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by Ridge Mahoney
[USA SPOTLIGHT] U.S. attacker Clint Dempsey heads into the Gold Cup off the best season -- 12 goals -- ever recorded by an American player in a European first division. His club situation again in flux with the resignation of Coach Mark Hughes, who granted Dempsey a freer attacking role ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS] The first weekend of league play with teams deprived of players because of the Gold Cup affected several results in the Western Conference, with San Jose, FC Dallas and Real Salt Lake all winning in different situations.
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by Soccer America
"I haven't properly trained in a few days so today was a little more difficult than a normal training session. I was breathing pretty hard, but I feel good and I would expect to be fine by Tuesday."-- Landon Donovan after U.S. practice on Sunday. He sat out the USA's ...
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by Mike Woitalla
[MLS GOLEADORES] Goals remain rare in MLS as Week 12 produced only a dozen in 10 games.
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by Soccer America
[DATEBOOK] Sporting Kansas City plays it first game Thursday at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, but it would sure have wished for better circumstances. SKC hosts the Chicago Fire in a battle of Eastern Conference cellar-dwellers who have won two games between them this season. For all the action ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[GOLD CUP PREVIEW] Colorado Rapids star Omar Cummings won't be playing for Jamaica. Shalrie Joseph has decided not to play for Grenada. And Andy Najar, the 2010 MLS Rookie of the Year, wasn't picked to play for Honduras. But there are many U.S. connections to the four teams in the ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[GOLD CUP] Javier Hernandez scored three goals in the last half hour to give Mexico a 5-0 win over El Salvador before a sell-out crowd of 80,108 at Cowboys Stadium on Sunday. Marcos Urena scored two goals as Costa Rica also crushed Cuba, 5-0, in the first game of the ...
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by Soccer America
[DATEBOOK] The 2011 Gold Cup continues Monday with two games at the Home Depot Center: a Caribbean showdown between Jamaica and Grenada and a Central American battle between Honduras and Guatemala. For the Gold Cup game summaries, standings and schedule ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[USA-MEXICO WOMEN] Lauren Cheney's goal in stoppage time gave the USA a 1-0 win over Mexico in its final international match before heading to Germany for the 2011 Women's World Cup. The Americans thoroughly dominated the game, finishing with a 34-4 shot advantage, but until Cheney's strike from distance they ...
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] The Carolina RailHawks (NASL), Orlando City (USL PRO) and Western New York Flash (WPS) have all opened up huge leads in their respective leagues. For all the weekend action ...
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