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10 entrants: four qualify, plus defending champion Brazil. The nine countries — Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela — will play home and away matches against each other with the top four qualifying for France ’98.

10 entrants: one to advance to a playoff with a team from Asia. First-Round Byes Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti. First Round Melanesian Group — Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu. Polynesian Group — Cook Islands, Tonga, Western Samoa. Winner of Melanesian group and winner of playoff between the Polynesian Group first-place and Melanesian Group […]

36 entrants: five qualify First-Round Byes Cameroon, Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco First-Round Pairings (home teams for opening leg listed first) Sudan vs.Zambia Namibia vs. Mozambique Tanzania vs. Ghana Swaziland vs. Gabon Uganda vs. Angola Mauritius vs. Zaire Malawi vs. South Africa Madagascar vs. Zimbabwe Guinea-Bissau vs. Guinea Rwanda vs. Tunisia Congo vs. Ivory Coast Kenya vs. […]

DiFlorio replaces injured Karic The NPSL revised the lineups for its ninth All-Star Game set for Feb. 11 at the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita, Kan. The game will be televised on ESPN on a tape-delay basis at 12 a.m. ET Feb. 12. Veteran Buffalo Blizzard forward Gino DiFlorio takes the roster spot of injured Cleveland […]

Following a year of intense preparation, everything will cool down for the U.S. women after the upcoming U.S. Women’s Cup. After spending much of the past year preparing for the Women’s World Cup in Sweden, the United States women get a break. Many of the players went from either playing or coaching during the college […]

SMU sophomore Danielle Garrett hit a hat trick in her U.S. women’s national team debut to lead it to a 6-0 win over Ukraine at the Brazil Soccer Cup. The USA meets host Brazil in the final Jan. 20. The USA had edged Brazil 3-2 in first-round action. In other matches involving U.S. national teams […]

(All times Pacific) Group A Jan. 11 in San Diego: Mexico vs. St. Vincent & Grenadines (8:00 p.m.) Jan. 14 in San Diego: Mexico vs. Guatemala (2:00 p.m.) Jan. 16 in Anaheim, Calif.: St. Vincent & Grenadines vs. Guatemala (6:00 p.m.) Group B Jan. 10 in Anaheim, Calif.: Canada vs. Honduras (7:00 p.m.) Jan. 12 […]

Dec. 13 in Liverpool, England Netherlands 2, Ireland 0. Goals: Kluivert (28, 89). Netherlands — Van der Sar, Reiziger, Blind, Seedorf, Bogarde, R. de Boer, Bergkamp (De Kock, 57), Davids, Overmars, Kluivert, Helder (Winter, 78). Ireland — A. Kelly, G. Kelly, Babb, McGrath, Irwin, Kenna, Townsend (McAteer, 54), Sheridan, Phelan, Aldridge (Kernaghan, 71), Cascarino. (Netherlands […]

30 entrants: three qualify Caribbean Zone First-Round Pairings Series A — Aruba vs. Dominican Republic Series B — Guyana vs. Grenada Series C — Bahamas vs. St. Kitts & Nevis Series D — Dominica vs. Antigua Second-Round Pairings Bermuda vs. Trinidad & Tobago Puerto Rico vs. St. Vincent & Grenadines Cayman Islands vs. Cuba Series […]

Dec. 1 in Chapel Hill, N.C. North Carolina 0, Notre Dame 1. Goal: Own goal 19:21 North Carolina — Noonan, Fettig, Wilson, A. Roberts, Rubio, T. Roberts, Uritus, Dacey, Parlow, Confer, Keller. Subs: Sheppard, Falk, Karvelsson. Notre Dame — Renola, Scharff, Sobrero, Vogel, Boxx, Fisher, Manthei, Daws, VanLaecke, McCarthy, Gerardo. Subs: Vanderberg, Guerrero. Att.: 7,212

First Team NameSchool Michelle Joyce (GK)Brevard Shannon LarsonChamplain Sheila Best Brevard Danielle WadeSt. Louis CC Mary Beth MillerEssex Shannon CromwellGenesee Karen SloanMonroe Jaime ClarkCamden County Karinia CipriatiNassau Tara MandalaOcean County Yvette BroderickMitchell Second Team NameSchool Kim Bridge (GK)Dean Kelly LaFreniereChamplain Chris ShetleySt. Louis CC Cassidie DunbarCatonsville Jamie BonterMonroe Nicole LohmannSUNY-Farmingdale Staci DowdyLewis & Clark Denise […]

