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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] With U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley and England coach Fabio Capello both in attendance, Clint Dempsey came off the bench and scored the series winner in Fulham's 4-1 win over Italian giant Juventus, a delicate chip from 20 yards that gave the Cottagers a 5-4 win on ...
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by Soccer America
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Charlie Davies tweeted the good news on Thursday: "It's official! I'm done with rehab!!! Leaving for Sochaux tomorrow! Who said I couldn't be back training so soon!? Let's go!! God Bless!!"
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by Soccer America
"Dempsey winner sends Cottagers into dreamland." -- Headline in UK's Independent after American Clint Dempsey scored the fourth goal -- with a "disguised lob" from just outside the penalty area -- of Fulham's 4-1 over Juventus that sent the Cottagers into the Europa League quarterfinals with a 5-4 aggregate win. ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[CONCACAF UNDER-17 WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP] After the USA outscored its opponents, 32-0, in three games in group play, who would have imagined? It won't be going to the 2010 Under-17 Women's World Cup after playing to a 0-0 tie with Canada and then falling on penalty kicks in the semifinals of ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] Houston Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear and his childhood friend, San Jose Earthquakes general manager John Doyle, described the 0-0 friendly played by their teams Wednesday at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco -- not far from where they grew up -- as "chippy." Kinnear was ejected from the game, ...
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by Soccer America
[MLS] All 16 MLS teams will be in action on the final weekend of the preseason though they may be missing players attending the MLS labor talks in Washington, D.C. Play begins Friday with one game. Philadelphia plays the new Tampa Bay Rowdies of the USSF Division 2 in Tampa. ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[USL] The number of pro teams operating below Major League Soccer will at an all-time low in 2010 with 12 teams in the USSF Division II and six teams in the third division USL-2. For the first time in more than a decade, United Soccer Leagues won't be operating a ...
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by Soccer America
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] For the second year in a row, the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League will be an all-Mexican affair. UNAM made sure of that, getting two goals from former Chivas USA striker Juan Francisco Palencia and crushing Marathon of Honduras, 6-1, to avenge the only loss by ...
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by Soccer America
[EUROPA LEAGUE] Liverpool joined Fulham as the two English clubs in the quarterfinals of the Europa League. Two clubs from Germany and Spain as well as one club each from Belgium and Portugal also advanced. For all the Thursday results ...
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by Soccer America
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Algeria is paying the price for the transgressions of its players in the 4-0 loss to Egypt in the semifinals of the Africa Cup of Nations. Portsmouth outside back Nadir Belhadj, one of the key Desert Foxes, will miss the opening 2010 World Cup game against Slovenia ...
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by Paul Kennedy
Bob Kap, who died on Sunday at the age of 87, is best known as the godfather of soccer-style kickers, but he was also an American soccer pioneer, who took the Dallas Tornado on the longest tour in the history of soccer -- six months with games in 19 countries ...
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