Soccer America Archives

BY RIDGE MAHONEY The bizarre format be damned: this year's MLS playoffs figure to be every bit as compelling and competitive as was the regular season. Flaws abound in the first-to-five system but even the most strident critics can't dispute that it does tend to reward the team playing better soccer. Any one game can […]

Agnes Scott College 141 E College Ave., Decatur GA 30030-3797; soccer office: (404) 471-6941, admissions office: (404) 471-6285, fax: (404) 471-6099; email: lleduc@agnesscott.edu; URL: http://www.agnesscott.edu. Private, 4 year, enrollment: 850. Coach: Laura LeDuc. Affiliation: NCAA Div III, Conference: Independent. 1998 record: 6-11-0; 1999 record: 13-3-0; 2000 record: 8-5-1. Cost: $14,825 per year. Soccer scholarships: None […]

The U.S. under-17 national team is in first place in its group after two days of the Football International Solidarity Foundation Tournament in Gaeta, Italy. The Americans opened with a 2-1 win over England Thursday thanks to goals from Guillermo Gonzalez and Jacob Peterson. Gonzalez, who is being courted by MLS and several foreign clubs, […]

The U.S. under-17 national team is in first place in its group after two days of the Football International Solidarity Foundation Tournament in Gaeta, Italy. The Americans opened with a 2-1 win over England Thursday thanks to goals from Guillermo Gonzalez and Jacob Peterson. Gonzalez, who is being courted by MLS and several foreign clubs, […]

The U.S. under-17 national team is in first place in its group after two days of the Football International Solidarity Foundation Tournament in Gaeta, Italy. The Americans opened with a 2-1 win over England Thursday thanks to goals from Guillermo Gonzalez and Jacob Peterson. Gonzalez, who is being courted by MLS and several foreign clubs, […]

The U.S. under-17 national team is in first place in its group after two days of the Football International Solidarity Foundation Tournament in Gaeta, Italy. The Americans opened with a 2-1 win over England Thursday thanks to goals from Guillermo Gonzalez and Jacob Peterson. Gonzalez, who is being courted by MLS and several foreign clubs, […]

Goalkeepers: Joerg Butt (Bayer Leverkusen), Frank Rost (Werder Bremen). Defenders: Frank Baumann (Werder Bremen), Joerg Heinrich (Bor. Dortmund), Sebastian Kehl (Bor. Dortmund), Christoph Metzelder (Bor. Dortmund), Christian Woerns (Borussia Dortmund), Thomas Linke (Bayern Munich), Jens Nowotny (Bayer Leverkusen). Midfielders: Michael Ballack (Bayer Leverkusen), Carsten Ramelow (Bayer Leverkusen), Bernd Schneider (Bayer Leverkusen), Joerg Boehme (Schalke 04), […]

MLS: Leading Scorers Rank. Player (team) Goals-Assists-Points 1. Taylor Twellman (NE) 22-5-49 2. Carlos Ruiz (LA) 23-1-47 3. Jeff Cunningham (CLB) 15-5-35 4. Ante Razov (CHI) 13-8-34 5. Ariel Graziani (SJ) 14-5-33 6. Mark Chung (COL) 10-10-30 6. Jason Kreis (DAL) 13-4-30 8. Mamadou Diallo (MET) 12-5-29 8. Steve Ralston (NE) 5-19-29 8. Rodrigo Faria […]

West Virginia and Wake Forest made the biggest progressions in Soccer America's College Women's Top 25 following impressive victories over the weekend. The Mountaineers jumped from 22nd to 13th after beating Virginia in the Cavaliers' Soccer Classic and whipping James Madison, which had begun the season impressively. Wake Forest moved from 25th to 15th after […]

By Ridge Mahoney, Senior Editor THE EXORCISTS: Los Angeles scored in stoppage time to down the Quakes, 1-0, and became the first team this season to win three straight. On more than two dozen previous occasions, teams with two consecutive wins had failed to notch No. 3. The weirdest example came on Aug. 31 when […]

San Jose midfielder Richard Mulrooney will miss the remainder of the Earthquakes' MLS title defense because of a broken ankle suffered in last Saturday's 1-0 loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy. Mulrooney played 90 minutes against Los Angeles despite the injury. He felt discomfort after the game and X-rays revealed surgery would be required to […]

By Will Kuhns, Senior Editor MetroStars coach Octavio Zambrano is exasperated with Clint Mathis, arguably his top player. Zambrano seemed calm but disheartened Saturday night when he heard that Mathis said he unintentionally stepped on the back of D.C. United's Jose Alegria in the 30th minute — a move that earned him a red card […]

