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by Soccer America
"Undoubtedly, this is a failure. Not being in the Olympic Games, for Mexico, is hard to take. We were looking to make history because we've never won a medal [in soccer]." -- Mexico national team coach Hugo Sanchez after his U-23s were knocked out of Olympic men's qualifying on Sunday ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
As it expected, the U.S. under-23 national team faces a showdown with a border rival for a spot at the 2008 Olympic Games, yet not expected is which neighbor that will be. The U.S. won Group A Saturday by squeezing past Honduras, 1-0, with a stoppage-time penalty kick from Eddie ...
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by Soccer America
[USA-HONDURAS GRADES] Soccer America's Ridge Mahoney grades the U.S. U-23 players in their 1-0 win over Honduras in Olympic qualifying on Saturday.
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by Paul Kennedy
[OLYMPIC QUALIFYING] It was an afternoon fans won't quickly forget at the Home Depot Center. Canada, with its hastily assembled team of no names, and Mexico, with its Golden Generation, were in a race to run up the score and earn the second berth from Group B -- and a ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] For the first time ever, six Americans played in an English Premier League game when Fulham edged Everton, 1-0, on Sunday. Brian McBride scored for the Cottagers on a header in the second half, beating fellow Yank Tim Howard in the Everton goal for the game's only tally. ...
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by Soccer America
[EUROPEAN RACES] Manchester United regained the lead in the English Premier League when it won, 1-0, at win at Derby County, while Arsenal endured its fourth straight tie with a 1-1 draw at home against Middlesbrough. United now leads the Gunners on goal difference.
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] New England closed out its preseason competitive schedule by playing a pair of scrimmages against Honduran club Marathon on Friday and Sunday in New Orleans.
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