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Aug. 12 in Houston Houston 1 FC Dallas 0. Goal: Waibel (De Rosario) 37. Houston — Onstad, Waibel, Cochrane, Robinson, Barrett, Mullan, Clark, De Rosario, Davis (Holden, 89), Ching (Serioux, 84), Moreno. FC Dallas — Sala, Rhine, Moor, Vanney, Gbandi (Thompson, 84), O'Brien, Mulrooney, Valakari (Ruiz, 64), Saragosa (Alvarez, 83), Nunez, Cooper. Yellow Cards: Houston […]

(All times ET unless noted. Consult your regular television listings guides for availability in your area. Schedules are subject to change.) FRIDAY, Aug. 18 FOX SOCCER CHANNEL USL1 ROCHESTER-TORONTO (live) 8 pm. GOL TV Germany NUREMBERG-BORUSSIA MOENCHENGLADBACH (live), 2:25 pm. SETANTA SPORTS USA England COVENTRY CITY-LEICESTER CITY (live), 2:30 pm. SATURDAY, Aug. 19 ESPN2 MLS […]

Eastern Conference G – Brian Levey – Cape Cod Crusaders D – David Horst – Virginia Beach Mariners D – Adam Mitchinson – Cape Cod Crusaders D – Graham Munro – Cape Cod Crusaders M – Geoffrey Cameron – Rhode Island Stingrays M – Jared Kent – Virginia Beach Submariners M – Matt Lacey – […]

Defending champion Fresno State is picked to win the WAC womenÆs crown. The Bulldogs return nine starters, including the 2005 WAC Defensive Player of the Year, Rochelle Jagdeo, and two other first-team all-conference picks — forward Cortney Sobrero and goalkeeper Angie Larsen. Hawaii, the 2005 regular-season champion, has been selected by the coaches to finish […]

Only 16 days before the start of the college season, Marlon LeBlanc was named the men's head coach at West Virginia. Practice had already begun at Penn State, where he was an assistant, when he was hired to replace ousted Mountaineer coach Mike Seabolt. ''I've got about six month's of work to do in two […]

Old Dominion, which was ranked No. 7 in the final Soccer America rankings of the 2005 regular season, is the pick to win the CAA menÆs championship. The Monarchs return eight starters from last seasonÆs 15-4-2 squad that reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the fourth consecutive year. Back for ODU are […]

New Zealand international Steven Old has left St. John's after two seasons to play for the Newcastle Jets of Australia's A-League. Newcastle coach Nick Theodorakopoulos signed the 20-year-old defender without a tryout. The 6-foot-3 Old, who was a first-team all-Big East pick in 2005, stood out for the All Whites on their European tour last […]

Larry Monaco has replaced David Messersmith, who reached his term limit, as president of US Youth Soccer, the largest youth sports organization in the country that registers more than 3.2 million players Monaco won the election against current US Youth Soccer vice president, Eveyln Gill and former Oregon Youth Soccer Association president, Steve Baker. Monaco, […]

Winners Four days after the MLS All-Stars beat Chelsea, 1-0, D.C. United provided another impressive showing for MLS when it played Real Madrid to a 1-1 tie in front of 66,830 fans in Seattle. As the All-Stars, also under the direction of Coach Peter Nowak, did against the England champ, D.C. United played attacking soccer […]

Beck's, one of Germany's top breweries, ran out of beer in July and has announced it will not be able to fill all of its August orders. The shortage has been blamed on increased consumption by German and visiting fans during this summer's World Cup and extraordinarily hot weather. Beck's bottling lines are working overtime […]

(All times ET unless noted. Consult your regular television listings guides for availability in your area. Schedules are subject to change.) FRIDAY, Aug. 11 GOL TV Germany BAYERN MUNICH-BORUSSIA DORTMUND (live), 2:30 pm. SETANTA SPORTS USA England WOLVES-PRESTON (live), 2:30 pm. SATURDAY, Aug. 12 ESPN2 MLS HOUSTON-FC DALLAS (delay), midnight. MLS DIRECT KICK MLS CHICAGO-CHIVAS […]

Most Valuable Player: Kristi Swaving (Michigan Hawks) Defender of the Year: Leslie Gaston (Atlanta Silverbacks) U19 Player of the Year: Katie Schoepfer (Western Mass Lady Pioneers) Coach of the Year: John Natale (Western Mass Lady Pioneers) Statistical Awards Scoring Champion: Kelly Shimmin (Western Mass Lady Pioneers) Goal Scoring Champion: Kelly Shimmin (Western Mass Lady Pioneers) […]

