Soccer America Archives

The following are quotes from the March 30 MLS media teleconference, which featured MLS commissioner Doug Logan, MLS Executive VP Ivan Gazidis, Los Angeles coach Octavio Zambrano and San Jose coach Brian Quinn. Doug Logan Opening Remarks “On our part for me personally and on behalf of the league, we’re saying a prayer for peace […]

KANSAS CITY 0 CHICAGO 3 March 27 Att.: 15,509. Goals Chicago: Razov (Marsch, Podbrozny) 10, Wolff (Razov, Armas 61), Razov (Podbrozny 69). SA Report Card Kansas City: Winner 5, Vermillion 4, Lalas 3, Bowers 4, Uderitz 4 (Johnson, 53rd, 4), Wright 3 (Klein, 46th, 4), Sabanadzovic 3, Preki 4, Henderson 5, Brown 4, Johnston 4. […]

Landon Donovan scored his 15th goal of the season for the U.S. U-17s, but a late equalizer meant the Americans had to settle for a 1-1 draw with FC Augsburg of Germany in the two teams’ openeing match in the first round of the Dallas Cup. The U.S. suffered blows to its defense with injuries […]

Kansas City defender Scott Uderitz tore the ACL and MCL in his right knee in the 53rd minute of last Saturday’s 3-0 loss to the Chicago Fire. The Wizards’ injury woes continue as Uderitz, 28, will most likely miss the rest of the season. Uderitz missed the entire 1997 season due to a bone contusion […]

Despite falling to Honduras for the second time in the tournament on March 26, Costa Rica took its third straight UNCAF Nations Cup title over the weekend. With Guatemala’s 2-0 win over Honduras in the first match of March 28, the Ticos needed to beat El Salvador by at least two goals to win the […]

Results March 28 MetroStars 1 Columbus 0 Miami 2 New England 1 (SO) Los Angeles 1 Dallas 0 (SO) March 27 Kansas City 0 Chicago 3 San Jose 3 Colorado 2 (SO) Standings EASTERN GP W L P GF GA MetroStars 2 2 0 4 3 2 D.C. United 1 1 0 3 5 2 […]

The U.S. women’s national team opened the “NIKE Road to Pasadena” tour on the same field it hopes to end it, defeating regional rival Mexico, 3-0, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. The 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final will be held at the stadium on July 10. The match, the first-ever for the […]

Group 1 March 27 in Minsk Belarus 0 Switzerland 1 (Fournier 72). Half: 0-0. Att.: 35,000. March 27 in Copenhagen Denmark 1 (Sand 56) Italy 2 (Inzaghi 1, Conte 68). Half: 0-1. Att.: 41,429. TEAM GP W T L GF GA P Italy 3 3 0 0 6 1 9 Wales 3 2 0 1 […]

Group 1 Belarus 0 Switzerland 1 Denmark 1 Italy 2 TEAM GP W T L GF GA P Italy 3 3 0 0 6 1 9 Wales 3 2 0 1 5 5 6 Switzerland 3 1 1 1 2 3 4 Denmark 4 0 2 2 3 5 2 Belarus 3 0 1 2 […]

Results March 27 Kansas City 0 Chicago 3 San Jose 3 Colorado 2 (SO) Standings EASTERN GP W L P GF GA D.C. United 1 1 0 3 5 2 MetroStars 1 1 0 1 2 2 Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 0 New England 0 0 0 0 0 0 Miami 1 0 […]

U-20 HEAD COACH SIGI SCHMID On the tournament and the team’s preparation: “We are looking forward to the competition. The team is well prepared and has been together since January 1998. We’ve had a good series of preparation with trips over seas and camps here in the U.S. We had a very successful CONCACAF qualification […]

With the U.S. U-20 national team on the verge of departing for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship in Nigeria, head coach Sigi Schmid has announced the final, 18-player roster that will represent the United States. “Getting to where we are today was a process that took more then a year,” said Schmid. “Every player […]

Pete Bailey: Here is some more information on Chicago Fire midfielder Diego Gutierrez, courtesy of Bob Rusert, the assistant coach at Blue Springs (Mo.) High School, which Gutierrez attended: “Diego was not a foreign exchange student at our school. He played here during his junior and senior years of high school. By definition, an exchange […]

