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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] The start of the season doesn't end the process of altering and adjusting MLS rosters. In New York, master tinkerer Juan Carlos Osorio will probably unveil one new player this weekend when the Red Bulls host Houston and might give another his first start, with another signing still awaiting ...
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by Soccer America
"The crowds are different, more involved than the old Sounders crowds of the 1970s. They feel more middle class. Soccer in this area used to be an almost elitist sport. Now it feels as if it belongs to everyone." -- Columnist Steve Kelley on the success of MLS's Seattle Sounders ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WORLD CUP 2018/2022] The World Cup in Lincoln, Neb., or at Green Bay's famed Lambeau Field? They might be long shots for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, but they were among the 44 stadiums with a capacity of 70,000 or more the USA Bid Committee has identified on its initial ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Barcelona very much looks like the favorite to win the 2009 UEFA Champions League after putting on a superb show against Bayern Munich on Wednesday. The German champion looked helpless in face of the Barca onslaught and fell, 4-0, with all four goals coming in the first ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Serbian defender Branislav Ivanovic -- so anonymous that he didn't play a game for Chelsea last season -- was the unlikely hero of a memorable Liverpool-Chelsea showdown, scoring two goals on headers to give the visiting Blues a 3-1 win in the first leg of their UEFA ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Rafael Marquez Lugo's penalty kick in the fourth minute of stoppage time gave Atlante a 3-1 victory over Mexican rival Santos Laguna on Wednesday and a 4-3 win on aggregate that sent the Cancun team to the Concacaf Champions League final against Cruz Azul.
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by Paul Kennedy
[WORLD CUP 2010 QUALIFYING] The coaches of both teams the USA has beaten in the Hexagonal are gone. Less than a week after Trinidad & Tobago's 3-0 loss to the USA in Nashville, Francisco Maturana quit as the Soca Warriors coach. Maturana's departure follows the firing of Mexico's Sven Goran ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[IRAQ] Former U.S. national team coach Bora Milutinovic, 64, will coach Asian champion Iraq -- the eighth national team he has coached -- at this year's Confederations Cup in South Africa.
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