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Host China opens with win

by Soccer America

[VIDEO] On Wednesday, Women’s World Cup host China opened its campaign with a 3-2 win over Denmark 3-2, as sub Song Xiaoli hit the decider with two minutes left. Two-time FIFA World Player of the Year Marta scored twice in Brazil’s 5-0 win over New Zealand. Australia won its first Women’s World Cup game; Lisa De Vanna struck twice in a 4-1 win over Ghana. Canada fell, 2-1, to Norway on goals by Ragnhild Gulbrandsen and Ane Stangeland.

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Resurgent Real takes on red hot D.C.

by Ridge Mahoney

[TV PREVIEW] Should the league’s best team be wary an opponent at the opposite end of the totem pole? As usual in MLS, the answer is yes. RSL has but four wins, but three of them have come in the last six games and that stretch includes a 1-0 victory over Western Conference leader Houston. For its first win of the season, after starting out with five losses and six ties, RSL beat United, 2-1, June 23 with a pair of goals by rookie Robbie Findley. (RSL still has six ties and would surely celebrate getting one at RFK.)

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Spain eyes rebound against Latvia

by Soccer America

[TV PREVIEW] Spain, which was held to a scoreless tie by Iceland on Saturday and is tied for third in Group F of 2008 European Championship qualifying, needs a win over Latvia in what is one of 21 qualifiers on Wednesday. France, coming off a scoreless tie with Italy and atop Group B, hosts Scotland. England hosts Russia, which sits a point above it in second place of Group E. Croatia leads the group.

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Brazil, Mexico clash in USA

by Soccer America

[TV PREVIEW] Brazil, coming off Sunday’s 4-2 win over the USA in front of 43,543 fans in Chicago, faces Mexico on Wednesday in Foxborough, Mass., where ticket presale reached the 60,000 mark. The game will be televised live on Telemundo at 8 pm ET. Brazil is preparing for its World Cup qualifying opener, at Colombia on Oct. 16.

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Edmans stands tall for Hokies

by Soccer America

One of the most intriguing first-year players in college soccer is Virginia Tech’s Robert Edmans. At 6-foot-6, the Englishman is an imposing target whom Hokie fans believe will team up with Ghanaian star Patrick Nyarko to form one of the best 1-1 combinations in the country. But Edmans demonstrated that he is just as dangerous with his feet as he is with his head when he scored from 40 yards in the 2-1 win over ranked St. John’s on Sunday.

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Big Ten men are off to flying starts

by Paul Kennedy

No men’s conference can match the Big Ten in terms of success over the first two weekends of the season. The five teams in the Soccer America Top 25 — No. 3 Indiana, No. 14 Ohio State, No. 17 Northwestern, No. 19 Michigan and No. 20 Wisconsin — are a combined 16-1-3. Add to that unranked Michigan State, which is 4-0-0, and you have six of the seven Big Ten teams off to flying starts. Not bad for a conference that only sent two teams to the NCAA Tournament in 2006!

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U.S. Soccer welcomes 26 new U-17 residents

by Paul Kennedy

U.S. Soccer’s under-17 residency program’s fall semester kicked off last week with 48 players enrolled in the program at IMG Academies in Bradenton, Fla. There are 26 players — 22 ’92s and four ’91s — beginning their first semester of training. The group in residency includes 14 players who recently represented the USA at the 2007 Under-17 World Cup in South Korea. All 10 players born in 1990 will finish up their high school education this semester while training in the program.

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