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UEFA Champions League TV Schedule
UEFA Champions League second-leg quarterfinal play continues on Wednesday as home teams Manchester United and Barcelona take leads into their second-leg games against Roma and Schalke 04, respectively. For Wednesday’s Champions League action …
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Youth team bounced from Arsenal stadium
[OFF THE POST] An under-15 team that won tickets to the Arsenal-Liverpool Champions League quarterfinal first-leg game last week was ejected from Emirates Stadium after they cheered Liverpool’s goal. The boys and their coaches were escorted out after being the victims of a torrent of abuse from Gunner supporters, according to the Skelmersdale Advertiser. “We were abused by grown men — men in suits,” said Ray Radford, the coach of the youth team, which was not allowed to reenter the stadium.
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MLS TV SCHEDULE
New England aims to become the first team to win on the road this MLS season when on Wednesday its plays at Kansas City, which opened the year with two home victories, over D.C. United and Colorado.
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MLS teams’ shortcomings vs. foreign foes …
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS CUP/TV] The odds of an MLS team reaching the Concacaf Champions’ Cup final had seemingly increased when only one Mexican team, Pachuca, reached the semifinals and both Houston and D.C. United advanced. Yet both face an uphill battle in their respective semifinal series, the second legs of which take place Wednesday. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney explains MLS teams’ biggest handicap.
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Liverpool prevails in a thriller
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] The all-English Premier League quarterfinal — in which three English players started – turned into one of the Champions League’s greatest games as Liverpool reached its third semifinal in four years with a 4-2 win (5-3 on aggregate) over Arsenal.
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Chelsea rebounds at home against Fenerbahce
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Chelsea recovered from its 2-1 first-leg loss at Fenerbahce with a 2-0 home win to reach the semifinals. German Michael Ballack scored on a fourth minute header and Frank Lampard‘s late goal ensured a 3-2 win on aggregate.
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U.S. Soccer Development Academy Results
Met Oval, whose head coach is MLS star Giovanni Savarese, stayed on top of U-15/16 Northeast Conference with two wins, against Westchester and Albertson SC. “Our strength is definitely our team unity, and today we had a couple of lapses in concentration but the team came together and found a way to pull out a victory,” said Savarese after the Westchester win. For all the weekend U.S. Soccer Development Academy results and goalscorers …
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Wenger: Arsenal Can Still Win EPL Title, Champions League
Arsenal has struggled to eke out important results since posting an historic 2-0 victory at the San Siro last month, losing 2-1 away to Chelsea and then drawing 1-1 at home against Liverpool twice in the span of four days. Nevertheless, Coach Arsene Wenger believes the Gunners can still win both the English Premier League […]
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Why MLS Should Cash in on Altidore, Others
Here’s a good question MLS needs to ask itself: should a league that describes itself as not being dependent on the international transfer market be selling young stars like Jozy Altidore instead of building a foundation and marketing campaign around them?
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MLS Week 2 Highlights
If Week 2 of the 2008 MLS season taught us anything, it’s to take over-hasty pronouncements of a team’s flight or failure after the first game of the season with a grain of salt, says ESPN’s Steve Davis. There are two glaring cases, in particular: New England, lauded as an instant title favorite following the […]
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Guevara to Return to MLS with Toronto
The on again, off again transfer saga of former Metrostars standout Amado Guevara to Toronto FC appears to be on again — for good, according to Soccer By Ives. Honduran newspaper La Tribuna reported on Monday that Guevara has played his last game for Motagua and appears ready to return to MLS. “I don’t know […]
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Injured Ronaldinho in Play
With a torn leg muscle ruling him idle, two-time FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho might have his feet up, but his brother and agent Roberto De Assis can’t keep still. First he was spotted meeting with AC Milan GM Adriano Galliani in Italy last week, then come reports from England that Manchester City […]
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Soccer scholarship chase: fact & fiction
Soccer players and their families spend thousands of dollars each year on youth soccer in pursuit of athletic scholarships, but just what are the odds of landing a soccer scholarship? According to NCAA figures released recently by The New York Times, there is 1.4 women’s scholarships for every 100 high school players and half that — 0.7 scholarships for every 100 high school players — on the men’s side. The chase of athletic scholarships can come to preoccupy the families of aspiring stars, but the opportunities are often “overexaggerated,” according to the NCAA President Miles Brand.
