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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] The playoffs start Thursday when Seattle hosts Houston, and continue Saturday with Columbus traveling to Real Salt Lake and Chicago heading to New England. Chivas USA and Los Angeles kick off their two-game Home Depot Center derby Sunday. Forget the final standings. Here's an initial, gut-reactive ranking of the ...
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by Soccer America
"To come here and lose 5-0 when we know everything was on the line, our whole season, it's very disappointing. It's hard to swallow." -- Toronto FC general manager Mo Johnston after a rout to the New York Red Bulls, MLS's worst team of 2009, ended the Toronto's hopes of ...
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by Soccer America
[MLS] 2009 expansion club Seattle drew 33,108 fans to its final regular-season game, a 2-1 win over FC Dallas, and ends the season with a league record 30,943 home attendance average. For a history of attendance leaders and this season's team-by-team averages. ...
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by Soccer America
[MLS] FC Dallas forward Jeff Cunningham's 17 regular-season goals make him this season's top scorer, and he joins Taylor Twellman, Carlos Ruiz, Stern John and Roy Lassiter as two-time MLS scoring champs. For 2009's top scorers and a history of the league's top scorers. ...
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by Soccer America
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Clint Dempsey's first goal of the season earned Fulham a 2-2 tie with Manchester City while Michael Bradley came close to scoring in Borussia Moenchengladbach's derby game.
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by Paul Kennedy
[ENGLAND] Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez's job appears safe for now following the Reds' 2-0 win over defending champion Manchester United at Anfield on Sunday that ended a four-game losing streak in the Premier League and UEFA Champions League.
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by Paul Kennedy
[UNDER-17 WORLD CUP] Four months after the USA and Spain met in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup in Bloemfontein, South Africa, they square off again in Africa, this time at the Under-17 World Cup in Kano, Nigeria (TV: ESPNU and Galavision, live, 2 pm ET). Coach Wilmer Cabrera has ...
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by Soccer America
Of the five teams contending for a playoff berth and playing on the road over the weekend, only New England won, 1-0, at Columbus, and the Revs were the only one of them to advance. For all the weekend results, final standings and leading scorers ...
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by Soccer America
Spanish leader Barcelona had perhaps its best performance of the season in a 6-1 win over Real Zaragoza. Inter Milan got a scare but beat Catania, 2-1, to retain its lead in Italy's Serie A. Bordeaux and surprise Monaco leapfrogged over Lyon at the top in France. Bayer Leverkusen and ...
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by Soccer America
[COLLEGE] Wake Forest and North Carolina moved into second and third place, respectively, behind No. 1 Akron in the Soccer America Men's Top 25. UCLA, which fell to Stanford on Sunday, dropped from No. 2 to No. 4. For the complete Top 25 rankings ...
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by Soccer America
[COLLEGE] Thanks to its 3-2 win over North Carolina, Florida State moved into third place in the Soccer America Women's Top 25. Stanford and Portland remained 1-2. For the complete Top 25 rankings ...
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