Soccer America Archives

A 12th-minute goal by Yutaro Abe stood up as Japan edged the United States, 1-0, Friday in their opening Group B game at the Under-17 World Cup. The Americans, primarily through Eddie Johnson and Mike Magee, created several superb scoring opportunities, but Japan goalkeeper Kenta Tokushige made two fine saves to preserve the shutout at […]

MLS Commissioner Don Garber issued the following statement Thursday regarding the remainder of the league’s regular season and the upcoming playoffs: “Major League Soccer shares the grief of the nation at Tuesday’s appalling tragedy. As we all mourn, MLS believes it is appropriate to take some time to acknowledge the nation’s loss and honor the […]

The final match of the 2001 U.S. Women’s Cup Sunday (Sept. 16) between the USA and China at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., has been canceled. The move was made this afternoon at U.S. Soccer’s Chicago headquarters in deference to the tragic events in the United States of Sept. 11. Prior to the final […]

PeruÆs Sporting Cristal handed the Kansas City Wizards a 2-1 Merconorte Cup loss on Wednesday afternoon in Lima that severely hurts the Wizards chances of advancing. The 2000 MLS champs, which opened Group C play with a loss Sporting in Kansas City, also lost to Santos Laguna in Mexico before picking up a win over […]

BY RIDGE MAHONEY Major League Soccer has postponed a decision on resumption of play until tomorrow afternoon. League officials and team general managers conferred today on a telephone conference call but because of several factors, including uncertainty about when the nation’s airports will be opened for regular operations, they ended the call without reaching a […]

G WILL CHAPLE (Georgia State) (1) Furman transfer debuts with 12 saves in 2-1 win at Clemson D ALIM IBRAGIMOV (Seton Hall) (1) Stopped shot on line in 2-1 win over Boston College D ROSS SPENCER (SMU) (1) Winning goal against South Carolina, late goal against College of Charleston M SUMED IBRAHIM (Maryland) (1) 3 […]

G KRISTEN SAMUHEL (Richmond) (1) Stopped 10 shots, halted late onslaught in 1-0 win over Maryland D JESSICA BALLWEG (Santa Clara) (1) Freshman’s 35-yard bomb beats Wake Forest, 1-0 D LESLIE GASTON (North Carolina) (1) Goals in wins over Charlotte and Penn State, helped shut down Christy Welsh D DEIDRE BASS (Miami, Fla.) (1) Anchored […]

Tonight’s U.S. Women’s Cup doubleheader — USA-Japan, Germany-China — in Columbus, Ohio, has been permanently canceled by U.S. Soccer. As of now, the USA-China game scheduled to be played in Kansas City on Sunday (Sep. 16) will take place as planned.

MLS commissioner Don Garber announced that because of today’s attacks on the Pentagon and New York’s landmark World Trade Center, all four regular-season games scheduled for Wednesday (Sept. 12) have been postponed. The canceled games: D.C. United vs. Dallas, MetroStars vs. Miami, Colorado vs. Columbus, Los Angeles vs. San Jose.

The following is Soccer America’s MLS Team of the Week from games played Sept. 7, 8 and 9. GOALKEEPER Kevin Hartman (3) Los Angeles DEFENDERS Paul Caligiuri (1) Los Angeles Steve Jolley (4) MetroStars Chris Klein (1) Kansas City MIDFIELDERS Daniel Hernandez (3) MetroStars Brian Maisonneuve (3) Columbus Peter Nowak (4) Chicago John Wilmar Perez […]

Bay Area rivals Santa Clara (from No. 6 to No. 3) and Stanford (from No. 14 to No. 8) make the biggest leaps in this week’s Top 20 after impressive sweeps this past weekend. Santa Clara edged Wake Forest and dominated Florida State at Wake Forest’s tournament, and Stanford toppled Texas and Texas Tech in […]

9/10 RANKING … TEAM (CURRENT RECORD) … 9/3 RANKING 1 SMU (4-0-0) 1 2 Virginia (3-0-1) 3 3 St. John’s (3-0-0) 4 4 Furman (3-0-0) 5 5 Connecticut (3-1-1) 6 6 San Diego (3-0-0) 9 7 UCLA (2-1-1) 10 8 Saint Louis (3-0-0) 13 9 Stanford (4-0-0) 14 10 Washington (3-1-0) 2 11 Indiana (2-2-0) […]

