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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Freddy Adu made it two goals in two starts for Greek club Aris, scoring in its 3-0 win over Xanthi in the replay of their Greek Cup match on Wednesday. Adu slotted the ball home from close range for the second goal and set up Spaniard Sergio Koke ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Herculez Gomez scored his second goal for Puebla, coming off the bench and hitting the winner with three minutes left in a 1-0 win over San Luis. Sammy Ochoa, Jose Francisco Torres and Marco Vidal all played in losing efforts in Mexico, while Maurice Edu returned to action ...
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by Soccer America
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Rarely has a goalkeeper been so solely responsible for his team's loss in the Champions League. Arsenal understudy Lukasz Fabianski, pressed into service by the finger injury to Manuel Almunia, palmed a cross from Silvestre Varela into his own goal and was called for picking up a ...
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by Soccer America
"I have never seen anything like it in the history of professional soccer. ... Tonight, UEFA has embarrassed the city of Florence." -- Florence mayor Matteo Renzi assesses the impact of Bayern Munich's winning goal -- an offside header by Miroslav Klose -- against Fiorentina in the Champions League. (Goal.com)
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by Soccer America
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] All signs pointed to a Bayern Munich victory, but the German club needed a late goal from Miroslav Klose -- scoring in an offside position -- to beat 10-man Fiorentina in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League round-of-16 series on Wednesday.
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] A year and a half ago, a pair of English League veterans came to America to test the MLS waters. Both of them were subject to the discovery process, and both had been “claimed” by Toronto FC. Yet neither wound up wearing the red and white: Darren Huckerby politely ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] With newly signed players as well as trialists -- including players from Uganda, Argentina and Scotland -- giving both teams a different look, D.C. United and Toronto FC played a 0-0 tie Wednesday in a preseason match.
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] Chivas USA has returned to the United States with a win and a loss after falling to Universidad de Guadalajara, 2-1, of the Mexican second division Tuesday in the second game of its two matches.
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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Chris Wright, the former MPSF Player of the Year at the University of New Mexico, has signed a contract with Energie Cottbus of the German Second Division. Wright, a 2009 finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, will likely spend the rest of the season playing with Cottbus' under-23s, who ...
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by Soccer America
[DATEBOOK] The USA will face 2006 World Cup opponent Czech Republic and Turkey in its two final warmup matches before heading to South Africa for the World Cup. The Czech Republic game will be played May 25 at a site to be announced -- Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn., ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Most players would jump at the chance to join their national team. French-born Mehdi Lacen, based at Spanish club Racing Santander, took almost three weeks to respond to calls from the Algerian national team that he had been called up for the Desert Foxes' game against Serbia ...
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