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April 7 in Commerce City, Colo. Colorado 2 D.C. United 1. Goals: Gomez (Cooke) 19, Brown (Cooke, Beckerman) 35; Emilio (Casal, Olsen) 80. Colorado – Coundoul, Prideaux, Ihemelu, Petke, Vanney, Cooke, Beckerman, Kirovski (Mastroeni, 60), Gomez, Brown, Hernandez (Peterson, 79). D.C. United – Perkins, Erpen, Boswell, Namoff, deRoux (Casal, 58), Carroll, Gomez, Moose (Fred, 54), […]

By Mike Woitalla Senior Editor The uniform remains a red-and-white striped jersey that's said to stir Mexican pride like the tricolor flag with the snake-chomping eagle. The players? Not so Mexican. Going into its third MLS season, Chivas USA's key player signings are a Honduran, a Romanian, a Cuban and an Englishman. Its new head […]

MLS marketing and public relations vet Dan Courtemanche predicts a stellar 2007 season. Had Dan Courtemanche accepted that office-supply sales job instead of opting for an unpaid internship with a sports marketing firm 17 years ago, he probably wouldn't have been ''trying to manage a tidal wave'' on the 11th day of 2007. A few […]

Leaders of the NSCAA Black Soccer Coaches Committee hail the increase of black players in mainstream American soccer — but now await an increase in opportunities for black coaches. Hylton Dayes, the chairman of the BSCC, is the head coach of the University of Cincinnati and a Region II ODP coach. ''I got here in […]

The increase in immigration from Africa has created a burgeoning source of talent for the U.S. youth national team program. About two million people fled Sierra Leone during the decade-long civil war that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and destroyed two-thirds of the nation's infrastructure. One of the refugees was an 11-year-old boy […]

The arrival of an international celebrity and fashion icon who also plays midfield is just one of many radical changes in store as Major League Soccer enters the big time. MUCH BUZZ ABOUT BECKS. When will he arrive? Where will he and Victoria live, and where will the kids go to school? Will the team […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor The underachievers of 2006 will be the glamor boys of 2007 when David Beckham arrives, but how much the Galaxy improves this season will depend on the grunts, not the glitterati. Goalkeeper Joe Cannon, defender Shavar Thomas and attacker Nate Jaqua were acquired by Coach Frank Yallop during the offseason […]

David Beckham and Cuauhtemoc Blanco will come later, but that doesn't mean the first weekend of the MLS season lacks for excitement. Indeed, no other MLS season has opened with such enthusiasm. Week 1 features the opening of MLS's fifth soccer-specific stadium, Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Expansion Toronto FC play its first game. And three […]

US Youth Soccer's girls ODP program will send combination U-14/U-15 regional teams to their first international tournament April 9-18 in San Jose, Cost Rica. The four regional team will compete against U-20 national teams from Costa Rica, Panama, Chile and Mexico. They are preparing for CONCACAF qualifying for the 2008 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in […]

Colorado real estate developer Stan Kroenke, whose sports company owns MLS's Rapids among other Denver area sports teams, bought a 9.99 percent stake in English Premier League club Arsenal from the British television network ITV. Kroenke, who also owns the NBA's Denver Nuggets and the NHL's Colorado Avalanche and is co-owner of the NFL's St. […]

After disappointing showings in the UEFA Champions League, Manchester United and Chelsea return to action in the English Premier League, where they have both won their last seven games but face potentially tricky matches. United, which takes a six-point lead into play on Saturday, travel to Portsmouth (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, live, noon ET), while […]

By Paul Kennedy Managing Editor If you thought Tuesday's Chivas-D.C. United game in Guadalajara offered great drama, that paled in comparison to what Pachuca and the Houston Dynamo offered up Thursday night at Pachuca's Hidalgo Stadium. The CONCACAF Champions Cup doesn't yet have the cache of the Champions League in Europe or the Libertadores Cup […]

