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by Soccer America
[GOLDEN BALL] Argentine Lionel Messi won the Ballon d'Or (Golden Ball) as the 2009 Player of the Year in a landslide. The Barcelona star beat out 2008 winner Cristiano Ronaldo by 240 points in a vote of sports journalists from around the world -- the largest margin in the 54-year ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[DERBY DAY] Sunday's Barcelona-Real Madrid match was the first El Clasico for Real stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka, but Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, another player making his El Clasico debut, stole the show, coming off the bench to score on a volley and give Barcelona a 1-0 win that propelled the ...
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by Soccer America
The 2009 Golden Ball winner will be announced this week. Of the 10 finalists, who is your pick to win the Player of the Year award?
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by Soccer America
"He's like Yoda. His pearls of wisdom are far-reaching, he speaks a lot of sense. He is just what we need and I'm sure he can get us out of trouble. He's very profound and that appeals to me." -- Portsmouth goalkeeper David James believes the force will be with ...
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by Soccer America
[AMERICAN ABROAD] Jonathan Spector's West Ham and Michael Bradley's Borussia Moenchengladbach won, and Clint Dempsey's Fulham, Brad Friedel's Aston Villa and Jozy Altidore's Hull City (at Man. City) tied, but Tim Howard's Everton suffered its third straight loss and dropped into the relegation danger zone. In Portugal, Freddy Adu saw ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[DERBY DAY] Chelsea's physical play and ruthless finishing were the difference as the visiting Blues beat Arsenal, 3-0, and restored their five-point lead over Manchester United at the top of the English Premier League. The game was decided late in the first half on almost identical plays. On the first ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[DERBY DAY] For a change, luck was on Liverpool's side, and the Reds used it to brush aside Merseyside rival Everton, 2-0, on Sunday. The Toffees controlled play for most of the match but lost for the third straight game, leaving them only three points out of the relegation zone.
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by Paul Kennedy
[USA] In his first interview since being seriously injured in a car accident that killed another passenger, U.S. national team forward Charlie Davies said he expected to make a full recovery. Asked by Jeremy Schaap on ESPN's "SportsCenter," "By the World Cup?", Davies responded, "By the World Cup."
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by Mike Woitalla
[OBITUARY] When I met Mike Penner in 1994 it was back when sports columnists from mainstream newspapers rarely wrote about soccer with respect and appreciation. Penner was part of the Los Angeles Times staff that, for a month during the glorious days of the USA-hosted World Cup, covered soccer to ...
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by Soccer America
[COLLEGE] Five of the top six seeds are still alive in the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament. Midwest teams Akron,Drake and Tulsa and Pac-10 champion UCLA joined four ACC teams in advancing to the quarterfinals. For all the round-of-16 scores and quarterfinal pairings ...
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[COLLEGE] The 2009 Women's College Cup will be a repeat of last year's final four. UCLA completed the College Station field when it beat Portland, 2-1, on Saturday night.
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