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Rank/Team Record Last Week 1. Notre Dame 12-0-0 2 2. North Carolina 9-1-0 1 3. Connecticut 11-1-0 3 4. Maryland 14-0-0 5 5. Nebraska 11-0-0 6 6. Portland 8-0-2 4 7. Texas A&M 11-1-0 7 8. Florida 9-1-0 8 9. Santa Clara 8-2-0 9 10. Virginia 8-3-1 11 11. Massachusetts 9-0-1 10 12. UNC Greensboro […]

Central Region 1 Truman St. 3-1-3 Rockhurst 2-2 Bellarmine 5-0 2 SIU-Edwardsville 6-0-1 MacMurray 7-0 Bellarmine 2-1 (OT) Ky Wesleyan 5-0 3 Lewis Univ. 5-1-1 WI-Parkside 5-2 Indianapolis 6-2 4 St. Joseph’s (IN) 7-1-0 Grand Valley 3-0 Oakland 2-1 WI-Parkside 1-0 5 MO-St. Louis 4-3-0 St. Cloud St 1-0 Mankato St 5-0 6 S. Indiana […]

Women’s Division I West Region 1 Santa Clara 10-2-0          Colo. Coll. 3-0          Notre Dame 3-1 2 Portland 8-0-2 3 Cal 9-1-1          Arizona 3-0 4 San Diego 7-2-1          UC Santa Barbara 4-0          Loyola 2-0 5 BYU 13-0-0          Utah St. 6-0          Utah 2-0 6 Washington 7-4-0          USF 2-1          […]

Semifinals Rhode Island 4, Virginia Tech 0 Massachusetts 3, Xavier 1 Final Rhode Island 5, Massachusetts 2

Joe-Max Moore made the decision easy for Second Division club Saarbruecken, which had an option to purchase the U.S. striker from U.S. Soccer by March 30. “I am now owned by Saarbruecken,” Moore said in a telephone interview April 3. Saarbruecken bought Moore from U.S. Soccer for $240,000. Moore receives a percentage of the fee […]

Goalkeeper — Amanda Sandling (Georgia Southern); Defenders — Liz Bielefeld (Furman), Beth Erickson (Appalachian State), Shannon Lowrance (Davidson); Midfielders — Kelly Ammann (Davidson), Morgan Cox (Georgia Southern), Rachel Tolliver (Georgia Southern), Leah Versteegen (Furman); Forwards — Debbie Hensley (Georgia Southern), Claudia Lombard (Davidson), Laura Wise (Furman). Player of the Year — Liz Bielefeld (Furman) Freshman […]

Rank/Team Record Last Week 1. Notre Dame 16-1-0 1 2. North Carolina 15-1-0 2 3. Portland 12-0-2 3 4. Connecticut 17-1-0 4 5. Nebraska 17-0-0 6 6. Texas A&M 16-2-0 7 7. Santa Clara 12-3-1 5 8. Florida 17-1-0 8 9. UNC Greensboro 14-3-0 9 10. Virginia 11-4-2 12 11. Maryland 16-1-2 11 12. Minnesota […]

U.S. striker Jovan Kirovski left sunny San Diego three years ago to train with one of the world’s most glamorous teams. Culture shock is something that never entirely disappears. Mine hits early one January morning when I’m being driven into Manchester. My host points through the drizzle and at a housing block on the outskirts […]

Argentine coach Daniel Passarella prohibits long hair on his players. So it must have hurt a little bit extra when the second U.S. goal against his finely groomed men came from the players with the most eccentric hairdos on the U.S. team. Jones, with his upright dreadlocks, beat two Argentines and crossed from the endline. […]

Victory slipped away — quite literally — in the first U.S. game of the year: a 2-2 tie with Uruguay cut short by a violent Texas storm. As one Texan put it: “When the sky turns green, it’s either a tornado or all hell’s about to break loose.” It turned green in the 82nd minute […]

It’s all too familiar for Brad Friedel. Once again, he’s in Denmark, instead of England, awaiting a decision on whether he will be issued the work permit he needs to play in the English League. He and U.S. teammate Mike Burns are with Viborg, which won promotion last spring to the Danish Super League but […]

It took him four years and no small measure of sacrifice, but Juergen Sommer is poised to become only the second American-born and bred player to compete in the top echelon of English soccer. Sommer, whose contract with First Division Luton Town expired during the summer, signed a two-year deal with Queen’s Park Rangers of […]

“The job of coaching the national team is difficult enough without having to worry about all the different levels underneath.” Success at U.S. Cup ’95 and Copa America jostled U.S. Soccer into hiring interim national team coach Steve Sampson to the full-time, permanent position. SOCCER AMERICA: When you took the interim position, you said you’d […]

