The occasion of Manchester United playing Arsenal is as suitable a yardstick as any to measure soccer’s burgeoning globalization: Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune says the game — which he notes was generously placed at Saturday’s early time slot to correspond with late evening primetime viewing in Asia — is reported to have […]
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Soccer on TV
On Saturday, defending champion Houston faces Kansas City for a spot in MLS Cup 07 against New England. Americans in England face tough competition as Fulham (Clint Dempsey & Carlos Bocanegra) travels to Liverpool on Saturday and Blackburn (Brad Friedel) plays at Manchester United on Sunday.
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Soccer America Women’s Top 25 Weekend Results
On the next-to-last weekend of the regular season in the Pac-10, the four California teams — No. 1 UCLA, No. 2 Stanford, No. 9 USC and No. 14 California — all swept both games. Heading into conference tournament play this week as regular-season champions and top seeds are No. 4 North Carolina (ACC), No. 5 Texas A&M (Big 12) and No. 6 Penn State (Big Ten). For all the Top 25 weekend results and goalscorers …
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Soccer America Women’s Top 25
UCLA remained No. 1 in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 for the fourth straight week, and there was no change in the top six spots. Purdue, USC and Notre Dame all moved up one spot following No. 7 Virginia’s 1-0 loss to No. 4 North Carolina. For the complete Top 25 …
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TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: Women’s Conferences
Georgetown upset Connecticut, 1-0, in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament. New Hampshire and Boston University moved into next Saturday’s America East final. Form held on the first day of play in the Horizon League and Mid-American, Missouri Valley and Southern Conferences. For all the results and goalscorers …
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Soccer America Men’s Top 25 Weekend Results
Santa Clara extended its unbeaten streak to 13 games with wins over San Diego (2-1) and Loyola Marymount (3-1). Only Virginia Tech (15 games), a 3-0 winner over N.C. State, has a longer unbeaten streak. Red-hot Saint Louis crushed St. Joseph’s (8-0) and Temple (5-0) in Atlantic-10 action to run its winning streak to five games. For all the Top 25 weekend results and goalscorers …
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Soccer America Men’s Top 25
For the second time this season, Wake Forest reclaimed the No. 1 spot in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25. The Demon Deacons have been No. 1 eight of the 10 weeks since the start of the regular season. Connecticut is No. 2, and Brown moved into the No. 3 spot, its highest ranking of the season. For the complete Top 25 …
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UCSB shatters attendance record
Who says West Coast soccer doesn’t draw? For the second time in less than three weeks, defending men’s champion UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly shattered the Big West regular-season attendance record.
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Alabama A&M has Duke’s number
John Rennie will be having nightmares about Alabama A&M for many years to come. A&M has been a nemesis for retiring Duke coach John Rennie dating back to his first years as the Blue Devil coach in the 1980s when A&M was a national power. The Bulldogs no longer have an impact program, but they beat Duke for the fourth time in five meetings with a 4-3 win on Sunday in Rennie’s final regular-season home game as Duke coach.
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Texas loses star Logterman for season
Texas, ranked No. 11 in this week’s Soccer America Top 25, suffered a huge blow when Stephanie Logterman, whom Longhorns coach Chris Petrucelli called the best left back in the country, was lost for the remainder of the 2007 season due to a knee injury.
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‘Workmanlike’ Portland clinches first NCAA Tournament berth
Portland became the first team to clinch an automatic berth in the 2007 NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament when it defeated Pepperdine, 2-0, Sunday in Malibu to clinch its ninth West Coast Conference title.
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NCAA Division III Women’s Tournament Field
The NCAA announced the 60-team field for the 2007 NCAA Division III Women’s Tournament. (Fields for the NCAA Division II men and women and Division III men will be anncounced on Monday.)
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Houston keeps repeat quest alive
The elimination of Chivas USA, which tied Kansas City, 0-0, at Home Depot Center to lose its series, 1-0 on aggregate, means both regular-season conference champions are out of the playoffs. D.C. United having been ousted by Chicago on Thursday. Second-place finishers Houston – which is aiming to become MLS’s first repeat champ since D.C. United won the league’s first two championships in 1996 and 1997 — and New England advanced by winning their home legs, 4-1 and 1-0, respectively over shorthanded opposition.
