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Rogers-for-Magee, hometown boys return home 
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] Three months after announcing he was gay and retiring from soccer at the age of 25, Robbie Rogers ...
U.S. U-18s settle for second behind Hungary 
[LISBON INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT] Needing only a tie to win the title, the U.S. under-18 national team fell to Hungary, 2-1, ...
Robben the hero for Bayern 
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Arjen Robben will be known as the goat no more. The Dutch winger, who has a history ...
Promising start in New York City, except for the FC 
It looks like the 20th MLS team will be Manchester City FC. The name will be changed, of course it ...
Tampa Bay and Atlanta eye outright lead 
[NASL SCHEDULE: Week 8] After winning their 2012 Soccer Bowl rematch with Minnesota United FC last week at the Hubert ...
STORY OF THE DAY
Robben the hero for Bayern
by Soccer America on Saturday, May 25, 2013 5:09 PM EDT
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Arjen Robben will be known as the goat no more. The Dutch winger, who has a history of spectacular misses in big games, won the UEFA Champions League for Bayern Munich, snatching an opportunistic individual goal in the 89th minute to give it a 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund in a thrilling final that featured end-to-end action from start to finish. For video of Robben's winner ...  
Dortmund: One club. One game. One dream.  
[VIDEO PICK: One Dream] Borussia Dortmund's official YouTube site released a two-minute video chronicling the club's history and the exciting ...
Seaton scores in Richmond win 
[USL PRO REWIND: Week 10] D.C. United's latest homegrown signing, Jamaican U-17 Michael Seaton, and midfielder Nate Robinson scored to ...
Soccer on TV 
The UEFA Champions League final is on Saturday. ... MLS Week 13 action includes Los Angeles-Seattle on Sunday. ... The ...
Taylor instrumental in Flash's third win in a row 
[NWSL REWIND: Week 8] Defender Brittany Taylor assisted on goals by Abby Wambach and captain McCall Zerboni as the Western ...
What They're Saying 
"I seriously felt like a coward. These kids are standing up for themselves and changing the world, and I'm 25, ...
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. U-18s remain in first with 1-1 tie 
[LISBON INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT] Romain Gall scored his third goal in two games -- a free kick from 23 yards -- ...
Final Weeks returns to Houston 
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] The U.S. Soccer Development Academy Finals Week will return to Houston, where it will be held July 14-20 ...
Field for Frisco playoffs grows 
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] The fields for the 2013 Development Academy Playoffs are almost three-quarters filled in both age groups as 23 ...
Youth Soccer Reporter

Final Weeks returns to Houston
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] The U.S. Soccer Development Academy Finals Week will return to Houston, where it will be held July 14-20 ...
Soccer America Confidential:
Ridge Mahoney


Champions League final means more than the score to FOX
After the banners and flags and scarves have departed and the discarded wrappers and cups have been swept up, attention ...
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:
Mike Woitalla


The Perils of Tournament Play: How to Cope
Way back in 1989, when asked to name impediments to player development, U.S. national team coach Bob Gansler said that ...
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Promising start in New York City, except for the FC
It looks like the 20th MLS team will be Manchester City FC. The name will be changed, of course it will. MLS plus ManCity -- plenty of expensive brainpower involved in that discussion, one would think -- have decided that the new club is to be New York City FC. Which is fine. Except for one thing. You will not win any prizes for working out what's wrong with it, and I shall return to the matter later in this column.

"I seriously felt like a coward. These kids are standing up for themselves and changing the world, and I'm 25, I have a platform and a voice to be a role model. How much of a coward was I to not step up to the plate?"

-- Robbie Rogers, saying his decision to return to soccer came when he spoke to a group of about 500 kids at a Nike Be True LGBT Youth Forum in Portland two months after he announced he was gay and retired from soccer. (USA Today)