Soccer America Archives

While Commissioner Don Garber was hired to handle MLS’s business affairs, he will ultimately succeed or fail based on how he handles soccer questions. Case in point: What does he do about Stern John? The Crew striker, whom our Columbus correspondent, Craig Merz, features on page 8 [Sept. 6, 1999 issue of SA], is the […]

UCLA’s Todd Saldana inherits plenty of talent and championship hopes from Sigi Schmid Todd Saldana’s primary job this autumn, and in the next few to follow, is to convince that this new era in UCLA soccer isn’t all that much different than the one that has passed. The immediate task might be simple ù he […]

Note: matches will be played over two legs Sept. 16 and 30, with the first team hosting the first leg. Aris (Greece) vs. Servette (Switzerland) Red Star Belgrade (Yugoslavia) vs. Montpellier (France) Inter Bratislava (Slovakia) vs. Rapid Vienna (Austria) Juventus (Italy) vs. Omonia Nicosia (Cyprus) Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands) vs. Dukla (Slovakia) Leeds Utd. (England) vs. […]

Ray Sadr Storrs, Conn. I have been looking for the book “Pele, My life and the Beautiful Game,” which is Pele’s autobiography. No one seems to have it and they say it is out of print, since it was published in the late 1970s. Do you know of any source that would help me buy […]

ACC Tar Heels favored once again North Carolina, which has captured each of the last four Atlantic Coast Conference women’s soccer regular-season titles and 10 straight ACC tournament titles, received all seven first-place votes in the 1999 ACC preseason poll. The Tar Heels’ 56 points outdistanced the Clemson Tigers, who finished in second with 42 […]

South American champion and 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup bronze medalist Brazil, along with Finland and South Korea, will join the U.S. women’s national team for U.S. Women’s Cup ’99. The sixth incarnation of the tournament will be played in a series of three doubleheaders on Sunday, Oct. 3 (in Columbus, Ohio), Thursday, Oct. 7 […]

The Tampa Bay Mutiny will take a break from its Major League Soccer late-season playoff run to participate in an international exhibition match versus the Puerto Rican national team. The match, sponsored by TECO Energy’s Tampa Electric, will take place on Wednesday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m. at Raymond James Stadium, home of the Mutiny. […]

Qualifying Round, Second Leg Aug. 24 Shamkir 0 Kryvbas KR 1 (Aggregate: 0-5) CSKA Sofia 5 Portadown 0 (Agg.: 8-0) Aug. 25 Lok. Moscow 5 BATE Borisov 0 (Agg.: 12-1) Aug. 26 Kilmarnock 2 KR Reykjavik 0 (Agg.: 2-1) Ujpest 1 Vojvodina 1 (Agg.: 1-5) CE Principat 0 Viking 11 (Agg.: 0-18) Sp. Trnava 2 […]

Lorrie Fair passes up money from World Cup bonanza for a shot at another title with Carolina A women’s soccer player trading her eligibility for money? That’s a realm usually reserved for college basketball and football players. But that’s what Lorrie Fair pondered in the weeks after the Women’s World Cup ended. The University of […]

Aug. 25 in San Jose, Calif. San Jose Clash (MLS) 2 UNAM (Mexico) 3. Goals: Tinsley (Bower) 4, Sequeira (pen.) 60; Campos (Gonzalez) 55, own goal (Clark) 70, Carino (Zarmatten) 90. San Jose — Cannon, Conrad, Wright (Clark, 46), Martinez, Tinsley, O’Brien, Cloutier, Barrett (Mulrooney, 46), Brose (Solis, 65), Sequeira (C.Harty, 75), Bower (Rodriguez, 82). […]

Karen Elchert Dublin, Ohio Would you say that in order to become a very good athlete, and soccer player, you would have to be fit and work out in addition to the practice time that you have per day? I would think that the soccer players, especially the women’s team, would have a workout routine […]

GROUP A Lazio (Italy) Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) Maribor Teatanic (Slovenia) SCHEDULE Tuesday, Sept. 14 — B. Leverkusen-Lazio, Dynamo Kiev-Mar. Teatanic. Wednesday, Sept. 22 — Mar. Teatanic-B. Leverkusen, Lazio-Dynamo Kiev. Wednesday, Sept. 29 — Lazio-Mar. Teatanic, B. Leverkusen-Dynamo Kiev. Tuesday, Oct. 19 — Mar. Teatanic-Lazio, Dynamo Kiev-B. Leverkusen. Wednesday, Oct. 27 — Lazio-B. […]

Third Qualifying Round, Second Leg Aug. 25 in Lodz Widzew Lodz (Poland) 0 Fiorentina (Italy) 2 (Chiesa 40, Cois 68). Half: 0-1. Att.: 6,500. (Fiorentina wins 2-0 on aggregate.) Aug. 25 in Kiev Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 2 (Gusin 74, Shatskikh 90) Aalborg (Denmark) 2 (Oper 9, Garde 47). Half: 0-1. Att.: 15,000. (Dynamo Kiev wins […]

