GateWay Community College is the latest team to join the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference men’s soccer ranks.
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Men’s Recruiting Classes
Big East champion St. John’s has signed two-time NSCAA/adidas High School All-American Rafael Diaz, one of the nation’s top goal prospects. Central Florida has signed three New Zealand under-20 national team players. For all the Red Storm and Knight signings, along with those at Campbell, Charlotte, Columbia, Holy Cross, Iona, Mt. St. Mary’s, Towson and Western Michigan …
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Taylor leaves Oregon State for D2 Stanislaus
Dana Taylor, Oregon State men’s head coach for the last 10 years, has resigned his post to take the same position at Division II Cal State Stanislaus. Under Taylor, the Beavers reached the NCAA Tournament for the first times (2002-03) in school history and featured several future MLS standouts.
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Resignation at Virginia Tech is shocker
A year and a half after he led Virginia Tech to the Men’s College Cup, Oliver Weiss has unexpectedly quit as the Hokies’ head coach. Their 2007 campaign was not without controversy as Weiss imported a number of foreign exchange students who spent one season in Blacksburg. It was followed by a 2008 season that saw Tech go winless in the ACC.
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Soccer on TV
The USA hosts Honduras Saturday in World Cup qualifying, which dominates the weekend’s soccer broadcasts. MLS action starts on Friday with Chicago vs. Houston. Also on Friday is the USL’s Charleston-Austin clash.
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National team duty shakes up MLS clashes
[MLS PREDICTIONS] National team call-ups will stretch the depth of many MLS teams this weekend. Chivas USA will be missing two starters when it hosts Seattle, as will Houston for its match against the Fire, and the Rapids for their visit to Salt Lake City. The Galaxy is only four ties away from tying the league record (13) as it heads north of the border to Toronto, and D.C.’s 2-0 win over New York Thursday keeps the Red Bulls four points back of sixth-place Columbus with both teams facing tough road games against Eastern Conference rivals. For all of Soccer America’s predictions, as well as TV viewing information, and to see how we fared last week. …
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D.C. United shuts out the Red Bulls
[MLS] One could check the result of Thursday night’s match at RFK Stadium and assume the 2-0 win registered by surging United against the reeling Red Bulls had unfolded in a straightforward manner, and one would be wrong.
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USA must reshuffle for Honduras
[HEXAGONAL] About a decade ago, U.S. keeper Kasey Keller succinctly stated the plight of American soccer players when he said, “We hate playing away games, at home.” Just such a scenario is likely Saturday at Soldier Field in Chicago, where tens of thousands of Honduran fans – bolstered by their team’s 3-1 thumping of Mexico in its last qualifier – are expected to fill much, if not most, of the renovated stadium that can seat 60,000 fans if full. (TV: 8 pm ET, ESPN & Galavision).
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What They’re Saying
“[We’re] Disappointed with the result. I think the team played well against a very good team. We limited them to only a few chances and we created our own. I think that we created enough chances and entries into the attacking third but we couldn’t finish them up.”
— New York Red Bulls coach Juan Carlos Osorio, whose job security took another hit when his team fell, 2-0, at D.C. United. The Red Bulls, with only 9 points after 13 games, are last in the East and have a league-high eight losses. (MLSnet.com)
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Dutch look to book first tickets
[WORLD CUP 2010 QUALIFYING] The Netherlands will become the first European country to reach next year’s World Cup finals if it beats Iceland in Reykjavik on Saturday. For a look at the key European games and all the World Cup qualifying action on television …
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Aguirre motivates Mexico
[HEXAGONAL] Javier Aguirre begins his second stint as Mexico’s national team coach when the Tri visits El Salvador’s Cuscatlan Stadium on Saturday (TV: Telemundo, live, 9 pm ET). Eight years ago, he turned the Tri’s foundering World Cup 2002 campaign around and led it to the finals. In its first three games of the 2009 Hexagonal, Mexico lost two of its three games, so it needs at least a point in San Salvador to reverse course.
