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by Ridge Mahoney
[USA] Only half of the 24-player squad will be available Tuesday when the U.S. national team gathers in Miami to prepare for its fourth and fifth games of the Concacaf Hexagonal, to be played in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Chicago next week. For a look at the squad and ...
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by Soccer America
"He came up to me ... and said: 'Listen, you better start learning Spanish' because I ain't got a clue." -- Toronto FC coach Chris Cummins after Honduran Amado Guevara scored twice in TFC's 3-1 win over New England. The Englishman told Guevara before the game that if he scored ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] It was a big weekend for Americans abroad as Maurice Edu and Oguchi Onyewu, both U.S. national team players of Nigerian descent, captured European league titles, while Texan Jose Francisco Torres moved closer to winning the Mexican Clausura championship. On the final day of play in England, a ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[MLS NAMES & NUMBERS] The Kansas City Wizards held runaway Western Conference leader Chivas USA to a 1-1 tie Saturday at CommunityAmerica Ballpark despite finishing with just nine players. Seattle's injury woes continued, while Houston came out ahead of the Earthquakes in the increasingly bitter series between former and current ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[U.S. WOMEN] The USA made easy work of Canada in its first women's international since the launch of Women's Professional Soccer. The Americans got goals from Shannon Boxx (just 93 seconds into the match), Megan Rapinoe, Lindsay Tarpley and Lauren Cheney to defeat Canada 4-0 in front of 10,255 fans ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WPS] The Los Angeles Sol defeated FC Gold Pride, 2-0, in front of a sell-out crowd of 6,280 fans at the downsized Buck Shaw Stadium and opened up a six-point lead at the top of the Women's Professional Soccer standings.
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by Paul Kennedy
[GERMANY] Before the season, Coach Felix Magath didn't believe his team his team had a chance of winning, but Wolfsburg won its first Bundesliga title when it beat Werder Bremen, 5-1, on the final day of the season and edged Bayern Munich by two points. Brazilian Grafite scored twice to ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[USL-1] The Carolina RailHawks won a pair of games on the road and remained first place in the USL First Division, three points ahead of Charleston, which was also victorious in both of its games last week. For all the USL-1 action ...
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by Soccer America
The weekend was again dominated by ties -- in four out of seven games. Los Angeles took its tally to eight ties in 10 games, while D.C. United has seven draws in 10 games. For all the game summaries, standings, leading scorers and this week's schedule ...
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by Soccer America
Two major European titles remained up for grabs. Bordeaux takes a three-point lead over Marseille into the final day of play in France, while Besiktas leads Sivas by two points in Turkey. For all the weekend results in the major European leagues and Mexico ...
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