Soccer America Archives

"I didn’t get much sleep last night and it has been a long day after hooking up with the team. But I couldn’t be happier right now. I told my wife that I’d score tonight and in the end I got two." — Real Madrid’s Ruud van Nistelrooy, who spent the night before a 5-1 […]

4. WOMEN: Navy rolls to 11th win in a row

Navy, which shares the No. 25 spot in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25, extended its winning streak to 11 games Tuesday night, defeating visiting Mount St. Mary’s, 5-0. Freshman forward Brittany White had a fantastic night for Carin Gabarra’s Midshipmen, scoring two goals — the first two goals of her collegiate career — and […]

College Soccer Reporter, Story

3. TUESDAY ACTION: ACC powers get scares

Junior Maurice Edu headed home his first goal of the season to give No. 3 Maryland a 1-0 victory against Loyola (Md.) on Tuesday. The Terps held possession in the Loyola half of the field for almost the entire match and took 20 shots, but they could only manage Edu’s goal, which came in the […]

College Soccer Reporter, Story

2. AWARDS: UNC’s O’Reilly is honored

North Carolina’s Heather O’Reilly is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week for the two goals she scored to lead the Tar Heels past then-No. 1 Florida State, 2-1. The U.S. international opened the scoring with a 28-yard blast in the first half and followed that with the game-winner as she sent a bending […]

College Soccer Reporter, Story

1. Maryland’s Zusi take men’s weekly honors

Sophomore Graham Zusi is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week after leading Maryland to a pair of wins. Zusi, a product of Longwood, Fla., was responsible for both game-winning goals in wins over Penn State and ranked Wake Forest. He scored the first goal in the 2-0 win over Penn State, then connected […]

EUROPE: Bayern ends drought in Italy

Bayern Munich ended an 18-year drought on Italian soil when the German champion beat Inter Milan, 2-0, Wednesday to go on top in Group B of the UEFA Champions League. Late goals by Peruvian striker Claudio Pizarro and German international Lukas Podolski gave Bayern its first win in Italy since it beat Inter in the […]

COLLEGE: 1. Maryland's Zusi takes men's weekly honors

Sophomore Graham Zusi is the Soccer America Men's Player of the Week after leading Maryland to a pair of wins. Zusi, a product of Longwood, Fla., was responsible for both game-winning goals in wins over Penn State and ranked Wake Forest. He scored the first goal in the 2-0 win over Penn State, then connected […]

COLLEGE WOMEN: UNC's O'Reilly is honored

North Carolina's Heather O'Reilly is the Soccer America Women's Player of the Week for the two goals she scored to lead the Tar Heels past then-No. 1 Florida State, 2-1. The U.S. international opened the scoring with a 28-yard blast in the first half and followed that with the game-winner as she sent a bending […]

TUESDAY ACTION: ACC powers get scares

COLLEGE: WOMEN'S TEAM OF THE WEEK-Week 5

G Lauren Mason (Purdue) D Carrie Dew (Notre Dame) D Stephanie Lopez (Portland) D Whitney Temple (Loyola Marymount) M Jenny Roehrig (Massachusetts) M Yolanda Odenyo (Oklahoma State) M Donna Mataya (William & Mary) F Heather O'Reilly (North Carolina) F Jess Rostedt (Virginia) F Meagan Snell (Santa Clara) F Treena Ferguson (Mississippi State) (For the week […]

COLLEGE: MEN'S TEAM OF THE WEEK-Week 5

G Tally Hall (San Diego State) D Alex Christlieb (St. Mary's) D Georgios Spanos (St. John's) M Scott Campbell (North Carolina) M Chris Mathews (Air Force) M James Stewart (Yale) F Eric Cervantes (UIC) F Scott Loesser (Richmond) F Ciaran O'Brien (San Diego) F Mike Sambursky (South Carolina) F Graham Zusi (Maryland) (For the week […]

Soccer America Daily, Story

2. EUROPE: United gets its revenge in Lisbon

Manchester United gained revenge for last year’s 2-1 loss to Benfica in Lisbon that knocked it out of the UEFA Champions League at the group stage with a 1-0 win at the Estadio da Luz on Tuesday night. United won the match on the second day of group play thanks to a stunning shot by […]