Women’s Leading Scorers Division I Player (Team)GPGAP Garrett (SMU)24321983 Linex (SMU)25311577 MacMillan (Portland)23231662 Keller (North Carolina)26231561 Blalack (Texas A&M)24231258 Confer (North Carolina)26191856 Stephenson (Campbell)2023955 Pierce (Monmouth)19191553 Koop (Texas A&M)24211052 Neaton (William & Mary)22191452 Browning (CS Fullerton)1924351 Gerardo (Notre Dame)25201151 Parlow (North Carolina)26191351 Walek (Minnesota)23161850 Marusak (Centenary)2021446 Jones (Central Florida)2120646 Williamson (J. Madison)2519846 LeDuc (Massachusetts)20181046 McCarthy […]

Dec. 9 in Richmond, Va. U.S. U-23 national team 3, College All-Stars 1. Goals: Friends (71), DuHaney (77), Baumhoff (87); Harris (70). U.S. U-23 team — Thornton (Walker, 46), DuHaney, Hejduk, Peay, Rodriguez (Petke, 46), Johnson, Smith, Vargas, Maisonneuve (Baumhoff, 46), Faklaris (Friends, 46), Marino (Carithers, 46). College All-Stars — Cassar (Grafer, 46), Mitchell, Clifford, […]

June 7 Cheers for the home team Before leaving town for the Japan-Brazil game, images of the U.S. tie with China linger in my mind: a distraught Tiffany Roberts squatting on the field after the game; Carin Gabarra getting through an interview even though it seems to be the last place she wants to be; […]

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 […]

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Group A Nov. 29 in San Salvador El Salvador 3, Belize 0. Goals: Cienfuegos 55, Rivera 57, Diaz Arce 75. El Salvador — R.Garcia, Meza, Carcamo, Hernandez (Osorio), Cuvias, Castro Borja, J.Rodriguez (Iraheta), Cienfuegos, Rivera (Menjivar), Diaz Arce, Cerritos. Belize — Slusher, Gladden, Nolberto (J.Garcia), Swift, Madrid, Moss, Casey (Pienlo), Usher, D.Rodriguez, Pandy, Pipersburg. Att.: […]

Reebok announced the 12 finalists for the 1995 Hermann Trophy Dec. 7. Men’s Finalists Hamisi Amani-Dove (Rutgers), Mike Fisher (Virginia), Wolde Harris (Clemson), Miles Joseph (Clemson), Clint Mathis (South Carolina), Matt McKeon (St. Louis), Eddie Pope (North Carolina), Steve Ralston (Florida International), Ante Razov (UCLA), Toni Siikala (Campbell), Damian Silvera (Virginia), Temoc Suarez (North Carolina). […]

Craig Jeidy scored for Duke in the 72nd minute to extend Duke’s lead over Virginia to 3-1 in the NCAA Division I men’s semifinal.

Tim Leonard scored for Virginia in the 79th minute to reduce Duke’s lead over Virginia to 3-2 in the NCAA Division I men’s semifinal.

Lars Hansen scored in the eighth minute to give Wisconsin a 1-0 lead over Duke in the NCAA Division I men’s final.

Dec. 8 in Richmond, Va. Duke 3, Virginia 2. Goals: Heaps (17), Smith (21), Jeidy (72); Feary (56), Leonard (79). Duke — Morton, Jeidy, Whitfield, Dunne, Maynard, Smith, Stein, Heaps, Shattuck, Kwon, Kelly. Subs: Henderson, Tao, Moghim, Volpe. Virginia — Sagatov, Pollard, Chulis, Vermillion, Feary, Olsen, Silvera, Walsh, Shapowal, Leonard, Fisher. Subs: Frisco, Fitzmaurice. (Duke […]

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Wisconsin defeated Portland 1-0 in the first NCAA men’s semifinal. Goal: Lars Hansen (63).

Lars Hansen scored in the 63rd minute to give Wisconsin a 1-0 lead over Portland in the first NCAA men’s semifinal.