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Hoffenheim avoids automatic relegation 
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Fabian Johnson started for Hoffenheim in its 2-1 win UEFA Champions League finalist Borussia Dortmund to avoid automatic ...
Behind the Music 
[THE PITCH: Blog 11] Christen Press has always felt a link between music and soccer but hadn't taken the time ...
U.S. roster selections show a team still in flux 
Selecting a roster for qualifying play often demands "either-or" decisions, yet the choices made by U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann also ...
What They're Saying 
"Locker room banter gone wild!!! #SAW" -- U.S. international Brek Shea's message on Instagram accompanying a photo (since deleted) of ...
Soccer on TV 
MLS Week 12 action includes New York vs. Los Angeles. ... The EPL's Champions League field will be completed with ...
STORY OF THE DAY
Hoffenheim avoids automatic relegation
by Soccer America on Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:14 PM EDT
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Fabian Johnson started for Hoffenheim in its 2-1 win UEFA Champions League finalist Borussia Dortmund to avoid automatic relegation. Hoffenheim will play Kaiserslautern in a promotion/relegation playoff May 23 and May 27, while Fortuna Duesseldorf joined Greuther Fuerth as the second Bundesliga team to fall. Neither Johnson's Hoffenheim teammate, Danny Williams, nor Augsburg's Michael Parkhurst dressed. In Russia, Evgeni Starikov came off the bench to score two goals for FK Rostov in ts 3-2 loss at Amkar Perm'.  
Klinsmann explains his picks 
[USA MEN] A day after naming his squad of players for the upcoming set of five matches -- two friendlies ...
Dwyer breaks scoring record in nine games 
[USL PRO REWIND: Week 9] It took only nine games, but Englishman Dom Dwyer, on loan from Sporting Kansas City, ...
Red Devils loaded for Cleveland match 
[BELGIUM] Belgium is bringing a star-studded team, including a host of English Premier League stars and young keeper Thibaut Courtois, ...
Klose and Podolski head squad 
[GERMANY] Germany will be without many of its big stars for its trip to the United States to face Ecuador ...
Soccer America Classifieds 
Soccer America Classifieds connect soccer companies and organizations to America's soccer community twice a week with listings of the latest ...
U.S. Youth Soccer circuit redesigns structure 
[FAR WEST REGIONAL LEAGUE] The U.S. Youth Soccer Far West Regional League has redesigned the league structure for the 2013-2014 ...
Calvert takes over under-15/16 scoring lead 
[CHIVAS USA] Caleb Calvert, who leads the Development Academy under-15/16 age group in scoring with 21 goals, scored twice for ...
Huitema hat trick gives him lead with 25 goals 
[VANCOUVER WHITECAPS] Brody Huitema's hat trick for the Northwest Division co-leader Vancouver Whitecaps in an 8-0 win over the Santa ...
U.S. Soccer Development Academy Player of the Week 
[AWARDS] McKinley Curran, who scored two goals to lead the PA Classics U-15/16 team to a 2-1 over NJSA 04, ...
Youth Soccer Reporter

U.S. Youth Soccer circuit redesigns structure
[FAR WEST REGIONAL LEAGUE] The U.S. Youth Soccer Far West Regional League has redesigned the league structure for the 2013-2014 ...
Soccer America Confidential:
Ridge Mahoney


U.S. roster selections show a team still in flux
Selecting a roster for qualifying play often demands "either-or" decisions, yet the choices made by U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann also ...
College Soccer Reporter

North Carolina's Dunn named Women's Player of the Year
[SOCCER AMERICA AWARDS] Crystal Dunn, whose postseason play was instrumental in North Carolina's 2012 national title run, is the 11th ...
Youth Soccer Insider:
Randy Vogt


When Lightning Threatens: Safety Comes Before Soccer
Earlier that week, I had told the home team coach that I would be a little late as my previous ...
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The Toronto FC saga -- amusing, bemusing ... and losing
Highly intriguing and, to me anyway, rather entertaining are the goings-on up in Toronto.

"Locker room banter gone wild!!! #SAW"

-- U.S. international Brek Shea's message on Instagram accompanying a photo (since deleted) of him posing with a severed pig's head in the Stoke City locker room. The pig's head was placed in the locker of Stoke City striker Kenywne Jones, who was so furious that he smashed the windscreen of teammate Glenn Whelan's car with a brick. Stoke City was investigating whether Whelan had put the pig's head in Jones' locker, the latest in a series of pranks during the club's final week to the EPL season. (Michael Owen's Mercedes C63 had been covered with egg and flour.)