FEATURES Stern John: Goals Are Flowing Again By Craig Merz Mauricio Solis Adapts Quickly In New Home By Amparo Sim=n Referees Wrestle With Consistency By Ridge Mahoney A-League: Hobbled Rhinos Continue Their Charge By Jeff Diveronica Italy: Milan Recalls Humble Wine Tavern Origins Will Class Divisions Impede Growth In South Africa? By Doug Cress Romania: […]

Glen Wheaton, Md. Why doesn’t MLS stop its contract with ABC and ESPN? If the MLS wants to grow, how can it without the games on national television where it can advertise the games? ABC and ESPN have [English-language] coverage of all American soccer till 2002, most of which will be on ESPN. How can […]

Goalkeeper Garth Lagerwey (2) Miami Defenders Joe Addo (1) Tampa Bay Dominic Kinnear (1) Tampa Bay Midfielders Robert Warzycha (1) Columbus Marco Etcheverry (6) D.C. United Zak Ibsen (1) Los Angeles Henry Gutierrez (2) Miami Forwards Ariel Graziani (1) Dallas Stern John (5) Columbus Carlos Hermosillo (1) Los Angeles Ronald Cerritos (3) San Jose ò […]

The exodus of underclassmen to the pro ranks is having a profound impact on the top college programs. Powerhouses like Virginia and Clemson were hit hard by defections. Indiana, Maryland and UCLA weathered the storm for now. In the early ’90s, Virginia, under Coach Bruce Arena, lorded over the NCAA championship, lifting the trophy four […]

EASTERN CONFERENCE Columbus Crew — PROBABLE: F Jeff Cunningham (right ankle sprain); OUT: D/M John DeBrito (broken right wrist); IR: GK Juergen Sommer (right knee ACL tear). D.C. United — PROBABLE: D Eddie Pope (right great toe injury), D/M Geoff Aunger (right knee tendonitis), M Ben Olsen (back contusion); QUESTIONABLE: D Carlos Llamosa (left quadricep […]

Laurie Schwoy, a three-time first-team All-America selection in the midfield and member of the United States national team pool, will red-shirt during the 1999 University of North Carolina women’s soccer season. Schwoy, who has helped lead North Carolina to three successive Atlantic Coast Conference championships and two of the last three NCAA titles, is suffering […]

Here’s a look at MLS games on television this week: Date Matchup Kickoff (ET) Television Aug. 25 New England at MetroStars 7:00 p.m. MetroChannel; Fox Sports New England Aug. 25 Miami at D.C. United 7:30 p.m. Sunshine Network Aug. 25 Kansas City at Chicago 8:30 p.m. MetroSports-KC Aug. 27 Columbus at Tampa Bay 7:30 p.m. […]

NEW ENGLAND 0 TAMPA BAY 1 Aug. 18 Att.: 13,087. Goals Tampa Bay: Kotschau (Kinnear, Diaz Arce) 43. SA Report Card New England: Causey 6, McKinley 5, Chronopoulos 5, Dunseth 5, Gori 6, Alvarez 6, Baicher 5 (Torres, 64th, 5), Burns 5, Harkes 5, Savarese 4 (Beasley, 81st, 5), Moore 5. Tampa Bay: Garlick 6, […]

Mark Dillon Portland, Ore. Now that Kasey Keller is signed with Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, any tips on how we can follow his time with this club, on the Web? The Rayo official website doesn’t seem to be oriented to articles and breaking news. I realize that they’re the unfashionable third team in that city […]

Coaches face increasing pressure to win as programs commit more resources to women’s soccer. Almost one in five Division I program changed coaches during the offseason. Five years ago, the women’s college soccer boom created a hiring frenzy. This year, women’s soccer pro-grams again put out “Help Wanted” signs. Almost 20 percent of the 250 […]

STANDINGS Eastern Conference Northeast GP W L GF GA P *Rochester 24 20 4 42 18 83 *Staten Island 25 18 7 49 24 77 Long Island 25 16 9 50 37 65 Boston 25 12 13 43 26 60 Pittsburgh 25 13 12 51 39 57 Lehigh Vly. 23 12 11 35 37 52 […]

U-15 DIVISION FINALS Aug. 20 in Stone Mountain, Ga. Stone Mountain 1 Brooklyn 3 Central Jersey 5 SCYSO 2 Aug. 21 in Stone Mountain, Ga. Central Jersey 3 Brooklyn 0 Stone Mountain 1 SCYSO 2 Aug. 22 in Stone Mountain, Ga. Stone Mountain 0 Central Jersey 3 SCYSO 7 Brooklyn 1 FINAL STANDINGS Team GP […]