The Irony of Warnergate

Paul Gardner, writing for the New York Sun, talks about Warnergate, yet another scandal hanging over FIFA at the moment. Earlier this month, FIFA Vice President Jack Warner came under suspicion of making a lot of money scalping World Cup tickets. Associated with a travel company called Simpaul, run by his son Daryan, Warner was […]

MLS Postseason Possibilities Abound

It should be another fantastic weekend for Major League Soccer as the regular season inches closer to an end and just about every team with hopes of making the playoffs faces a do-or-die situation. With DC United, the Chicago Fire and FC Dallas the only teams to have booked safe passage into the next round, […]

Mourinho Patient with Shevchenko

Since his $57 million move to Chelsea, striker Andriy Shevchenko has looked a shadow of the player who netted 127 goals in 207 appearances for AC Milan. But as the Independent’s Glenn Moore points out, many of the EPL’s foreign legends started out their Premierships stumbling. Among them, Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires of Arsenal, […]

Cole Agent Slapped with Suspension, Fine

Another of English soccer’s lingering scandals came to resolution Tuesday after Jonathan Barnett, Ashley Cole’s agent, was fined $190,000 and had his license suspended for his part in the infamous “tapping-up” affair of 20 months ago. An independent Football Association committee found sufficient evidence that the secret meeting between Chelsea manager Mourinho, chief executive Peter […]

Report Says FIFA Official Took Bribes

It seems like scandal revelation is becoming a daily occurrence at FIFA-affiliated soccer organizations across the globe. The biggest scandal of the day involves South American Confederation (Conmebol) President Nicolas Leoz, who has been accused of bribery in connection with the collapse of ISMM in 2001, FIFA’s former marketing partner. The collapse of the independent […]

Trask has UIC's eyes on the prize

When Coach John Trask took UIC to St. Louis for the Flames' 2006 opening game, he reminded them of the surroundings. ''Take a look at this stadium,'' he told his players of Hermann Stadium, site of the 2006 Men's College Cup. ''You might be here in the final four.'' Indeed, the Flames have emerged as […]

SMALL COLLEGES: Roundup

Ft. Lewis, the defending NCAA Division II men's champion, improved to 10-0-0 with a 1-0 win over Regis and a 2-0 victory over Metro State. English star John Cunliffe leads the Skyhawks with 14 goals and eight assists. Ft. Lewis has conceded only one goal in its 10 wins. — No. 10 Carson-Newman won a […]

LEADING SCORERS: NCAA D1 Men & Women

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR 12 Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville, Sr. 11 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 11 Riley O'Neill, Kentucky, Sr. 10 Kevin Forrest, Washington, Jr. 10 Braden Fleak, Wright State, Fr. 9 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 8 Jarrod Smith, West Virginia, Sr. 8 Josh Trott, Holy Cross, Sr. 8 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. […]

WOMEN'S COLLEGE CUP: Texas A&M will host '07 finals

Texas A&M will host the 2007 Women's College Cup. It will be the second time the Aggies have been the host school for the women's championship. They hosted the 2005 final four won by Portland. The dates for the 2007 finals are Dec. 7 and 9, 2007. The 2006 Women's College Cup will be played […]

COLLEGE WOMEN: BYU wins before another big crowd

Few programs have the support that the BYU's women's program has. The No. 14 Cougars drew a crowd of 3,606 at South Stadium on Monday night to watch them beat Arizona, 1-0. BYU is averaging 2,247 fans for five home dates. Sophomore Katie Fellows scored the winning goal in the 72nd minute on a header […]

MLS: Back on Univision

Beginning in the 2007 season and through 2014, Spanish-language Univision networks will broadcast 25 MLS games per season. MLS had games on Univision in 1996-98 and Univision rival Telemundo the following three years, but the league had no national media reach in the important Hispanic community since. Under the agreement with Soccer United Marketing (SUM), […]

OFF THE POST: 'Psycho' hard man shows soft side

With Manchester City, the English Premier League club that includes Americans Claudio Reyna and DaMarcus Beasley, in the midst of a dire slump, its coach somewhat reluctantly accepted a good luck charm from his daughter. ''Before the match my daughter said: 'Beenie the Horse wants to sit next to you by the drinks holder on […]

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