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The MLS champion Kansas City Wizards’ season ticket sales for the 2001 season have already exceeded the total number of 2,067 from last year with four full months remaining before the opening kick-offof the new season. General Manager Curt Johnson announced that the organization has now achieved its highest ever renewal percentage for season tickets. […]

Five of China’s top women players, including forward Sun Wen, the leading scorer and top player in the 1999 Women’s World Cup and the leading scorer at the 2000 Olympics, have been signed by the WUSA to play in the league’s inaugural season beginning in April. The WUSA had been unsuccessful in its original attempts […]

Europe may be the focal point of the international game, but the best soccer is still played in South America. Ten months after Brazilian club Corinthians lifted the inaugural World Club Cup, Argentina’s Boca Juniors won the Toyota Cup, beating Real Madrid, 2-1, in Tokyo for world bragging rights. That clubs like Corinthians and Boca […]

Jordan Walker’s blast gave defending champion North Carolina a come-from-behind win over No. 1 seed Notre Dame, while Stephanie Rigamat’s header gave UCLA a 1-0 win over Portland in the other semifinal of the Women’s College Cup in San Jose, Calif. The Tar Heels will face the Bruins in the final at 12:30 p.m. on […]

EllingerÆs work as the head coach of U-17s and Olympic assistant promises big things Before John Ellinger was a soccer coach of any accomplishment or renown, he was a teacher. He spent 24 years in Montgomery County, Md.Æs public schools ù junior highs and high schools, teaching health and physical education and coaching wrestlers. Not […]

The Colorado Rapids relieved Coach Glenn “Mooch” Myernick of his coaching duties, it was announced by General Manager Dan Counce Nov. 30. Myernick coached the Rapids to the playoffs in each of his four seasons with the team beginning in 1997 when he led the team to the MLS Cup. In each season following the […]

Coach April Heinrichs has announced her roster for the U.S. womenÆs second of three ôGlory Tourö games. Missing from the roster for the Dec. 10 match against Mexico at Robertson Stadium in Houston are three players from the 2000 Olympic roster: goalkeeper Briana Scurry (family commitments), defender Danielle Slaton (soon to undergo minor knee surgery) […]

Youth market is on leagueÆs radar screen for 2001 One of Don GarberÆs drawbacks is he isnÆt steeped in soccer lore. In 2001, heÆs out to prove that same trait is one of his strengths. He danced on both sides of the fence last month at ticket meetings in Dallas when he delivered a speech […]

This article supplements information found in Soccer America’s Up Front on page 5 of the Dec. 11, 2000 issue of Soccer America Magazine. Group A Saturday, 11 November, Vosloorus South Africa (1) 3 Reunion 0 Goals: 1-0 Veronica Phewa 33; 2-0 Desiree Ellis 55; 3-0 Martha Malaku 69 South Africa: Delisile Mbatha, Portia Modise (Makhosane […]

The final path on the road to the South Korea-Japan 2002 World Cup wonÆt be easy for the USA. The field will be far tougher this time than it was four years ago. Trinidad & Tobago and Honduras should be much stronger opponents than Canada and El Salvador were four years ago. The fifth U.S. […]

Empire Soccer LP, the parent company of MLS’s MetroStars, is scheduled to unveil detailed plans for a 2002 expansion team in the metropolitan New York area, a stadium for the new expansion team and a new stadium for the Metros. The announcements will take place on Dec. 5 at a news conference in New York […]

Unexpected national team return allows veteran to end U.S. career on a positive note Tab Ramos did not even have his own bio in the 2000 U.S. Soccer media guide. It seems a mistake now, but despite having 81 caps and almost 20 years of service to the federation, Ramos had not played a single […]

Update on Americans in Europe Croatia Erik Kuster, Cakonec (D1) started (62 min.) at Zagreb (0-3) Denmark Will Orben, Viborg (SL) DNP at FC Midtjylland (5-3) England Ian Feuer, Wimbledon (D1) DNP at Norwich (2-1) Brad Friedel, Blackburn (D1) started (90 min.) vs. Gillingham (1-2) Marcus Hahnemann, Fulham (D1) DNP vs. Grimsby (2-1) Eddie Lewis, […]

