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by Paul Kennedy
[UNDER-20 WORLD CUP] What a difference! Three days after being embarrassed against Germany, the USA buried Cameroon, 4-1, in a wild game Tuesday at the Under-20 World Cup in Suez. What went right against Cameroon that had gone so wrong against the Germans?
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by Paul Kennedy
[UNDER-20 WORLD CUP] Soccer America's Paul Kennedy grades the U.S. players in Tuesday's 4-1 win over Cameroon at the Under-20 World Cup in Suez.
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by Soccer America
"It is difficult to adapt to a diet of bread and salami when you are accustomed to caviar." -- Former Juventus and Italy star Antonio Conte describes adjusting to Atalanta, which named him head coach Sept. 21 after the team suffered four straight losses. Atalanta tied its first two games ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Fiorentina and Lyon came out firing and were rewarded with big wins on Day 2 of the group stage of the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League. Inter Milan's tentative form continued, however, and it almost paid dearly in Russia. Here are three things we learned on Tuesday ...
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by Soccer America
Barcelona and Arsenal cruised. Lyon and Sevilla won big on the road. Inter Milan struggled, and Liverpool lost. For Tuesday's results and goal scorers and Wednesday's schedule with TV listings ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] The tasks for Houston and D.C. United are vastly different though both are playing at home Wednesday night in the group play of the regional championship.While tricky, United's match against Trinidadian club San Juan Jabloteh (8 p.m., Fox Soccer Channel) is nothing like the Dynamo's date with ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Seconds away from advancing to the quarterfinals of the regional championship, Columbus instead will have to wait more than three weeks to know its fate. Alexander Robinson headed home a Walter Centeno free kick in the second minute of stoppage time to earn Deportivo Saprissa a 1-1 ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WORLD CUP 2018/2022] One of the USA's chief competitors in its bid for the 2018/2022 World Cups dropped by the wayside on Tuesday when Mexico's soccer federation announced it lacked the resources to finance the work needed to host. The move leaves the USA as the lone Concacaf bidder and ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS PREDICTION] MLS left the Cotton Bowl more than four years ago, yet that's where New England and FC Dallas play their league match Wednesday as a preliminary to a Mexico-Colombia friendly. As one of the league's founding members, the Dallas Burn used the Cotton Bowl as its primary home ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS PLAYOFF RACE] After the top two in each conference -- which right now are Columbus and Chicago in the East, Houston and Los Angeles in the West -- here's how the MLS wild-card race stacks up, with teams ranked not by points, but rather their chances of joining the ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WPS] Sky Blue FC, winner of the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer championship, hired its fourth coach in 18 months when it named Finn Pauliina Miettinen as its new head coach. Never heard of Miettinen?
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