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by Soccer America
"The fact is, I think, that soccer doesn't fit the taste of the American sports fan, who likes a finite chance of success or failure on every play. It doesn't have the type of pacing, like a lot of scoring. There is continuous play without scoring and the game is ...
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by Paul Kennedy
To say the least, the first three weeks of the 2008 MLS season have not gone as the two-time defending champion Houston Dynamo would have liked. It was dumped from the Concacaf Champions Cup by Costa Rica's Saprissa. It's winless in its first three games of the 2008 MLS season ...
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by Soccer America
[MLS] The Major League Soccer Disciplinary Committee suspended Houston Dynamo defender Eddie Robinson three games and fined him $1,000 for an elbow to the head of Kansas City Wizards defender Tyson Wahl during the Dynamo's 0-0 tie at Kansas City on April 12.
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by Ridge Mahoney
San Jose Earthquakes fans who are anxiously awaiting word of a major signing to bolster the forward corps will have to wait a little longer. But the team, scoreless in its first two games, has made a move. According to a source with knowledge of the transaction, San Jose has ...
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by Soccer America
[YOUTH] The U.S. under-20 national team made up for an embarrassing 3-1 loss to the tiny Cape Verde Islands in their opening game with a 3-0 win over Northern Ireland on Wednesday at the Torneio Campos Verdes 2008 in Beja, Portugal.
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by Soccer America
[INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY] The fourth largest soccer crowd in Seattle history watched Mexico beat China, 1-0, Wednesday in a friendly game that marked Jesus Ramirez's debut as interim national team coach.
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by Soccer America
[SPAIN] Valencia won the Copa del Rey, the Spanish Cup, for the seventh time when it beat Getafe, 3-1, on Wednesday in Madrid to salvage its troubled season.
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by Soccer America
[FRANCE] Amateur club Carquefou's fairly tale run in the French Cup ended when the fifth division club lost to relegation-threatened Paris St. Germain, 1-0. Portuguese veteran Pauleta's 28th goal in 23 French Cup games earned PSG the win before a sellout crowd of 40,000 in Nantes.
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by Soccer America
[OFF THE POST] New York contemporary artist Spencer Tunick is famous for photographing people in the nude -- thousands at a time -- and he plans on photographing 2,008 soccer fans inside Vienna Ernst Happel Stadium, site of the final of the 2008 European Championship Austria and Switzerland are co-hosting.
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by Soccer America
Argentine stars Marcelo Gallardo and Guillermo Barros Schelotto -- rivals for many years with River Plate and Boca Juniors, respectively -- will meet Thursday when D.C. United hosts the Columbus Crew in an Eastern Conference match at RFK Stadium. For all this week's MLS TV schedule ...
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