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The USA, along with Canada, has qualified from the CONCACAF region for November's 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, where the Americans will face host Brazil, Japan and Poland in the group stage.At the qualifying tournament in Costa Rica, the USA lost, 3-2, to the host Ticos on Sunday after having […]

The U.S. U-17s beat their Guatemalan counterparts twice in three days in Bradenton, Fla. Guatemala, which aims to reach the U-17 World Cup for the first time in history, is coached by American Tim Hankinson, who coached in MLS in 1998-2004. Israel Sesay, a Sierra Leone native who recently obtained U.S. citizenship, scored twice for […]

GOALSCORING Jeff Cunningham (Real Salt Lake) 15 Ante Razov (Chivas USA) 14 Brian Ching (Houston) 10 Dwayne De Rosario (Houston) 10 Christian Gomez (D.C. United) 10 Jaime Moreno (D.C. United) 10 Carlos Ruiz (FC Dallas) 10 ASSISTS Terry Cooke (Colorado) 10 Jeff Cunningham (Real Salt Lake) 10 Christian Gomez (D.C. United) 9 FOULS COMMITTED Simo […]

Brazil is the best represented country in the European Champions League, based on the number of field players who saw action when the competition's group stage kicked off. Thirty-two teams are vying for the title of Europe's top club and in last week's 16 games the 65 Brazilians who played accounted for 14.07 percent of […]

MEN G Player, School, Year 12 Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville, Sr. 10 Kevin Forrest, Washington, Jr. 10 Riley O'Neill, Kentucky, Sr. 8 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. 7 Braden Fleak, Wright State, Fr. 7 Mike Grella, Duke, Soph. 7 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 7 Frederico Moojen, Clemson, Sr. 7 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 7 Brad […]

The much-traveled Robbie C'debaca scored the first and last goal in leading Trinity (Texas), ranked No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Men's Division III Top 25, to its fifth straight win of the season with a 4-1 win over Southwestern. C'debaca, one of four Albuquerque, N.M., products on the Tigers' roster, spent time in Dutch […]

For a team that didn't have a coach until hours before the start of preseason practice, the West Virginia men's team isn't doing too badly. The Mountaineers are 6-0-2 and ranked 12th in the Soccer America Men's Top 25 going into Tuesday's game at No. 1 Virginia. In the aftermath of the ouster of Mike […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. Virginia (7-0-0) 2 2. Clemson (7-0-0) 3 3. SMU (7-0-1) 1 4. Duke (7-0-1) 4 5. Maryland (6-1-0) 6 6. Wake Forest (6-1-0) 7 7. Washington (7-0-0) 10 8. North Carolina (6-2-0) 5 9. UCLA (4-2-1) 16 10. UIC (6-0-2) 11 11. Akron (6-1-0) 12 12. West Virginia (6-0-2) 14 […]

The USA, along with Canada, has qualified from the CONCACAF region for NovemberÆs 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, where the Americans will face host Brazil, Japan and Poland in the group stage. At the qualifying tournament in Costa Rica, the USA lost, 3-2, to the host Ticos on Sunday after […]

The U.S. U-17s beat their Guatemalan counterparts twice in three days in Bradenton, Fla. Guatemala, which aims to reach the U-17 World Cup for the first time in history, is coached by American Tim Hankinson, who coached in MLS in 1998-2004. Israel Sesay, a Sierra Leone native who recently obtained U.S. citizenship, scored twice for […]

The much-traveled Robbie C'debaca scored the first and last goal in leading Trinity (Texas), ranked No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Men's Division III Top 25, to its fifth straight win of the season with a 4-1 win over Southwestern. C'debaca, one of four Albuquerque, N.M., products on the Tigers' roster, spent time in Dutch club […]

Virginia moved into the top spot in the Soccer America Men's Top 25 with a 3-2 victory over Boston College in overtime on Friday. Junior midfielder Jeremy Barlow delivered his second game-winning goal of the season six minutes into overtime to the delight of a season-high 3,839 fans at Klockner Stadium. The Cavaliers won their […]

Boston University pulled off the biggest upset of the 2006 women's season when it beat Santa Clara, 1-0, Friday night at the Stanford Nike Classic. Sophomore Marisha Schumacher-Hodge fed senior Lauren Erwin, who scored with a blast from 15 yards for the game's only goal in the 63rd minute. Senior goalie Stephanie Dreyer made five […]

