Fulham, English Premier league employer of Americans Brian McBride, Carlos Bocanegra, Clint Dempsey and Kasey Keller, on Friday fired Manager Lawrie Sanchez, placing assistants Ray Wellington and Billy McKinlay in charge of the club until a new manager is appointed. Sanchez lasted just eight months on the job after replacing Chris Coleman in April. Fulham […]
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Liverpool, Arsenal Handed Tough CL Draws
Three matches stood out in particular following the UEFA Champions League draw in Nyon on Friday. Liverpool drew two-time Italian champion Inter Milan, Spanish champ Real Madrid was paired with Italian giant Roma, and EPL leader Arsenal will square off against World and European club champion AC Milan. The other second round matches are as […]
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Calendar for 2008 already getting crowded
Three major international soccer competitions are scheduled for next year, yet there won’t be a shortage of foreign opposition for MLS teams.
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Happy Holidays!
College Soccer Reporter will return in January.
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Former UCSB star Frimpong convicted of rape
Ghanaian Eric Frimpong, a member of UC Santa Barbara’s 2006 national championship team, faces up to eight years in prison after being convicted Monday of raping a student 10 months ago.
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Soccer America’s All-Freshman Teams
[SOCCER AMERICA AWARDS] Soccer America Freshman of the Year Corben Bone was joined by Wake Forest teammate Ike Opara on the 2007 Soccer America All-Freshman first team. For all the All-Freshman selections …
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Wake Forest’s Bone named Freshman of the Year
[SOCCER AMERICA AWARDS] Wake Forest’s Corben Bone lived up to his billing as the top-ranked recruit in the 2007 freshman class by earning 2007 Soccer America Freshman of the Year honors.
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Bradley’s DeRose named Men’s Coach of the Year
[SOCCER AMERICA AWARDS] There was nothing in any coaching manual that could have prepared Bradley men’s coach Jim DeRose for the 2007 season.
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Soccer America Men’s MVPs
[SOCCER AMERICA AWARDS] Joseph Lapira, the 2006 Soccer America Men’s Player of the Year, is lone holdover from the 2006 MVPs to be selected to the 2007 first team.
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UConn’s White named Men’s Player of the Year
[SOCCER AMERICA AWARDS] In the long and storied history of Connecticut soccer, there has never been a striker like O’Brian White. Born in Jamaica and now residing in Scarborough, Ont., White was named Soccer America’s 2007 Men’s Player of the Year after a record-setting season.
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Kids team booted from playoffs because coach ‘uncertified’
[OFF THE POST] It’s getting harder and harder to coach youth soccer these days. A 12-year-old boys team in Phelan, Calif., was kicked out of the local AYSO playoffs because its coach was only licensed to coach players up to 10 years old.
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Dempsey and Wambach take U.S. Soccer honors
U.S. Soccer named Clint Dempsey as the 2007 Male Athlete of the Year and Abby Wambach as the 2007 Female Athlete of the Year. Michael Bradley, son of men’s national team coach Bob Bradley, and Lauren Cheney, the 2007 Soccer America College Women’s Player of the Year, won the Young Male and Young Female awards, respectively.
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Henry ready for Barca-Real Madrid clasico
[TV PREVIEW] French star Thierry Henry could appear in his first Barcelona-Real clasico on Sunday at Barca’s Nou Camp Stadium (TV: Gol TV, 1 pm ET). Barcelona cleared the 30-year-old Henry to play after almost four weeks out with a lower back injury.
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MLS owner buys into Celtic
John Fisher, one of the owners of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics and an investor in Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes with Lew Wolff, has bought an interest in Scottish champion Celtic.
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What They’re Saying
“Becks pulled into a hotel. The window came down and in 15 seconds he was gone.”
— Eyewitness to the end of an investigation into an alleged car theft in the English town of Epping. The driver was David Beckham, driving through Epping, near his childhood home, in his Range Rover on Wednesday. Just to be sure, Essex Police later confirmed they checked ownership of the car. (Sun)
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UEFA Cup Finalists
The UEFA Cup moves into the round of 32 in February — with 24 qualifiers from the group stage of the UEFA Cup and eight from the UEFA Champions League.
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Crouch Off as Chelsea Eases Past Liverpool
Liverpool striker Peter Crouch was dismissed Wednesday night as Rafa’s Reds lost their second straight, 2-0, to Chelsea in the Carling Cup quarterfinals. The Liverpool striker was sent off almost immediately after Frank Lampard’s deflected shot put Chelsea ahead, his uncharacteristic two-footed lunge drawing a straight red card from referee Martin Atkinson. Crouch leapt at […]
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Foreigner Rule All About Preserving Quality
Soccer columnist Steve Davis says the latest MLS rule change is all about upholding the standard of play as the league expands. Earlier this week, the league announced that teams could now have a total of eight international players on their roster instead of seven. More significantly, these slots can now be traded, which raises […]
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Poland Coach Urges Zurawski to Move to L.A.
Poland captain Maciej Zurawski is being urged by national team coach Leo Beenhaker to leave Celtic for the Los Angeles Galaxy. The 31-year-old Hoops striker captained Poland to a successful Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, but has received little playing time at Parkhead so far this season. “I think if Maciej were to accept a move […]
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Miami Officials Okay Soccer Stadium
Public officials in Miami want Major League Soccer to return to the area. On Tuesday, Miami Dade County officials backed a massive redevelopment project in the city’s downtown area that would include the building of a soccer specific stadium and new baseball park. The city is prepared to sink $50 million into the stadium. “Mayor […]
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MLS shouldn’t play the slots
There will be more foreign players in MLS next season, as the league has increased the limit per team from seven to eight, and removed the limitations teams can field no more than four senior (25 and older) and three youth internationals. Age designations have been eliminated. With many good American players heading overseas each year instead of signing with MLS, league officials and many coaches fear a fairly rapid rate of expansion – 13 teams in 2007, 14 teams next season, perhaps 16 teams as soon as 2009 – could markedly deplete the talent pool, and degrade the quality of play.
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Kerr returns to Duke as men’s coach
John Kerr, Jr., who starred on Duke’s 1986 Division I championship team, has been named the Blue Devils’ new men’s head coach, replacing the retiring John Rennie.