D.C. United hosts New England in the MLS Game of the Week on Friday. In WPS, the Chicago Red Stars take on Sky Blue FC on Sunday afternoon. England’s FA Cup hits the Semifinal stage this weekend.
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Kelly Smith sets high standard with Breakers
[WPS] Kelly Smith wavered before leaving the Arsenal Ladies and returning to the United States to play in WPS, and Boston Breakers fans are glad she came. Smith, who could rival Los Angeles star Marta for being the most dangerous striker in WPS, scored one goal and set up Kristine Lilly another to lead the Breakers to a 2-0 win over St. Louis in their home opener.
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MLS Results
Yes, there’s parity in MLS. Five games ended in ties, and the other two were decided by one goal. For all the game summaries, standings leading scorers and next weekend’s schedule …
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International Weekend Results
Marseille took over first place in France. Rangers moved to within one point of Celtic in Scotland. Anderlecht and Standard Liege remain tied in Belgium. For all the results in Europe’s major leagues and Mexico …
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2008 finalists still struggling [VIDEO]
[MLS NAMES & NUMBERS] A flurry of red cards included ejections of two U.S. veterans. The 2008 MLS Cup finalists remained winless. FC Dallas got its first point thanks to a spectacular goal.
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Whitecaps begin title defense with 0-0 tie
[USL-1] The defending champion Vancouver Whitecaps had to settle for a 0-0 tie with the Charleston Battery at home Saturday on the opening of the 2009 USL-1 season. In the weekend’s only other game, revamped Carolina edged Minnesota, 2-1, thanks to former MLS striker Gavin Glinton‘s goal only four minutes after coming on in his RailHawks’ debut.
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Macheda does it again for Man. United
[EUROPEAN RACES] What could 17-year-old Italian Federico Macheda do for an encore? A week after coming off the bench and scoring in his debut to give Manchester United a 3-2 win over Aston Villa, Macheda came on as a substitute at Sunderland and scored to give United a 2-1 victory that kept it a point ahead of Liverpool and four ahead of Chelsea with a game in hand in the tight English Premier League race. For a look at the European races …
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Chicago teen win dream contest
[MLS] Alberto Lopez, a 17-year-old midfielder from Aurora, Ill., won the Sueno MLS 2009 competition, MLS’s nationally televised player search that attracted 1,800 candidates at tryouts in Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington.
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Clint Dempsey scores twice in EPL
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Clint Dempsey equalized and tagged on the final goal in Fulham’s 3-1 win over Manchester City to up his EPL season total to seven goals. Two other Americans hit the net last weekend.
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Four Superb Goals Crown Barca’s Ground Game
Bayern Munich and Coach Juergen Klinsmann took a hammering last week from Barcelona. The soccer played by Barca was a delight to watch — skillful, swift, powerful at times, artistic at others, even both simultaneously, soccer at its most effective and its most beguiling.
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Five clubs join Development Academy
The U.S. Soccer Development Academy has added five teams — California Development Academy (Sacramento, Calif.), Houston Dynamo (Houston, Texas), Kansas City Wizards Juniors (Kansas City, Mo.), McLean Youth Soccer (McLean, Va.) and NJSA 04 (Holmdel, N.J.) — for the 2009-10 season, bringing the number of clubs in the national program to 79.
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Whitecaps are Dallas Cup sensations
The sensation of the 2009 Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup XXX Super Group has been the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency, the Canadian club’s equivalent to the U.S. Soccer Development Academy program. The Whitecaps, who have drawn players from across Canada, Jamaica and the USA, reached Sunday’s final in the Super Group with a 2-0 victory over Germany’s Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday.
