Stanford’s Lindsay Taylor is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week. She is one of four freshman forwards named to the Soccer America Women’s Team of the Week. For all the Women’s Team of the Week selections for games played Sept. 1-7 …
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Michael Bradley logs most minutes in 2008
[BY THE NUMBERS] As the USA prepares for its World Cup qualifying clash with Trinidad & Tobago on Wednesday in Bridgeview, Ill., we look at the stats that standout. …
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RISING STAR PROFILE: Bakary Soumare
[MLS] Bakary Soumare‘s solid play has helped Chicago yield a league-low 18 goals this year. Get to know Soumare in this profile by Soccer America’s Bryan Alvarez that covers on- and off-field experiences. …
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Fines don’t stop smoking coach
[OFF THE POST] Antonio Mohamed, coach of Argentine club Colon, would rather pay fines than stop smoking on the bench. He has spent $750 for breaking the no-smoking rule instituted August 2005. But the Argentine federation has announced it won’t allow him to purchase his smoking time anymore and will suspend him the next time he lights up.
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Kenny Cooper negotiations stall
[MLS] To the list of young players signed recently by MLS to new contracts can be added FC Dallas defender Drew Moor, but not Kenny Cooper. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney reveals who else got new deals with the league.
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What They’re Saying
“I’m sad because I left my teammates with 10 players again. In the first incident, the referee could have sent me off. They were two senseless tackles, a rush of blood to the head which has made me miss another important Argentina game.”
— Argentina’s Carlos Tevez offers a mea culpa for receiving his second red card in three games in World Cup qualifying. The Manchester United forward was sent off in the 31st minute of Saturday’s 1-1 tie with Paraguay. (Reuters)
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World Cup 2010 Qualifying TV Schedule
World Cup 2010 qualifying continues with 42 midweek games. Besides USA-Trinidad & Tobago, the televised games include Serbia-France and Portugal-Denmark. For all the qualifying schedule …
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Soccer on TV
World Cup 2010 Qualifiers highlight the midweek. The USA takes on Trinidad & Tobago on ESPN2 and Galavision on Wednesday night. New England hosts Chivas USA in Thursday’s MLS night match up. European leagues return to action on the weekend.
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Becks Says England Needs Experience
After sitting out most of England’s miserable 2-0 win in Andorra on the bench Saturday, L.A. Galaxy’s right-sided midfielder David Beckham says the team needs “experience” for Wednesday’s game in Croatia. Teenager Theo Walcott had started the game in Beckham’s place.
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UAE Faces Inquiry After Fan Trouble
Home fans threw plastic bottles on to the field after the United Arab Emirates went 2-1 down to North Korea in a World Cup qualifier in Abu Dhabi at the weekend. FIFA, the UAE Football Association and the Asian Football Confederation will all be investigating the matter. North Korea went on to win the game.
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U.S. Did ‘Just Enough’
The U.S. did “just enough to win” against Cuba at the weekend, writes Doug McIntyre and “if it wasn’t an overly impressive performance from the Yanks, it was a thoroughly professional and effective one.”
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De La Hoya Confident on Dynamo Stadium Deal
Part-owner of the Houston Dynamo, boxer Oscar De La Hoya, watched the team’s 3-1 win over the Kansas City Wizards Sunday. His thoughts on a stadium deal for the team: “It’s getting closer and closer. Will we have a stadium? Absolutely. That’s the goal.”
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Whitecaps Fans Want MLS
Vancouver Whitecaps’ fans are keen to bring Major League Soccer to their city, reports Marc Weber.
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Carver Determined He Shall Overcome
Toronto FC coach John Carver has been vocal these past few months about the obstacles he has faced as an MLS coach, but this does not mean the Englishman is ready to give up on the league. Even after losing at home to Chivas USA at the weekend when missing nine players on international duty, […]
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And It Wasn’t Even A Goal
It was bound to happen sometime — a player getting injured while indulging in an elaborate goal celebration. Even worse for Real Salt Lake’s striker Fabian Espindola was that while he was injuring his ankle with a somersault to celebrate what he thought was his team’s go-ahead goal against L.A., the officials were busy consulting […]
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Nicol: When You Can’t Run, You Can’t Compete
The Revs, meanwhile, have now been outscored 8-0 in their last two matches, and are 1-3-2 in MLS play since August 5. New England coach Steve Nicol said he is “not concerned about the confidence of his experienced players during this challenging stretch [to the end of the season],” reports Monique Walker, but he […]
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Table-Top Clash No Contest
Considering that the top two teams in Major League Soccer were matching up, Saturday’s contest between the Columbus Crew and the New England Revolution was somewhat one-sided. As the Crew won 4-0, writes Michael Arace, it “toyed with” its opponent and finally laid to rest the curse of the October 2004 playoff game that had […]
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The Waning Of The Beckham Buzz
David Beckham only played the final 10 minutes of his country’s World Cup qualifying game in Andorra at the weekend, and his international career isn’t the only thing on the slide. Compared with last season, ticket sales for his appearance with the L.A. Galaxy at the Kansas City Wizards this Saturday are down too, writes […]
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World Cup 2010 Qualifying Results
Striker Razak Omotoyossi scored twice on Sunday give Benin a 3-2 win over 2006 World Cup finalist Angola that earned the West African nation a place in the final round of the African qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals. Nigeria and Cameroon are the only other teams to clinch berths in the final round. For all of Sunday’s African results …
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USL-1 Results
Puerto Rico remained in first place in the USL First Division with a 1-0 win over Vancouver just a day after it had beaten Alajuelense of Costa Rica to reach the group stage of the Concacaf Champions League. For all the USL-1 results, goal scorers and standings …
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MLS Results
The expansion San Jose Earthquakes moved to within two points of third place in the Western Conference with a 2-1 win over D.C. United. For all the weekend results, standings, leading goal scorers and schedules …
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OBITUARY: Ray Bernabei
Hall of Famer Ray Bernabei, Executive Director of the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association (NISOA) for the last 33 years, died on Friday in Orlando, Fla., from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
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Crew breaks open East race
[MLS NAMES & NUMBERS] Argentine Guillermo Barros Schelotto made a case for 2008 Most Valuable Player with one goal and two assists in the Columbus Crew’s 4-0 win over the New England Revolution in the battle of MLS’s two best teams.
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Brazil saves Dunga’s job — for now
[WORLD CUP 2010 QUALIFYING] Brazil beat Chile, 3-0, in Santiago on Sunday in the only South American World Cup 2010 qualifier to climb from sixth to second place and ease the pressure on beleaguered coach Dunga.
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Soca Warriors lose Yorke
[USA-TRINIDAD & TOBAGO] Trinidad & Tobago’s Soca Warriors will be without captain Dwight Yorke, who returned to English club Sunderland under pressure, when they face the USA Wednesday in their World Cup 2010 qualifier.