The Vancouver Whitecaps and Charleston Battery moved into the semifinals of the USL First Division's playoffs with victories in the first round of the playoffs. Vancouver knocked off expansion Miami FC, 6-1, on aggregate. Brazilian great Romario scored Miami's only goal. Former MLS player Stephen Armstrong's second-half goal gave Charleston a 1-0 win at Puerto […]

The weekend's five MLS games produced as many red cards as goals – seven. In the one high-scoring game, Real Salt Lake prevented West leader FC Dallas from clinching a playoff spot with a 3-2 win in which Salt Lake got goals from Andy Williams, Chris Klein and Jason Kreis, whose seventh goal of the […]

DaMarcus Beasley came on as a 35th-minute sub to make his English Premier League debut for Manchester City, which is loaning him from PSV Eindhoven. Claudio Reyna remained on the bench as Manchester City fell, 4-2, to Blackburn, whose keeper, Brad Friedel, was beaten on an own goal and a one-on-one. Beasley committed the foul […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. Florida State (6-0-0) 1 2. Notre Dame (8-0-0) 2 3. UCLA (6-1-0) 4 4. North Carolina (8-1-0) 5 5. Portland (5-2-1) 8 6. Santa Clara (6-2-0) 3 7. West Virginia (7-0-1) 6 8. Penn State (4-2-2) 9 9. Rice (7-0-1) 11 10. Villanova (8-0-0) 13 11. Texas (6-2-1) 14 12. […]

Sept. 16 in East Rutherford, N.J. New York 1 Columbus 0. Goal: Altidore (Stammler) 83. New York – Conway, Wynne, Mendes, Parke, Stammler, Henderson (Vide, 81), Djorkaeff, O'Rourke (Magee, 61), Kovalenko, Wolyniec (Altidore, 74), Buddle. Columbus – Gaudette, Leitch, Gonzalez, Marshall, Pierce, Hendrickson, Oughton (Vasquez, 79), Gaven, Ngwenya, Garey (Thomas, 74), Virtuoso (Kamara, 61). Yellow […]

The Vancouver Whitecaps and Charleston Battery moved into the semifinals of the USL First Division's playoffs with victories in the first round of the playoffs. Vancouver knocked off expansion Miami FC, 6-1, on aggregate. Brazilian great Romario scored Miami's only goal. Former MLS player Stephen Armstrong's second-half goal gave Charelston a 1-0 win at Puerto […]

New Mexico, the 2005 NCAA Division I runner-up, showed it's still a team to be reckoned with when it held top-ranked SMU to a 1-1 tie Friday night  on the first day of the TLC Plumbing & Utility Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M. SMU now posts a 7-0-1 record, while unranked New Mexico is 2-2-2. Adrian […]

Boston University pulled off the biggest upset in the history of its women's program when it beat No. 3 Santa Clara, 1-0, Friday night at the Stanford Nike Classic. Sophomore Marisha Schumacher-Hodge  fed senior Lauren Erwin, who scored with a blast from 15 yards for the game's only goal in the 63rd minute. Senior goalie […]

Groundbreaking on the New York Red Bulls' $200 million stadium project in Harrison, N.J., takes place this Tuesday. The project includes a 25,000-seat stadium scheduled to be ready in mid-2008. … Real Salt Lake has released a statement regarding its stadium proposal that includes: ''We NEVER have — and we never will — propose taking […]

Finnish forward Shefki Kuqi's switch from Blackburn Rovers to Crystal Palace almost fell through because, on the last day before the transfer deadline, a Rovers' employee accidentally faxed the transfer forms to a fish and chips restaurant instead of the English Football Assocation. (There was only a one-digit difference in the number.) The FA accepted […]

The New England Revolution, which has scored just 30 goals in 27 games, has signed 33-year-old Mexican striker Jose Manuel Abundis. The former Mexican national team player scored six goals in 17 games during Toluca's 2005 Apertura title run and over his career notched scored 92 goals in 305 Mexican League games. … New England […]

Barcelona had never sold space on its players' jerseys to advertisers even though other mega-clubs like Real Madrid and Manchester United earn about $35 million in annual revenue by turning their players into billboards. Now the Catalan team's players are sporting a logo, but the club is paying, not accepting money. Ronaldinho & Co., now […]