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Group A Oct. 7 Portugal 3 (Cristiano Ronaldo 25, 63, Ricardo Carvalho 30) Azerbaijan 0. Serbia 1 (Zigic 54) Belgium 0. Armenia 0 Finland 0. Kazakhstan 0 Poland 1 (Smolarek 52). Group B Oct. 7 Italy 2 (Oddo pen. 71, Toni 79) Ukraine 0. Scotland 1 (Caldwell 67) France 0. Faroe Islands 0 Lithuania 1 […]

Abby Wambach's second goal of the game two minutes into stoppage time gave the USA a dramatic 2-1 victory over Iceland in a women's friendly on Sunday afternoon in Richmond, Va. Wambach took a pass from Stephanie Lopez at the top of the penalty box on the left side, powered her way through the Icelandic […]

Oct. 7 in Washington, D.C. D.C. United 1 New England 2. Goals: Gomez (Moreno, Namoff) 26; Dempsey (Dorman) 34, Twellman (Heaps, Dorman) 47. D.C. United – Perkins, Namoff, Boswell, Prideaux, Donnet (deRoux, 61), Carroll, Gomez, Olsen, Adu (Walker, 82), Dyachenko (Eskandarian, 61), Moreno. New England – Reis, Ralston, Heaps, Parkhurst, Lochhead (Hernandez, 66), Dorman, Franchino, […]

STANDINGS Eastern Conference Team W-L-T PTS D.C. United 15-6-10 55 New England 11-8-12 45 Chicago 12-11-8 44 Kansas City 10-13-8 38 New York 8-11-12 36 Columbus 8-14-9 33 Western Conference Team W-L-T PTS FC Dallas 16-11-4 52 Houston 11-8-12 45 Chivas USA 10-9-12 42 Colorado 11-13-7 40 Real Salt Lake 10-13-8 38 Los Angeles 10-15-6 […]

1008msl mon By Ridge Mahoney The MLS flagship franchise has been sunk, and as its fluttering colors sink below the waves, the recriminations begin. Heading into Saturday night's battle with FC Dallas (16-11-4) at Pizza Hut Park, the Galaxy trailed fourth-place Colorado by three points and needed at least a tie to keep its playoff […]

All-American Kerri Hanks scored the first three goals and assisted on the fourth in leading No. 1 Notre Dame to a 5-0 victory over Seton Hall Friday before another near-capacity crowd of 3,168. Hanks, who scored 28 goals as a freshman, had endured plenty of near-misses early in the 2006 season. Her hat trick gives […]

Stephen King tallied the equalizer midway through the second half to give No. 2 Maryland a 1-1 tie at No. 3 North Carolina. Englishman Ben Hunter scored in the seventh minute of play to give the Tar Heels the lead to the delight of the crowd of 3,581 fans, the third largest crowd in UNC […]

U.S. men's national team assistant Glenn Myernick remained unconsciousness after suffering a heart attack on Thursday near his home in Colorado. Myernick is in intensive care at North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Colo. He was Bruce Arena's assistant coach at the last two World Cup. He's served as a U.S. Soccer coach twice (1992-97 […]

The 2006 Women's Gold Cup, which will serve as qualifying for the 2007 Women's World Cup, will take place in Miami and Carson, Calif., Nov. 19-26. Jamaica, Mexico, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago playing first-round matches on Nov. 19 at Miami's Tropical Park Stadium. The winners will meet the USA or Canada in the semifinals […]

It's No. 2 vs. No. 3 as defending champion Maryland takes a six-game winning streak into its ACC men's showdown at North Carolina Friday night in the Fox Soccer Channel's NSCAA Match of the Week series (TV: live, 8 pm ET). The No. 2 Terrapins lost last year's Hermann Trophy winner Jason Garey, who joined […]

GALAXY GUT CHECK. The defending champions preserved their playoff hopes Saturday by knocking off tenants Chivas USA, 3-0. Still, they are two games under .500 (they finished 13-13-6 last year, by the way) heading into a tough away-and-home duet with Dallas. The Texas leg is Saturday, where LA lost, 1-0, May 10 to a Carlos […]

