[WPS] After Daniela scored twice for St. Louis in a 3-3 tie with Washington on Sunday, the Brazilian was injured by a vicious tackle from the Freedom’s Abby Wambach, who received only a yellow card. “There was no excuse for it,” said St. Louis keeper Hope Solo.
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Pressure on Arsenal’s young Gunners
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Arsenal plays its most important match of the season when it hosts Manchester United Tuesday in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League series (TV: ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, live, 2:30 pm ET). Defeat would be a crushing blow for Arsene Wenger, who has never won a European trophy in 14 years as Arsenal manager, and revive talk of the possible breakup of the Gunners’ young team.
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Friedel’s Aston Villa ends long skid
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Brad Friedel was in goal Monday night for Aston Villa, which ended its 12-game winless streak with a 1-0 victory over Hull City.
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Scoring rate dips
[MLS STATS] Only one of the seven games last weekend had more than two goals — D.C. United’s 2-1 win over New York — and the leaguewide per game scoring average dropped to 2.52. Real Salt Lake and Chicago are the league’s highest scoring teams; New England and New York are the least productive …
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Attendance average falls below 15,000 mark
[MLS STATS] Toronto FC drew 19,998 for its tie with Columbus and a 21,006 crowd in Los Angeles watched the Galaxy get their first win last weekend. But neither Colorado nor New England broke the 10,000 mark
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Cummins joins list of former assistants to step up
At some point, the MLS coaching career of John Carver careened off-course, and whether anyone might have foreseen it happening is no longer an issue.
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‘Unknown’ American to Sign with Everton
Anton Peterlin, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s senior captain, has been offered a contract by Everton of the English Premier League after spending 10 days in March on trial in Liverpool. Peterlin, a San Francisco native, earned a tryout after a steady season last year for Ventura County Fusion in the USL’s Premier Development League. […]
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The most marketable soccer property in USA …
The most marketable soccer property in the USA isn’t American; it’s Mexican. The Mexican national team, also known as “El Tri,” plays numerous games a year in the USA that regularly outdraw games played by the U.S. national team. And millions of Latinos from across multiple generations tune in to Mexican games on Telemundo and […]
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Dynamo Finally Takes Down Revolution
Although the Houston Dynamo beat the Revolution in two consecutive MLS Cups in 2006 and 2007, the team had never beaten the Revs in a regular-season game until a 2-0 victory on Sunday at Gillette Stadium. “It was probably our most consistent and all-around performance [of the year],” Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear said. “I still […]
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Fulham to tour Australia
English Premier League club Fulham will travel to Australia to face Perth Glory and Melbourne Victory in July ahead of the start of the A-League season. Another English squad, Wolverhampton Wanderers, which recently qualified for next season’s Premier League, will face the Glory and Robbie Fowler‘s North Queensland Fury. “This is an historic and momentous […]
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Wenger Predicts ‘Magnificent Performance’ Against Man United
"Everybody is focused and ready for the game," declared Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger ahead of Tuesday's clash with Manchester United in the second leg of the Champions League semifinals. "We are all aware it is our team performance that will be important rather than the responsibility on any individual. I am very confident the team […]
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American Stakes Biggest Claim to Arsenal
American businessman Stan Kroenke has become Arsenal’s biggest shareholder after increasing his stake in the Premier League club to 28.3 percent. Already a director at the club, Kroenke increased his holding Friday from 20.5 percent by buying out the Carr family’s stake. The next largest shareholder is Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who owns more than […]
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Chivas Player Suspended for Spitting, Coughing
The South American confederation Conmebol suspended Guadalajara defender Hector Reynoso for the remainder of the 2009 Copa Libertadores tournament for spitting on Everton's Sebastian Penco. The H1N1 flu outbreak, which caused a suspension of Chivas' second-round game against Sao Paulo, may have compounded the severity of the incident. After a scuffle broke out late in […]
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Marquez Believes Barca Can Take Chelsea
"Barcelona is playing great soccer and has the quality and potential to win the Champions League. We couldn't beat Chelsea at home but we're confident we can go on from here and take things step by step, all the while respecting our rivals. I won't be able to be a part of things over the […]
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Soccer on TV
Midweek action: European Champions League (finalists will be determined), Copa Libertadores, South American U-17 Championships and UEFA Cup. American Soccer, Games of the Week: USL, Austin-Puerto Rico on Friday; MLS, Houston-FC Dallas on Saturday; WPS, Chicago-Sky Blue FC on Sunday. Look for Mexican league and other updates in Wednesday’s and Friday’s Soccer on TV.
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Galaxy finally finds a win; the Crew doesn’t [VIDEO]
[MLS NAMES & NUMBERS] Los Angeles is no longer winless, but the defending champ Columbus failed once again to get its first victory of the year. Jamie Moreno added to his all-time league scoring record in a D.C. United win. New England keeper Matt Reis committed the biggest keeper blunder of the season so far. Chicago remained the league’s only undefeated team, but couldn’t notch its third win …
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Bradley & Gladbach fall to Bayern; Orozco scores in Mexico
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Borussia Moenchengladbach, with Michael Bradley in midfield, fell, 2-1, to Bayern Munich to sink further into the relegation zone. But in Mexico, a U.S. product helped his team avoid the drop and defender Michael Orozco scored for the first time.
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Vancouver’s James enjoys memorable debut
[USL-1] St. Vincent & Grenadines international Marlon James enjoyed a memorable debut for the Vancouver Whitecaps, scoring a hat trick, including the winning goal on a penalty kick in the 90th minute, to give the defending champions a 3-2 win at Minnesota on Saturday. For all the weekend action …
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Real Madrid is puddy in Barcelona’s hands [VIDEO]
[SPAIN] On the one hand, former Barcelona star Luis Enrique called Barcelona’s display “a soccer orgasm.” On the other, it was called “the greatest of humiliations” for Real Madrid. For the first time in the 80-year history of Spain’s greatest rivalry, Barcelona scored six goals at Real Madrid, inflicting a 6-2 defeat on the Merengues that all but decided La Liga race for 2008-09.
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Man. United remains on course
[EUROPEAN RACES] The top four teams in the English Premier League all won, leaving teams in the same places at the top of the standings with three weeks to play.
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Kelly Smith outduels Marta in Boston
[WPS] Marta‘s first trip to Harvard Stadium drew a crowd of 8,031, the second largest in Women’s Professional Soccer’s short history, but Englishwoman Kelly Smith won the duel of WPS’s two best strikers, scoring only two minutes into the game to help the Breakers down the Los Angeles Sol, 2-1. For all the WPS action …
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MLS Results
Defending champion Columbus is the only winless team in MLS. The Crew and 2008 runner-up New York are tied for last place in the Eastern Conference. For all the game summaries, standings, leading scorers and this week’s schedule …
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International Weekend Results
Anderlecht and Standard Liege remained tied in Belgium, while only one point separated Celtic and Rangers in Scotland and Sivas and Besiktas in Turkey. For all the results in Europe’s major leagues and Mexico …
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Revs Revert to a Reverie from the 1950s
In gentler, less clever days, there really wasn’t too much to know about soccer tactics. In England, anyway. Team formations were cast in concrete, immutable, a 3-4-3 with three fullbacks, four midfielders and three forwards. We never called it a 3-4-3 though. It was always a W-M formation.
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Players’ Superstitions: From Russian Lit to On-Field Urination
As part of an ongoing series, FIFA.com delves into some of oddest, goofiest and most manic superstitions of players around the world – present and past. About his slew of habits, Chelsea captain John Terry says: “I always sit in the same seat on the team bus, I always wrap tape round my socks three […]