[ITALY] Udinese and Napoli continue to give the Milan teams a good run for their money at the top of Serie A.
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Hoffenheim high after hammering Hamburg (VIDEO)
[GERMANY] 1899 Hoffenheim took first place in the Bundesliga in style, hammering previous leader Hamburg, 3-0.
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Liverpool beats Chelsea, Robinho hits hat trick (VIDEO)
[ENGLAND] Liverpool went top after winning 1-0 at Chelsea and breaking the London side’s 86-game unbeaten home run.
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What They’re Saying
“The Beckham stuff came from him. It was the English player who made his lawyers phone us having decided to play for Milan. Beckham, very probably, will be with us from the start of January, he will stay with us for two or three months then he will go back. It is not definite that he is coming.”
— AC Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani. (Reuters)
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Soccer Saboteurs at ESPN?
So the Beckham saga — if that’s what it is — staggers on, Failure after failure, mistake piled upon mistake, a farcical sequence of laughable bumblings and ineptitudes that have long since blotted out the basic fact that Beckham came here to play soccer and — his words — to help “make the sport as popular here as it is in the rest of the world.”
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What They’re Saying
“It’s hard to say that we’re the favorites here, because there’s no real history in this age group.”
— U.S. coach Kazbek Tambi on the inaugural Under-17 Women’s World Cup that begins next Tuesday in New Zealand. (fifa.com)
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POLLS: NSCAA/adidas High School Girls Rankings
The Pennington School is still No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas High School Girls Rankings. Acton-Boxborough (Mass.) Regional moved into the No. 2 spot. For the complete Top 25 …
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POLLS: NSCAA/adidas High School Boys Rankings
Sacramento Jesuit suffered its first blemish when it was held to a 1-1 tie by Vintage and remained No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas High School Boys Rankings. Norfolk (Va.) Academy climbed to No. 2. For the complete Top 25 …
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U.S. Soccer Development Academy Results
MLS’s FC Dallas has gotten off to a solid start in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. Recent results included a lopsided win (5-1 at the U-15/16 level) and tie (2-2 at the U-17/18 level) against the national powerhouse Dallas Texans. The U-15/16 team is now 4-0-0 in the first year of Academy play for Dallas area teams. Andromeda leads the Texas Division in the U-17/18 age group with a 3-0-2 level. For last week’s results …
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Region IV championships headed to Lancaster, Calif.
The 2009 U.S. Youth Soccer Region IV Championships will take place at the Lancaster National Soccer Center from June 15-21.
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Magic and Freedom top SYL rankings
The Chicago Magic (boys) and Washington Freedom (girls) have been named the top clubs in the annual Super Y-League First and Second 11 club rankings for the 2008 regular season. For the rankings …
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Becks on loan? Give me a break!
If David Beckham goes to AC Milan on loan, Bruce Arena will have failed his first major test as Galaxy impresario.
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Lopez: U.S. Life Is Great
“We’ve been treated great out here. The fans are great, the U.S. is great and it’s been a great ride. We couldn’t ask for anything more. My family is happy here and I like playing in this league.” Kansas City Wizards’ Argentine midfielder Claudio Lopez dishes the gritty inside story on soccer life at a […]
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Reality-Based Open Tryouts In Seattle
The Seattle Sounders FC will host open tryouts in three Washington cities in November. Inevitably, the tryouts “will be filmed for a reality-based television show that will be shown in late January of 2009.” But if only the base is reality, what will the rest be? Fantasy footie on ice? Shaolin soccer from Spokane? The […]
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Ronaldo: I Deserve Awards
“I feel calm. Two or three others deserve the Ballon d’Or. But if you evaluate what each one did over the course of the season I believe I did more than everyone else. What else do I have to do to win the Ballon d’Or and Fifa award?” Cristiano Ronaldo expects recognition of his achievements […]
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QPR Sack Manager Dowie
Nouveau riche west London Championship side Queens Park Rangers has sacked manager Iain Dowie with the season just 12 games old. Its triumvirate of extremely rich owners had demanded Premier League soccer by noon Thursday, and Dowie had been unable to deliver due to the constrictions of time in the current dimension.
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Arsenal Owners Must Have Club “In Their Blood”
Arsenal Chairman Peter Hill-Wood has repeated that the club's ownership will stay in the hands of those who have "Arsenal in their blood." He was addressing concerns from Arsenal supporters' groups that billionaire investors such as Denver Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke and controversial Uzbek-Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who between them control around 36 percent of […]
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Scudamore Can’t Let Go Of The “39th Game”
The philosophy of English Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore with regard to his universally scorned plan to play a round of EPL games in foreign cities around the world is similar to that of a small child hankering after an unfeasibly expensive toy. He seems to figure that if he bangs on about it […]
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Mastroeni and Co. Starting To Feel Their Mortality
The clock is ticking for a number of the Colorado Rapids’ veterans, and as they approach Saturday’s Rocky Mountain Showdown (copyright all Denver- and Utah-based media) at home to Salt Lake, they’ve come over all philosophical about the passing of time, reports Brian Forbes. “You start to feel your mortality,” said Pablo Mastroeni, 32, who […]
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Fire Season Won’t End With New England Fall
The last three Chicago Fire seasons have ended “in the chilly November air at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.,” writes Nick Firchau. This year, at least, with the first leg of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New England Revolution being a road game, the Fire’s campaign can at the very worst only end in […]
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Osorio: We Let Ourselves Down
Saturday’s 3-1 win over a weakened Columbus team proved to be a false dawn for RB New York as it crashed 5-2 to Chicago Thursday, and coach Juan Carlos Osorio was under no illusions about the merits of his side’s playoff-threatening performance. “After a performance like that, I have a very big question mark as […]
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Soccer on TV
MLS rounds out the regular season this weekend and the final two playoff spots will be determined when Colorado hosts Real Salt Lake on Saturday and D.C. United travels to Columbus on Sunday. International league action includes a clash of English Premier League leaders Chelsea and Liverpool on Sunday.
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MORNING BRIEFING: Camels are streaking
Campbell extended its winning streak to seven games — all in Atlantic Sun play — with a 3-0 win over Thursday at USC Upstate.
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AWARDS: 50th Anniversary NCAA Men’s Team named
Virginia had three players and Indiana and UCLA had players named to the NCAA Men’s Soccer 50th Anniversary Team.
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RISING STAR: USC’s Kristin Olsen
SOCCER AMERICA profiles USC goalkeeper Kristin Olsen. The Women of Troy face archrival UCLA Friday in their biggest match since last year’s Women’s College Cup at which they upset the Bruins in the semifinals en route to their first women’s soccer national championship. Olsen, now a junior, was a big part of USC’s success in 2007, earning Defensive MVP honors at the final four, and will be in goal on Friday when USC tries to break the NCAA women’s soccer attendance record by drawing 15,000 to the Coliseum.