Soccer America Archives

1992 — Iona 1993 — Fairfield 1994 — Loyola (Md.) 1995 — Fairfield

Goalkeeper — Maja Hansen (New Hampshire); Defenders — Tiffany Johnson (New Hampshire), Jessica Marsette (Vermont), Katie Nielubicz (Delaware), Amy Salamon (Hartford); Midfielders — Beth Halt (Delaware), Jessica Reifer (Hartford), Irene Stelling (Hartford); Forwards — Kim Boyle (New Hampshire), Stephanie Chmura (Hartford), Beth Gregory (Delaware). Player of the Year — Jessica Reifer (Hartford) Rookie of the […]

TeamWLT Portland601 Santa Clara511 San Diego520 San Francisco331 St. Mary’s331 Loyola Marymount250 Pepperdine250 Gonzaga070

TeamWLT Loyola, Md.610 Fairfield520 St. Peter’s520 Siena430 Canisius430 Iona250 Manhattan151 Niagara070

Argentine coach Daniel Passarella prohibits long hair on his players. So it must have hurt a little bit extra when the second U.S. goal against his finely groomed men came from the players with the most eccentric hairdos on the U.S. team. Jones, with his upright dreadlocks, beat two Argentines and crossed from the endline. […]

TeamWLT Harvard601 Cornell502 Yale430 Princeton340 Dartmouth340 Brown232 Pennsylvania151 Columbia160

Goalkeeper — Erin Fahey (Portland); Defenders — Dawn Birdsall (San Diego), Michelle Bush (San Diego); Midfielders — Justi Baumgardt (Portland), Kim Donohue (St. Mary’s), Tracy Giorgetti (Santa Clara), Erin Martinez (Santa Clara); Forwards — Jennifer Evans (Pepperdine), Mikka Hansen (Santa Clara), Shannon MacMillan (Portland), Wynne McIntosh (Portland). Offensive Player of the Year — Shannon MacMillan […]

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Goalkeeper — Erin Gilroy (Loyola), Christin Veach (Fairfield); Defenders — Cara Hills (Fairfield), Jen McLaughlin (Manhattan), Gina Prinzevalli (Niagara), Lynn Tasca (Loyola); Midfielders — Kara Burmaster (Fairfield), Denise Serafin (Loyola), Val Kujan (Siena); Forwards — Kelli Hurley (Fairfield), Erica Keller (Iona), Cara Mooney (Loyola), Nicole Tracy (St. Peter’s). Player of the Year — Kelli Hurley […]

Favorites Mexico (Dec. ’95 FIFA ranking: 12) — The Tricolores were pounded recently by Yugoslavia and upset by Slovenia’s U-23s, but do you really believe that when things get serious, Bora’s boys won’t qualify? Azteca Stadium is an imposing place to play. Just ask the United States, which lost 4-0 in the ’93 Gold Cup […]

U.S. Draw ‘Sixteen is a lot of games’ “It’s a little unsettling not knowing who [Caribbean D] is — we’re hoping to get that resolved in a couple days [it was later announced that the second draw for Caribbean teams will be held at the Gold Cup by Sepp Blatter]. “Costa Rica is a truly […]

American Tab Ramos scored the winning goal in UNL’s 3-2 win over Puebla Dec. 9 to move Tigres into first place in the Mexican First Division’s Group 1. Ramos scored on a free kick from just outside the penalty area to give Tigres the win. The win moved UNL into first place with 25 points, […]

American Joe-Max Moore continued his hot streak, scoring in his third straight game for German Second Division club Nuremberg. Moore struck only 40 seconds into Nuremberg’s match at Wolfsburg Dec. 9. The match ended 1-1, leaving Nuremberg with 28 points in 19 games. It finished the summer-fall campaign tied for seventh with Unterhaching. It faces […]

Marcelo Balboa, John Harkes, and Alexi Lalas have been chosen by a panel of 160 sports journalists as finalists for the 1995 Honda Player of the Year Award. The Honda Award honors the best professional soccer player in the U.S. Balboa was last year’s recipient, joining former honorees Thomas Dooley (1993), Eric Wynalda (1992), and […]

U.S. keeper Juergen Sommer has found more pace and pressure in the English Premier League. When asked in which of his starts for Queen’s Park Rangers he pulled off several saves in rapid succession at the edge of the penalty area, U.S. keeper Juergen Sommer had to ponder. “I can’t remember, really,” he says of […]

Kasey Keller is enjoying first place in the English First Division. Millwall has led the league since the beginning of the season, giving Lions’ fans hope that this will be the year it moves up. On several occasions during the past two years, Kasey Keller heard rumors he’d be going to the English Premier League […]

Marcelo Balboa is emerging as one of the top players in the Mexican First Division. Will MLS want to go without him? The U.S. success at the 1994 World Cup — its passage into the second round for the first time since 1930 — owed much to its central defense of Marcelo Balboa and Alexi […]

With his English League club struggling with defeats and debts, John Harkes expects a transfer soon. The best of intentions, the highest of hopes lay in tatters at Derby County, where a failed promotion campaign last spring and a muddling season in the First Division has triggered a clear-out of players. U.S. midfielder John Harkes […]

Foreign players have a difficult time coping in Turkey, but U.S. goalkeeper Brad Friedel is determined to persevere. U.S. national team goalkeeper Brad Friedel thinks he’s got what it takes to survive in the Turkish league. His club, Galatasaray, has already bid adieu to two foreign imports this season. Englishman Mike Marsh barely lasted a […]

U.S. national team Steve Sampson went to Mexico City to watch one of his central defenders and saw him play center forward. “I’ve been pushed up to play as a third forward in about four or five games,” said Marcelo Balboa, whose Leon team has frequently found itself in desperate situations recently. “If we’re behind […]

U.S. striker Jovan Kirovski left sunny San Diego three years ago to train with one of the world’s most glamorous teams. Culture shock is something that never entirely disappears. Mine hits early one January morning when I’m being driven into Manchester. My host points through the drizzle and at a housing block on the outskirts […]

American Paul Caligiuri’s days at German First Division club St. Pauli are over. St. Pauli has not exercised its option on the 31-year-old American who joined the Hamburg team in August after a standout summer with the U.S. national team. Caligiuri began the season in the starting lineup, but he struggled at marking back against […]

Intro: Six months after helping Padova dramatically escape relegation, Alexi Lalas is grappling with a dreadful season. As they were last season, the citizens of Padua are once again burdened with one of the weaker teams in Serie A. Like his teammates, U.S. international Alexi Lalas is living through the unique torment losing inflicts upon […]

Business as usual for Ernie Stewart means tying Dutchleague defenders in knots. Fans of FC Zwolle, a modest club in the Dutch Second Division, could not understand why Ernie Stewart would weather the blistering cold to watch their team play. “What are you doing here?” they asked him. After all, why would a First Division […]

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