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by Paul Kennedy
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The Columbus Crew announced the signing of the 2011 Soccer America College Player of the Year Ben Speas as a home-grown signing out of NCAA champion North Carolina. Speas, who also won a NCAA title the year before with Akron, is the latest college star to leave early ...
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by Soccer America
[MLS SUPERDRAFT] The 2012 MLS SuperDraft will begin at noon ET (11 a.m. CT) at the Kansas City Convention Center, where it is being held in conjunction with the annual NSCAA Convention. ESPN and ESPN3.com will air the draft, which will consist of only two rounds. (A Supplemental Draft will ...
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by Soccer America
"Being patient, right and investing time into something will ultimately pay off. Just like not telling the truth, incompetence, stealing and immorality all have their consequences, too." -- Dan Borislow, owner of magicJack, continuing his attack on Women's Professional Soccer, in an email to the New York Times. Borislow won ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] A year ago, Joao Plata might have been the youngest player at the adidas MLS Combine as well as the smallest. Those two characteristics may have scared off a few teams, but Toronto FC took a chance on the tiny Ecuadoran, and it paid off in a big ...
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by Soccer America
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] South America and Scandinavia are the new main sources for imports as Ecuadoran Miller Bolanos (Chivas USA), Uruguayan Federico Puppo (Chicago Fire) and Dane Christian Sivebaek (Seattle Sounders) signed with MLS clubs on Wednesday. Bolanos is the most intriguing signing, a 21-year-old playmaker with a penchant for scoring. ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] For the second time in his young career, Robbie Rogers is off to Europe. He joined Heerenveen of the Dutch Eredivisie after one season at Maryland but lasted only six months before returning home. Now after five seasons with the Columbus Crew, Rogers has signed as a free ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] With Brad Friedel in goal as usual, Tottenham beat Everton, 2-0, in their makeup game to move into second place in the English Premier League, tied with Manchester United, just three points behind Manchester City after 20 games. The meeting was the sixth between Friedel and fellow American ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WPS] Women's Professional Soccer isn't done with Dan Borislow and his magicJack just yet. Borislow won a victory in a Palm Beach County Circuit Court on Monday as Judge Meenu Sasser ruled WPS failed to follow the proper procedures to resolve disputes in kicking magicJack out of the league after ...
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by Soccer America
[DATEBOOK] The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup has been expanded from 40 to 64 teams, making the 99th edition of the U.S. cup competition the largest in the modern era (1995 to present), eclipsing the previous record of 42 teams set in 2005 and 2006.
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