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Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Jaime Moreno 25 25 2213 12 7 31 68 37 35 81 19 44 0 0 0 Marco Etcheverry 22 20 1810 4 8 16 34 16 25 39 8 141 6 1 24 Raul Diaz Arce 16 15 […]

Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Cobi Jones 25 25 2291 7 6 20 46 24 30 67 18 49 6 0 23 Simon Elliott 28 27 2497 5 5 15 51 22 22 33 1 1 1 0 4 Mauricio Cienfuegos 28 28 2612 […]

Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Ante Razov 24 24 2145 18 6 42 127 63 49 68 23 3 3 2 8 Hristo Stoitchkov 18 12 987 9 7 25 54 24 14 31 1 57 3 1 9 Dema Kovalenko 31 28 2429 […]

Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Dante Washington 30 28 2541 15 9 39 80 44 39 58 17 1 1 0 4 Robert Warzycha 30 29 2646 6 13 25 63 26 43 55 1 126 6 1 23 Brian West 28 24 2249 […]

Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Chris Henderson 31 30 2694 9 9 27 50 24 79 60 36 74 4 0 15 Miklos Molnar 17 16 1353 12 1 25 53 28 32 27 18 0 5 0 19 Preki 31 29 2485 3 […]

Player GP GS MIN G A PTS SHT SOG FC FS OF CK C E CP Adolfo Valencia 31 25 2295 16 9 41 60 32 54 61 49 0 3 1 12 Clint Mathis 21 20 1796 13 13 39 61 31 23 42 9 1 6 0 23 Alex Comas 25 17 1571 […]

CLIVE CHARLES U.S. Men’s Olympic Team head coach On how much respect he thinks the U.S. team earned after tonight’s competition: “I know that sometimes the United States is considered a basketball country and a gridiron country, but I tell people all the time that we’ve got players in the United States who can play […]

POSITION/PLAYER G Anne-Lise Nilssen (Hartford) (1) Freshman makes 7 saves to shut out Virginia D Jenny Fejes (Detroit Mercy) (1) Freshman’s first goal beats Minnesota D Susie Woodson (Hartford) (1) Game-winning goal against Virginia M Emma Breland (Florida State) (1) 2 goals in 4-1 rout of Texas A&M M Anne Makinen (Notre Dame) (1) Goal, […]

RIDGE MAHONEY, Senior Editor of Soccer America Magazine, will have a live chat session with fans on BigSoccer.com Thursday, Sept. 14 (not Friday as originally scheduled) at 2 p.m. EDT. To log on to BigSoccer.com, the popular soccer online community site, go to: http://www.bigsoccer.com. Mahoney’s MLS Beat — a look at important issues facing Major […]

Mike Gaire San Jose, Calif. To Ridge Mahoney: Why on earth do you think Lothar Osiander deserves another season as coach of the San Jose Earthquakes? What has he done apart from trade one of our very best ever players for a couple of old “has-beens,” one of whom he has then played out of […]

BY SCOTT FRENCH in Canberra, Australia Chris Albright and Josh Wolff scored on first-half tap-ins and the U.S. men’s Olympic team dominated much of its Sydney Games opener against the Czech Republic on Wednesday night before settling for a 2-2 draw before a sellout crowd of 24,800 at Bruce Stadium in the Australian capital. Albright, […]

The opposition may be frightful, the competition intense, the stakes enormous, but the group that will represent the United States in the Olympic men’s soccer competition couldn’t care less. That might be the best manner in which to approach the Sydney Games – no worries, no hassles – considering what the Yanks are up against. […]

POSITION/PLAYER G Henry Ring (South Carolina) (1) Made 10 saves in 1-0 win over Maryland D Cory Gibbs (Brown) (1) Tourney Defensive MVP also scored on PK D Chris Churchill (Pittsburgh) (1) Assisted on winner vs. St. JohnÆs M Robert Russell (Duke) (1) Classic MVP had 2 goals and 4 assists M Logan Pause (North […]

Ritchie Semple Manchester, U.K. Why is there so little information on soccer-coaching vacancies? I need a coaching job and there are very few listed opportunities. Can you help me? Mike Woitalla: Maybe because itÆs a buyerÆs market — i.e. thereÆs no shortage of coaches looking for jobs in American soccer. But I recommend you scan […]

Seven of the eight Women’s World Cup quarterfinalists join host Australia for the second Olympic women’s soccer tournament, and at least one world power won’t be in the running for a medal. June’s draw left the world’s top three teams – the United States, China and Norway – battling in Group F for two semifinal […]