Now that he’s got the job through France ’98, U.S. national team coach Steve Sampson has a new set of short-term priorities. Steve Sampson — the man who kept winning until U.S. Soccer had no choice but to give him the job of coaching the U.S. national team — has a new agenda. No, he’s […]

PLAYING CAREER North Carolina: 1983-86. Titles: NCAA Division I (1983-84, 1986). Awards: All-America (1983-86), Soccer America Player of the Year (1986), adidas Player of the Year (1986). U.S. national team: 1986-91. Titles: CONCACAF Championship (1991), Women’s World Championship (1991). Awards: U.S. Soccer Player of the Year (1986, 1989). Caps: 47. Goals: 38. COACHING CAREER William […]

The USISL, whose Long Island Roughriders have 1994 World Cup captain Tony Meola, landed another big fish. Paul Caligiuri, veteran of two World Cups, has signed with the L.A. Salsa, one of the league’s 84 teams, and debuted in a 5-3 loss to the Valley Golden Eagles May 7. “I talked to [U.S. interim head […]

U.S. men’s under-23 team DateOpponentSiteKickoff (local)Ticket info Feb. 2NorwayTampa, Fla.8:30 pm813 963-3909 Feb. 4NorwayJacksonville, Fla.2:00 pm904 630-4087 Feb. 7DenmarkLa Jolla, Calif.7:00 pm619 460-7612 Feb. 11South KoreaMonterey Park, Calif.5:00 pm213 413-3951 March 6MexicoFullerton, Calif.7 pm619 460-7612 U.S. women’s national team DateOpponentSiteKickoff (local)Ticket info Feb. 2NorwayTampa, Fla.8:30 pm813 963-3909 Feb. 4NorwayJacksonville, Fla.2:00 pm904 630-4087 Feb. 10DenmarkOrlando, Fla.2:00 […]

The Road to Sweden continued with a pair of victories over fellow World Cup qualifier Brazil. It wasn’t quite the Brazil one might expect. No pretty passing game, deft backheels; not much flair at all. But this wasn’t the World Cup champion Brazil men’s team against the U.S. men. It was the World Cup-bound Brazilian […]

Position: Midfielder. Height: 5-2. Weight: 110. Birthdate: Sept. 5, 1974. Birthplace: San Diego, Calif. College: Santa Clara. Awards: All-America (1993, 1994). First cap: Norway (1992). First goal: Mexico (1994). Titles: CONCACAF Championship (1994). College YearTeamGPGAP 1992Santa Clara193511 1993Santa Clara2051525 1994Santa Clara2072034 U.S. national team YearTeamGPGAP 1992USA10–– 1993USA20–– 1994USA91–– 1995USA90–– TotalUSA211––

Players who wish to make one of the 10 Major League Soccer teams will work hard to earn one of the 180 spots up for grabs. They face a long winter in training camps in preparation for the inaugural season that kicks off April 6 in San Jose. As many as 250 players are expected […]

The MLS’s Columbus Crew named former U.S. U-23 coach Timo Liekoski as its head coach Dec. 5. Liekoski, who lives in Solon, Ohio, has coached in the collegiate and professional ranks for more than 20 years. He was an assistant coach for the U.S. national team under Bora Milutinovic, and helped lead the squad to […]

The following is the 1996 A-League schedule: April 27 — Seattle-Vancouver. May 10 — Rochester-New York. May 11 — Seattle-Colorado. May 17 — Atlanta-Montreal, Colorado-Seattle. May 18 — New York-Rochester. May 24 — Montreal-New York, Colorado-Atlanta. May 25 — Vancouver-Seattle. May 26 — New York-Atlanta. May 31 — Rochester-Seattle. June 1 — Atlanta-New York. June […]

The MLS player pool now contains nine players from the 1994 U.S. World Cup team, as well as six other players — two Mexicans, two Nigerians, one Bolivian and one Moroccan — who took part at USA ’94. Goalkeepers PlayerAgeCountry1995 club Khalil Azmi31MoroccoNew Hampshire (USISL) Jorge Campos28MexicoAtlante (Mexico) Mark Dodd30USAColorado (A-League) Jeff Duback31USACharlotte (USISL) Pat […]

Intro: Nameless and faceless just three months ago, the Dallas Burn is the third MLS team to announce its head coach. As yet another soccer neophyte who has jumped into the MLS breach, Dallas general manager Billy Hicks is practically devoid of personal experience with the world’s most popular sport. Hicks, a former business manager […]

(Note: Home team is listed first. The German league will shift dates to accommodate television. It will release the new dates for the winter-spring season following the fall campaign.) Aug. 11 VfB StuttgartUerdingen Werder BremenF. Duesseldorf B. DortmundKaiserslautern Aug. 12 CologneSchalke 04 B. MunichHamburg E. FrankfurtKarlsruhe St. Pauli1860 Munich Hansa RostockB. Leverkusen Aug. 13 M’gladbachFreiburg […]