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Goalkeeper David Salzwedel (3) San Jose Defenders Cle Kooiman (3) Tampa Bay Richard Gough (2) Kansas City Troy Dayak (1) San Jose Midfielders Mo Johnston (2) Kansas City Eddie Lewis (1) San Jose Paul Bravo (2) Colorado Carlos Valderrama (4) Tampa Bay Forwards Alan Prampin (2) Tampa Bay Welton (1) Los Angeles Digital Takawira (1) […]

Features U.S. Ties El Salvador On Lassiter Goal By Duncan Irving A Diary: Showdown in San Salvador By Duncan Irving Patino: Talking And Playing A Good Game By Alan Pearce Diego Sonora Leads The Burn By Steve Davis Ronaldo Gives Brazil Historic Win By Brian Homewood U.S. Ousted From World Youth Championship Robson’s Barcelona Wins […]

July 1 — Austin Lone Stars (D3 Pro) 0 New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers (A-League) 1. Goal: Trotman 109. July 2 — Richmond Kickers (A-League) vs. Philadelphia Freedom (D3 Pro); University of Richmond Stadium, 7:30 p.m. July 7 — Central Coast Roadrunners (Premier) vs. California Jaguars (A-League); San Luis Obispo HS or Arroyo Grande HS, 7: […]

The Los Angeles Galaxy has acquired Jose Vasquez and Gerardo Laterza from the Orange County Zodiac, the team announced July 1. Vasquez, 28, appeared in 14 games for the Galaxy in 1996, scoring 2 goals and adding two assists. He was a key part of the lineup during Los Angeles’ 12-game winning streak at the […]

MLS has fined Tampa Bay Mutiny midfielder Ivan McKinley $750 and suspended him for two games “for his deliberate and violent head butt of Los Angeles Galaxy defender Paul Caligiuri” in Tampa’s 3-2 win on June 28. McKinley will miss Tampa’s home match on July 4 against the MetroStars, as well as the Mutiny’s showdown […]

Standings Southeast GP W L GF GA P Cocoa 12 8 4 32 17 24 South Florida 12 8 4 28 16 22 Miami 13 7 6 33 19 21 West Florida 12 8 4 18 18 20 SW Florida 12 0 12 8 46 0 Mid-South GP W L GF GA P Jackson 14 […]

Standings Northeast GP W L GF GA P New Hampshire 12 8 4 28 19 22 Rhode Island 11 7 4 21 17 19 North Jersey 10 6 4 24 11 18 Cent. Jersey 10 5 5 18 17 13 Vermont 9 4 5 11 15 10 Cape Cod 9 3 6 12 19 9 […]

14 players have been named as reserves for the 1997 MLS All-Star Game, which will take place July 9 at Giants Stadium. The game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. (ET) and will be shown live on ESPN. The 14 reserves (7 per team) were selected by Eastern Conference head coach Bruce Arena and Western […]

U.S. attack finds second-half stride against El Salvador at Cuscatlan, but settles for tie They came looking for three points and walked away with one. In Steve Sampson’s words a tie would be “acceptable but not desirable,” but the sentiment after the U.S. national team tied El Salvador in front of 28,000 noisy Salvadoran fans […]

Striker Roy Lassiter came off the bench to score the U.S goal against El Salvador. SOCCER AMERICA: How difficult is it for you to change the coachÆs mind and earn a starting spot? ROY LASSITER: Score the goals. Scoring them makes it harder for him to decide whether to start me or to play me […]

Game enlivens city but U.S. State Department delivers undiplomatic blow Thursday, June 26 Hoping for tourists A surreal sight at the Costa Del Sol, a beach resort some 30 miles southeast of San Salvador. Seven uninterrupted miles of white sand, blue skies and sea, with scarcely a person in sight. Suddenly a herd of Brahma […]

Hoffman’s team looks ahead to Sydney 2000 The U.S. under-20 national team’s dream of matching the performances of the last two U.S. teams that played in the World Youth Championship ended when Uruguay dispatched of the United States 3-0 in the second round June 25 in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Shah Alam. The ’89 […]

Quick action by its booster club has saved Cal State-Northridge men’s soccer program for the time being. Just a few weeks after Cal State Northridge announced plans to cut four popular men’s sports, university president Blenda Wilson restored the program for the ’97 season after boosters came up with the funds to cover the program’s […]

