[ITALY] A day after Coach Carlo Ancelotti said he wouldn’t start, David Beckham made a surprise appearance in AC Milan’s starting lineup and played 89 minutes in its 2-2 tie at Roma.
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New regional league to be launched
[ENGLAND] Manchester United’s 3-0 win over Chelsea on Sunday left United only five points behind leader Liverpool with two games in hand and plunged Chelsea into a crisis of confidence.
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NSCAA/adidas High School National Rankings
[SPAIN] Bad weather played havoc with league action across Europe — games were postponed in England and France — and Atletico Madrid’s La Liga match against Athletic Bilbao in March was stopped when Atletico fans bombarded Athletic goalie Gorka Iraizoz with snowballs.
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Friedel academy changes focus
MLS’s SuperDraft will be televised on Thursday. There’s FA Cup third-round replays on Tuesday and Wednesday, and midweek Copa del Rey (Spain) and Coppa Italia action. Various European leagues are in action during the weekend.
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Tab Ramos earns regional coaching awards
Over the weekend, Stoke tied Liverpool in the English Premier League, while in Spain Valencia tied Villarreal in La Liga. All four teams ended up with one point each. Statistical equality, then — but any similarity in these games starts and stops right there.
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Evansville Memorial sweeps prep coaching honors
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Landon Donovan saw his first game action for Bayern Munich in a 3-2 friendly win over Dubai’s Al Jazeera SC on Saturday. Donovan’s 90-minute performance drew positive reviews from the German press, including the headlines “Donovan Makes Klinsmann Happy” (Rheinische Post) and “Donovan Shoots Half-Goal in Debut” (Bild).
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Lalas Fears For Beckham’s Galaxy Future
Former U.S. national team star Tab Ramos is among the coaches who have been named NSCAA/adidas Regional Coaches of the Year. Ramos was named the East Region Boys Coach of the Year for his efforts with the NJSA 04 Gunners, the 2008 U.S. Youth Soccer under-14 national champions. For all the boys and girls regional winners …
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Gazidis Has Support of Wenger And Garber
Evansville (Ind.) Memorial High School had both its coaches — girls coach Angie Lensing and boys coach Bill Vieth — earn NSCAA/adidas Regional Coach of the Year honors in the High School Private/Parochial division. For all finalists for the National Coach of the Year awards …
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Wake Star Tracy Set To Join Denmark’s Aalborg
Sacramento youth clubs are rallying in support of the Sierra Soccer Club’s Cassy Rowe, a 16-year-old midfielder who was paralyzed in a freak accident during a game last summer.
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Villarreal: Jozy Altidore Not For Sale
MLS’s Red Bull New York is among the clubs that will enter teams in the first of U.S. Club Soccer’s regional leagues, the Northeast Pre-Academy League for U-14 and U-15 boys set to kick off in February.
