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Real Madrid's trouble continued as it lost to relegation candidate Levante, 1-0, at home on Sunday, and fans at the Bernabeu Stadium demanded the resignation of President Ramon Calderon and Coach Fabio Capello. Real Madrid fell behind on Salva Ballesta's 11th-minute penalty and rarely looked like it would equalize against Levante, 18th in the 20-team […]

Four Americans took the field in an English Premier League game on Saturday punctuated by Brian McBride's gamewinning goal — a 73rd minute strike that gave Fulham a 2-1 win over Newcastle, for whom Oguchi Onyewu debuted four days after joining the team on loan from Belgium's Standard Liege. Carlos Bocanegra, like McBride, started for […]

For the third straight year, the Chicago Magic is first in the Soccer America Top 20 boys rankings, edging the Dallas Texans. Arsenal FC of Southern California is the third team on the podium. 2007 Soccer AmericaÆs Top 20 Boys Clubs RANK/TEAM (STATE) 1 Chicago Magic (Ill.) 2 Dallas Texans (Texas) 3 Arsenal FC (Calif.) […]

Kyle Davies, one of the nation's top young defensive prospects, has signed a three-year contract with English League Championship (second division) club Southampton. Davies, 17, spent two years in the U.S. U-17 residency program in Bradenton, Fla., and was a late cut from the U.S. under-20 national team that qualified recently for this summer's U-20 […]

U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley has called up 20 players — 16 from MLS and four from the EPL — for the international friendly soccer match against regional rival Mexico on Feb. 7 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (TV: ESPN2 and Univision, 9 p.m. ET; kickoff at 9:25 pm ET). […]

Rumors of DaMarcus Beasley returning to MLS aren't true, says his agent, Lyle Yorks of Proactive Sports Management. ''DaMarcus Beasley is very happy at Manchester City in the English Premier League and is not sure where all the rumors started saying that DaMarcus was in talks regarding a move to New York Red Bulls,'' says […]

Ronaldo may be gone, but that doesn't mean Real Madrid has been lighting it up without the Brazilian star, who spent much of the first half of the season on the bench and was finally sold this week to AC Milan for $9.7 million — less than half what Milan offered Real Madrid for Ronaldo […]

All the attention on Bloody Wednesday — which saw three respected Bundesliga coaches get fired or resign — has overshadowed Sunday's showdown between Werder Bremen and Schalke 04 (TV: GolTV: live, 11 am ET), which share first place two games into the second half of the season. Bremen and Schalke broke away from the pack, […]

U.S. under-17 national team head coach John Hackworth welcomed eight new players for the ninth year of U.S. Soccer's full-time residency program at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. The semester kicked off at the beginning of January, but a few players were on trial, giving Hackworth and his staff time to evaluate which players would […]