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David Levine West Bloomfield, Mich. Now that the MLS players have filed a class-action suit against the league, will this mean the demise of our last hope for a successful professional league in the USA? Ridge Mahoney: I think this suit is merely a way to force MLS into negotiating terms of its standard player […]

The USISL Premier Division Soccer league is associated with the U.S. Amateur Soccer Association and is the top amateur league in the U.S. It ranks below the A-League (Division II status with the U.S. Soccer Federation) and the USISL Pro League (Division III status). Each of the 31 Premier Division teams will play two games […]

Italian Serie B club Genoa scored twice in the final 10 minutes to defeat the MetroStars 2-1 in a friendly match played in the town of Chiavari. The match was a tribute to recently retired defender Nicola Caricola, who played for the Metros in the first half, and for Genoa (his former Italian club) in […]

The U.S. women’s national team will play its first domestic games since winning the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics this spring, when it will embark on a six-game victory tour. The U.S. women will open against France in Greensboro, N.C. on April 24, and face the French again in Tampa, Fla. on April 27. […]

MLS has allocated striker Chiquinho Conde to the New England Revolution. Chiquinho Conde, a native of Mozambique and the captain of that country’s national team, is a big (6-0, 180 pounds) with speed and a finishing ability that has him currently among the top scorers in the Portuguese First Division, where he has played for […]

Feb. 19 in Heredia Costa Rica 5 Venezuela 2. Goals: Oviedo 12, 90, Solas 45, Drummond 50, Aranez 57; Diaz 29, Palencia 59. Att.: 5,000. Feb. 19 in Fresno, Calif. Mexico 1 Guatemala 1. Goals: Own goal 21; Plata n/a. Halftime: 1-1. Mexico — Rios (Pineda, 78), Pardo, Sanchez, Davino, R. Ramirez; Coyote, Bernal (N. […]

Jamaica faces two more tests Jamaica, the first U.S. opponent in the Hexagonal, tied Venezuela 0-0 Feb. 12 in Kingston in its first full international of the year. Despite good work from midfielders Peter Cargill, Theodore Whitmore and Steve Malcolm, Jamaica could not score on Venezuela, traditionally the weakest of the 10 South American teams. […]

Feb. 18 in Chula Vista, Calif. U.S. U-20 team 1 Mexico U-20 team 4. Goals: DiGiamarino 58; Maldonado 13, Maldonado 18, Estrada 63, Ibarra 66. USA — Kirk, Chulis, McCarty (Dancy, 46), Abukusumo (Dunseth, 46), Parra, Rodriguez, DiGiamarino, Corrales, Moore (Poltl, 46), Wolff, Quill (West, 46). Mexico — Perez, Ayala, Briseno (Hemkes), Chacon, Estrada, Robles, […]

MetroStars defender Matt Knowles tore his right ACL on Feb. 14 and will miss 4-6 months of the MLS season. Knowles was injured during a match between his NPSL club, the Cleveland Crunch, and the Kansas City Attack. The 26-year-old defender started 16 regular season games and 2 playoff games for the MetroStars during the […]

U.S. national team coach Steve Sampson has called in 20 players to report to training camp Feb. 20 in Miami in preparation for the first hexagonal qualifying match against Jamaica on March 2 in Kingston. The U.S. team will gather in Miami Feb. 20 and start training Feb. 21. The team is scheduled to train […]

Features Positive Vibrations From Reborn Jamaica By Doug Cress Sampson Sizes Up U.S. Opposition Interview by Duncan Irving Players Association Sues MLS By Paul Gardner Dallas Burn Makes Buenos Aires Connection By Steve Davis Italy Beats England At Wembley Argentina Wins On Colombian Keeper Blunder Klinsmann Hits Two As Bundesliga Resumes Columns Soccer Talk — […]

Feb. 15 in Montevideo Uruguay U-17 team 1 U.S. U-17 team 0. Goal: Pouso (pen.) 47. Uruguay — Do Santos, Fernandez (Martinez, 60), Pendola, Bizera, Guillen (Iradia, 52), Liguera, Anchen (Rodriguez, 40), Perez (Pintos, 85), Pouso, Chevanlon (Canobbio, 52), Mona (Silva, 66). USA — Hancock (Singer, 46), Hollenbach, Califf, Wean (Leonard, 61), Villegas, Downing, Wilson […]

o There are 38 teams that will play a full schedule in this year’s D3 Pro League. Each will play two games apiece (home and away) against the other teams in its division. Additional games will be against division or non-division opponents, and in some cases, against teams in other leagues within the USISL. Eighteen […]