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La Volpe Out At Monterrey
Boca Raton (Fla.) boys and Aliso Niguel (Calif.) girls are ranked No. 1 in the first NSCAA/adidas High School National Rankings of the winter season. For all the rankings …
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Soccer on TV
Alexi Lalas, who was president of the Los Angeles Galaxy when David Beckham signed with the MLS club, says the English star’s loan move to AC Milan will benefit him but it could hurt the Galaxy. Lalas, who left the Galaxy during the 2008 season, feels Beckham’s stint at San Siro could change his view […]
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Offseason MLS Player Moves
What has Ivan Gazidis, the former MLS deputy commissioner, gotten himself in for in joining Arsenal as its chief executive? He arrives during the January transfer window — an important time for the Gunners, who need help after a shaky start to the English Premier League. Gazidis has the confidence, though, of Arsenal manager Arsene […]
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Davino is happy to be home
Wake Forest could soon open an alumni club in Denmark. After Jeremiah White, who plays for Aarhus, and Michael Parkhurst, who signed with FC Nordsjaellan this winter from the New England Revolution, the Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet reports that Marcus Tracy is about the sign with Aalborg. Tracy, a finalist for the 2008 Hermann Trophy, is […]
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Marta’s expected signing boost for new league
Villarreal coach Manuel Pellegrini has nixed talk of a move by Jozy Altidore to Everton on loan, saying the 19-year-old American is needed for the second half of La Liga campaign. “The squad is prepared for the battles of the second part of the season,” said Pellegrini. ”I have demanded the continuity of Altidore within […]
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Morelia joins Pachuca in finals
Former Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe has parted ways with Monterrey a week before the start of the second half of the Mexican league season. Monterrey was the former Argentine international’s third club since the 2006 World Cup. He had short stints in Argentina with Boca Juniors and Velez Sarsfield. The outspoken La Volpe ran […]
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Combine flawed but still vital
Landon Donovan‘s chances of playing time at Bayern Munich could get a boost as General Manager Uli Hoeness says Lukas Podolski is likely to be sold to his former club, FC Cologne. Hoeness believes Podolski is set to return once the “finer details” of the deal have negotiated. A deal could be reached before the […]
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Beckham may debut for AC Milan Sunday
Brad Friedel‘s Premier Soccer Academies, the nation’s only soccer-only private residency program, has teamed up with Ohio’s Cleveland Alliance Soccer Association to form two U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams (U-16 and U-18) in a move that signals the end of its ambitious residency program.
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Parents Seeing The Big Picture
Real Madrid, once the world’s greatest club, once a classy example to everyone of how to play soccer with style seems to me to be in danger of becoming the club that everyone loves to hate.
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Everton Eyes Altidore
“I think it was a necessary move for me to come away from the States and fulfill a dream to play in Europe. At the same time, having to adjust, it’s easier and better for you as a professional if you can do it at a younger age. To get into the whole atmosphere and […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo Unhurt After Wrecking Ferrari
“One thing’s clear: there’s not much to negotiate. We want an eight-figure sum. But I have to say, Cologne has moved towards that again. It looks good. I’m confident it will come off.” Bayern Munich President Karl-Heinz Rummenigge thinks that agreement on Lukas Podolski‘s transfer to FC Cologne is close to completion.
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Marta Leaves Sweden, Headed For LA?
“The Ferrari went straight into the wall, his front left-hand wheel came off and then Ronaldo got out of the car. … Obviously I was stunned at seeing a Ferrari go in the wall and seeing Ronaldo. He was obviously shaken – who wouldn’t be? – but it’s a shame about the car as well.”
— Jody Lomax, who witnessed Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo total his car. Ronaldo was able to practice later that day. Go HERE for video of the smashed up Ferrari. (BBC)
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No-Trial Option Shaped Parkhurst’s Danish Decision
The InterLiga, the USA-based Libertadores Cup qualifying tournament for Mexican clubs, continues on Friday and Sunday. In the English Premier League’s marquee game, Manchester United clashes with Chelsea on Sunday.
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Video Technology ‘Will Make Soccer Like Gridiron’
[MAKING A LIST] Ezra Hendrickson, who capped his 12-season tenure in Major League Soccer by helping the Crew to its first MLS Cup championship in 2008 — and his third with three different teams — announced his retirement. Hendrickson, who turns 37 next week, played 298 regular-season and playoff games with six different teams. He attended Drake University and later captained the St. Vincent & the Grenadines national team. He’s the eighth player to leave the Crew in the offseason. For all the team-by-team moves …
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Former Juve GM Moggi Jailed
[MEXICO] Most European clubs approach the January transfer window cautiously, but in Mexico, where the league championship is split into two seasons, clubs shuffle their rosters during the second transfer window. At Puebla, which is in danger of being relegated at the end of the 2009 Torneo Clausura, former FC Dallas defender Duilio Davino is the club’s ninth signing. In a back-handed slap at MLS, the 32-year-old Davino, one of the biggest Mexican flops in MLS history, said he was glad to be back home.