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by Soccer America
[MLS] 2008 MVP Guillermo Barros Schelotto, the key to Columbus' MLS title win, will be returning to Columbus, which has elevated the Argentine to Designated Player status. That enables it to pay him a reported salary of $650,000, nearly twice as much as his 2008 earnings. For a history of ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] March 19 isn't the earliest starting date for an MLS season. It's not even in the top two. Still, it's 10 days earlier than the 2008 season, and the third earliest in league history. Only the 1998 (March 15) and 2000 (March 18) seasons got underway prior to the ...
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by Soccer America
"This needs to be investigated. We don't know if the product was past its sell-by date of if somebody put something intentionally in the juice." -- Pedro Nelson Fleitas, coach of relegation-threatened Paraguyan club 3 de Febrero after seven of his players were struck with food poisoning that was blamed ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] About an hour before MLS Cup 2008 kicked off at Home Depot Center, San Jose keeper Joe Cannon confirmed he'd been informed by Quakes management the option on his contract wasn't being picked up for 2009.
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by Soccer America
[U.S. WOMEN] Kristine Lilly, the world's all-time cap leader with 340 international appearances, is set to make her first appearance for the USA in 2008 when the USA faces China in a pair of games, Dec. 13 at the Home Dept Center in Carson, Calif., and Dec. 17 at Ford ...
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by Ian Plenderleith
[ENGLAND] Burnley knocked Arsenal's teenage team out of the English League Cup at the quarterfinal stage. Derby County also reached the semifinal.
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by Soccer America
[EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES] Soccer America provides the latest on employment opportunities for soccer-related positions. They include college coaching opportunities, as well as jobs in pro soccer, youth soccer, the soccer industry and television.
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