9/16 Ranking … Team (Record) … 9/9 Ranking 1 Stanford (5-0-0) 1 2 UCLA (4-0-0) 3 3 St. John's (4-1-0) 4 4 Connecticut (3-1-0) 5 5 Wake Forest (3-0-1) 13 6 South Carolina (6-0-0) 11 7 Notre Dame (3-0-2) 14 8 Indiana (4-1-2) 12 9 Virginia (3-2-0) 6 10 Clemson (2-1-1) 2 11 San Diego […]

Rank. Team: Goals scored per game 1. New England 1.70 2. San Jose 1.67 3. Columbus 1.59 4. Los Angeles 1.59 5. Colorado 1.56 6. MetroStars 1.52 7. Chicago Fire 1.52 8. Dallas Burn 1.48 9. Kansas City 1.33 10. D.C. United 1.04 Overall: 405 goals in 135 games for 3.00 goals per game average.

Sept. 20 in Denver Colorado 1 Kansas City 1 (OT). Goals: Chung (Valderrama, Kingsley) 26; Klein (Preki, Zavagnin) 34. Colorado – Kramer, Herdsman (Stewart, 91), Titus (Hart, 72), Fraser, Mastroeni, Kingsley (Trembly, 93+), Chung, Valderrama, Henderson, Carrieri, Spencer. Kansas City – Meola, Garcia, Talley, Vermes, Klein, Zavagnin, Armstrong, Quill, Preki (McKeon, 99), Fabbro (Brown, 46), […]

It's the magnitude and variety of her gifts, and how she weaves them into a cohesive whole, that has all drooling over Danielle Slaton. She's as can't-miss as they come, a beguiling blend of grace and fury, athleticism and intellect, strength, skill, fearlessness and leadership qualities that have had her pegged since her mid-teens as […]

The biggest crisis of young Junichi Inamoto's career was convincing his parents to allow him to quit high school and turn pro with his hometown Gamba Osaka. Inamoto hardly looked like pro material when he entered the J-League club's youth system at 12. But his meteoric rise is symbolic of the rapid growth of Japanese […]

In a rare occurrence, every European-based American player who was with his first or second division club this weekend saw action. Nine players played 90 minutes, five others came on as substitutes and one played 61 minutes after starting. Kasey Keller, Frankie Hejduk and Eddie Lewis, who normally do not play for their teams, were […]

Iran opened up a two-point lead in Asia’s Group A with a 2-1 win over archrival Iraq in Baghdad on a Ali Daei goal in the 84th minute. Bahrain fell out of a tie for first with a 1-1 tie at home with Thailand. In Group B, China remained unbeaten with a 1-1 tie at […]

Iran opened up a two-point lead in Asia’s Group A with a 2-1 win over archrival Iraq in Baghdad on a Ali Daei goal in the 84th minute. Bahrain fell out of a tie for first with a 1-1 tie at home with Thailand. In Group B, China remained unbeaten with a 1-1 tie at […]

G Peter Billmeyer (Oregon State), jr. MVP of OSU/Diadora Classic with shutout wins over Gonzaga (3-0) and No. 24 Tulsa (3-0) for Beavers, who are off to best start (4-1-0) in eight years. D Tony Lawson (UCLA), jr. Clears shot by San Diego star Ryan Coiner off the line in unbeaten Bruins' 3-1 victory over […]

Goalkeeper Chrissy Dolan (Villanova), Jr. (1) Made 23 saves in three games, nine of them to earn a 1-1 tie at Connecticut, and claimed shutouts in unbeaten Wildcats' 1-0 win over Towson and 0-0 draw with unbeaten Navy. Defenders Mikel Casey (Charlotte), Sr. (1) Surprising 49ers improve to 5-0 as veteran back scores gamewinner in […]

* About 1,600 South Korean schools were closed, or students were let out early, on June 10 for South Korea's game against the USA. …. Korean airline carriers showed the game live in flight. … About 400,000 fans — twice as many as for South Korea's opener against Poland — gathered in front of Seoul's […]

U.S. OPEN CUP: Quarterfinal schedule * Aug. 7 in Uniondale, N.Y. (Mitchel Athletic Complex) MetroStars (MLS) vs. Columbus (MLS) 9:15 pm ET * TBD in Franklin, Wis. (Rampage Sports Complex) Milwaukee (A-League) vs. Kansas City * Aug. 7 in Dallas, Texas (Cotton Bowl) Dallas (MLS) vs. Colorado (MLS) 7:30 pm CT * Aug. 7 in […]

Three days before the World Cup began, I attended a high school playoff doubleheader featuring the top two teams in Virginia. The first game had just finished, and as I waited in line at the snack bar, a member of the winning team stood behind me. I offered him a copy of Soccer America, our […]