Soccer America Archives

Montreal Impact forward Eduardo Sebrango will honor his late father if the Impact wins the USL-1 championship on Saturday. “I’ll dedicate it to him. Definitely,” Sebrango said. “Obviously, he has meant so much to me and to our family. He is missed. I want to win this one for him.” The game has sold out […]

The defending USL-1 champions Vancouver Whitecaps aim to overcome a 3-2 deficit from the first leg when they travel to the Montreal Impact for the second-leg of the final on Saturday (2:30 pm ET, live on Fox Soccer Channel). Vancouver recovered from a slow start this season to earn the final spot in the playoffs […]

"Fans want to see the best and it's the two best teams that this league has to offer," USL president Tim Holt said of the all-Canadian championship series between the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Montreal Impact. "We look at ourselves as a North American league. More people from the outside look at it as two […]

Diego Maradona‘s obscene rant against the press on live television after Argentina qualified for the World Cup has drawn the ire of Fifa. “The reports we have received so far leave us no other alternative but to ask the disciplinary committee of FIFA to open a case against the coach Diego Armando Maradona,” FIFA president […]

Oguchi Onyewu‘s club, AC Milan, is seeking compensation from the U.S. Soccer Federation for Onyewu’s injury during a World Cup qualifier against Costa Rica. “I’m very angry because once again the national teams take players and we lose out due to injuries,” AC Milan chief executive officer Adriano Galliani told Italian media Thursday. “This is […]

While the drama of World Cup qualifying plays out across the globe, the tournament’s home team, the Bafana Bafana, has escaped much of the media’s attention. But criticism of South Africa’s coach, Joel Santana, has been mounting throughout the country, despite South Africa’s secure place in the World Cup. This week, Santana’s South Africa squad […]

Qualifying for the World Cup has given Honduras citizens a welcome distraction from the political crisis that has gripped the country for over three months. Thursday, the day after Honduras defeated El Salvador 1-0 to clinch its first World Cup appearance since 1982, was declared a national holiday. Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated in […]

German club Bayern Munich reports that prized new winger Arjen Robben could return from injury as early as this weekend, just two weeks after he had surgery on his right knee. The surgery was originally supposed to sideline Robben for at least three weeks. But Coach Louis Van Gaal said that Robben should be back […]

Everton has been assured that attacker Marouane Fellaini will be available to play against Wolves this weekend despite an attempted appeal to FIFA from the Belgian soccer federation. Belgian authorities tried to invoke FIFA's 'five-day' rule because Fellaini missed Belgium's World Cup qualifier against Estonia due to a tooth operation. The rule allows FIFA to […]

Orane Simpson, a defender on the Jamaica national team, was fatally stabbed in Kingston on Tuesday after having a quarrel with a man. No arrests have been made while police investigate the case in Tivoli Gardens, the sprawling neighborhood that was the country's first government housing project. Simpson also played with the Tivoli Gardens team […]

On a snowy night in Chorzow, Slovakia got the 1-0 result it needed against Poland to qualify for its first World Cup since independence. Poland defender Seweryn Gancarczyk slid an own goal past goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek that proved the decisive goal of the match. Jan Mucha – who plays his club soccer for Legia Warszawa […]

After Argentina qualified for the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Uruguay, Diego Maradona let fly with the sort of sexually charged and defiant gestures that have defined much of his relationship with the press. “You take it up the a**,” he said, scanning the locker room before adding, “if the ladies will pardon […]

Seattle can clinch a playoff spot with a win Saturday against Kansas City. A win would give the team 44 points to earn one of four wild-card berths. Another win in the regular season finale Oct. 24, plus some favorable results in other games, could send Seattle to a higher seed in the Western Conference. […]

With a 1-0 victory over rivals El Salvador, Honduras qualified for its first World Cup in 28 years. The country's only previous appearance came in Spain in 1982. Honduras coach Reinaldo Rueda was sent to the stands in the 35th minute for criticizing a foul called against one of his players. In the 64th minute, […]

Fans at RFK stadium showed an outpouring of support for striker Charlie Davies, who suffered serious injuries in an automobile accident that jeopardize his career. In the ninth minute of the final U.S. World Cup qualifier, against Costa Rica, thousands of fans held up white cards inked with a No. 9, Davies’ jersey number. Other […]