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Hottest teams meet again at the HDC
[WPS] The first-place Los Angeles Sol hosts the second-place Washington Freedom in a battle of Women’s Professional Soccer’s two hottest teams. Both head into the Sunday game (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, live, 6 pm ET/3pm PT) with five-game unbeaten streaks. For all the weekend action …
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Denilson to play in Vietnam
2002 World Cup winner Denilson, who had a short stint in MLS in 2007 (eight games for FC Dallas) is set to debut for mid-standings Vietnamese league club Hai Phong Cement FC on Saturday. “He is the most famous international player recruited until now by a Vietnamese soccer club,” said Hai Phong coach Vuong Tien […]
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Blanco: Mexico won’t be fazed by Salvadorans
Salvadoran fans intend to wear protective face-masks to Cuscatlán stadium on Saturday when Mexico plays their national team to mock the Mexicans about the swine-flu outbreak that was centered in Mexico. “I do not care how they come out, if they make fun of us or not,” said Chicago Fire striker Cuauhtemoc Blanco, who was […]
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Real Salt Lake starts slow, as usual
After last weekend’s 2-1 loss at San Jose, Real Salt Lake’s record now stands at 3-6-2. So much for the preseason optimism that the 5-year-old club would finally have a good start to a season. “Real Salt Lake’s rugged start is quite distressing. After all, things were supposed to be different this year. Following a […]
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Maurice Edu out for three months
U.S. midfielder Maurice Edu, after helping Glasgow Rangers win the league-cup double, will be out of action for the U.S. national team this summer and isn't expected back on the field for three months after undergoing a successful operation to repair knee ligament damage.
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USA ‘out-passed, outplayed and out-competed’
U.S. keeper Tim Howard, after the USA’s 3-1 loss at Costa Rica on Wednesday, said “We consider us probably the fastest, strongest team in the region but today we got out-passed, outplayed and out-competed in every sense. We have to hold our hands up – we were below average across the board.” Defender Carlos Bocanegra […]
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Embarrassing result leaves USA in uneasy situation
Steven Goff reports from San Jose, Costa Rica that, "A few hundred U.S. backers, mostly young and mostly dressed in colorful, patriotic garb, made their way into the steep upper deck and seemed to mix nicely with their hosts." But the U.S. fans weren't rewarded for the efforts to make the trip to Saprissa stadium. […]
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EPL Clubs’ Debt at $5 Billion
England's Premier League clubs have run up a debt of 3.1 billion pounds ($5.01 billion), and the big four Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal — are responsible for about two thirds of it. The figures come from Deloitte's Annual Review of Football Finance, which suggested the big four, despite all having qualified for the […]
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Enjoying Summer Freedom
Summer is arriving quickly and for many players, the soccer season will end with the school year. It is time for children to enjoy freedom and head outside to play amidst the nice weather. No more bells to direct them from classroom to classroom, no more homework to distract them from what they enjoy most – playing.
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Foreigners, Agents & Minors: FIFA’s Take
Uncertainty would seem to be the only certainty on the soccer scene as I write this. The doubts start at the very top where the normally confident Sepp Blatter has reluctantly admitted that the plans for his treasured 6+5 scheme will have to be put on hold for the moment.
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Key figures in revival of San Jose and Dallas
[SA WEEK 11 TEAM OF THE WEEK] Rare wins for FC Dallas and San Jose earned players on those teams mention in Week 11, and the scoring form of Colorado forward Conor Casey got him another nod as well as Player of the Month honors from MLS.
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Reeling Red Bulls head to RFK
[MLS PREDICTION] MLS has scheduled another nine-match slate of games despite this being a FIFA international double-fixture week, with the action kicking off Thursday at RFK Stadium, where D.C. United welcomes longtime rival (but seldom equal) New York.
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What They’re Saying
“As a group tonight, we came up short in every way. I don’t think there was any area at all where we were good enough to win a game against a good team. We were under pressure from the start. We fell short. We recognize that, and we have a quick turnaround for the next game.”
— U.S. coach Bob Bradley after his team fell, 3-1, to Costa Rica in World Cup qualifying. The USA returns home to face Honduras on Saturday.
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Why the USA got crushed in Costa Rica
[WORLD CUP 2010 QUALIFYING] A crushing defeat in Costa Rica adds even greater importance to the next U.S. match in the Hexagonal, against Honduras Saturday in Chicago. At Ricardo Saprissa Stadium in San Jose on Wednesday, Americans were second-best for most of the match in all areas of the field and could have lost by a greater margin.