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Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup Results
Of the 14 teams still alive in the Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup’s lower age groups after Friday action, 12 are American. The lone foreign teams to advance Friday in knockout action were Mexico’s Monterrey in the U-17 age group and Canada’s Ajax Gunners in the U-16 division. The 12 American teams consist of eight teams from California, three from Texas and one from Illinois. For all the results in the knockout phase in all seven age groups …
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D.C. United U-16s fall to Real Madrid
The D.C. United Academy U-16 team fell to Real Madrid, 1-0, in the recent Tiffany Trophy Cup.
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U.S. under-15 girls national team roster
The U.S. under-15 girls national team coach Mike Dickey called in 24 players for a training camp that begins Saturday at Stanford University. All but one of the players was born in 1994. For the complete roster …
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Soccer on TV
Catch the Southern California clasico on Saturday as the Galaxy hosts Chivas USA in the stadium they share. The WPS game of the week features the Washington Freedom and the Chicago Red Stars, also on Saturday. In international soccer, Mexico has a full slate of matches and several European leagues are in action.
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Sir Alex Talks of Retirement, Replacement at ManU
In order for retirement to sit well with 67-year-old Sir Alex Ferguson, he needs to have collected a little more hardware from continental competition to finish up his three-decade tenure at Manchester United, saying to CNN, “if we could win a couple more European trophies, I then would definitely quit.” As successful as ManU has […]
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Donovan: Chivas ‘Has Passed Us’
“Clearly in this moment they’ve passed us. They’re very confident and feeling good about where they’re at. I’ve watched probably all but a few minutes of all their games, and they’re getting a little bit of luck right now and also playing well. You combine those and that means you usually win games.” Galaxy captain […]
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Mourinho: Inter ‘Has Done Everything to Help’ Adriano
“Inter have done everything to help Adriano before I arrived and with me, as a coach and human being, so have the president and his team mates. We’ll see. The important thing is that he’s happy. If he’s happy like this, if you lose the player but the man is happy, perfect. But for the […]
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Red Star Belgrade Players Looking For Rent Money
“If Red Star can’t at least give me money for a roof over my head, never mind what the club owes me in wages, I will have no choice but to go back to Slovenia and stay with my parents. I can’t believe a club of Red Star’s stature has allowed this to happen, it’s […]
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Diarra: ‘I Learned Nothing’ From Arsene, Time At Arsenal
“Nothing. I did not learn anything from [Arsenal manager Arsene] Wenger. He just taught me to doubt everything. The relationship I had with him was not good. You cannot understand the whole world. I respect the way you train, but I learned more with [former Chelsea manager Jose] Mourinho. Mourinho taught me to fight. I […]
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Islanders Lead Inspired USL-1 Into 2009 Season
There’s no arguing that three of the biggest stories in American soccer this year (the overnight success of the Seattle Sounders, the acceptance of expansion bids in Portland and Vancouver, and the improbable run of the Puerto Rico Islanders through CONCACAF) have all come courtesy of the United Soccer Leagues’ First Division, so it’s no […]
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With Pappa, It’s ‘No Blanco, No Problema’ For Fire
No Blanco? No problema. Or so it’s been thus far in Season 14 for the Chicago Fire, which hasn’t much missed the not-fully-fit Mexican international Cuauhtemoc Blanco thanks to the inspired and energetic play of second-year Guatemalan midfielder Marco Pappa. Praised by Coach Denis Hamlett as “very skillful on the ball” and “always looking […]
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Adriano: ‘I Quit’ (For Now, Anyway)
It’s not every day that a high-profile athlete that is still in the prime of his career and makes millions of dollars a year for a top quality team just walks away from the game on account of personal reasons, but that’s what troubled Brazilian striker Adriano did on Thursday, declaring that “at least temporarily” […]
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Argentine Clubs Crashing Out of Copa Libertadores (And How)
With the group stage of the 2009 Copa Libertadores coming to a close, and famed club Boca Juniors looking like the only team capable of doing some damage in the 32-team intercontinental tournament, SI.com’s Gregory Sica wondered if Argentine soccer is only a “one-team show.” As of Thursday, when Estudiantes posted a forceful 4-0 win, […]