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CBC Sports
Three cheers for Toronto FC, the first team in MLS history to completely sell out of season tickets. In just five months, the league's first Canadian franchise sold 14,000 season seats out of a total capacity of 20,000 at the new BMO Field, which is on schedule for completion in ...
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Washington Post
D.C. United now faces an uphill in the second leg of the CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinal against Chivas de Guadalajara-but it could have been a lot worse. A 1-1 draw salvaged in the final minute by a Luciano Emilio header was enough to give fans at RFK a reason to ...
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Houston Chronicle
Houston, on the other hand, executed its game plan perfectly against Pachuca, the other Mexican powerhouse in the CONCACAF Champions Cup semis-in the second half that is. As expected, the 2006 Copa Sudamericana champion was all over the Dynamo for the first 45 minutes at Robertson Stadium last night, dictating ...
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The Guardian
At a cost of just over $20 million, Dimitar Berbatov may have already proven to be best buy in Europe this season. The Guardian's Rob Smyth writes a glowing panegyric to Tottenham's lanky Bulgarian striker, who punctuated a magnificent first season this past week with man-of-the-match performances against Chelsea at ...
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ESPN Soccernet
It's gone left unsaid for months now, but Derek Rae of ESPN Soccernet finally examines the failure of Spanish champ Barcelona to reach the same peaks as last year. Dumped out of the Champions League by Liverpool last week and making impossibly difficult work of defending its La Liga title ...
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