Jeremiah White, a 25-year-old Pennsylvania product who played college ball at Wake Forest, helped AGF Aarhus clinch promotion to the top Danish league tier, the SAS Ligaen, with a 2-0 win over Kolding IF last weekend.
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Galaxy Emerges from Battle at the Bottom
It was crazy weekend in MLS, too: great games, dramatic finishes, and tons of goals, many of which were very, very high quality. Perhaps the biggest battle of them all came from league’s bottom two teams who were both desperately in need of a win. In the end, the Los Angeles Galaxy was able to […]
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Red Bulls Defense Turns From Best to Worst
The New York Red Bulls have quickly gone from being the league’s best defense to its worst, conceding 11 goals in its last four games after starting the regular season with just four conceded in eight. Injuries have a lot to do with that, says Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer, as evidenced by the […]
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Argentine Season Ends with San Lorenzo on Top
Oh, yeah, the Argentine Clausura championship ended this weekend, too, as San Lorenzo celebrated the title — the 10th title in its history — it wrapped up a week earlier. San Lorenzo extended its lead over second-place Boca Juniors with a 2-1 win at last-place Quilmes. After falling behind in the first half, Osmar Ferreyra […]
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End of an Era at Real, Barcelona
Those who don’t believe need only be strapped in front of a TV and forcibly subjected to the 6,840 minutes that made up the 2006-07 season for Real Madrid and Barcelona. Indeed, forget about luck, something far stronger-call it Fate-drove the Merengues’ to their first La Liga title in four years. Just ask Zinedine Zidane: […]
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End it Like Beckham, Indeed
The Times’ George Caulkin waxes poetic about David Beckham’s last day at the Santiago Bernabeu, a place he’s called home for the last four years and where he had the rare opportunity of walking away as a champion in his final appearance. But Real Madrid, as ever, made tough work of their pre-ordained conclusion, beginning […]
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Soccer on TV
Boca Juniors takes a 3-0 lead into the second leg of the Libertadores Cup semifinal on Wednesday (Fox Sports en Espanol). On Thursday, the USA faces Canada in the Gold Cup semifinals (Fox Soccer Channel & Telefutura) while Mexico clashes with Guadeloupe (Telefutura). ESPN2’s Thursday night MLS clash is Houston-Chivas USA.
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Rhinos take over first place in USL-1 with big win over Charleston
[USL RESULTS] The Rochester Rhinos opened up a two-point lead on idle Vancouver in the USL-1 thanks to a 5-2 win over Charleston on Sunday. Five different players scored for the Rhinos, who have played three more games than the Whitecaps. Seattle won, 1-0, at Carolina on Frenchman Sebastien Le Toux‘s goal to move into third place four points behind Rochester. In the USL-2, the expansion Bermuda Hogges remained winless with losses at Baltimore and Richmond.
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YOUTH: U.S. Soccer selects first 11 clubs for Academy
The first group of clubs that will field U-16 and U-18 in the inaugural season of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy , which kicks off this fall, have been chosen. The first 11 are: Atlanta Fire United Soccer Association (Georgia), B/W Gottschee (New York), Capitol Area Soccer League (North Carolina), De Anza Force Soccer Club (Northern California), FC DELCO (Pennsylvania), FC Greater Boston Bolts (Massachusetts), Michigan Wolves (Michigan), Nomads Soccer Club (Southern California), Players Development Academy (New Jersey), Seacoast United (New Hampshire) and FC Westchester (New York).
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Tiny Guadeloupe shocks Honduras to set up date with Mexico in Gold Cup semifinals
Jocelyn Angloma, the 41-year-old former French international, did it again, scoring his second goal of the Gold Cup to help tiny French department Guadeloupe knock off Honduras, 2-1, and advance to the semifinals, where it faces Mexico on Thursday at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Once again, Mexico put on a subpar performance, but it escaped from Houston’s Reliant Stadium with a 1-0 win in overtime over Costa Rica, which finished the game with eight players. In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Foxboro’s Gillette Stadium, Canada cruised past Guatemala, 3-0.
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Cameroon, Angola, Morocco and Tunisia clinch berths in African Nations Cup finals
Cameroon headed a group of four countries that qualified this weekend for next January’s African Nations Cup in Ghana. The Indomitable Lion beat Rwanda, 2-1, on Sunday for their fifth win in five games. Also through to the finals are Angola, the easy winner in Group 6, and Morocco and Tunisia, which made sure of their place with wins on Saturday. For complete African Nations Cup qualifying results and goalscorers …
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Bradley, Adu and Altidore head U.S. U-20 World Cup team
United States U-20 national team coach Thomas Rongen named the 21-player roster that will represent the U.S. at the Under-20 World Cup in Canada June 30-July 22. Rongen’s squad features 14 pro players, the most ever for a U.S. Under-20 World Cup team. It includes Michael Bradley, who is playing for the senior national team at the Gold Cup, Freddy Adu, who has already played in two U-20 world championships, and Josmer Altidore, the youngest player on the team at age 17. For the complete U-20 roster …
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USA wastes chances but reaches Gold Cup semis
This game could have been over by halftime, or at the very least put away with eight minutes left; instead the USA sweated out several minutes of stoppage time before the referee’s whistle extinguished the flickering hopes of Panama, 2-1, in the Gold Cup quarterfinals at Gillette Stadium Saturday afternoon.
