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by Paul Kennedy
[HEXAGONAL] Qualifying for the World Cup is a relatively straightforward process: win all your home games and take the odd point on the road and you should go through. It's been a winning formula for the USA in the last three Hexagonals, where three of the six teams advance to ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[HEXAGONAL] Mexico avoided the unthinkable but just barely. It got goals early in both halves from Argentine-born Guillermo Franco and Oscar Rojas and edged Trinidad & Tobago, 2-1, at Azteca Stadium to move into fourth place at the halfway point of World Cup 2010 qualifying in the Concacaf zone. Honduras ...
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by Soccer America
"It was something I've been waiting for a long time. Something that I always dreamed about, playing with the national team and scoring with them. A great feeling." -- Giuseppe Rossi, who was born in New Jersey and lived there until age 13 when he moved to Italy to join ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WORLD CUP 2010 QUALIFYING] Argentina doesn't like to play at altitude. After falling to Bolivia, 6-1, at 12,000 feet above sea level in La Paz in April, it traveled to Quito and lost to Ecuador, 2-0, at 9,300 feet above sea level. Coach Diego Maradona remained confident Argentina would qualify ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] To the critics of slow starts, which have been the rule rather than the exception since the team moved from San Jose to Houston, Dynamo players, coaches and fans reply thusly:
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by Soccer America
[U.S. OPEN CUP] The Ocean City Barons became the first PDL team to beat a higher ranked team in the U.S. Open Cup when they beat Crystal Palace Baltimore of the USL Second Division, 3-0. In Wednesday's other makeup game, USL2's Real Maryland edged the Aegean Hawks, 1-0, in a ...
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