Los Angeles coach Frank Yallop has brought in left back Ante Jazic, who played for Yallop when he was at the helm of the Canadian national team that failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. Jazic arrives from Russian club Kuban Krasnodar. ''[He] will bring some much-needed composure and bite to the position,'' said […]

Winners The Houston Dynamo's Dwayne DeRosario struck from 17 yards to give the MLS-All-Stars a 1-0 win over Chelsea in the 2006 MLS All-Star Game played before 21,210 fans at the Chicago Fire's Toyota Park on Saturday. It marked the third time the MLS All-Stars faced a foreign club in their annual All-Star Game after […]

Boys Super Group Under-17 Ironbound SC Warriors (N.J.) 3 San Diego Surf White 1. Goals: Chaves (2), Seamon; Ocampo. Under-16 Sockers FC White (Ill.) 1 Arsenal FC (Calif.) 0. Goal: Urso. Under-15 Bridge FA Gold (SC) 2 Sockers FC (Ill.) 1 Goals: Watson, Myers; Leonard. Under-14 Irvine SC Strikers Silver (Calif.) 1 Chicago Magic 0. […]

Aug. 5 in Bridgeview, Ill. MLS All-Stars 1 Chelsea 0. Goal: De Rosario (O'Brien) 70. MLS All-Stars – Perkins (Cannon, 46), Boswell, Erpen, Conrad (Robinson, 46), Albright (O'Brien, 46), De Rosario, Gomez (Adu, 46), Mulrooney (Clark, 46), Gros, Ching (Jaqua, 46), Moreno (Eskandarian, 46). Chelsea – Cudicini (Hilario, 64), Geremi, Ferreira (Carvalho, 46), Terry, Bridge […]

The Vancouver Whitecaps became the fourth team to win a second W-League championship, downing Ottawa 3-0 in the final Sunday for their second title in three years. It was the second straight year the Fury fell 3-0 in the final, finishing second to New Jersey a year ago. Vancouver advanced to the championship with a […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor, Soccer America Competitive league play is the working class of professional team sports, yet perhaps only in soccer can a gussied-up exhibition be gritty as well as glamorous. And when having a good time gets in the way of league play, questions must be asked. So it proved to be […]

MenÆs Open Semifinals Aug. 4 Lightning 6 Milford International 0 Sonoma County Sol 3 Dallas Roma FC 2 Final Aug. 5 Sonoma County Sol 1 Lightning 0 MenÆs Amateur Semifinals Aug. 4 HNK Zrinski 1 Boston Olympiakos 0 Dallas Azzurri 1 Hibernian Saints 0 Final Aug. 6 Dallas Azzurri 6 HNK Zrinski 3 MenÆs Under-23 […]

Aug. 5 in Bridgeview, Ill. MLS All-Stars 1 Chelsea 0. Goal: De Rosario (O'Brien) 70. MLS All-Stars — Perkins (Cannon, 46), Boswell, Erpen, Conrad (Robinson, 46), Albright (O'Brien, 46), De Rosario, Gomez (Adu, 46), Mulrooney (Clark, 46), Gros, Ching (Jaqua, 46), Moreno (Eskandarian, 46). Chelsea — Cudicini (Hilario, 64), Geremi, Ferreira (Carvalho, 46), Terry, Bridge […]

Jimmy Conrad doesn't think beating Chelsea will escalate the image of American soccer one iota outside America. And careth he doesn't. He'd like to impress a certain segment of fans at home. ''More than anything, it's about winning over the American fan who's the World Cup fan,'' said Conrad, who mixed it up a few […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor, Soccer America Blowout or barnburner? The 2006 All-Star Game scheduled for Saturday (6:30 pm ET on ESPN) at the sparkling new Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Ill., could go either way. Both Chelsea and the MLS Al-Stars are shorthanded and shortchanged in different ways. Chelsea is barely a week into its […]

The favorite to win the French League would be the team that has won the last five titles: Lyon. Lyon coach Gerard Houllier was the only one of the league's 20 coaches who did not pick Lyon to win the 2006-07 title in a survey by sports daily L'Equipe. He did not take part. If […]

Costa Rican Paulo Wanchope, whose career has taken him to England, Spain and Qatar, is among the new foreigners who will hit the field when the Argentine league kicks off this weekend with Apertura tournament. Wanchope, who scored twice in the Ticos' 4-2 World Cup opening loss to host Germany, joined Rosario Central. Paraguay's World […]

Chivas Guadalajara has two games scheduled for this Sunday. There's the friendly in Los Angeles against Barcelona and its first game of the Mexican league Apertura 2006 season. Guadalajara, which lost in the Libertadores Cup semifinals on Wednesday, will likely field reserves against Toluca, which won the Apertura 2005 title. The Mexican season is split […]