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by Soccer America
"Oh how it hurts. ... Even Los Machos cry, especially when they lose to the USA." -- Mexican daily Esto on El Tri's Gold Cup final loss to the USA.
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by Ridge Mahoney
Capturing the Gold Cup may not mean much beyond the far-flung boundaries of CONCACAF. Of the regional titles first comes the European Championship, then the Copa America, with the Gold Cup, Asian Cup and African Cup of Nations trailing in their wake. But for a team and program in transition, ...
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by Paul Kennedy
The Univision broadcast of the USA-Mexico Gold Cup final was third most-viewed Spanish-language sports telecast of all time with 5,340,000 viewers, according to the "fast national" ratings of U.S. households from Nielsen. Only last summer's Mexico-Argentina match at the World Cup and February's Mexico-USA game in Arizona had a larger ...
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by Soccer America
London's High Court awarded undisclosed damages to Victoria Beckham, the wife of Los Angeles-bound David Beckham, over Britain's Star Magazine's report that a crew member on her American reality TV show called her "picky, demanding and rude." The Star article said a crew member of the show documenting her move ...
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by Soccer America
The 2007 Copa America, which kicks off on Tuesday, will be broadcast in ts entirety in Spanish on Univision (11 games) and TeleFutura (15 games) and in English on GolTV. For the complete Copa America TV schedule ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[PREVIEW] Venezuela's record in the Copa America isn't just bad. It's horrible -- only one win in 12 appearances dating back to 1967. Still, the pressure will be on the hosts on Tuesday when they open the 12-team South American championship against Bolivia. President Hugo Chavez has spent $1 billion ...
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by Soccer America
Mauricio Macri, the president of Boca Juniors, won the Buenos Aires mayoral election by a landslide against Daniel Filmus, who was supported by Argentina President Nestor Kirchner. Macri, a center-right politician who belongs to one of Argentina's richest family, has been president of Boca Juniors, the 2007 Libertadores Cup winner, ...
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by Soccer America
Reuters reports that Poland is considering using up to 20,000 prisoners to help build roads, stadiums and hotels for the 2012 European Championship that it is co-hosting with Ukraine. tournament.
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by Soccer America
[TRANSFER TALK] While Thierry Henry completed his $32 million transfer from Arsenal to Barcelona on Monday when he passed a physical and was introduced to a Barca crowd of 20,000, David Trezeguet, with whom he broke into the professional ranks at French club Monaco in the 1990s, has made an ...
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[W-LEAGUE RESULTS] The Ottawa Fury improved to 7-0-0 in W-League play with a 4-1 win over Toronto and 3-0 victory over Rochester. In the win over the Rhinos, Englishwoman Jodie Taylor, who plays for Oregon State, scored all three goals for Toronto. Minnesota (5-0-0) is the only other unbeaten and ...
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[PDL RESULTS] Long-time PDL powerhouse Cape Cod remained unbeaten in the Northeast Division with a 5-2 win over Rhode Island and 2-2 tie with Westchester. Ricardo Pierre-Louis, who played for Haiti at the Gold Cup, led the Crusaders with a second-half hat rick against Rhode Island. Cape Cod is one ...
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[REGION II YOUTH SEMIFINAL PAIRINGS] FC Milwaukee led all clubs with seven teams advancing to the semifinals of the U.S. Youth Soccer Region II Championships on Monday in Des Moines, Iowa. Six teams from the Michigan Wolves-Hawks and four from Eclipse Select -- including the defending national champion girls teams ...
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