Standings Eastern Conference Northeast GP W L GF GA P Toronto 13 10 3 27 17 28 Rochester 13 9 4 32 22 27 Montreal 11 9 2 22 3 25 Long Island 15 7 8 20 19 17 Connecticut 12 6 7 10 18 10 Worcester 15 3 12 12 22 9 Atlantic GP […]

A conference titled “Women in Soccer: Leadership 1999” will be held July 22-25, 1998, at the University of Georgia in Athens, site of the U.S. women’s gold medal victory. Sponsored by the USASA, the senior division of U.S. Soccer, the conference will be designed to develop leadership skills in women in soccer and help promote […]

Of the five Americans to play in Germany’s First Division this past season, only one looks like he’ll be back with the same club next season. Jovan Kirovski, who got his first start for the United States in the Hexagonal in the 1-1 tie with El Salvador, is set to return to European Cup champion […]

Considering all the attention that has been given to MLS’s insistence on using the shootout to break ties, itÆs just a bit ironic that three of the first five U.S. games in the Hexagonal have ended in a stalemate. Despite the usual postgame pronouncements from the U.S. camp about the disappointment in a tie, the […]

No one has played more for the Clash than Tim Martin, who has started 48 games for San Jose. He sees a bright future for the team in the Brian Quinn era. SOCCER AMERICA: Within a week, the Clash fired coach Laurie Calloway and hired Brian Quinn, and it beat Dallas 3-1. Has the coaching […]

July 1 — Austin Lone Stars (D3 Pro) vs. New Orleans Riverboat Gamblers (A-League); Nelson Field, 7:30 p.m. July 7 — Central Coast Roadrunners (Premier) vs. California Jaguars (A-League); San Luis Obispo HS or Arroyo Grande HS, 7: 30 p.m. July 8 — Hershey Wildcats (A-League) vs. Central Jersey Riptide (D3 Pro); Hersheypark Stadium, 8:00 […]

Standings Northeast GP W L GF GA P Long Island 8 8 0 17 5 22 Rochester 8 6 2 17 8 18 Boston 7 4 3 14 11 12 Buffalo 7 3 4 12 15 9 Connecticut 6 2 4 14 12 6 New York 7 1 6 6 13 3 Rhode Island 7 […]

Group A June 29 in Karlskroga, Sweden France 1 (Roujas 50) Spain 1 (Jimenez 14). Half: 0-1. Att.: n/a. June 29 in Karlstad, Sweden Sweden 2 (Ljungberg 10, Pohjanen 82) Russia 1 (Savina 80). Half: 1-0. Att.: n/a. TEAM GP W T L GF GA P Sweden 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 France […]

June 29 in Hershey, Pa. Hershey (A-League) 2 MetroStars (MLS) 2 (MetroStars win shootout 3-2). Goals: Johnson (Tschantret) 54, Zoric (Tschantret) 56; Wood 41, Savarese (Donadoni) 90. Hershey — Pappas, Oudin, Williams, Penny, Leib, Waite, Tschantret, Zoric, Longenecker, D’Ambra, Johnson. Subs: Swords for Williams in 46th minute, Feniger for D’Ambra in 73rd, Fairchild for Tschantret […]

June 25 in Kansas City Kansas City 2 Tampa Bay 2 (Kansas City wins shootout 3-1). Goals: Wright (Johnston, Chung) 18, Chung (Rodriguez) 65; Prampin (Hejduk) 28, Prampin (Gilmar) 39. SA Report Card Kansas City — Ammann (5), McKeon (5), Gough (5), Bowers (5), Tinsley (5), Okafor (5), Chung (7), Preki (5), Johnston (6), Wright […]

June 29 in La Paz Bolivia 1 Brazil 3. Goals: E.Sanchez 45; Edmundo 37, Ronaldo 79, Ze Roberto 90. Bolivia — Trucco, S. Castillo, Sandy, O.Sanchez, Cristaldo, Soria, Etcheverry, E.Sanchez, Moreno (Coimbra,74), R.Castillo, player n/a. Brazil — Taffarel, Cafu, Aldair, Goncalves, Roberto Carlos, Dunga, Flavio Conceicao (Ze Roberto, 71), Leonardo (Mauro Silva), Denilson, Ronaldo, Edmundo […]

Group 5 June 29 in Phnom Penh Cambodia 1 Uzbekistan 4 TEAM GP W T L GF GA P Uzbekistan 5 4 1 0 15 2 13 Yemen 5 2 2 1 9 2 8 Indonesia 6 1 4 1 11 6 7 Cambodia 6 0 1 5 2 27 1 (Uzbekistan clinches group title.) […]