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by Paul Kennedy
[WOMEN'S WORLD CUP SPOTLIGHT] By any criteria except goalscoring -- down to 2.65 a game from 3.47 in 2007 -- the 2011 Women's World Cup was a huge success. Record crowds, some great individual performances and back-to-back-to-back, as good a trio of games as you'll ever want to see in ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[TELEVISION WATCH] Sunday's Women's World Cup final between the United States and Japan was seen by an average 13.458 million viewers (7.4 U.S. household rating), more than double the previous records for the most-watched and highest-rated soccer telecast on an ESPN network.
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by Soccer America
"Really humbling, and truthfully it's probably brought my spirits up more than anything else could have. I am so disappointed for my teammates, myself. I am so disappointed for our country because I really feel like we had it. It was so close. Coming home to this kind of reception ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[ONLINE WATCH] The Women's World Cup set a new Twitter record for the tweets per second when the end of the USA-Japan final was drawing 7,196 tweets per second.
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS POWER RANKINGS] Seattle's wild 4-3 win over defending champion Colorado boosted the Sounders above the idle Galaxy into the No. 1 spot, and with three teams taking the week off from league action, few of the placings changed significantly, though Portland’s first road win in MLS did add a ...
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by Soccer America
[MLS] Landon Donovan, an 11-time all-star, heads the 22-player roster for the MLS All-Stars who will play Manchester United in the 2011 AT&T MLS All-Star Game on July 27 at Red Bull Arena (TV: ESPN2, Galavision, TSN, live, 8:30 p.m. ET).
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by Mike Woitalla
[MLS GOLEADORES] Three scoreless ties in Week 18 upped the season's total of stalemates to 24. Seattle and Colorado, however, provided some fireworks as Fredy Montero scored his sixth in his team's 4-3 win. For the latest on the Golden Boot race ...
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] Manchester City won its second game in the Herbalife World Football Challenge, rallying from one goal down at the half to beat the Vancouver Whitecaps, 2-1. The outlook is poor for the New England Revolution's first team, but things are looking brighter for its reserves, who got a goal ...
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by Soccer America
[W-LEAGUE] The Ottawa Fury claimed the W-League regular-season title, amassing a perfect 12-0-0 record with 43 goals scored and only five against. It heads the 10-team playoff field vying for the three berths available at the 2011 W-League Championship to be hosted by the Seattle Sounders Women July 29-31.
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by Soccer America
[USASA] New York Pancyprian Freedom, winner of three U.S. Open Cup titles (1979-80, 1982), captured the 2011 USASA Open Cup title with a shootout win over Doxa Italia in Sunday's final at Lovers Lane Park in Bowling Green, Ky. For all the USASA men's and women's final four results ...
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by Soccer America
[VIDEO PICK] Awana Diab of the United Arab Emirates scored from the penalty spot against Lebanon in a manner we've never seen before.
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