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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Don't expect to see Charlie Davies playing for Sochaux in France's Ligue 1 any time soon. Interviewed on France radio on Thursday night, Sochaux coach Francis Gillot said it won't be before January that he'll be able to count on him. In the opinion of Sochaux's fitness trainer, ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[UNDER THE MICROSCOPE] Once he'd signed Kei Kamara to a new contract last winter, Kansas City Wizards coach Peter Vermes dropped his interest in former Crew striker Stern John. Kamara, 26, scored his 10th goal of the season -- a career best -- in a wild 4-3 comeback win over ...
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by Soccer America
"I have just been all over the world and whether it was 10 Downing Street or the White House or the Kremlin… the first line was, 'This was the best World Cup ever.'"-- Danny Jordaan, who headed the 2010 World Cup South African organizing committee, measuring the impact the tournament ...
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by Soccer America
Olimpia of Honduras put a dent into the Puerto Rico Islanders' hopes of reaching the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions League when it beat Toluca of Mexico, 2-1, and moved into a tie for first place with Toluca, two points ahead of the Islanders in Group D. The other group ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WPS] Danesha Adams, who was named U.S. Soccer's Young Female Athlete of the Year in 2008 but had only one goal in two seasons in WPS, was the unlikely hero of Women's Professional Soccer's Super Semifinal, coming off the bench to score in the winner in overtime and send the ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[REGARDS ON THE WORLD] Remember the Canadian youth team, the U-12s from Calgary's Foothills Soccer Club, whose dream of a trip to the David Beckham Academy was shattered when a registration site representing David Beckham's camp took their money and they went ahead with plans to fly to California only ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[BRAZIL] For host Brazil, the road to the 2014 World Cup leads through, well, London. Its preparations begin in earnest next month with a week-long camp in Rio -- opponents still TBD -- and Coach Mano Menezes has called up many of Brazil's young stars whose big test could be ...
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by Soccer America
[RESULTS] No. 1 Akron crushed No. 3 Tulsa, 4-0, Friday night before a school record crowd of 4,744. The shutout tied an NCAA record with 11 in a row. The Zips, No. 9 Butler and No. 17 SMU are the only Top 25 teams with perfect records after No. 7 ...
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by Soccer America
[RESULTS] In Sunday action, No. 6 Maryland and No. 14 Duke played to a 1-1 tie, No. 11 UCLA edged No. 12 Santa Clara, 1-0, and No. 19 Minnesota beat No. 15 Illinois by the same score. For the Sunday results ...
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