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(All times ET unless noted. Consult your regular television listings guides for availability in your area. Schedules are subject to change.) THURSDAY, Aug. 3 FOX SPORTS EN ESPANOL Copa Libertadores INTERNACIONAL-RS-LIBERTAD, Semifinals, 2nd Leg (live), 8:30 pm. FRIDAY, Aug. 4 FOX SOCCER CHANNEL USL CHARLOTTE-OTTAWA W-League, Semifinal (live), 8 pm. USL VANCOUVER-SEATTLE W-League, Semifinal (live), […]

By Mike Woitalla Executive Editor, Soccer America The 10 previous MLS All-Star Games have taken many forms. Some worked, some didn't. The first-ever All-Star Game was East vs. West, and a doubleheader with a FIFA World All-Star Game that drew 78,416 to Giants Stadium. The event, orchestrated by then MLS deputy commissioner Sunil Gulati, raised […]

Los Angeles' Landon Donovan (hamstring strain) and Colorado's Pablo Mastroeni (knee sprain) have been scratched from the MLS All-Star team that faces Chelsea on Saturday (6:30 p.m. ET, Live on ESPN). They have been replaced by midfielder Ricardo Clark and defender Eddie Robinson of the Houston Dynamo.

In round-of-16 U.S. Open Cup play, the Los Angeles Galaxy won, 2-0, over Dallas' FC Roma, which had become the first amateur team to beat a fully professionally club in U.S. Cup history when it defeated Chivas USA in the last round. Quavas Kirk and Alan Gordon scored for the defending Open Cup champ Los […]

The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is expected to be out for two to three days after suffering a broken nose in a soccer game between the Presidential Squad and the Guerrilleros de la Independencia from the city of Cochabamba. Morales took the hit while fouled by the opposing team's goalkeeper. Abad Rocha, the goalkeeper, […]

As MLS takes its All-Star break, Chivas USA striker Ante Razov leads the goalscorers' race with 12 goals. This marks the sixth season in which Razov, who joined the league during its inaugural season in 1996, has scored more than 10 goals. With 96 career regular-season goals, he's third in league history behind two other […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor, Soccer America The improbable run of USASA team Roma FC continues tonight when the Dallas-based amateur team meets the defending MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy in the U.S. Open Cup. According to assistant coach John Calandro, whose son John – fresh out of high school – is the youngest member […]

U.S. Soccer invited more than 120 players to an Under-14 BoysÆ National Team Identification Camp in Concord, Mass., July 30-Aug. 5. The camp is run by coach Manny Schellscheidt. Identification Camp U-14 U.S. boys national team roster Region I (36 players) Samuel Adjei (Newark, N.J.), Kyle Bitterman (Lancaster, Pa.), Damian Bziukiewicz (Middle Village, N.Y.), Roy […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor, Soccer America An attempt to acquire Colorado Rapids midfielder Pablo Mastroeni has, at least for now, been quashed by MLS. Italian Serie B club Brescia has inquired about taking Mastroeni on loan for the upcoming season, but Rapids coach Fernando Clavijo says the terms, as he understands them, are unacceptable. […]

July 29 in Frisco, Texas FC Dallas 4 Colorado 1. Goals: Rhine (Thompson, Nunez) 8, Nunez 71, Nunez 74, Cooper 93+; Beckerman 34. FC Dallas – Sala, Rhine, Goodson, Moor (Yi 28), Gbandi, Nunez, Mulrooney, Valakari, Alvarez (Oduro, 64), Cooper, Thompson (Saragosa, 74). Colorado – Cannon, Gargan, Karanka, Petke, Denton, Cooke, Beckerman, Noel (Ben Dayan, […]

Natasha Kai, 23, scored her fifth goal for the USA since debuting for the national team earlier this year to help the USA down Canada, 2-0, in a friendly on Sunday. Kai, a Hawaii product, now has five goals in eight games. She finished a rebound off her own shot for her strike late in […]

