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[NAMES & NUMBERS] The Los Angeles Galaxy rallied twice from one-goal deficits to tie defending champion Houston, 2-2. Landon Donovan scored both Galaxy goals, including a spectacular diving header set up by a David Beckham cross. For the weekend's MLS developments ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WINNERS & LOSERS] PSV won its fourth straight Dutch league title, while Italians Luca Toni and Alessandro Del Piero continued their hot streaks. Barcelona's troubles have prompted star Samuel Eto'o to threaten to leave the Catalan club, while the English press lambasted Chelsea manager Avram Grant after his bizarre press ...
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"Bolivia will bring an action for discrimination and marginalization before the United Nations. It is an aggression, a provocation and an intimidation from the FIFA president [Sepp Blatter] against our country and against South America. We cannot tolerate these type of sanctions." -- Bolivia President Evo Morales announces that he'll ...
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[AMERICANS ABROAD] In his 100th Belgian league appearance, 25-year-old defender Oguchi Onyewu helped Standard Liege to a 2-0 win over Anderlecht to clinch the Jupiler League title with three games left. Standard Liege, which last won the title 25 years ago, can become the first Belgian league team to go ...
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[AMERICANS ABROARD] The chances that nine English Premier League Americans will be relegated increased over weekend as Fulham fell, 2-0, to Liverpool and Reading fell, 2-0, to Arsenal. Derby, which was doomed long ago, lost, 2-1, to West Ham. With three games left, Fulham, which has five Americans in its ...
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[AMERICANS ABROAD] Dutch Eredivisie club Heerenveen, for which 21-year-old Michael Bradley scored 15 goals, has qualified for the Dutch Eredivisie UEFA Champions League playoffs and will meet Ajax Amsterdam, which finished runner-up to PSV Eindhoven, the league's automatic Champions League qualifier. In its last regular season game, Heerenveen thumped Excelsior, ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WOMEN"S SCOUTING REPORT] The USA's draw for the 2008 Olympic women's soccer tournament could have been a lot worse. Compared to Group F, which features 2007 Women's World Cup champion Germany, runner-up Brazil and quarterfinalist North Korea, as well as African powerhouse Nigeria, Group G looks like a cakewalk with ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[MEN'S SCOUTING REPORT] The USA was drawn with the Netherlands, the two-time defending European U-21 champion, former Olympic gold-medalist Nigeria and Japan, an Asian age-group powerhouse, in what shapes up to be a very tough test at the Olympic men's tournament. For a look at the U.S. opponents and some ...
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by Soccer America
Four weeks into the MLS season, FC Dallas remains the only undefeated team and defending champ Houston is still winless. For all the MLS summaries, standings, leading scorers and next week's schedule ...
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Former MLS player Chris Brown scored a late goal with a one-man advantage to help the Portland Timbers defeat the Puerto Rico Islanders, 1-0, in front of 10,977 fans Friday at PGE Park. In other USL First Division action, defending champion Seattle needed a save by goalie Chris Eyelander on ...
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