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by Ridge Mahoney
[MLS CONFIDENTIAL] No doubt Landon Donovan's second -- and so far equally successful -- loan spell with Everton is improving the image of MLS, but watching Robbie Keane fire in goals and smash shots off the crossbar for Aston Villa has to be just as significant.
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by Soccer America
"We have been inundated with applications from the cheeky to the outlandish. We've had one from an 11-year-old boy who obviously has high ambitions in the game and we have a Playstation manager of 2010 who fancies his chances having won a competition. We've also had Sven Goran Eriksson apply, ...
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] MLS exhibitions this weekend are highlighted by a rematch of the MLS Cup 2011 finalists, Los Angeles and Houston, Friday at the Home Depot Center. Other games this weekend in Arizona, Florida and California: San Jose-Colorado, Real Salt Lake-Vancouver and Portland-Montreal Friday, Chivas USA-Chicago and D.C. United-Sporting KC Saturday ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[MEDIA WATCH] Roland Martin is a dinosaur. He acknowledges he likes to take a swipe at soccer every chance he gets, but his bosses at CNN did not take kindly to tweets the anchor made during the Super Bowl. CNN suspended Martin for "regrettable and offensive" tweets that included a ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[WORLD VIEW] The photo in the Trinidad Express said it all: T&T international Anthony Wolfe stood in the street directing a truck carrying away computers and furniture from the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation offices in Port of Spain in an attempt to collect on the money owed by the ...
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by Soccer America
[MONEY MATTERS] By a considerable margin, Real Madrid and Barcelona are soccer's biggest moneymakers. Real tops the annual list compiled by accounting firm Deloitte for the seventh straight year with revenues of $637 million for the year ending June 30. Barcelona is second with revenues of $598 million. Manchester United ...
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by Soccer America
[DATEBOOK] The U.S. national team will host five-time World Cup champion Brazil May 30 at FedExField in Landover, Md. (TV: ESPN2, ESPN3 and Univision, 8 p.m. ET). It will be the second of three friendlies scheduled before World Cup 2014 qualifying starts in June. For the complete 2012 schedule ...
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