[REACTION] Coach Pia Sundhage and the U.S. players reflect on a very long day in China that ended well for the Americans. …
The Germans, like the Americans in their 2-1 win over Canada, needed overtime to subdue Sweden, 2-0 in their quarterfinal. Brazil knocked off Norway, 2-1, to set up the rematch between the teams that met in last year’s Women’s World Cup final, which Germany won, 2-0. Japan advanced to a semifinal clash with the USA with a 2-0 win over host China. For all the results and goalscorers …
He may yet wind up as coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy, but Bruce Arena does have loftier goals to fulfill sooner or later in his life.
The 46th Bundesliga season kicks off this weekend amid an as yet unsettled row about TV rights, reports Raphael Honigstein. The German Competition Commission looked into the league’s six-year, $4 billion deal running from 2009-2015 and found it “unacceptable,” concluding that centralized marketing was a de facto cartel, and that a free-to-air highlights program must […]
U.S. national team and Toronto FC midfielder Maurice Edu could be on his way to Glasgow Rangers for $5 million, reports Steven Goff.
Edu’s national team colleague Benny Feilhaber has firmed up his move from Derby County to Danish first division club AGF Aarhus.
Italian World Cup winner Daniele De Rossi’s father-in-law was killed Thursday in a suspected Mafia hit.
Scores from the first leg games of Thursday’s UEFA Cup second qualifying round.
As the English Premier League kicks off on Saturday, there’s more money, more hype, and more expensive imported players than ever before. Yet even before a ball’s been kicked, everyone knows there are only four teams that can realistically hope to lift the title. Most bets will be on Chelsea or Manchester United, with Arsenal […]
The SuperClasico is supposed to be the most passionate rivalry in MLS, yet in some ways it played a reserve role Thursday night. With Bruce Arena in attendance at Home Depot Center in the luxury box used by Anschutz Entertainment Group president Tim Leiweke, Cobi Jones on the sideline making his debut as a head coach, and rumors swirling of Galaxy attempts to offload Carlos Ruiz to make room for U.S. international Eddie Lewis, the local teams played a sloppy yet riveting 2-2 tie.
Jeff Cunningham, who’s one goal shy of his 100th career MLS goal, could make his debut for FC Dallas, which he joined last week from Toronto, against Columbus, where he played in 1998-2004. … D.C. United aims to recover from its 4-1 loss to New York when it travels to Chicago. … West leader Houston hosts second-place Salt Lake. … Colorado looks for its second win in 10 games when it hosts Kansas City. … The league’s worst team San Jose (18 points) hosts its top club, New England (33 points). … New York meets Toronto FC on Sunday. For all of this week’s MLS action on TV and the standings and leading scorers. …
[CRIME & PUNISHMENT] FIFA has ordered Romania striker Adrian Mutu to pay Chelsea $25.6 million in compensation for failing a drug test in 2004 by testing positive for cocaine.
[WORLD CUP 2010] Red-hot FC Dallas striker Kenny Cooper and Freddy Adu are notable omissions on U.S. coach Bob Bradley‘s 17-man roster for the first World Cup qualifying game of the semifinal group round, Aug. 20 at Guatemala. Adu played in the USA’s first two qualifying games, the two-leg win over Barbados. Cooper has 13 MLS goals this season. Bradley will add one more player to the roster.
Nearly two decades after dazzling the local soccer scene as a phenomenal teenage soccer player, Kasey Keller is coming home. Discussions regarding Keller coming to MLS had run hot and cold for the past few years, but once the entry of Seattle Sounders FC into MLS became official last December, the only uncertainty boiled down to when, not if, Keller came aboard.
The 2008-09 English Premier League and German Bundesliga kick off this weekend. There are six MLS clashes and Olympic soccer quarterfinals. For detailed information on Olympic soccer viewing, go to www.nbcolympics.com, where games are also broadcast online. In the MLS Thursday night game, Chivas USA hosts Los Angeles. The English Premier League season kicks off this weekend.
Here’s the draw for round two of the English League Cup, the competition that no one wants to admit is 20 years past its sell-by date.
Watch the video footage of a Dutch TV interview with new FC Twente manager Steve McClaren, the man with the personality of a wet winter Sunday in Detroit. Strangely, McClaren has adopted the accent of a foreigner speaking English. No Steve, this doesn’t mean you are now speaking Dutch.
L.A. Galaxy right-sided midfielder David Beckham is to appear on a London double-decker bus at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
The South African government announced Wednesday that the cost of staging the World Cup will rise by a further 2 billion rand ($258 million). The overall projected costs will rise from 9.6 billion rand (just below $1.25 billion) to 11.6 billion (around $1.5 billion). Deputy Finance Minister Jabu Moleketi said the figure covered “all infrastructure” […]
Clint Mathis is to try a second spell at Real Salt Lake, paperwork pending, the team's GM Garth Lagerwey has confirmed. Just as England coach Fabio Capello hopes that marriage will settle Wayne Rooney down, Lagerwey reckons that the birth of Mathis' first child on Monday will help steady the wayward career of the forward […]
How we sniggered last year when former RB New York Managing Director Marc de Grandpre said upon dismissing coach Bruce Arena that the expectation at owner Red Bull's HQ was nothing less than the MLS Cup. Now, says Pat Walsh, it may not be beyond the team to achieve that goal as early as this […]
The news that Europe’s top leagues feature many foreign players is hardly going to stop the front page presses, but no doubt FIFA President Sepp Blatter will find the statistics useful in his ongoing crusade to try and contravene European Union employment laws. A study published Thursday by the Professional Football Players Observatory states that […]
The Olympic Dream — this distracting chimera that American soccer inflicts upon itself every four years — is over. Once again, it has ended in failure. A lot of time and money and effort has been spent — slap-bang, one has to notice, in the middle of the MLS season — and there is absolutely nothing to show for it.
The Los Angeles Galaxy’s first game under interim coach Cobi Jones is the Southern California derby against Chivas USA on Thursday night. It’s the third and final meeting of the season between the teams that share the Home Depot Center. The Galaxy defeated Chivas USA 5-2 and the teams tied the second meeting 1-1 in their earlier 2008 clashes. For all of this week’s MLS action on TV and the standings and leading scorers. …
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Juventus, Barcelona and Arsenal look likely to reach the Champions League group stage after convincing first-leg wins in the third qualifying round. Juventus crushed Artmedia Bratislava, 4-0. Barcelona cruised past Wisla Krakow by the same score. Arsenal downed Dutch squad Twente Enschede, 2-0. American defender Oguchi Onyewu did not see action in Standard Liege’s scoreless with Liverpool.
