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by Mike Woitalla
[MLS PLAYER SPOTLIGHT] Pablo Mastroeni hit a 25-yard rocket for Colorado's game-winning goal in a 2-1 win over New England. In the same game, he also sent a reminder of why, with all that talent, he isn't in the USA's World Cup picture after being a key player in its ...
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by Soccer America
"His house has a lot of glass and the crew had four cars and trucks and were shining those bright lights into the house. His family were forced to hide and he was taken by surprise when he arrived." -- A Rio de Janeiro police spokesman after a comedy television ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] Maybe it's taken a while for the goalkeepers to find their form this season; after numerous gaffes resulted in goals the first four weekends, more than a few keepers played top-notch stuff. Goalkeeper heroics are one of the six thoughts we take from Week 5. ...
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] Toronto FC won its second game of the season with a 2-0 win over Seattle Sunday afternoon on second-half goals by Dwayne De Rosario (his fifth of the season) and O'Brian White. For all the Saturday action ...
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by Soccer America
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Right back Hunter Freeman scored the winning goal for IK Start in its 2-0 win over Honeloss that moved it into a tie for fourth place in Norway's Tippeligaen.
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by Soccer America
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Rangers clinched its 53rd Scottish title with a 1-0 win at Hibernian on Sunday that gave it an 11-point lead over archrival Celtic with three games to play. Maurice Edu played the entire game for Rangers to give him two Scottish titles in two seasons at Rangers.
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by Soccer America
[AMERICANS ABROAD] On the final day of the first phase of Mexico's Torneo Bicentenario, California-born Miguel Angel Ponce debuted at left back for Guadalajara in 1-1 tie at Cruz Azul
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by Soccer America
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Hercules Gomez, suspended for the final game of Puebla's season, shared scoring title in Mexico's Torneo Bicentenario with Mexican Javier Hernandez (Guadalajara) and Peruvian Johan Fano (Atlante). But he wasn't the only American to win a scoring title in Mexico ...
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by Soccer America
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Brad Friedel's Aston Villa moved into a tie for fourth place -- which is worth a berth in next season's UEFA Champions League preliminary round -- with Tottenham in the English Premier League thanks to its 1-0 win over city rival Birmingham on Sunday. For all the weekend ...
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by Soccer America
[EUROPEAN RACES] Roma's 24-game unbeaten streak in Italy's Serie A ended when it blew a 1-0 lead at home against Sampdoria and fell, 2-1, on a pair of goals by Giampaolo Pazzini. The result left Roma in second place behind four-time defending champion Inter Milan with three games to play. ...
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by Soccer America
[WPS] Attendance for the four weekend games in Women's Professional Soccer averaged only 3,086, the lowest for weekend play since the league launched in March 2009. The smallest crowd was 2,906 for the expansion Philadelphia Independence's 3-1 win over the Washington Freedom on Sunday afternoon.
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by Soccer America
[D-2 PRO LEAGUE] Ryan Pore scored in his third straight game to earn the Portland Timbers, last year's regular-season champion, a 1-1 tie at the defending champion Montreal Impact in front of 13,034 at Saputo Stadium on Sunday afternoon. For all the weekend D-2 Pro League action ...
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