Winners:

JEFF CUNNINGHAM is MLS's leading scorer, but has failed to get a call back into national team camp from Coach Bruce Arena and was a coach's selection to the MLS All-Star Game only because of an injury to Eddie Johnson. On Saturday, as a late second-half sub, he scored twice in five minutes to cap off the MLS All-Stars' rout of English Premier League club Fulham. The Colorado striker's second goal came after he dribbled from the halfway line before slotting home from the edge of the penalty area.

The DALLAS TEXANS RED were the only multiple champion at the 2005 U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships, winning the U-18 and U-17 boys titles with 3-0 victories. The Texans Red U-19 girls fell to the STARS OF MASSACHUSETTS in a shootout. New Jersey club PDA had four teams — three girls and one boys — reach the finals, where they all lost. ARSENAL FC (U-16 boys) and ECLIPSE SELECT (U-17 girls) were the only repeat champions.

CLUB AMERICA launched its Mexican league title defense with a 3-1 win, on goals by Claudio Lopez, Cuauhtemoc Blanco and Reinaldo Navia, over Tigres. CRUZ AZUL, whose coach, Argentine Ruben Omar Romano, remains missing after being kidnapped July 19, beat Morelia, 2-1, on two goals by Gerardo Torrado, who returned to the Mexican league after five seasons in Spain. PACHUCA beat Monterrey, 2-1, thanks to a goal scored by JUAN CARLOS CACHO with a shot from his own half.

Losers:

BOCA JUNIORS has received a three-game Libertadores Cup home ban because of a crowd riot that forced the abandonment of its second-leg quarterfinal game against Chivas Guadalajara in June. The South America confederation also fined the Argentine club $20,000, banned striker Martin Palermo for three matches and fined Coach Jorge Benitez, who resigned the day after the game because TV cameras caught him spitting at Guadalajara striker Adolfo Bautista, $10,000 and banned him four games.

The UNVEILING OF BERN'S STADE DE SUISSE was marred when a hot-air balloon, part of the opening ceremonies, flew off its mooring and crashed into the roof of a nearby car dealership with the trapeze artist, who suffered serious injuries, still attached.

GORDON STRACHAN's stint as Glasgow Celtic manager has started with a 4-4 at Motherwell in their Scottish Premier League opener three days after suffering a 5-0 first-leg loss to Slovakia's Artmedia Petrzalka in a Champions League qualifier. The second leg takes place Tuesday.