(All times Eastern unless noted. TV programming is always subject to change. Check your local listings and soccerTV.com.) FRIDAY, April 6 FOX SOCCER CHANNEL England EVERTON-FULHAM (live), 2:30 pm. FOX SPORTS EN ESPANOL England EVERTON-FULHAM (live), 2:30 pm. SETANTA SPORTS USA England SOUTHEND UTD.-COLCHESTER CITY (live), 7 am. England LEICESTER CITY-DERBY COUNTY (live), 9:30 am. […]

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHT/NEWS SHOWS A TODO GOAL (Goals from around the world) Gol TV Sunday, 11:30 pm ET. Monday, 1 pm ET. FOX SOCCER SHOW Fox Soccer Channel Monday-Sunday, 10 pm ETFOX SPORTS NOTICIAS Fox Sports en Espanol Monday-Friday, 2 pm ET SKY SPORTS NEWS Fox Soccer Channel Monday-Sunday, 7 pm ET GOL TV NEWS Gol […]

By Mike Woitalla Executive Editor Let's get this straight — the Houston Dynamo is aiming for its fourth MLS crown this season. The record books might not indicate that, because the first two titles, in 2001 and 2003, came when the team was the San Jose Earthquakes, whose feats MLS files away in its ''Fact […]

The first of three new MLS game telecasts begins Saturday when Fox Soccer Channel debuts ''MLS Saturday on FSC,'' MLS's first-ever three-hour programming block, with live coverage of Chivas USA-Toronto FC beginning at 10 pm ET from the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. FSC will produce a live 30-minute pre-game, 15-minute halftime, and a […]

Southern California youth powerhouse Arsenal FC's bid to reach the semifinals of the 2007 Dallas Cup's Super Group ended when it fell to English club Chelsea, 5-1, on Wednesday. Arsenal, the three-time US Youth Soccer national champion, had beaten Japanese club Takigawa Dai-Ni, 3-1, and Mexico's Guadalajara, 2-0, to set up a showdown with the […]

Brazilian Pedro Ribeiro Lima, considered the oldest active professional player in the world at the age of 58, scored the first goal of his career when he converted a penalty for Perilima, the club he owns, in its 5-1 loss to Campinese last week in the Paraibano state championship. Perilima, the worst team in the […]

The managers of English clubs Manchester United and Chelsea both remained upbeat after their clubs producing disappointing results in the first legs of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal series. Goals by Rodrigo Taddei and Mirko Vucinic gave Roma a 2-1 win over Premier League leader Manchester United, which played the last 56 minutes with 10 […]

WEDNESDAY: UEFA Champions League Quarterfinals ROMA-MAN. UNITED (TV: ESPN2, live, 2:30 pm ET, ESPN Deportes, delay 4:45 pm ET) After knocking off five-time French champion Lyon in the round of 16, Roma heads into Wednesday's game against Manchester United at the Olympic Stadium brimming with confidence. ''United have shown they are in great form in […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor There are no moral victories at D.C. United. Losses are just that, nothing more, yet at the Estadio Jalisco Tuesday night it attained some semblance of triumph for itself, its fans, and its league. A 2-1 decision sent Mexico's Guadalajara into the CONCACAF Champions Cup final, 3-2, on aggregate and […]

Liverpool all but clinched a berth in the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League with a 3-0 win at PSV Tuesday in the first leg of their quarterfinal series. PSV, which upset Arsenal in the round of 16, was no contest for the visiting Reds, who scored on goals by Steven Gerrard in the 27th […]

Bobby Smith, one of the most outstanding American players of the NASL in the 1970s, has been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame as a Veteran Player. He will be honored at Induction 2007 ceremonies on Aug. 26 in Oneonta, N.Y. Smith started on the 1973 NASL champion Philadelphia Atoms in his rookie […]

The U.S. under-16 national team began a week-long training camp on Saturday in Sunrise, Fla. Kazbek Tambi brought 24 players into the camp as he continues to form a pool from which he will choose a team that will attempt to qualify for the 2008 U-17 Women's World Cup, to be held late next year […]

Americans Jennifer Bennett, Kari Seitz and Sharon Wheeler have been nominated to serve as referees at the 2007 Women's World Cup in China. The FIFA Referees Committee has drawn up a list of 51 women as candidates to referee at China 2007. The list is based on assessments carried out at the 2005, 2006 and […]