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Notre Dame’s Anne Makinen and Duke’s Ali Curtis won the Missouri Athletic Club’s Player of the Year Awards. The awards are the official Division I Player of the Year selections by the NSCAA. Makinen, a senior midfielder who is a native of Helsinki, Finland, is the first MAC winner from a foreign country. She led […]

(All times are ET and subject to change) Saturday, April 7 New England at MetroStars 7:00 Kansas City at DC United 7:30 Colorado at Miami 7:30 Tampa Bay at Dallas 8:30 San Jose at Los Angeles 10:00 Chicago at Columbus 7:30 Saturday, April 14 Miami at New England 7:30 Columbus at Tampa Bay 7:00 Los […]

Of the four U.S. national team players whose teams saw UEFA Cup, third round action Dec. 7, only keeper Kasey KellerÆs Rayo Vallecano survived. With Keller in goal the whole 90 minutes, Rayo Vallecano beat Lokomotiv Moscow, 2-0, in the second leg after a scoreless tie in the first leg. KellerÆs performance was lauded by […]

Tampa Bay Mutiny president & GM Bill Manning today named Alfonso Mondelo as the fourth head coach in team history. Mondelo, 42, brings nearly two decades of coaching experience to Tampa. He took the MetroStars to a playoff berth in 1998 (but was replaced by Bora Milutinovic before the postseason) and guided the Long Island […]

The following are the results of the poll in which 1,220 fans picked the best of MLS’s first five years: Who has done or did a better job as MLS commissioner? Don Garber – 851 – 69.8% Doug Logan – 252 – 20.7% Who has done or did the best job as coach? Bruce Arena […]

A draft lottery gave the Atlanta Beat the first pick in the Dec. 10-11 draft. The order will reverse each round, meaning Atlanta will pick last in the second round, first in the third round and so on. Each team logo was put in a separate envelope and placed in a box. Rob Kaler, vice […]

Arena saw MLS playersÆ stock rise during the semifinal round of qualifying How best to encapsulate advancement to the final round of 2002 World Cup qualifying? Which clichT is most relevant? The changing of the guard, the growing importance of MLS, and a worrisome lack of attacking flair were all reiterated during the semifinal phase. […]

A busy year for the U.S. national teams has ended. Bruce Arena's men's national team moved one step closer to the 2002 World Cup. There was a silver medal for the U.S. women at the Olympics and a historic fourth-place finish for the U.S. men — not to mention the U-21 women's Nordic Cup title. […]

Penn State women’s coach Patrick Farmer resigned his position. He is expected to be named the WUSA’s New York Power head coach. In seven years, Farmer has guided the young Nittany Lion program since its inception in 1994 to the 1999 NCAA College Cup. This fall, Farmer led Penn State to its sixth consecutive NCAA […]

Gordon Bradley, the only person to coach Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff, has announced his retirement as the men’s soccer head coach at George Mason University, effective Dec. 1. Bradley, 67, will remain at George Mason as a special assistant to the Athletic Director. A search for his successor will begin immediately, and Bradley […]

The United States will open the final qualifying round for the 2002 World Cup with a match against Mexico at 7:30 p.m. ET on Feb. 28, 2001 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. The match will be shown live to a national television audience on ESPN2. The February 28 match will mark the start […]

On reflecting on the 2000 season: “It was a good year, although it wasn’t easy advancing to the final round. Overall it was a good year. The experiences that we got out of the semifinal round are going to be invaluable. We faced a lot of adversity and criticism, but in the end the people […]

Thomas Rongen tries to orchestrate a D.C. United rebound One would expect that World Cup qualifying could only have an adverse effect on MLS clubs during the MLS season by pulling its players away for key matches. But in keeping with a trend of misfortune that ran through the 2000 season, D.C. United had its […]