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USA REPORT CARD: Donovan, Mastroeni shine against Panama
Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney grades the U.S. players’ performance in their 2-1 Gold Cup quarterfinal win over Panama.
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High scores and high drama in MLS
Eastern Conference teams scored 20 goals in their four games as D.C. United belted Chicago, Toronto derailed Dallas in a battle of the FCs, and six-goal deadlocks resulted from the New York-Kansas City and New England-Columbus tussles. In the West, Chivas USA extended Colorado’s losing streak to three matches, and the Galaxy knocked off RSL in the battle of the basement. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney reports on last weekend’s MLS action.
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Wambach powers the USA past China in Sendoff Series opener
Abby Wambach scored two goals with headers off set plays in the second half to lead the USA to a 2-0 victory over China before 8,888 fans Sunday at Cleveland Browns Stadium as the countdown to the 2007 Women’s World Cup began with the opening game of U.S. Soccer’s Sendoff Series. Wambach’s double upped her international goal total to 73 in 91 international games. The win over China was the USA’s third of the year and upped the team’s record in 2007 to 8-0-2.
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David Beckham and Roberto Carlos leave Real Madrid with league title
David Beckham and Roberto Carlos departed Real Madrid as champions on Sunday when the Merengues won Spain’s La Liga title for the 30th time with a 3-1 victory over Real Mallorca at the Bernabeu Stadium. Real Madrid finished tied with Barcelona, a 5-1 winner over Gimnastic Tarragona, but captured the tie by virtue of its advantage in the tiebreaker (head-to-head play).
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Arsenal Open to Henry Exit, Milan Confident of Sheva Return
Speculation is rife in England that Arsenal legend Thierry Henry will be heading to the Nou Camp this summer, possibly in exchange for Samuel Eto’o, while Chelsea’s Andriy Shevchenko is close to making a shocking return to European Champion AC Milan, the club that sold him to the Blues for nearly $60 million just last […]
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With Barca Behind Him, Saviola Focuses on Argentina
When Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard actually used him, Javier Saviola played quite well this season, but the Argentine striker has now made it clear he’ll be departing the Nou Camp this summer. Adored by the Catalan fans, Saviola was unappreciated by Barca’s management and Rijkaard in particular, who reacted with indifference when the 25-year-old said […]
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Feilhaber’s Wild Ride to the Top
Without question, 22-year-old Benny Feilhaber has been one of the biggest revelations since Bob Bradley took charge of the U.S. national team late last year. In just four topsy-turvy years, Feilhaber has gone from being a walk-on at UCLA to becoming a starting central midfielder for the U.S. national team. However, his national team success […]
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Howard Back on Song for Club, Country
It’s taken nearly three years, but American goalkeeper Tim Howard is once again on top of his game: first choice at Everton and now, first choice for the U.S. national team. The 28-year-old’s career is rising again, but this time he’s learned not to take it for granted. “I still feel I have to prove […]
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Chelsea, Others, Implicated in Bungs’ Scandal
Remember the so-called “bungs” scandal that threatened to bring the English Premier League’s shady transfer system to its knees? Well, former Police Commissioner Lord Stevens has now finished his inquiry into alleged illegal payments made between clubs and players’ agents in some 17 transfers. Chelsea, Newcastle, Bolton, Middlesbrough and Portsmouth were all named in Stevens’ […]
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2007 Gold Cup Television Schedule
The Gold Cup moves into the quarterfinals with two games Saturday and two on Sunday. The USA meets Panama in a replay of the 2005 final on Saturday at 4 pm on Fox Soccer Channel and Univision …
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Haitian U-17s vanish, then reappear at JFK stopover
There was a bizarre twist to one of soccer’s great success stories of the year when 13 members of Haiti’s U-17 team vanished, then reappeared at New York’s Kennedy International Airport, where they were scheduled to fly to South Korea for an international tournament in preparation for the U-17 World Cup there later in the summer. After Haitian Football Federation president Yves Jean-Bart appealed on a Haitian Creole-language radio station in New York to the players to “reinstate themselves as soon as possible,” the players all returned to the team.
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Two Cuban Gold Cup players are missing
It was not a good Gold Cup for Cuba. After Cuba was unceremoniously dumped from the tournament with a 5-0 loss to Honduras in Houston on Wednesday night, it was revealed that two players, veteran striker Lester More and Osvaldo Alonso, may have tried to defect.