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Goalie coach Wheddon takes Syracuse women’s job
Englishman Phil Wheddon, the goalkeeper coach for the United States women’s national team, is Syracuse University’s new women’s soccer coach and will take over full-time after the 2008 Beijing Olympics (if the USA reaches the finals).
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Maisonneuve leaves U-17 residency for Louisville post
Former U.S. World Cup player Brian Maisonneuve is leaving the U.S. U-17 residency program, where he has worked since 2005, to become an assistant on the University of Louisville’s men’s staff headed by Ken Lolla.
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Portland women land youth national team standouts
[RECRUITING] Portland remains one of the premier destinations for top women’s recruits, as evidenced by the Pilots’ 2008 signees, headed by U.S. national youth team players Danielle Foxhoven (Colorado Rush), Michelle Olivier (Concorde Fire) and Charney Burk (Slammers FC).
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NCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Coaching Changes
A total of 43 women’s jobs have opened up during the offseason. For all the NCAA Division I men’s and women’s coaching moves …
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UNC men sign three under-17 World Cup players
[RECRUITING] Coming off a 7-8-5 season, the University of North Carolina men’s team was in need of a big recruiting class and got it with the signing of three players who represented the USA at the 2007 Under-17 World Cup in South Korea: forward Billy Schuler (Matchfit Academy), midfielder Kirk Urso (Sockers FC Chicago) and defender/forward Sheanon Williams (FC Greater Boston Bolts).
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Game-fixer must pay
[REF WATCH] Robert Hoyzer, the key figure in Germany’s 2004 game-fixing scandal, must pay the German soccer federation $1,086 per month for 15 years as compensation for damages the DFB incurred.
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Germany’s last hope in uphill battle
[IN THE SPOTLIGHT] A German team hasn’t lifted the European Champions League title since Bayern Munich’s victory in 2001. Schalke 04, the lone German club among this year’s quarterfinalists, faces an uphill battle, going to Barcelona Wednesday after falling, 1-0, at home last week in the first leg of their quarterfinal series. But Schalke’s strong run in Bundesliga play has lifted its confidence.
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Oguchi goal helps Standard Liege close in on title
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Defender Oguchi Onyewu‘s headed goal with four minutes left gave Standard Liege a 1-0 win over Excelsior Mouscron to solidify its lead at the top of the Belgian Jupiler League to nine points. In the Netherlands last weekend, Heerenveen, with Michael Bradley, helped its chances to qualify for the UEFA Champions League qualification playoffs.
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U.S. U-20 men to play in Portugal
[ROSTER] Coach Thomas Rongen has named a 21-man roster for the U.S. U-20 men’s national team’s trip to Portugal, where it will play three games in Campos Verdes International Tournament April 13-19. The Americans will face Northern Ireland, the Cape Verde Islands and Portugal. The U.S. squad includes six European-based players.
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What’s in a (nick)name?
Can it be coincidence that the rumors of Thierry Henry perhaps heading to Seattle sooner rather than later surfaced at about the same time was announced the team nickname, which turns out to be a paragon of compromise? There’s nothing like a convenient distraction. After months of heated discussions among the ownership members and despite the adamant insistence of Commissioner Don Garber that the 2009 expansion team wouldn’t carry the same nickname as a loved but departed NASL franchise as well as the current USL entry, at high noon Monday came word: Seattle Sounders FC, joining the MLS club of Football Clubs that already includes Dallas and Toronto.
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Henry-Seattle Rumors Heat Up
For the past several days, speculation has been mounting that France World Cup winner Thierry Henry will join MLS expansion club Seattle for its inaugural 2009 season.