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WEDNESDAY: UEFA Champions League Quarterfinals CHELSEA-VALENCIA (TV: ESPN Deportes, live, 2:30 pm ET; ESPN Classic, delay, 5 pm ET) Chelsea remains alive in its bid for an unprecedented quadruple — it has already won the English League Cup and is still in contention in the English Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League — […]

With hardly any notice, a crowd of 5,000 fans turned out at the Chicago Fire's Toyota Park Monday night to get a glimpse of Mexican forward Cuauhtemoc Blanco, who arrived in Chicago to sign with the MLS club. Blanco will become the third player to join MLS under its ''designated player rule'' following England's David […]

TUESDAY: UEFA Champions League Quarterfinals PSV-LIVERPOOL (TV: ESPN2, live, 2:30 pm) PSV, the surprise winner over Arsenal in the round of 16, will be a heavy underdog again when it faces another English club, Liverpool, Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. PSV is riddled with injury problems. Brazilian defender Alex, the hero […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor TUESDAY: CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinals GUADALAJARA-D.C. UNITED (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, live, 9:30 pm) D.C. United is counting on a top-notch performance by its rich cast of players and a somewhat subdued one by those of CD Guadalajara Tuesday to reach the CONCACAF Champions Cup finals. The chances are slim, […]

TUESDAY: UEFA Champions League Quarterfinals AC MILAN-BAYERN MUNICH (TV: ESPN Deportes, live, 2:30 pm) Last year, AC Milan thoroughly dominated Bayern Munich, winning 4-1, at the San Siro and going through to the quarterfinals, 5-2, on aggregate when it faced the German club in the UEFA Champions League. This year, Milan has rarely played well. […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor The strengths of D.C. United are many and all too familiar, so how can it fail to win a fifth league title? Past history tells the tale. D.C. was probably the best team in 2005 as well as last year, when it finished 15-7-10. In neither case it reached the […]

Tim Howard had giant Norwegian John Carew's number, but that didn't prevent Aston Villa from coming from behind to earn a 1-1 tie with visiting Everton and deny the Toffees three crucial points in their bid for a spot in the UEFA Cup next season. Everton went ahead on Joleon Lescott's early header and spent […]

The U.S. U-16 boys national team will play in the 35th annual Mondial Minimes hosted by tiny French club FC Montaigu. The Americans are competing in the 12-team Challenge Nations, where they face England on Wednesday and Ireland on Thursday. U.S. Under-17 assistant coach Raul Diaz Arce, the former El Salvador and MLS star, will […]

Komi Afeto, the women's coach at NJCAA school Suffolk (N.Y.) Community College women's soccer coach, was arrested Wednesday and arraigned on Thursday for having what police called ''a sexual relationship'' with a 15-year-old girl, according to newsday.com. Afeto, a native of Togo who played at Dowling, was charged with one count of third-degree criminal sexual […]

Cameron Brown, one of the nation's top young midfield prospects, heads North Carolina's 2007 recruits. Brown, who spent time last year with the U.S. under-20 national team, has starred for Texas club Solar, where he is the career leading scorer with 154 goals and 275 assists for the three-time national runners-up. Also signed by UNC […]

NCAA DIVISION I MEN COLLEGE … OLD COACH … NEW COACH CHARLOTTE John Tart… Jeremy Gunn (Ft. Lewis coach) DENVER Chad Ashton (D.C. United assistant) … Bobby Muuss (Wake Forest assistant) HIGH POINT Peter Broadley … Dustin Fonder (Elon assistant) HOWARD Keith Tucker … TBA IPFW Terry Stefankiewicz … Mike Harper (IPFW assistant) MAINE Travers […]

The U.S. under-20 women's national team, which was dominated by collegians and high school seniors, recently completely a six-game camp in College Station, Texas, and played three games against college opposition, all 2006 NCAA Tournament teams. For the second year in a row, BYU beat the U-20s. Katie Fellows scored twice to give the Cougars […]

