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The USA opens play against China on Thursday (kickoff: 11:15 am ET) at the 2007 Algarve Cup in Silves, Portugal, and the tournament will mark the first action of the 2007 season for  captain Kristine Lilly, who heads into the Algarve Cup with 117 career goals, second on the all-time goal scoring list for women […]

Fourteen former players are on the National Soccer Hall of Fame’s Veteran’s Final Ballot,   All Hall of Famers are eligible to vote on the final Veteran’s Ballot. The Veteran receiving the most votes is elected to the Hall of Fame as long as the vote total is at least 50 percent of the ballots […]

The spate of trouble on the field and off at major European games continued Tuesday night when Valencia’s Champions League aggregate victory over Inter Milan was marred by a mass brawl at the final whistle in which Inter’s Argentine midfielder, Nicolas Burdisso, suffered a broken nose. The brawl had begun on the field when David […]

It was too little, too late for Barcelona, which beat Liverpool, 1-0, at Anfield Tuesday night in the UEFA Champions League but could not make up for its 2-1 loss to the Reds two weeks earlier in Barcelona. Liverpool knocked out the defending champions on the away goals after their round-of-16 series ended in a […]

GUATEMALA. The Chapines remain the only major Central American soccer nation to have never reached the World Cup finals, and their national team coach says that won’t change any time soon. They came close in qualifying for the 2006 finals, mounting a strong campaign to finish fifth in the Hexagonal, but they have since slipped. […]

Once again, the USA looks to have an easy draw in group play at the Gold Cup. It’s 7-0-0 against Guatemala, Trinidad & Tobago and El Salvador, its Group B foes at the 2007 the Gold Cup, and they all three are in turmoil. El Salvador only recently ended a 29-month winless streak. Like El […]

“We live in a violent world today and, unfortunately, this violent world is transferred to within our preferred sport. We have policing organisms for the internet and music, for example, but not for sport, which carries great importance in the world. It is time something was done. We cannot continue like this.” — Newly elected […]

Dean Duerst, the former Wisconsin coach, took over for Erica Walsh as the head coach of the U.S. under-17 girls national team for its current camp at the Home Depot Center. Walsh was recently the new women’s head coach at Penn State after her predecessor, Paula Wilkins, took Duerst’s job in Madison. Duerst is also […]

The U.S. under-17 boys national team is headed to Central America, where it continues its preparations for this spring’s CONCACAF qualifying tournament for the 2007 Under-17 World Cup in South Korea. The U-17s will leave Thursday for a 10-day trip to Honduras and Guatemala that includes two matches against Honduras U-17s and matches against the […]

Barcelona can take hope from Manchester United that Liverpool is beatable at Anfield. The Spanish club will put its UEFA Champions League title on the line Tuesday night when it faces Liverpool, which takes a 2-1 lead into the game. The Reds are coming off Saturday’s 1-0 loss to Manchester United that ended their 30-game […]

David Beckham will be sidelined for at least a month after damaging the lateral ligament in his right knee on Saturday in Real Madrid’s Spanish league game against Getafe. A spokesman for Beckham said the former England captain would be out for 4-6 weeks after suffering a strain to the ligament. Beckham will not only […]

By Ridge Mahoney Senior Editor With 27 players and a few staff members, Kansas City coach Curt Onalfo and technical director Peter Vermes left Monday night for a two-week training stint in Argentina. Missing the trip is forward Yura Movsisyan, who because of his legal status and pending issuance of a visa cannot leave the […]

“If an alien came to earth, the first things I would want them to know would be Coca-Cola, Disney and Barca, but there is work to be done.” — Barcelona president Joan Laporta, telling German weekly Der Spiegel that the Spanish champion hopes to boost the club’s revenues and overhaul rival Real Madrid as soccer’s […]