goalkeeper — John Swallen (Minnesota-USA). Defenders — Scott Schweitzer (Rochester-USA), Craig Demmin (Rochester-Trinidad & Tobago), Tenywa Bonseu (Pittsburgh-Uganda), Kalin Bankov (Minnesota-Bulgaria). Midfielders — Carlos Farias (San Diego-Chile), Mac Cozier (Jacksonville-USA), Mauro Biello (Rochester-Canada). Strikers — Mark Baena (Seattle-USA), Ernest Inneh (Staten Island-Nigeria), Niall Thompson (Vancouver-Canada). Second Team: Goalkeeper — Pat Onstad (Rochester-Canada). Defenders […]

FIELD Hosts (2 teams) Belgium Netherlands Group champions (9 teams) Czech Republic France Germany Italy Norway Romania Spain Sweden Yugoslavia Best No. 2 (1 team) Portugal Playoff teams (4 qualify) Denmark England Ireland Israel Scotland Slovenia Turkey Ukraine RESULTS GROUP 1 Oct. 9 in Minsk Belarus 0 Italy 0. Att.: 32,000. Oct. 9 in Wrexham […]

Summaries Oct. 10 in Louisville, Ky. USA 4 Brazil 2. Goals: Hamm 18, 60, Lilly 38, 88 (pen.); Nildinha 21, 30. Att.: 35,211. USA — Scurry, Overbeck, Whalen, Pearce, Fawcett, Foudy (Chastain, 46), Lilly, MacMillan (Roberts, 67), Parlow, Milbrett, Hamm. Brazil — Andreia, Juliana, Fanta, Suzana (Sissi, 61), Fabiana, Cidinha (Robertinha, 90), Deva, Daniela, Raquel […]

The U.S. women’s national team drew the largest soccer crowd in Kansas City history for its 6-0 win over Finland in the nightcap of the Nike U.S. Women’s Cup ’99 at Arrowhead Stadium. The crowd of 36,405 fans was the largest soccer crowd in Kansas City history. In the first match of the evening, Brazil […]

Glenn Auve Arlington, Va. Why was the CONCACAF Champions Cup not being played in accordance with FIFA Laws of the Game? Specifically, the reports I read regarding the venue have stated that the field was a mere 64 yards wide. For international matches the minimum width is required to be 70 yards. Is there a […]

You can’t argue against foreign players in MLS. Even if American talent could support an entire league, we’d still want players from around the world to spice up the soccer on our shores. But foreign coaches? Every team that reached a final during the first three seasons was led by an American ù Lothar Osiander, […]

The defending Western Conference champion Minnesota Thunder edged the San Diego Flash, 2-1, in the Game 2 of the Western Conference Championship series to advance to the A-League final against Rochester or Hershey. A Douglas Stadium crowd of 2,983 watched as Minnesota swept San Diego for the second year in a row. The Thunder won […]