Newcomer Marco Ferruzzi scored a hat trick and added an assist as the Tampa Bay Mutiny defeated the Sarasota Futbol Club All-Stars 5-1 before 1,500 fans in Sarasota Feb. 15. Ferruzzi, Tampa’s first-round selection in the recently conducted MLS Supplemental Draft, scored twice in the first 15 minutes. His diving header from a Cle Kooiman […]

Feb. 15 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga Tonga 0 Solomon Islands 4. Att.: n/a. (Second leg to be played March 1; the winner advances to the Second Round of Oceania qualifying.)

Steve Crain Live Oak, Texas I read that the qualifying match between the U.S. and Mexico will be played at Foxboro Stadium, but the field dimensions listed were undersized. Doesn’t FIFA require FIFA-sanctioned matches be played on 80 by 120 yard fields? I thought that special permission was required to have the World Cup games […]

In regard to the lawsuit filed by MLS players against the league, here are some general legal considerations to keep in mind: (1) MLS players have filed a class-action suit against MLS on antitrust grounds. They have formed an asoociation, not a union represented by the National Labor Relations Board, since they would not be […]

In the first game of their Italian tour, the MetroStars fell 3-1 to Serie C power Arezzo at Comunale Stadium in Arezzo. Arezzo lead 3-0 at the half after scoring on three set-pieces (two free kicks and a penalty when Ezra Hendrickson was whistled for a handball in the box). Recent draft pick Brandon Cloutier […]

The Kansas City Wizards have placed defender Samuel Ekeme on waivers. Ekeme, a veteran of Cameroon’s 1994 World Cup squad, started 20 regular season games for Kansas City last year, notching two assists. With the addition of defenders Steve Pittman and Richard Gough, the former Hawaii Tsunami star became expendable. Other MLS teams have 72 […]

Feb. 13 in Buenos Aires Argentina 0 USA 0. Argentina — Constanzo, Grabinsky, Chaparro (Marquez, 46), Marchant, Pereyra (Calena, 60), Milito, Gallelli, Romano, Moreno (Zubeldia, 46), Garcia (Marchano, 46), Prieto. USA — Hancock, Hollenbach, Califf, Thomas, Leonard (Castellanos, 63), Downing, Gutierrez (Yamauchi, 75), Wilson, Totten (Rupsis, 85), Monsibais, Twellman. Att.: n/a.

The thirteen eligible members of the U.S. Olympic women’s team have agreed to play in the new National Soccer Alliance, the first-ever women’s professional soccer league in the United States. Plans for the league are to be unveiled this weekend at the annual Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association Supershow in Atlanta. Committed to playing in the […]

Feb. 12 in Asuncion Paraguay 2 Peru 1. Goals: Rivarola 12, Rojas 40; Pereda 33. Paraguay — Chilavert, Ayala, Rivarola, Gamarra, Arce, Struway, Acuna (Bourdier, 72), Enciso, Benitez, D. Soto (Cardozo, 81), Rojas (Campos, 71). Peru — Balerio, Reynoso, J. Soto (Carty, 53), Solano, Olivares, Jayo, Serrano, pereda, Palacios (Sens, 72), Segarra (Magallanes, 67), Maestri. […]

Colorado Foxes striker Wolde Harris, who led the A-League with 17 goals and eight assists (42 points) and earned MVP and Rookie of the Year honors in 1996, has signed with MLS’s Colorado Rapids as a discovery player. “There is no question that the Rapids have now signed the A-League’s two top players from the […]

Group 2 Feb. 12 in London England 0 Italy 1. Goal: Zola 20. England — Walker, G. Neville, Pearce, Ince, Campbell, Le Saux, Beckham, Batty (Wright, 89), Shearer, Le Tissier (Ferdinand, 61), McManaman (Merson, 77). Italy — Peruzzi, Ferrara, Maldini, D. Baggio, Cannavaro, Costacurta, Di Livio, Di Matteo, Casiraghi (Ravanelli, 77), Albertini, Zola (Fuser, 90). […]

Features Back from injury, and back in Denver By Ridge Mahoney Marcelo Balboa takes a look back Interview by Ridge Mahoney A really bad year for the Good Guy By Duncan Irving Mexico and Costa Rica offer new looks D.C. United loses Gori on first day By Steven Goff Real Madrid opponents playing for second […]