It was a weekend of losses for Americans who played for clubs overseas. Joe-Max Moore, Brad Friedel, Jovan Kirovski, David Regis and Tony Sanneh all saw time in their respective team’s defeats. England Joe-Max Moore, Everton (PL) Entered as a substitute (65th minute) vs. Manchester United (1-4). The game was already 3-0 United at Old […]

Luchi Gonzalez had three goals to lead SMU, the No. 1 team in the Soccer America Men’s Top 20, past South Carolina, 3-2, and College of Charleston, 3-0, at the Aaron Olistky Memorial Classic in Charleston, S.C. No. 2 Washington fell to No. 7 Indiana at the Portland adidas Invitational. Portland won the tournament with […]

Top-ranked North Carolina was missing its top two players, but no matter. The Tar Heels, with winger Jena Kluegel and defender Catherine Reddick off on U.S. national team duty, romped past Charlotte and No. 10 Penn State to capture the Carolina Classic title. Forward Susan Bush, who missed most of last season with an ACL […]

Mia Hamm had two goals to lead the U.S. women’s national team past 2001 European champion Germany, 4-1, on the opening day of the Nike U.S. Women’s Cup. Hamm also had an assist on Tiffeny Milbrett’s winning goal. U.S. coach April Heinrichs used four college players off the bench: Cat Reddick and Jena Kluegel of […]

Here are Soccer AmericaÆs player ratings for games played Sept. 7, 8 and 9. SA Report Cards: 1 (low) to 10 (high) Sept. 7 MetroStars 3 New England 1. Goals: Faria (Hernandez) 5, Faria (Villegas, Jolley) 27, Valencia (Jolley, Hernandez) 46+; Williams (Franchino, Cloutier) 14. MetroStars (3-5-2) — Tim Howard (6); Mike Petke (5), Steve […]

The Columbus Crew beat Tampa Bay, 2-1, Sunday in the Mutiny’s final home game of the 2001 season and moved into the fourth playoff spot which would mean home-field advantage in the first round of the MLS Cup Playoffs. Columbus is tied with the San Jose Earthquakes on 45 points but claims the head-to-head series […]

D.C. United’s 3-1 loss to Miami eliminated the three-time MLS champion from the playoffs for the second straight year. The eight playoff teams will be Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Columbus, the MetroStars, Kansas City and Dallas. The Fusion’s Alex Pineda Chacon had a hat trick to give him a league-high 19 goals. Diego […]

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 […]

There are several big clashes on the second weekend of the women’s college season. No. 11 Stanford and No. 14 California travel to Texas to face No. 11 Texas A&M and Nov. 17 Texas. No. 20 Wake Forest hosts No. 3 Portland, No. 6 Santa Clara and No. 12 Florida State at the Nike/Wake Forest […]

In mid-week action, No. 6 Connecticut won twice without 2000 Soccer America Player of the Year Chris Gbandi, who has been suspended seven games by the NCAA for an unnamed rules violation. No. 16 Clemson was upset by Georgia State, 2-1, at Riggs Field. Six games between Soccer America Top 20 teams are on tap […]

GROUP 1 RESULTS Sept. 5 in Torshavn Faeroe Islands 0 Russia 3 (Beschastnykh 19, 30, Shirko 88). Sept. 5 in Belgrade Yugoslavia 1 (Djordjevic 51) Slovenia 1 (Milinovic 10). Sept. 5 in Luxembourg City Luxembourg 0 Switzerland 3 (Frei 12, Turkyilmaz 58, 84). STANDINGS TEAM GP W T L GF GA P Russia 9 6 […]

Sept. 5 in San Jose, Costa Rica Costa Rica 2 USA 0 CRC — Rolando Fonseca (pen) 40th minute. CRC — Rolando Fonseca (Mauricio Solis) 68 Costa Rica — Erick Lonnis; Reynaldo Parks, Gilberto Ramirez, Luis Marin; Carlos Castro, Harold Wallace, Mauricio Solis, Walter Centeno (Wilmer Lopez, 56), Rolando Fonseca (Rodrigo Cordero, 80); Roland Gomez […]

RESULTS Sept. 5 in San Jose Costa Rica 2 USA 0. Goals: Fonseca pen. 40, 68. Costa Rica — Lonnis, Martinez, Parks, Marin, Castro, Centeno (Lopez, 56), Solis, Wallace, Fonseca (Cordero, 80), Gomez (Medford, 71), Wanchope. USA — Friedel, Pope, Llamosa, Agoos, Sanneh, Williams (Donovan, 63), Armas, Stewart, Vanney (Moore, 56), Jones, Kirosvki (Preki, 71). […]