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by Soccer America
"I could have been England manager but I didn't want to. ... When England came looking for me I was the proudest coach in the world. I thought about it a lot. On the one hand I wanted to do it, on the other I knew that it wasn't the ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[USA-EL SALVADOR] Two years ago, defender Clarence Goodson left the USA after discussions about a new MLS contract broke down and a foreign offer came through unexpectedly. He has returned from Norway this week for the USA's friendly on Wednesday against El Salvador (7 p.m. ET, ESPN Classic, Galavision) to ...
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by Soccer America
[USA-EL SALVADOR] Following the departure of national team coach Carlos de los Cobos, now at the Chicago Fire, El Salvador will make its debut under interim coach Luis Rugamas when it faces the USA on Wednesday in Tampa. The Salvadoran squad includes seven starters from the team that lost to ...
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by Soccer America
[MLS] The track record of ballyhooed young players at Real Salt Lake isn't a good one, but unlike in past seasons, 2009 champion RSL doesn't need those players to solve pressing problems. General Manager Garth Lagerwey insists 16-year-old Luis Gil, acquired from Kansas City on Tuesday, won't feel the pressure ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[MLS] After Kevin Hartman, Claudio Lopez failed to reach an agreement with the Kansas City Wizards on a contract for the 2010 season. The Wizards' decision to not renew the Argentine international's contract deprives them of one of their most popular players. But they still have one of the most ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] A few trialists came into the Houston Dynamo camp last week, yet Coach Dominic Kinnear sent out some other auditioning players in a 4-1 scrimmage victory over the University of Central Florida Tuesday in Orlando, Fla.
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by Soccer America
[MLS] FC Dallas defeated the New England Revolution, 2-0, Tuesday morning in a game at ESPN's Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The match was the fourth of the spring for FC Dallas, which finished the game with three teenagers playing in attack: 19-year-old Brek Shea ...
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by Soccer America
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Jonathan Spector again lined up at left back for West Ham, this time against his old club Manchester United, but he was no match for Ecuadoran winger Antonio Valencia, who served up two goals for Wayne Rooney in United's 3-0 at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
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by Soccer America
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Barcelona isn't going to defend its UEFA Champions League title the way it played Tuesday at Stuttgart. The Spanish club needed a second-half equalizer from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to earn a 1-1 tie. In Tuesday's other game, visiting Bordeaux edged Olympiakos, 1-0.
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by Paul Kennedy
[ALGARVE CUP] The USA, featuring one of its youngest rosters ever, opens play against Iceland at the Algarve Cup in Portugal on Wednesday. The Americans have reached the final of the world's top women's invitational tournament the last seven years and won five times. The other two times they lost ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] How chaotic are things in South Africa less than four months before the start of the World Cup? The training facility the host team, South Africa's Bafana Bafana, hoped to use to prepare for the tournament is so badly run down they can't use it. And the ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[USSF DIVISION 2] Adin Brown, who was in goal for the 2002 MLS Cup finalist New England Revolution and later spent five years in Norway, has signed with the Portland Timbers for the 2010 season.
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