Update on Americans in Europe Croatia Erik Kuster, Cakonec (D1) DNP vs. Slaven Belupo (0-0) Denmark Will Orben, Viborg (SL) winter break England Ian Feuer, Wimbledon (D1) DNP vs. West Bromwich (0-1) Brad Friedel, Blackburn (D1) started (90 min.) at Tranmere (1-1) Marcus Hahnemann, Fulham (D1) DNP at Preston North End (1-1) Eddie Lewis, Fulham […]

The Kansas City Wizards acquired all-time MLS leading scorer Roy Lassiter from the Miami Fusion in exchange for midfielder Chris Henderson. Lassiter has scored 81 goals and registered 34 assists (196 points) in 142 career games with the Tampa Bay Mutiny, D.C. United and the Fusion. He also scored the most goals and points in […]

The Kansas City Wizards acquired defender Mark Santel from the Dallas Burn for the 1st pick in the 3rd Round of the 2001 draft (25th pick overall). Santel, a St. Louis native, has been in the league since its inception in 1996, spending the first five seasons with the Dallas Burn. Kansas City coach Bob […]

MLS’s all-time leading scorer, Roy Lassiter, was traded from Miami to Kansas City today. Here’s what he says about the deal that spent him to the Wizards for Chris Henderson. Q. What was your initial reaction to being traded to Kansas City? A. It was a good reaction. I feel pretty excited about making the […]

Interview with Larry Creson, director of soccer operations by Soccer America Youth Soccer Letter executive editor Dan Woog Location: Germantown, Tenn. (suburban Memphis). History: The club was incorporated in 1976 as the City of Germantown’s recreational program. Competitive teams were added in 1978, with any name they wanted. The club decided to go with one […]

QUARTERFINAL RESULTS Dec. 2 at Chapel Hill, N.C. North Carolina 0 Indiana 1 Dec. 2 at Charlottesville, Va. Virginia 0 Creighton 3 Dec. 2 at Stanford, Calif. Stanford 1 Southern Methodist 2 Dec. 3 at Storrs, Conn. Connecticut 1 Brown 0

Notre Dame coach Randy Waldrum, fresh off a 2-1 semifinal loss to North Carolina in the Women’s College Cup in San Jose, Calif., turned down the offer to coach the Bay Area CyberRays of the WUSA. The second-year Irish coach, who has led his team to the College Cup two straight times, said that he […]

North Carolina 2, UCLA 1 Scoring: UCLA — Lindsay Greco (unassisted) 53:37 UNC — Meredith Florance (Alyssa Ramsey, Danielle Borgman) 75:11 UNC — Own goal 82:18 Shots: UCLA — 3; UNC — 14 Saves: UCLA – CiCi Peterson 5; UNC — Jenni Branam 0 Corner Kicks: UCLA — 2; UNC — 12 Fouls: UCLA — […]

The following are quotes from the Dec. 2 Women’s College Cup press conference for finalist UCLA: Opening statement by Coach Jillian Ellis We’re over the hurdle, obviously looking looking forward to the match tomorrow. As I said yesterday, it’s 90 minutes of soccer. I think all season we’ve played 90 minutes of soccer. I can’t […]

The following are quotes from the Dec. 2 Women’s College Cup press conference for finalist North Carolina. North Carolina Coach Anson Dorrance’s opening statement Obviously we’re ecstatic to be in the finals, advancing through a very tough bracket. Having Notre Dame in your bracket is no easy task. We certainly felt the pressure of their […]

Ron Newman, one of the most successful and colorful characters in U.S. soccer history, saw his 30-year coaching career end four games into the 1999 season. ThatÆs when Bob Gansler replaced him at the helm of the Kansas City Wizards. from the December 4 2000 issue of Soccer America Magazine INTERVIEW BY MIKE WOITALLA SOCCER […]

Ben Olsen missed Nottingham ForestÆs 1-0 loss at Burnley Dec. 1 because of an injury suffered during training the day before. Olsen scored Nottingham ForestÆs first goal in a 2-0 win over Sheffield United Nov. 29. It marked his second goal during his three-month spell on loan from D.C. United. The British press reports that […]