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American is leading scorer in Spain’s La Liga
New Jersey product, Giuseppe Rossi, who went abroad at age 13 and has played for Italy’s youth national teams, scored after running onto a through ball and lobbing the Atletico Madrid’s keeper in Villarreal’s 4-3 win on Sunday, and he scored from the penalty spot in Wednesday’s 3-0 win over Levante. The 19-year-old now has seven goals and shares the La Liga scoring lead with three players. Villarreal is in third place, one point behind leader Real Madrid.
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Stiff punishment for boozing South Koreans
Four top South Korean players were banned from the national team for a year by the Korean federation for drinking into the early hours at Jakarta brothel the day after a 2-1 Asian Cup loss to Bahrain in July. One of the players, captain Lee Woon-jae was removed from the Asian Player of the Year shortlist because of the incident.
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OFF THE POST: Czech striker sets speeding record
Czech forward Milan Baros of French club Lyon’s was ticketed for driving his Ferrari 168 mph, which police said broke the record in that French region set by a motorcyclist who was tagged at 154 mph.
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Cherundolo, Hannover 96 move up in Germany
[AMERICANS IN EUROPE] Freddy Adu was an 82nd minute sub in Benfica’s 2-1 win at Pacos Ferreira, which moved Benfica to within six points of leader Porto. In the German First Division, Hannover 96, for which Steve Cherundolo went the full 90 as usual, downed Borussia Dortmund, 2-1, to move into fifth place and the UEFA Cup qualifying zone. Heath Pearce made his first league appearance for Hansa Rostock after sitting out the last six games. Pearce was a 59th minute sub as Rostock fell 1-0 at Werder Bremen. In the Netherlands, Michael Bradley and Heerenveen celebrated a 2-1 win over PSV Eindhoven.
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Dempsey scores on Hahnemann
[AMERICANS IN BRITAIN] Clint Dempsey scored his fourth goal of the English Premier League season, stabbing a close-range shot past Reading’s American goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann for the second goal of a 3-1 win. It was Fulham’s second victory of the season and the 26th goal Hahnemann has conceded in 12 games. Two other American goalkeepers fared better.
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Ellinger is new U.S. Youth Soccer Technical Director
John Ellinger, coach of the most successful U.S. U-17 boys national team and most recently coach of MLS’s Real Salt Lake, has become the first Technical Director of The United States Youth Soccer Association (US Youth Soccer).
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Guadarrama sees action for Santos
[AMERICANS IN MEXICO] Texan Sonny Guadarrama, 20, saw action for the third time this Mexican First Division season when he played the last 23 minutes for Santos as it remained undefeated with a 0-0 tie with Tigres. Edgar Castillo served a yellow-card suspension.
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Fergie fumes after Arsenal-United draw
[INTERNATIONAL HEADLINERS/VIDEO] Arsenal and Manchester United played to a 2-2 tie in an EPL top-of-the-table clash filled with drama and controversy that left United manager Alex Ferguson fuming. Ronaldinho was in fine form for Barcelona with two goals on free kicks in its 3-0 win over Real Betis. The race has tightened considerably in Germany, where Bayern’s lead over Hamburg is down to two points. Struggling at home and in Europe, Ukrainian power Dynamo Kiev made yet another coaching change on Sunday.
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Koeman Joins Valencia
Former PSV Eindhoven coach Ronald Koeman signed a two-and-a-half year deal with Valencia on Friday, making him the La Liga side’s fourth coach in three years. Each of Koeman’s predecessors, Quique Sanchez Flores, Antonio Lopez and Claudio Ranieri were all fired by a club looking to regain to the form it enjoyed in 2001 and […]
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Ronaldinho Shines but Barca Falters on the Road
Barcelona star Ronaldinho has been heavily criticized for his form so far this season, but the Brazilian was one of the brightest lights in an otherwise tentative display by the Catalans at Valladolid on Thursday. The two-time FIFA World Player of the Year was happy to score his first goal from open play this season, […]
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Arena’s ‘Dull’ Red Bulls
USSoccerPlayers’ Clemente Lisi doesn’t see Bruce Arena’s Red Bulls walking away from Gillette Stadium with a victory this weekend, and should they fail, Lisi says the onus falls on Arena, and no one else. And it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise if they do: the Red Bulls, he says, play a “dull brand […]
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Revs Hope to Ride Experience Back to the Final
It’s a rare thing in professional soccer to be able to say that more than half your starters have been together for five years, but the New England Revolution can: Matt Reis, Jay Heaps, Shalrie Joseph, Steve Ralston, Taylor Twellman and Pat Noonan have all been playing with the Revs since 2003. Ralston tells USA Today […]