Portland All-American Megan Rapinoe left defending NCAA Division I women's champion Portland's game against Washington State late in the first half Thursday with a left knee injury and did not return. Rapinoe, who began the week tied for fourth in the country with 10 goals, will have further tests taken to determine the severity of […]

North Carolina's freshmen came through again to lead the No. 3 Tar Heels to their 13th straight victory with a 2-0 victory at No. 12 Virginia in ACC women's action on Thursday night. Whitney Engen and Ali Hawkins scored in a span of just over 10 minutes midway through the first half. Engen took a […]

Eckerd knocked Lynn, No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division II Men's Top 25, from the unbeaten ranks with a 2-1 victory in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Wednesday night. The Fighting Knights dug themselves a big hole in the first half. Luke Sheekey's opening goal for Eckerd marked the first time Lynn trailed in 837 […]

The U.S. U-17 boys national team's month-long trip to South America is quickly turning into a learning experience. In the first of nine games in Uruguay and Argentina, the U-17s were crushed by Uruguay, 6-1, at the Estadio Centenario, site of the inaugural World Cup final in 1930. Uruguayan referee Fernando Falce whistled the USA […]

SCOTLAND-FRANCE. Scotland opened with two wins but needs to get at least a point against France to probably have any chance of advancing in Group B, easily the most difficult of the seven groups. France coach Raymond Domenech expects a challenge similar to that which the Bleus faced in September 2005 when they traveled to […]

Five college freshmen and one college junior are among the 16 players called up for the U.S. under-20 national team camp Oct. 8-12 in Sunrise, Fla. Coach Thomas Rongen called up goalies Brian Perk (UCLA), Joe Willis (Denver) and defenders Nick Cardenas (San Diego State), Amaechi Igwe (Santa Clara) and midfielder Stephen McCarthy (Santa Clara), […]

UC Santa Barbara and No. 11 UCLA, who meet Thursday in the first West Coast clash of the NSCAA Match of the Week series on Fox Soccer Channel (TV, live, 11 pm ET), have had their ups and downs in the 2006 men's season. The Gauchos opened with a 5-0 win over nationally ranked Akron […]

When Davy Arnaud brushed past him to set up a goal for Josh Wolff in the fifth minute of Real Salt Lake's game against Kansas City last weekend, Carey Talley again felt a dreaded sense of deja vu. For the third straight game, Salt Lake had fallen behind early. For a team locked in a […]

A German judge struck down a lawsuit by a homeowner who complained about the noise emanating from First Division club Alemannia Aachen's stadium. The judge acknowledged evidence that the cheering exceeded the legal decibel limit when the newly promoted team scores, but because that happens rarely during its biweekly home games, it cannot be considered […]

The Mexican national team, which wore Nike for the last four years, has signed an eight-year deal to be clothed by adidas. The Associated Press reported that adidas did not disclose the price of the contract, but Mexican newspapers estimated that El Tri will receive between $70 million and $88 million.

Santa Clara, the only Soccer America Women's Top 25 team in action on Wednesday, crushed neighboring San Jose State, 6-0. Lexi Orand led the No. 5 Broncos with two goals and one assist. Meagan Snell scored her team-high ninth goal and added two assists. Elsewhere, Rutgers (10-1-1) continued its best start in school history with […]

Notre Dame forward Joseph Lapira registered his fourth straight two-goal match to lead the No. 10 Irish to a 2-0 win at Michigan on Wednesday evening. Lapira, who entered the match tied for the national lead in goals, now has 15 goals in 13 games. No. 9 Indiana got a pair of first-half goals from […]

Northwestern's hard-luck senior, Will Nicholas, was lost for the season with a torn ACL in his right knee in the Wildcats' win over Loyola (Ill.) last week. It was the third ACL tear Nicholas has suffered in an addition to a broken leg that cut short his sophomore season in 2004. The former FC Delco […]

Notre Dame freshman Michele Weissenhofer is the Soccer America Women's Player of the Week after leading the No. 1 Irish their 10th and 11th straight wins of the season. Weissenhofer's game-tying goal in the second half sparked a three-goal comeback in a 3-1 win over previously unbeaten West Virginia. She added the primary assist on […]