[WORLD CUP 2010] The first USA foray into Central America for 2010 World Cup qualifying followed tradition in so many ways, except for one: the result. Guatemala 0, USA 1. Spectacular? No, but historic, yes. Never before in a qualifier, and only once in nine games, had the USA returned from this nation victorious.
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International Friendly Results
International play resumed with Europe’s top teams all in action in friendly action on Wednesday. Euro ’08 champion Spain was playing its first game under Vicente Del Bosque, while Italy and Portugal both welcomed back former coaches. For all the results …
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Colorado’s Clavijo is third coach to go in 2008
[MLS] When the season began, the two most tenuous head coaches were Fernando Clavijo in Colorado and Sigi Schmid in Columbus. One is riding high, the other just got dumped. With one-third of the season to go, Schmid is firmly entrenched, as is the Eastern Conference leading-Crew. A surprise firing in Dallas (Steve Morrow) and a shocking-yet-not-surprising dismissal (Ruud Gullit) in Los Angeles preceded the seemingly inevitable departure of Clavijo, who left the country last week to be with his seriously ill brother in his native Uruguay and on Monday officially terminated his tenure.
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Special Edition: U.S. Olympic Soccer
MEMBERSHIP ALERT: A special edition will appear later Thursday with coverage of the USA-Brazil women’s gold-medal game, so look for this e-newsletter from Soccer America’s editors. For fans not wishing to read our coverage until after they have watched the game, the subject line of these e-letters will begin “Special Olympic Edition.”
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Backline: Duke’s John Kerr Jr. Taps Unique Experiences
Duke banks on hero of 1986 NCAA title win to guide Blue Devils back to top
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Youth Nationals: Texans Make History
The Dallas Texans didn’t have to travel far to clean up. They made history when they won four titles at the 2008 U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in North Little Rock, Ark. Add to that a rare double by Andromeda and Solar’s McGuire Cup title, and North Texas teams finished with a record seven championships.
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NE Revolution: ‘Supah Shalrie’
Shalrie Joseph is the New England Revolution’s leader in its quest to finally win an MLS Cup title. He is the perfect package, combining size, strength, touch and vision, and could be MLS’s best player.
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College Women: Rapinoe Attack is Back
They arrived at Portland with high expectations, but in four seasons, injuries and illness limited the Rapinoe twins, Megan and Rachael, to playing perhaps 10 games together. After both players were sidelined four games apart last season with knee injuries, their careers reached a low point. But the Rapinoes rebounded with determination and return for their final season. Their goal for the Pilots: “champions or bust.”
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College Men: O’Brian White’s Unfinished Business
College soccer’s best player is back.
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Youth Beat: Refs’ Difficult Job Made Harder
As U.S. Soccer works on improving the nation’s refs, their job isn’t made any easier by coaches, parents and TV commentators.
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LA Galaxy: Anatomy of a Meltdown
The news that both Alexi Lalas and Ruud Gullit had departed the Los Angeles Galaxy in early August came as a surprise, but the underlying problems at MLS’s most visible team were an old story.
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Women’s College Preview ’08
FavoriteA-Rod leads USC again Amy Rodriguez and USC women's soccer seemed to be an odd match. The U.S. national team star could have chosen to attend any school in the country but says she picked USC because it was a "school where national championships are made." Football, maybe. But women's soccer had a long history […]
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Men’s College Preview ’08
FavoriteWake Forest learns life lessons A chance meeting in Santa Filomena, Brazil, located one hour outside of Sao Paulo, underscored the huge difference between American and Brazilian soccer. NCAA Division I champion Wake Forest was in Brazil for a spring tour, and Marcus Tracy, the Demon Deacons' star at the Men's College Cup, befriended a […]
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Premier League Transfers In Full
Forget the rumors, here’s a comprehensive list of all the Premier League transfers that have taken place this summer.
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Shevchenko Back To Milan?
Chelsea’s Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko is set to end his unsettled two-year spell in London with a one-year loan move to his previous club, AC Milan.
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Testing Time Ahead For Men’s Olympic Soccer
George Gorecki examines the future of men’s soccer as an Olympic event.
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Dunga’s Brazil Future In Doubt
Will Dunga keep his job after Brazil’s Olympic semifinal mauling to South American rivals Argentina?
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The Worst Ever EPL Team
A fan vote on the worst ever Premier League team has revealed a surprising number of Manchester United players in the losers’ lineup. Less surprisingly, former L.A. Galaxy defender Abel Xavier also made the cut. In goal for ‘Relegation United’ is United’s former shot-stopper Massimo Taibi, who polled a third of the vote. The defence […]
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Silvestre A Rare Mover From Manchester To Arsenal
Manchester United’s long-serving defender Mikaël Silvestre, 31, is reportedly moving to Arsenal, becoming the first player to move from Old Trafford to the north London side for 34 years. Brian Kidd was the last player to head south from United to Arsenal, back in 1974. Arsenal coach Arsène Wenger set up the Silvestre deal after […]
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What Happened To The Beautiful Game?
“Two red cards, defensive play, zero goals,” Grant Wahl helpfully pointed out to Brazilian coach Dunga after his side’s 3-0 Olympic semifinal defeat at the hands of Argentina Tuesday. “What happened to the Beautiful Game of Brazil?” His reward from the curator of what Wahl calls O Jogo Feio (the Ugly Game), was “the old […]
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Busy Times In Toronto As Robert Leaves, Ruiz Arrives
Toronto FC kept quiet during the past week’s press reports about midfielder Maurice Edu’s $5 million move to Glasgow Rangers. But on Tuesday the team made a flurry of announcements, waiving midfielder Laurent Robert, and signing L.A.’s much-traveled Guatemalan striker Carlos Ruiz. Edu’s move, meanwhile, will become official when the player receives a U.K. work […]
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Fire-Galaxy Game A Missed Opportunity For MLS
Thursday’s matchup between the Chicago Fire and the L.A. Galaxy in California should have been a flagship game for Major League Soccer, writes Luis Arroyave. Bruce Arena makes his debut as Galaxy coach, pitching the western conference divas in desperate need of a win against the eastern high-fliers, with the league’s most prominent designated players […]
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MLS TV Schedule
Two MLS games take place on Wednesday. D.C. United travels to New England eight days after United beat the Revs, 3-1, to reach the U.S. Open Cup final. D.C. United, fourth place in the East, trails second-place New England by five points. Houston, which moved into first place in the West with its third-straight win last weekend, hosts sixth place Chivas USA, which is six points back of the two-time defending champion Dynamo. On Thursday, Bruce Arena makes his debut as Los Angeles coach when the Galaxy hosts Chicago. For all of this week’s MLS action on TV and the standings and leading scorers. …
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Irreconcilable Differences
[OFF THE POST] A women blaming her husband’s affection for English club Aston Villa for the deterioration of their marriage, hung a large banner off the bridge of a busy street in Birmingham that read, “Jack, are the Villa really more important than our marriage? It’s over, Jess.”
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Concacaf’s long path to South Africa
[WORLD CUP 2010] With twelve teams divided into three groups, the Concacaf region (North and Central America and the Caribbean) begins the semifinal round of World Cup qualifying on Wednesday. Marquee games on Wednesday include the USA’s clash with Guatemala and Mexico’s hosting of Honduras (TV: Telemundo, 9 pm ET). For a group-by-group look at the Concacaf semifinal round. …