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by Soccer America
Ridge Mahoney reporting from MLS Cup '07 [Video] Houston maintained the status quo, and so did New England. The Dynamo is still a team that can win the final and the Revs aren't. Joseph Ngwenya and Dwayne DeRosario scored to erase a 1-0 Revs halftime lead provided by Taylor Twellman's ...
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"It was a tale of two halves. In the first half, we outplayed them. We had quality chances. In the second half, we bunkered in and just didn't get the job done." -- New England star Taylor Twellman, bemoaning the Revs' approach after they blew a 1-0 halftime lead and ...
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[MLS CUP '07 GRADES] Soccer America's Ridge Mahoney grades the Houston and New England players who took part in the Dynamo's 2-1 win on Sunday.
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[MLS BEST XI] Three first-year players -- MVP Luciano Emilio (D.C. United), Juan Pablo Angel (New York) and Guillermo Barros Schelotto (Columbus) -- are among the players named to annual MLS Best XI, its all-league team determined by equal voting from the media, MLS players and MLS coaches and general ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[SOUTH AFRICA-USA] The U.S. national team finished 2007 on a winning note with a 1-0 win over World Cup 2010 host South Africa Saturday in the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup. A well-constructed goal by right back Steve Cherundolo highlighted a solid first-half performance by the United States, which finished the ...
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[USA-SOUTH AFRICA GRADES] Soccer America's Paul Kennedy grades the U.S. players' performance in their 1-0 victory at South Africa on Saturday.
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by Paul Kennedy
[SCOTLAND-ITALY] They call it the Hampden Roar. In the old days, when the capacity of Glasgow's Hampden Park exceeded 100,000, it was said the roar of the crowd could be heard for miles. The capacity of Hampden has been cut to a more modest 52,000, but the Hampden Roar was ...
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[ISRAEL-RUSSIA] There was gloom and doom last month when England fell to Russia, 2-1, compromising its chances of reaching the Euro '08 finals. It was all but conceded that England wouldn't be going -- one report calculated the cost to the FA of not making the Euro '08 finals at ...
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Six more teams qualified for the Euro '08 finals. Poland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands all clinched with wins, while Croatia, a 2-0 loser at Macedonia, and idle France both qualified thanks to the other results in their respective groups on Saturday.
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[WORLD CUP HEADLINERS/VIDEO] Thanks in large part to Juan Pablo Riquelme, Argentina remained perfect in World Cup qualifying. Riquelme and Brazil's Kaka made highlight reels around the world with exquisite strikes. Ecuador, a World Cup finalist in 2002 and 2006, is pointless at the bottom of South America's 10-team competition ...
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Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia won South America qualifiers over the weekend. Singapore, Syria, Thailand and Turkmenistan clinched berths in Asia's group stage.Featuring MLS players Andrew Boyens and Duncan Oughton in the starting lineup, New Zealand escaped from Vanuatu with a 2-1 win on a stoppage-time goal in Oceania qualifying. For ...
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