Soccer America Archives

Werder Bremen's Brazilian playmaker Diego, the 21-year-old who joined the team this season from Porto, was voted the Bundesliga's best player for the first half of the 2006-07 season in a poll of fellow players taken by German magazine Kicker. Kicker reported that 49.6 percent voted for Diego, ahead of his Bremen teammates Miroslav Klose […]

After getting limited playing time because of injuries since joining Manchester City on loan from PSV Eindhoven in August, American winger DaMarcus Beasley notched a goal and an assist in two games over three days. Beasley, in his sixth EPL appearance, came on as a 65th minute sub and scored an 83rd minute gamewinner in […]

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The U.S. U-16 national team beat Real Madrid's Cadete B team, 3-0, at the Disney's Soccer Showcase in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Abdus Ibrahim led the U-16s — the U.S. Soccer U-17 residency program's '91 class — with two goals. Nick Millington scored the third goal. US Youth Soccer's Region II ODP U-17s and the […]

United States under-20 national team coach Thomas Rongen called up 21 players to participate in the teamÆs final training camp before the 2007 CONCACAF qualifying tournament Jan. 17-21 in Panama City, Panama. The players and staff arrived in Bradenton, Fla., on Saturday and will train through Jan. 6 at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.   […]

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 27 SETANTA SPORTS USA Netherlands FEYENOORD-PSV (delay), 3:30 am. England CHARLTON-FULHAM (live), 2:55 pm. THURSDAY, Dec. 28 No live games. FRIDAY, Dec. 29 SETANTA SPORTS USA England BIRMINGHAM-LUTON TOWN, League Championship (live), 2:30 pm. SATURDAY, Dec. 30 FOX SOCCER CHANNEL England CHELSEA-FULHAM (live), 10 am. England SHEFFIELD UTD.-ARSENAL (live), noon. England EVERTON-NEWCASTLE (delay), […]

Denise Schilte-Brown, who led Virginia Commonwealth to the NCAA Tournament in 2004 and 2005, has accepted the womenÆs soccer head coach position at the University of South Florida, replacing Logan Fleck. During her seven years at VCU, Schilte-Brown led the Rams to a 77-51-17 record, including back-to-back CAA championships in 2004 and 2005 and a […]

Canadian Brian Rigby has been named interim De Paul women's soccer coach. Rigby has spent the last two seasons as an assistant with the women's soccer program. A veteran of the Chicagoland soccer scene, Rigby was President and Director of Coaching and Training for the Cosmos FC in Roselle, Ill. He played college soccer at […]

High Point hired Dustin Fonder as its men's soccer head coach. Fonder joins the High Point staff after having served as the assistant coach at Elon for the past three years. He helped to build Elon program from an RPI of 165 in 2004 to its first ever Top 25 national ranking in the 2006 […]

Charlotte has named Ft. Lewis coach Jeremy Gunn as the 49ers new head men's soccer coach. Gunn led the Skyhawks to three NCAA Division II championship games in his eight-year stint, including each of the last two years. Ft. Lewis won the 2005 championship and finished as the runner-up in 2006. Gunn was named Division […]

Oguchi Onyewu was named 2006 Male Athlete of the Year and U.S. WomenÆs National Team forward Kristine Lilly as the 2006 Female Athlete of the Year, while forwards Josmer Altidore and Danesha Adams won the Young Male and Young Female Awards, respectively. Onyewu is the first defender to win the award since Alexi Lalas was […]

USC has named Ali Khosroshahin, a three-time Big West Coach of the Year at Cal State Fullerton, as its new women's head coach. Khosroshahin led Fullerton to three NCAA Tournament appearances and had winning seasons in each of his 6 years there. ''We are delighted to have someone of AliÆs background and ability join us,ö […]

D.C. United traded forward Alecko Eskandarian to Toronto for a partial allocation. The 24-year old Eskandarian departed D.C. after four seasons with the team during which he made 81 appearances (47 starts), notching 20 goals and seven assists ''Alecko was a tireless worker on and off the field for this club and it is difficult […]

NORTH AMERICAN ZONE CANADA: Canadian Soccer League 2006 – Italia Shooters MEXICO: Primera División 2006 – CD Guadalajara (Apertura); Pachuca CF (Clausura) USA: Major League Soccer 2006 – Houston Dynamo CENTRAL AMERICAN ZONE BELIZE: FFB League 2006 – FC Belize (Opening); New Site Erei FC (Closing) COSTA RICA: Primera División 2005-06 – Deportivo Saprissa (Apertura, […]

The U.S. under-20 national team defeated its Canadian counterpart, 2-0, Wednesday on goals by Rodrigo Hidalgo and Sal Zizzo in its only international match of the final 10-day training camp before Coach Thomas Rongen names his CONCACAF U-20 World Cup qualifying roster. Hidalgo's goal came off a corner kick from Dax McCarty in the 22nd […]

Days after completing a sweep of the major international awards, Italian Fabio Cannavaro proved he isn't infallble, costing Real Madrid two goals in Recreativo Huelva's shock 3-0 win in Madrid on Wednesday night. The Italian defender, named the 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year and 2006 European Player of the Year, was robbed of […]