After one season at Creighton, Pietari Holopainen has left to sign a two-year contract with FC Haka in his native Finland. Holopainen, a second-team all-Missouri Valley selection, led the Bluejays with six assists while playing all over the field last fall. ''Creighton was a wonderful experience for me as a student and as a player,'' […]

Harvard men's team embarked on an eight-day journey to Brazil that saw the Crimson play a number of exhibition matches in addition to sightseeing and watching a number of pro matches. Results this week included a 3-3 tie with Botafogo's U-21 team and a 1-1 tie with Santa Cruz's U-21s. John Stamatis and other Crimson […]

Former U.S. international Susan Bush has been named the women's head coach at the University of Houston, replacing Bill Solberg, who resigned to accept a position with FC Milwaukee. Bush, the third head coach in program history, had spent the previous two years as Houston's top assistant and recruiting coordinator. She was once considered one […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor The MLS Preseason, also known as the Time of Posturing and Prognosticating, is over. Let the real games begin. D.C. and Houston won't have to wait until next weekend for their liberal doses of reality. They play away to CD Guadalajara (Tuesday) and Pachuca (Thursday), respectively, in the second legs […]

Manchester United is the most valuable club in the world, according to the latest valuations by Forbes magazine. United isn't just the most valuable soccer club, but it's the most valuable club in any sport, edging the NFL's Washington Redskins, who were valued at $1.423 billion in 2006. (Other 2006 U.S. sports leaders: MLB's New […]

Eintracht Frankfurt, the kind of opponent Kasey Keller and Borussia Moenchengladbach really can't afford to drop points against, tied last-place Gladbach, 1-1. Keller was beaten by an 11th minute header. With seven games left in the season, Gladbach is in last last place, five points deep in the relegation zone. Also in Germany, Steve Cherundolo […]

Ronaldinho says he wants to stay at Barcelona, and he played like he meant it, leading the Catalan club to a 2-1 victory Saturday over Deportivo Coruna that moved it two points ahead of Sevilla in the race for La Liga title. There has been extensive speculation that the Brazilian star was unhappy at Barca […]

Both Manchester United and Chelsea got scares before winning on Saturday and remain separated by six points at the top of the English Premier League. United was trailing 1-0 at halftime against Blackburn Rovers before goals from Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick, Park Ji-Sung and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sealed a 4-1 win. Chelsea kicked off later […]

… April Fools! The web was littered with April Fool's stories on Sunday. One concerned Barcelona, which has struggled this season after winning La Liga and the UEFA Champions League in 2006, and the future of its Dutch coach, Frank Rijkaard. The web site goal.comreported Sunday that Barca would replace Rijkaard with Bruce Arena next […]

By Mike Woitalla Executive Editor There were very few people in Mexican soccer who felt Cuauhtemoc Blanco didn't deserve to be on Mexico's 2006 World Cup squad. Unfortunately for Blanco, one of them was Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe, who took a lot of heat for leaving one of the greatest scorers in Mexican history […]

(All times Eastern unless noted. TV programming is always subject to change. Check your local listings and soccerTV.com FRIDAY, March 30 GOL TV Germany ARMINIA BIELEFELD-BORUSSIA DORTMUND (live), 2:30 pm. SATURDAY, March 31 FOX SOCCER CHANNEL England FULHAM-PORTSMOUTH (live), 10 am. England WATFORD-CHELSEA (live), noon. England WEST HAM-MIDDLESBROUGH (delay), 2:15 pm. FOX SPORTS EN ESPANOL […]

Setanta Sports North America, whose menu of soccer broadcasts includes English Premiership matches, will be available as part of the free 36-channel lineup of DirecTV channels offered on JetBlue flights. … Last summer's World Cup broadcast, produced by Soccer United Marketing and ABC, has been nominated for a Sports Emmy (outstanding live special).

Manchester United hopes to hang on to its six-point lead at the top of the Premier League when it hosts Blackburn on Saturday (TV: Setanta Sports USA, live, 10 am ET). Second-place Chelsea visits last-place Wigan (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, live, noon ET). United has a shot at repeating its 1999 treble. It's through to […]