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Bundesliga side SV Hamburg is to open up a 500-corpse capacity cemetery so that fans can be buried within sight of the team’s stadium. The cheaper option is to have their ashes interned in an official club urn.

FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has written a forthright letter, on FIFA-headed paper, to Sunderland manager Roy Keane following the withdrawal of the English club’s striker, Dwight Yorke, from World Cup qualifying action for Trinidad & Tobago against the USA.   Warner, the Concacaf president who also acts as “special adviser” to the Trinidad & […]

Soccer in America fails to make the headlines not just because it’s still a minority sport at the top level, but because its main figures rarely say anything interesting about the game, writes Grahame L. Jones.   Compare that with the rest of the soccer world, where positions of power are occupied by colorful characters […]

Ben Knight says it’s time to dismiss Dale Mitchell as Canadian head coach, and the national team’s players must take the initiative in demanding his departure.

Former Chelsea and Italy forward Gianfranco Zola is reportedly to be appointed manager at West Ham United.

“It’s just great where I’m at with this team. You can tell this is a good team I’m playing at. I just wish I would have been here earlier.” Houston’s Kei Kamara tells Bernardo Fallas how much he likes it in southern Texas.

Although there is plenty of intrigue in European and African World Cup qualifying, writes Luis Bueno, Concacaf has become utterly predictable. Already three of the region’s four qualifiers from the past World Cup — Mexico, Costa Rica and the U.S. — have won their opening two semifinal round games, and are dead certs for the […]

It seems that every U.S. victory is immediately followed by the statement, “It wasn’t pretty but they still won,” writes Jeff Carlisle.  But when they take on Trinidad & Tobago in Chicago Wednesday in their third semifinal round World Cup qualifying game, the U.S. team might be hoping for a little extra on top of […]

England’s performance against Andorra at the weekend may have been “Doomsday anti-football,” but James Lawton liked what he saw in Coach Fabio Capello’s body language. “Whatever the limitations of the England performance, and they were plain enough,” he writes in a column well worth reading in full, “it was surely reassuring to note that for […]

Zac Lee Rigg salutes the staying power of L.A. veteran Chris Klein, 32, who has now started 108 games in a row for the Galaxy and Real Salt Lake, stretching back to April 15, 2006. The two-time MLS Comeback Player of the Year, who was made Galaxy captain by coach Bruce Arena at the weekend […]

The clichés about a ‘politically charged fixture’ are never truer than when applied to North Korea taking on South Korea. On Wednesday the two teams meet in a World Cup qualifier that FIFA has moved from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to the neutral Chinese city of Shanghai after the North refused to fly […]

“I gave him [Marco Velez] the responsibility of the captain’s armband and he got sent off for violent conduct and deserved to be sent off. I’m not going to stand up for him or back him. He’s let me and the team down.” Perennially aggrieved Toronto FC coach John Carver reveals he may add his […]