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The ACC's dominance has reached new heights. Long considered men's soccer's best conference, the Atlantic Coast Conference boasts seven teams among the top eight teams in this week's Soccer America Men's Top 25 (see below). The seven ranked teams are all unbeaten: No. 1 North Carolina (4-0-0), No. 3 Virginia (3-0-0), No. 4 Maryland (3-0-0), […]

Montreal followed up clinching a spot last week by ensuring a bye to the semis this week, while Rochester, Charleston and Vancouver joined the Impact in the postseason. The Battery did so in impressive fashion, earning seven points of nine on a West Coast swing with a draw in Vancouver and wins at Seattle and […]

Sept. 2 in Columbus Columbus 3 New England 0. Goals: Garey 3, Gaven 39, Hendrickson 82. Columbus – Gaudette, Pierce, Gonzalez, Hendrickson, Leitch, Gaven, Oughton (Marshall, 85), Retiz, Rozental (Grabavoy, 74), Virtuoso (Kamara, 67), Garey. New England – Reis, Heaps, Parkhurst, Riley, Dorman, Cancela (Smith, 65), Franchino, Larentowicz, Ralston, Dempsey, Twellman. Yellow Cards: Columbus – […]

For the first time ever, the USA didn't finish among the top three teams at a women's world championship. For the second straight game, Tim Schulz's Americans fell in a shootout, losing to Brazil, 6-5, after the third-place game ended in a 0-0 tie. The shootout went eight rounds but not before Swedish referee Jenny Palmqvist, […]

The big showdown of the weekend took place in South Bend, Ind., where Notre Dame beat Santa Clara, 3-1. Jill Krivacek's left-footed strike tied the game in the 64th minute and Amanda Cinalli added a pair of goals to cap Notre Dame's three-goal spurt over a nine-minute stretch in the final game of the Inn […]

MVPs: Golden Ball: Ma Xiaoxu (China) Silver Ball: Zhang Yanru (China) Bronze Ball: Danesha Adams (USA) Top Scorers: Golden Shoe: Ma Xiaoxu (China) Silver Shoe: Kim Song Hui (North Korea) Bronze Shoe: Anna Blaesse (Germany) ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM: Goalkeepers CHN #1 ZHANG Yanru USA #1 Val HENDERSON Defenders BRA #2 DAIANE FRA #5 Coralie DUCHER GER #5 Babett PETER PRK #16 HONG […]

Lithuania, which has never played in a major championship, held World Cup champion Italy to a 1-1 tie in Naples on Saturday, the first full day of Euro 2008 qualifying. New Italy coach Roberto Donadoni said he was disappointed with the tie but added he had told his players they played well under the circumstances. […]

The match between No. 7 UNC Greensboro and VCU awarded to VCU with the Rams leading, 3-1, Saturday in Richmond when UNCG had its fifth player red carded. The Spartans (2-1-0) started the second half a man down as Henning Jonasson was issued a red card in the 44th minute. Thomas Campbell was given a […]

The top five teams in the Soccer America Men's Top 25 — four ACC teams, plus SMU — all remained perfect through Saturday action. Freshman midfielder Zach Loyd drove home the game’s only goal in the 68th minute to lift No. 1 North Carolina (3-0-0) to a 1-0 shutout of No. 20 Ohio State Friday […]

North Carolina midfielder Yael Averbuch set an NCAA record for the fastest goal scored in NCAA womenÆs history Sunday afternoon when she scored in the Tar Heels' 4-0 victory over Yale after only four seconds. Averbuch stunned the New Haven crowd of 2,189 when she took the opening kickoff and shot the ball off the […]

Group A Sept. 2 Poland 1 (Gargula 89) Finland 3 (Litmanen 54,pen. 76, Vaeyrynen 84). Serbia 1 (Zigic 72) Azerbaijan 0. Group B Sept. 2 Italy 1 (Inzaghi 29) Lithuania 1 (Danilevicius 21). Georgia 0 France 3 (Malouda 7, Saha 16, own goal 46). Scotland 6 (Fletcher 7, McFadden 10, Boyd pen. 24,38, Miller pen. […]

Sept. 1 Denmark 4 (Tomasson 14, Kahlenberg 21, Jorgensen 77, Bendtner 90) Portugal 2 (Ricardo Carvalho 16, 65). Sept. 2 Austria 2 (Linz pen. 36,59) Costa Rica 2 (Saborio pen. 16, 40). Switzerland 1 (Frei 86) Venezuela 0.

Last year, the Washington Huskies endured one of the worst seasons in women's soccer history. That all but four games were decided by one goal was no consolation. UW stood for U-Winless, as in 0-17-3. One year after advancing within one game of the Women's College Cup, the Huskies fell apart in 2005. This is […]

Romario, the hero of Brazil's 1994 World Cup win, has not disappointed since joining expansion team Miami FC for the 2006 USL1 season at age 40. He has played every minute of 20 games, scoring 17 goals and notching three assists and is the league's second leading scorer, behind Seattle's William Weaver, who has stuck […]

Fox Soccer Channel will broadcast 20 college games –12 men's games and eight women's games — on its NSCAA College Match of the Week. Women's action kicks off on Sept. 6 with a match between Saint Louis and No. 11 Marquette.  Men's action gets underway the next day with St. John's against No. 16 Connecticut […]

Most teams will consider a season with only three losses a success, but not Indiana, which has won seven national championships and been to 17 final fours since 1982. Last year, the Hoosiers finished 13-3-6. ''It was like gloom and doom,'' IU coach Mike Freitag told the Indianapolis Star. Well, Freitag's situation wasn't like that […]

In Major League Soccer, two-thirds of the teams reach the playoffs, making it the most generous of America's major sports leagues: Major League Soccer (MLS) 8 of 12 (66.6 percent) National Hockey League (NHL) 16 of 30 (53.3 percent) National Basketball Association (NBA) 16 of 30 (53.3 percent) National Football League (NFL) 12 of 32 […]

U.S. winger DaMarcus Beasley has joined English Premier League club Manchester City on a one-year loan from PSV Eindhoven with an option to buy. The 24-year-old who has played in two World Cups made 56 Dutch Eredivisie appearances and scored 10 goals in two title-winning seasons for PSV. He also played in 16 Champions League […]

Nearly two years since putting the Kansas City Wizards up for sale, Lamar Hunt has sold the club to a six-person group of Kansas City area residents led by Cerner Corporation executives Neal Patterson and Cliff Illig and known as OnGoal LLC. The Cerner Corporation is a supplier of healthcare information technology with almost $1.5 […]

Fordham, which jumped to No. 23 in the Soccer America Men's Top 25 after upsetting South Florida, 2-1, on Sunday, opened its home season Thursday night with a 3-1 victory over Army. Seniors Pat McNamee and Omero Rozen and sophomore Steve Woicik scored for the Rams (2-0-0). Grant Kerr set up two goals. On Sunday […]