Texas A&M senior Ashlee Pistorius, whose four goals in the Aggies’ 4-0 win over Baylor on Friday gave her the national scoring lead, is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week for games played Oct. 29-Nov. 4.
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Soccer America Women’s Team of the Week
Three freshmen — Katie Williams (Kansas), Kristin Kaiser (Penn) and Keelin Winters (Portland) — earned their first Soccer America Team of the Week honors. For the complete Team of the Week for games played Oct. 29-Nov. 4 …
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NCAA Division II Men’s Tournament Draw
Despite having its 20-game winning streak snapped on Sunday, Northern Kentucky earned the top seed and home-field advantage in the Great Lake Region in the 2007 NCAA Division II Men’s Tournament. For the 32 Division II men’s entrants …
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NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament Entrants
Play in the 2007 NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament begins Wednesday with seven first-round games. For the 57 Division III men’s entrants …
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NCAA Division II Women’s Tournament Draw
Metro State begins its defense of the NCAA Division II women’s championship when it hosts West Texas A&M Friday in the opening game of the 2007 tournament. For the 48-team field …
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OBITUARY: Nils Liedholm
Nils Liedholm, a legendary figure in both Swedish and Italian soccer, died Monday at the age of 85. Liedholm helped Sweden win the gold medal in the 1948 Olympics in London — the first international soccer competition after World War II — and moved a year later to Italy, where he would spend the rest of his life.
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Knee surgery for Giuseppe Rossi
A day after scoring his seventh Spanish La Liga goal for Villarreal, New Jersey product Giuseppe Rossi underwent knee surgery to repair meniscus damage in his right knee. He is expected to be sidelined for six weeks.
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Double honors for Rev defender Michael Parkhurst
New England’s Michael Parkhurst, 23, was named MLS’s Defender of the Year and the league’s individual Fair Play winner. Parkhurst, whose season included a 60-yard goal [VIDEO] against Toronto on his first attempt at goal in three MLS seasons, committed only five fouls in 25 regular-season games and received no cautions or red cards.
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Brian Hall named top ref again
Brian Hall was awarded the OSI Referee of the Year for the fourth time and third consecutive season. He also won the award in 2003. Hall led the voting ahead of Jair Maruffo and Alex Prus for OSI Referee of the Year.
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Eddie Johnson gets Comeback award
Kansas City Wizards forward Eddie Johnson was named the MLS Comeback Player of the Year. The 23-year-old, already in his seventh MLS season, scored 15 regular season goals and notched six assists in the 2007 regular season after scoring only twice and assisting once in 2006.
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Beckham game raises $90,000 for wildfire victims
David Beckham, who played just 252 in five MLS games, played 83 minutes on Sunday for the Los Angeles Galaxy in a charity game against the celebrity squad Hollywood United FC that raised more than $90,000 for victims of the recent Southern California wildfires. Beckham scored twice and had three assists in his team’s 10-4 win. England coach Steve McClaren attended the game to assess whether the Beckham was fit enough to warrant a return to the national team.
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USA splits at Beach World Cup
The USA rebounded from a 8-4 loss to Spain on Friday to beat Iran, 7-6, on Sunday at the 2007 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. The Americans will need at least a tie against Portugal on Tuesday to advance to the next round.
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A tale of two failures
There’s been nothing but stony silence from MLS headquarters regarding the recent carnival acts in New Jersey and Los Angeles, and for this Commissioner Don Garber and his fellow executives should be commended.
After all, what can be said about dysfunctional organizations in the league’s two biggest — and by many standards, most important — markets? In the space of 24 hours, they’ve jettisoned the only two coaches with national-team experience who’ve won two league titles in their first three seasons. Bruce Arena lasted 16 months, Frank Yallop survived slightly longer, 17 months.
