Fox Soccer Channel will broadcast the Women’s College Game of the Week in conjunction with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. The eight games will all be broadcast on Thursdays, beginning with the Sept. 11 match between West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Firsts for Cyprus and Belarus
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Barcelona (surviving without Olympic gold-medalist Lionel Messi), Liverpool (needing a goal in the 118th minute to beat Standard Liege and its American star, Oguchi Onyewu), Arsenal and Juventus all won as expected their Champions League qualifying series, while upstarts Aalborg (Denmark), Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus) and BATE Borisov (Belarus) qualified to enter Thursday’s group stage draw in Monaco.
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USL-1 teams fare better than MLS counterparts
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] The USL-1’s Puerto Rico Islanders accomplished what MLS teams failed to do on three occasions — get a result at Costa Rican club Alajuelense. Their 1-1 tie in Alajuela on Wednesday night and the Montreal Impact’s 1-0 win over Nicaragua’s Real Esteli before a sellout crowd of 13,034 fans left the two USL First Division sides unbeaten in Concacaf Champions League qualifying a night after both MLS teams, Chivas USA and New England, lost.
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MAKING A LIST: WPS head coaches
Jorge Barcellos, who coached Brazil to second place at the 2007 Women’s World Cup and the silver medal in the 2008 Olympic women’s soccer competition, is headed to Women’s Professional Soccer, where he will serve as the St. Louis head coach. Dallas and Los Angeles have yet to hire coaches with only weeks to go before the first player selections take place for the WPS’s 2009 launch.
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FC Dallas’ new midfielder sidelined
[MLS] Dutch midfielder Victor Sikora, whom FC Dallas signed earlier this month, will be sidelined for four to six weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a torn lateral meniscus in his right knee. He suffered the injury during his second start for Dallas, a 1-1 tie with Kansas City on Saturday.
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Bundesliga set to earn more than Italian Serie A
[GERMANY] According to a study by the StageUp sport business research firm, the Germany Bundesliga is likely to over take the Italian Serie A as the world’s second richest league. First is the English Premier League, whose revenues for the 2008-09 are estimated to be $3.5 billion.
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England likely to lose Gerrard for two qualifiers
[WORLD CUP 2010] Midfielder Steven Gerrard, who played in Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Standard Liege on Wednesday to earn Liverpool a spot in UEFA Champions League group play, is scheduled for groin surgery that will likely force him out of England’s two World Cup qualifiers next month.
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Schelotto The King Of The Assist
In the early days of Major League Soccer, assists were handed out to players like goody bags at a toddler’s birthday gig. Nowadays, a pass has to “unlock” the opposition defense to qualify as an assist, writes Shawn Mitchell, and this season it’s clear who is the chief locksmith — Columbus Crew’s Argentine playmaker, Guillermo […]
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Vide The Obscure
D.C. United’s new holding midfielder Joe Vide wasn’t supposed to be there. Not at D.C., who signed him up during an injury crisis after he was waived by San Jose, and not on the edge of the penalty area in a scoring position against the Colorado Rapids last weekend. But his left foot shot handed […]
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St. Louis Hires Brazilian WNT Coach Barcellos
The St. Louis women’s team due to start play in Women’s Professional Soccer next spring has hired Brazilian women’s team coach Jorge Barcellos to be its coach and general manager. “We’ll have a special look to the team with a lot of skill and creativity on the field,” promised Jeff Cooper, the team’s owner. “He […]
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Rangnick Vindicated By Hoffenheim’s Early Lead
Ten years ago, Ralf Rangnick, at that time coach of German second division leaders SSV Ulm, was mocked by the German soccer establishment after he appeared on German TV to explain how his team had succeeded by using a flat back four and zonal marking. The Germans still believed in the sweeper system, despite no […]
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The Connection Between Liu Xiang And The U.S. Soccer Team
Columnist Dan Oshinsky has been trying to work out the U.S. equivalent to China’s first Olympic track and field gold medalist, Liu Xiang. And then he came up with an answer — the men’s national soccer team. Liu shattered for the Chinese “the stereotype that they cannot compete in any sprint-type event. Chinese regard him […]
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Manchester City Borrowed Millions From Former Chairman
Former City Chairman John Wardle has loaned the team a total $12 million over the past year, reports David Conn, raising new doubts about the financial stability of the team’s owner, the Human Rights Watch-condemned former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Kljestan Awakes Dutch Interest
An unnamed Dutch team is interested in signing Chivas USA’s midfielder Sacha Kljestan after his displays for the U.S. Olympic team.
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Vidic Not Keen On The Manchester Rain
Manchester United central defender Nemanja Vidic has said that he would not want to stay in England long term because of the Manchester rain, and because all people do in the evening is watch TV. Well what do you expect when it’s raining outside?
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Del Bosque tells Serbia, ‘Hands Off Bojan’
Spain national team coach Vicente del Bosque has warned Serbia off attempting to lure teenage star Bojan Krkic to play for Serbia. Krkic’s father is Serbian, his mother Catalan, and he was born and raised in Spain.
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Disney all-stars take fourth at Chelsea youth tournament
The Disney Soccer Showcase under-16 all-stars, chosen from players competing at the 2007 Disney’s Soccer Showcase, finished fourth in Chelsea Academy’s inaugural youth cup near London.
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Olympic hoax costs prep coach job
For years, soccer credentials of a dubious nature have been thrown about freely, but Josh Muscadin is one of the few ex-players to get caught telling a tall tale. References he made about having played on the 1984 U.S. Olympic men’s soccer team cost him his job at a Maine prep school when a newspaper’s work on a feature on Maine Olympians revealed the hoax.
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Bailey stars for Surf at Nike Friendlies
[PLAYER OF THE WEEK] Allie Bailey led the San Diego Surf to a sweep of its three U-15 games at the Nike Women’s Friendlies with a team-high four goals.
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U.S. under-15 girls dominate against U-17 powers
The U.S. under-15 girls national team won by scores of 5-0, 6-0 and 4-2 against U-17 club teams at the 2008 Women’s Nike Friendlies at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif.
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Women’s Nike Friendlies Results
Play wrapped up Sunday at the 2008 Women’s Nike Friendlies at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif. Three U.S. youth national teams and 25 club teams from around the country played three games over the course of four days.
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Red Bull U-17s beat Italian U-17 champion Inter Milan
The New York Red Bulls’ U-17s scored one of the biggest wins an MLS youth team has ever recorded when it beat Inter Milan’s Serie A U-17 championship team, 3-1, on on Saturday night in Newark, N.J.
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MORNING BRIEFING: UCLA gets scare in opener
Freshman forward Sydney Leroux, who has represented the USA and Canada internationally, saved No. 3 UCLA in its opening game. ALSO: Purdue comeback, new Niagara stadium and third-generation Bavasi makes college soccer debut.
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GOLAZO: Isom bomb makes ‘SportsCenter’
[VIDEO] LSU goalkeeper Mo Isom‘s goal on a 90-yard free kick made ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” cracking the top-five plays of the day at No. 4 on the countdown originally aired during the 10 p.m. broadcast.
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Soccer America Men’s Preseason All-Americans
Connecticut’s O’Brian White, the 2007 Soccer America Men’s Player of the Year, heads the 2008 Soccer America Men’s Preseason All-Americans. White is one of four 2007 Soccer America MVP first-team selections named Preseason All-Americans. For all the first- and second-team selections …