Arsenal FC won its third straight national title when it captured the under-17 boys group at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships on Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa. Eclipse SelectÆs bid for a third straight title ended when it was eliminated in a shootout on Friday in the under-18 girls group. So Cal United (U-15 […]

Amy Vermeulen scored a hat to lead the Ottawa Fury to a fourth straight W-League semifinal appearance as it upset the defending champion New Jersey Wildcats 3-2 Sunday to join the host Vancouver Whitecaps, the Central Conference champion Charlotte Lady Eagles and the Seattle Sounders Saints, who won the Western Conference tournament in the W-League […]

By Ridge MahoneySenior Editor, Soccer America Magazine U.S. Soccer is in the midst of a critical self-examination following the national team's first-round ouster at the World Cup. It has much more to ponder than simply what happened during three games in June. The forlorn faces strewn through the plazas and streets of Nuremberg the night […]

By Mike WoitallaExecutive Editor, Soccer America The Germans promised they would deliver a party and exceeded all expectations. The two 30-year-old German men bought replica jerseys of Spain and France. They cut the shirts down the middle and sewed two different halves together. That gave them each a shirt representing both teams. ''We couldn't decide […]

By Paul KennedyManaging Editor, Soccer America There's two ways to look at the impact of the dreary U.S. showing at the World Cup on Major League Soccer. One view is that MLS is strong enough to withstand a big hit because of its huge investment in stadiums and its long-term contracts with commercial partners – […]

By Mike Woitalla, in BerlinExecutive Editor, Soccer America Magazine In the shadow of scandal and amid jeers, Italy lifted the World Cup title. THEY'RE LIKE GOOD HURDLERS goes one assessment of the Italian national team, jumping only as high as necessary to clear the bar. The Italians try to advance through tournaments playing not to […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor, Soccer America ''No-Brainer.'' That's how former U.S. international John Harkes describes his decision to leave the D.C. United Director of Youth Development post to take an assistant coaching position with Red Bull New York. The specifics of his role under Head Coach Bruce Arena have yet to be finalized, yet […]

The powerhouse Dallas Texans Red recovered from their opening game loss to beat the Classic FC Bandolero, 5-2, in the Under-18 boys group at the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. The Texans, who are playing without star Jonathan Villanueva, who joined the U.S. U-18s in Northern Ireland after a two-week tryout […]

Aly Wagner will become the 18th women to play 100 or more times for her national team if she plays against Canada on Sunday in Cary, N.C. (live on ESPN2, 1 pm. ET). The USA has won seven of its last eight games against Canada and is 29-3-3 over against the Canadians. U.S. Women's roster […]

When Vasco da Gama forward Valdir Papel came toward the bench his own coach, Renato Portaluppi, shoved him down the sideline. Papel had been ejected in the 17th minute of the Copa Brasil final after receiving his second yellow card for his second brutal tackle from behind. ''It's unacceptable that you give a player a […]

Brazil's Sao Paulo, which had lost twice to Chivas Guadalajara in the group stage, downed the Mexican club, 1-0, in the first leg of their Libertadores Cup semifinal in Mexico. Sao Paulo goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni scored the game's only goal on a penalty kick. It was Ceni's 63rd career goal, tying Paraguayan Jose Luis Chilavert's […]

Landon Donovan suffered a strained hamstring that could sideline him for at least a week while warming up for Los Angeles' friendly against Cruz Azul on Wednesday. The Mexican club won, 4-1, in front of 7,980 fans at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium.

The exodus of Mexican World Cup stars to Europe continued when striker Francisco Fonseca joined Portugal's Benfica. The Cruz Azul player, nicknamed ''Kikin,'' is the fourth member of Mexico's World Cup squad to move to Europe in the last month. Defender Ricardo Osorio and captain Pavel Pardo joined Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart, and defender Carlos […]

In an MLS season in danger of being the lowest scoring in the league's 11-year history, Chivas USA is providing the relief for soccer fans who also had to suffer through a goal-deprived World Cup. For the second week in a row, Chivas USA played a midweek road-game that ended in a 3-3 tie. Last […]