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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] At the start of the MLS season, Soccer America ranked each team by position. With the domestic transfer window closed and about a month remaining for teams to make moves (the trade deadline and roster freeze date is Sept. 15), the updated rankings start with the goalkeepers.
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by Soccer America
Jermaine Jones, who missed a chance to get his first cap for the USA when he turned down a call-up to the Brazil game to concentrate on training at German club Schalke 04, played the entire game Monday in its narrow 2-1 win over 10-man VfR Aalen of the third ...
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by Soccer America
"I have total optimism; my chairman has total pessimism. The chairman's grip on the money is more impressive than a top gymnast doing a high-bar routine, and I'm trying to pry those fingers open to deals he's probably not comfortable with." -- Blackpool manager Ian Holloway, whose club won promotion ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] Two years to the day after he scored the first Premier League goal ever netted by Hull City, Brazilian attacker Geovanni joined San Jose as its first Designated Player.
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by Paul Kennedy
[MLS] Only days before they were supposed to be headed off to college, Davy Armstrong and Conor Shanosky became the latest players to sign with the MLS clubs in whose academy programs they have been playing.
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by Paul Kennedy
[TELEVISION WATCH] How fast has the soccer buzz faded since the end of the World Cup? The USA-Brazil game on ESPN2 drew 783,000 viewers, only a quarter of the average television audience for 2010 World Cup games on the ESPN networks. And only a fraction of last Tuesday's top draws, ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[MEXICO] Argentine coach Guillermo Rivarola has quit as coach of struggling Mexican club Pachuca, one of only two foreign top-level clubs with three Americans on its first team.
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by Paul Kennedy
[COLLEGE] As players, many of them from overseas, began arriving on campus for the 2010 season, they got word that this will be the last season for men's soccer at Alabama A&M, once a national power. It's the 20th Division I men's soccer program dropped since 1990.
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by Paul Kennedy
[TESTIMONIAL] Four testimonial matches are being held for former Irish international Jimmy Conway, a long-time fixture on the Oregon soccer scene who was recently diagnosed with trauma-induced dementia that doctors believe may have been caused by concussions he suffered during his playing career.
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