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said the truest test of a personÆs character was the reaction to adversity. The U.S. men were handed a fair dose of adversity in the semifinal round of the CONCACAF 2002 World Cup qualifiers. At times they reacted childishly, at other times they excelled. Qualifying CONCACAF games are scrappy and […]

The decision to condense the remainder of this year’s Costa Rican league season to allow for preparations for the World Cup playoff between the Ticos and Guatemala has forced D.C. United to cancel its two-week trip to Costa Rica. The trip was intended to prepare United for the CONCACAF Champions Cup in January. This closed […]

The following players are on the initial list of players who have been invited to attend the WUSA combine Dec. 4-9 in Florida: PLAYER POS. HT. WT. HOMETOWN TEAM Barr, Emmy D/M 5-8 140 Granite Bay, CA Santa Clara/Sacramento Storm Bartlett, Dana GK 5-5 160 Paso Robles, CA California State/Odyssey Bartling, Sherice F/M 5-5 129 […]

The Colorado Rapids have signed rookie goalkeeper Adin Brown to a multi-year contract extension. Brown was selected with the Rapids’ first round draft pick (3rd overall) in the 2000 MLS SuperDraft. Brown, 22, started in 13 games for the Rapids last season earning a record of 4-7-1 and a 2.04 goals against average before a […]

Nov. 25 at San Diego, Calif. San Diego 0 Creighton 3 Nov. 25 at Dallas, Texas SMU 3 Kentucky 1 Nov. 25 at Seattle, Wash. Washington 1 Indiana 2 Nov. 25 at Stanford, Calif. Stanford 6 Illinois-Chicago 0 Nov. 26 at Providence, R.I. Brown 1 Duke 0 Nov. 26 at Chapel Hill, N.C. North Carolina […]

Brad Friedel was the victim of teammate John CurtisÆ back pass, giving Gillingham the gamewinner on an own goal and ending BlackburnÆs eight-game unbeaten streak. Ben Olsen was the only other American who saw action Nov. 25 in England. Brad Friedel, Blackburn (D1) started (90 min.) vs. Gillingham (1-2) Ben Olsen, Nottingham Forest (D1) started […]

Results and Schedule: Nov. 25 at San Diego, Calif. San Diego 0 Creighton (20-3) 3 Nov. 25 at Dallas, Texas SMU 3 Kentucky 1 Nov. 25 at Seattle, Wash. Washington 1 Indiana 2 Nov. 25 at Stanford, Calif. Stanford 6 Illinois-Chicago 0 Nov. 26 at Providence, R.I. Duke (15-5) Brown (12-5-1) Nov. 26 at Chapel […]

UCLA, Portland, North Carolina and Notre Dame have reached the 2000 Division I womenÆs final four in San Jose. UCLA will play Portland and Notre Dame faces North Carolina in the semifinals. Three of the four have reached this far before; UCLA make its final four debut. Here are the quarterfinal results: Nov. 24 at […]

Jim Doyle (Endwell, N.Y.) asks: I understand the term CAPS used in soccer refers to the number of international matches a player has been in. Is CAPS an acronym? If yes, what do the letters stand for? Mike Woitalla: Indeed, a cap refers to a playerÆs appearance in a full international game. That is, playing […]

Robin Peterson, a former University of Chicago theology student, tackles PSL’s problems When South Africa’s troubled Premier Soccer League began looking for a new chief executive officer recently, everybody agreed that a higher power was requiredWho knew it would be God? Yet the appointment of Robin Petersen, an ordained minister who studied theology at the […]

Once upon a time, Clive Charles was an up-and-coming defender with World Cup dreams. When those faded away, he found his true calling in the Pacific Northwest Things didn’t turn out as Clive Charles expected them to, certainly not as he’d planned, but blessings often are disguised as something else. When the native Londoner first […]

Men’s NCAA Division II FIRST ROUND St. Anselm 0 New Hampshire Col. 1 Dowling 1 East Stroudsburg 1 (East Stroudsburg wins on penalties.) Francis Marion 1 Clayton State 1 (Francis Marion wins on penalties.) Barry 4 Christian Brothers 0 Wis.-Parkside 0 Lewis 1 Wheeling Jesuit 3 Mercyhurst 2 West Texas A&M 1 Metro State 0 […]