Jordan Cila and Landon Donovan scored in a two-minute span to rally the U.S. U-17 national team to a 2-1 win over the University of South Florida in a March 24 friendly in Bradenton, Fla. USF star Kevin Alvero struck first in the 5th minute before Cila equalized in the 15th and Donovan hit the […]

If American fans have missed some of the most exciting moments in U.S. soccer history, it’s because many of them occurred during U-20 World Cups. In 1983, the U.S. won only once, against the Ivory Coast, but a team that included Tab Ramos, Paul Caligiuri and Hugo Perez gave a thrilling performance in a 3-2 […]

Dartmouth College goalkeeper Matt Nyman has signed a Project-40 contract. MLS identified the aspiring young professional at the 1999 Umbro Select College All-Star Classic in February in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and at training camps with the Dallas Burn and the Kansas City Wizards. Nyman, the tenth member of the Project-40 Class of ’99, will be […]

Goalkeeper Matt Jordan (1) Dallas Defenders Eric Dade (1) Dallas Jay Heaps (1) Miami Carlos Llamosa (1) D.C. United Midfielders Marco Etcheverry (1) D.C. United Clint Mathis (1) Los Angeles Ben Olsen (1) D.C. United Tab Ramos (1) MetroStars Forwards Eduardo Hurtado (1) MetroStars Jason Kreis (1) Dallas Ante Razov (1) Chicago ò In parentheses […]

Here’s a look at the television schedule for this week’s MLS games: Date Matchup Kickoff (ET) Television March 27 Chicago at Kansas City 8:30 p.m. Fox Sports Chicago March 27 Colorado at San Jose 10:00 p.m. Fox Sports Rocky Mtn.; Fox Sports Bay Area* March 28 Columbus at MetroStars 1:00 p.m. Fox Sports Ohio; MetroChannel […]

FEATURES Mathis Finds Place In L.A.’s Starry Lineup By Ridge Mahoney Dallas Puts The Hurt On Kansas City By Steve Davis Miami’s Feisty Fusion Gets Foiled By Jeff Rusnak Tampa Bay Gives An ‘Inexcusable’ Effort By Bill Ward New Faces, Familiar Result For San Jose By Ridge Mahoney Nigeria ’99: Sigi’s Boys Off On An […]

The U.S. women’s national team will play its first-ever match at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., against Mexico on Sunday, March 28, a venue the Americans hope to return to on July 10, 1999, for the Women’s World Cup Final. The USA-Mexico match, which kicks off at 2 p.m. PT and will be broadcast […]

Kansas City goalkeeper Tony Meola will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery March 31 in Los Angeles for an injury that occurred on March 17th, GM Doug Newman announced March 23. Meola, who received 51 stitches in the mouth and a chipped tooth on March 13th after colliding with Mexican forward Francisco Palencia during the USA-Mexico game […]

Scoring Player (Team) GP G A P Kreis (Dallas) 1 3 1 7 Lassiter (D.C. United) 1 2 1 5 Razov (Chicago) 1 2 1 5 Gottardi (Tampa Bay) 1 2 0 4 Hurtado (MetroStars) 1 2 0 4 Trotman (Dallas) 1 1 1 3 Williams (D.C. United) 1 1 1 3 Baicher (San Jose) […]

MLS Commissioner Douglas G. Logan announced March 23 on the league’s weekly media teleconference call that MLS will investigate the use of a two-referee system during the 1999 season. “We have a letter that is scheduled to go out tomorrow to U.S. Soccer Executive Director/General Secretary Hank Steinbrecher that will inquire into using the two-referee […]

The following are quotes from the March 23 MLS media teleconference that featured MLS commissioner Doug Logan, MLS executive vice-president Ivan Gazidis, Chicago coach Bob Bradley and Kansas City coach Ron Newman. Doug Logan Opening Remarks “We’re generally pleased with our First Kick ’99 … The average attendance of 16,000-plus was good … We’re also […]

TAMPA BAY 2 D.C. UNITED 5 March 20 in Tampa Att.: 16,872. Goals Tampa Bay: Gottardi (Ralston, Kinnear) 67, Gottardi (Quill, Jara) 88; D.C. United: Llamosa (Etcheverry) 50, Moreno (Olsen, Lassiter) 54, Lassiter (Olsen, Etcheverry) 66, Williams (Kamler) 81, Lassiter (Williams) 86. SA Report Card Tampa Bay: Garlick 5, R.T.Moore 4, Eriksson 5, McCarty 5 […]