GROUP E Australia Germany Sweden Brazil GROUP F United States Norway China Nigeria SCHEDULE GROUP E Sept. 13 in Canberra Australia vs. Germany Sept. 13 in Melbourne Sweden vs. Brazil Sept. 16 in Sydney Australia vs. Sweden Sept. 16 in Canberra Germany vs. Brazil Sept. 19 in Sydney Australia vs. Brazil Sept. 19 in Melbourne […]

The following are quotes from the Sept. 12 MLS conference call featuring MLS executive vice president Ivan Gazidis, Kansas City Wizards coach Bob Gansler and MetroStars coach Octavio Zambrano. Gazidis’ Opening Comments The Olympic team has a very big game tomorrow and we wish them all the best. The Czech Republic is a tough team. […]

Semifinals Sept. 12 in Uniondale, N.Y. MetroStars 2 Miami 3. Goals: Walsh (Ramos, Comas) 40, Valencia (Gomez, Mathis) 84; Williams (Sahaydak) 11, Welton (Serna) 61, Serna (Welton) 61. MetroStars — Grafer, Jolley, Walsh, Matthaus, Petke, Chung, Ramos, Villegas (Gomez 76), Myers, Valencia, Alex Comas (Mathis 63). Miami — Rimando, Marshall, Sahaydak, Mastroeni, Heaps, Rooney, Machon, […]

U.S. fans make their team feel at home The strategic ticket sales by the D.C. United staff stirred up considerable discussion prior to Guatemala’s visit to RFK Stadium. United officials readily confessed that they sold as many lower bowl tickets as possible to U.S. Soccer, youth soccer state federations, Sam’s Army and their own fan […]

Group D Brazil 1. HELTON 2. BAIANO 3. FABIO BILICA 4. ALVARO 5. MARCOS PAULO 6. FABIO AURELIO 7. RONALDINHO 8. FABIANO 9. EDU 10. ALEX 11. GEOVANNI 12. ROGER 13. ANDRE LUIS 14. LUCIO 15. MOZART 16. ATHIRSON 17. LUCAS 18. FABIO COSTA 19. FLAVIO 20. ALEXANDRE 21. LEANDRO 22. JULIO CESAR Japan 1. […]

Australia 1. WHEELER Tracey 2. McSHEA Kate 3. STARR Bridgette 4. GARRIOCK Heather 5. ALAGICH Dianne 6. TANN-DARBY A. 7. FORMAN Alison 8. SALISBURY Cheryl 9. MURRAY Julie 10. HUGHES Sunni 11. BLACK Sharon 12. DUUS Bryony 13. FERGUSON Alicia 14. WAINWRIGHT S. 15. HEPPERLIN P.C. 16. WILSON Amy 17. GOLEBIOWSKI Kelly 18. TRIMBOLI Leanne […]

China 1. HAN Wenxia 2. WANG Liping 3. FAN Yunjie 4. BA Jie 5. XIE Huilin 6. ZHAO Lihong 7. SHUI Qingxia 8. JIN Yan 9. SUN Wen 10. LIU Ailing 11. PU Wei 12. WEN Lirong 13. LIU Ying 14. PAN Lina 15. QIU Haiyan 16. ZHU Jing 17. ZHANG Ouying 18. GAO Hong […]

Coverage of men’s and women’s soccer will be largely be restricted to NBC affiliates MSNBC and CNBC available on those cable systems that have been an agreement with NBC over Olympic coverage. There will be no live coverage. Since the coverage is taped, the air times are the same for ET and PT (just like […]

GROUP A Australia Italy Nigeria Honduras GROUP B South Korea Spain Morocco Chile GROUP C United States Czech Republic Cameroon Kuwait GROUP D Brazil Slovakia South Africa Japan GROUP A Sept. 13 in Adelaide Nigeria vs. Honduras Sept. 13 in Melbourne Australia vs. Italy Sept. 16 in Adelaide Italy vs. Honduras Sept. 16 in Sydney […]

Group A Australia 1. MILOSEVIC Danny 2. COLOSIMO Simon 3. LAZARIDIS Stan 4. FOXE Hayden 5. SKOKO Josip 6. LAYBUTT Stephen 7. EMERTON Brett 8. NEILL Lucas 9. VIDUKA Mark 10. WEHRMAN Kasey 11. ZANE Clayton 12. BLATSIS Con 13. GRELLA Vince 14. RIZZO Nick 15. BRESCIANO Marco 16. CULINA Jason 17. CURCIJA Michael 18. […]