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The Guardian
Freddy Adu shows up next week to start training with Manchester United, and the press is getting ready. Just about every major British paper has included some kind of story on the 17-year old Ghanaian American's two-week training session. They're all wondering, of course, whether the hype surrounding the kid ...
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Manchester Evening News
Former U.S. coach Bruce Arena, who opted to leave Freddy Adu off his 23-man roster for the World Cup this summer, has lauded the 17-year old as the "first superstar" of American soccer. "Freddy is without doubt the most talented kid we've ever seen at his age," Arena said of ...
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The Independent
Real Madrid is on the cusp of signing a massive TV deal that will bring the club $1 billion over the next seven years, President Ramon Calderon announced Thursday. While the contract for domestic games isn't worth as much per year as rival Barcelona's is-the Catalans will receive $154 million ...
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The Guardian
So England didn't lose to the Netherlands Thursday-in fact it didn't even play badly-but even a "creditable" 1-1 draw in Amserdam can't hide the fact that England is currently losing the battle to qualify for Euro 2008, writes The Guardian's Trevor Higgins. After Croatia's 4-3 victory over Israel and Russia's ...
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MLSnet.com
Theoretically, Major League Soccer expansion team Toronto FC could field an entire starting 11 of former U.S. internationals next season based on the players MLS clubs have made available for tomorrow's draft. It would certainly be a team of aging internationals, but the fact that so many former national team ...
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