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by Soccer America
''Asian football is in safe hands." -- FIFA President Sepp Blatter on the reelection of Asian soccer confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam to FIFA's executive committee after a 23-21 vote (with two other votes thrown out), that followed accusations of vote-buying and dirty tricks. South Korean Chung Mong-Joon, a FIFA ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] It looks like U.S. national team midfielder Michael Bradley will be staying in the German Bundesliga. He played the entire 90 minutes in Borussia Moenchengladbach's 1-0 win at Energie Cottbus that moved it into 14th place, two spots and three points out of the relegation zone with two ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[NUTRILITE CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP] Soccer fever has swept Canada as evidenced by Wednesday's crowd of almost 20,000 that watched Toronto FC defeat the Montreal Impact, 1-0, in a Nutrilite Canadian Championship match at BMO Field. The win gives TFC two wins in the competition to determine Canada's representative in the CONCACAF ...
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by Bryan Alvarez
[MLS] It's rare that a goalkeeper breaks right into an MLS team out of college, but Stefan Frei, picked 13th overall out of Cal in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft, has been outstanding for Toronto FC. Frei has won the starting goalkeeper job and helped his team to a 3-1-2 record. ...
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by Soccer America
[ENGLAND] Manchester United rallied to beat Wigan Athletic, 2-1, to move to within one point of clinching a third straight Premier League title. The hero was Argentine Carlos Tevez, who expressed a desire to leave the club at the end of the season but scored a brilliant goal to start ...
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by Soccer America
[SPAIN] One down, two to go. Barcelona won its first title of the season when it captured the Copa del Rey -- Spain's cup competition -- for a record 25th time with a 4-1 win over Athletic Bilbao thanks to three goals by Lionel Messi, Bojan Krkic and Xavi in ...
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