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Marta stays put in Sweden — for now
If the new U.S. women’s pro league scheduled to launch in 2009 is to have any chance of getting off the ground, an essential first step is to sign the great young Marta, who scored two goals against the USA in Brazil’s 4-0 win in the semifinals of the 2007 Women’s World Cup. According to Swedish newspaper Expressen, Marta, who’s been dubbed the Pele of women’s soccer for her extraordinary skills and scoring ability, was offered the equivalent of 7 million Swedish kronor ($1.1 million) for seven seasons by AEG to play for its Los Angeles team in the proposed league, but she re-signed with her Swedish club, Umea, for the 2008 season.
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UEFA Champions League TV Schedule
Six of Tuesday’s eight UEFA Champions League games will be available on cable or via pay-per-view on U.S. television.
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Women’s World Cup: Top 10 Stories
1 The long road to respect Women’s soccer has come a long way in the last half century since the DFB, the powerful governing body of German soccer, attempted to ban a group of women from forming a national league in 1955. “Irreparable damage” would come to their bodies and “the public display of their […]
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MLS: Rating the All-Rookie XI
Fueled by the new Designated Player rule and an influx of foreign players, competition for roster spots forced rookies into the toughest situation of any group coming to MLS out of college since its launch in 1996. Several players who emerged started more than 20 games and played invaluable roles in their first seasons. The […]
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U.S. Abroad-Castillo: From New Mexico to Old Mexico
How a small-town U.S. boy ended up on the Mexican national team. Even when Edgar Castillo was only 4 years old, he watched soccer games on television. “He’d come over to our house to play with my boys,” says Linda Lara. “If I turned on the television for a soccer game, Edgar would start watching. […]
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Youth Beat: Go Abroad, Young Man?
Interest from foreign clubs in teenage American players is at an all-time high and an increasing number of youngsters are considering leaving their homes to pursue their soccer dreams aboard. One day Francisco Lletget noticed something slightly odd about the way his son, Sebastian, was eating breakfast, so he approached and took a closer look. […]
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U.S. Abroad: Decision Time for Rossi
The name of American-born Giuseppe Rossi has arisen once again as U.S. head coach Bob Bradley scours the globe for players to restock his player pool. Rossi’s career is steaming along as he scores goals for Spanish club Villarreal and the Italian under-21 team, for which he may play next year in the Olympic Games. […]
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MLS Newcomers Boost Profile
Only five Designated Players were signed in 2007 to varying degrees of success, yet many teams acquired players by more traditional means who have contributed greatly in their first MLS seasons. The tale is told in MLS offices of how skittish were Chicago Fire officials to herald the arrival of Mexican icon Cuauhtemoc Blanco in […]
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Josef Schulz Takes Dutch-Brazilian Approach
Worldwide search for player gold mine led Austrian Josef Schulz to South Florida. Josef Schulz once spent two years traveling the world scouting young soccer talent. But on this day, nine years ago, he was just taking a walk with his wife, Barbara, in their Boca Raton, Fla., neighborhood. They stopped to watch a pickup […]
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Yallop Leaves Galaxy for Quakes
Frank Yallop’s tenure with the L.A. Galaxy is over. He resigned as head coach just hours before the team left on a four-city tour of Minneapolis, Vancouver, Aucklund, New Zealand, and Sydney, Australia. Various reports claim that Yallop will soon be named head coach of the revived San Jose Earthquakes. A former coach of the […]
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Caution’s the Word for MLS Conference Finals
It’s not the job of the sports press to “big up” Major League Soccer’s Eastern and Western Conference finals, says Ian Plenderleith of USSoccerPlayers, “which is just as well, because I can’t think of much to recommend them.” Taking a look at the field, Plenderleith says that not a single one of the remaining four […]
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Revolution-Fire Preview
Many critics decry the tentative, defensive soccer on display so far in this year’s MLS playoffs, but Boston Globe writer Frank Dell’Apa says Thursday’s Eastern Conference final between the Chicago Fire and New England Revolution is perfectly poised. New England has the history, having beaten the Fire in all five of their playoff contests at […]