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by Paul Kennedy
[USA-EL SALVADOR, SOUND OFF] Goalie Sean Johnson said he needs to turn a negative into a positive. Mix Diskerud said he and teammate Freddy Adu were bitten by Salvadoran players and showed off marks as proof. Coach Caleb Porter said he has never felt worse. The outcome confirmed for Jurgen ...
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by Soccer America
"When he arrived for the game he had 20 cups of water and kept laughing at the players. He then told a ballboy to take a corner. I felt that was strange."-- Luis Antonio Oliveira, director of Brazilian club Batatais, on referee Jose Roberto Marques, who has been suspended after ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[USA-EL SALVADOR, THE AFTERMATH] If the USA's shocking elimination from Olympic qualifying doesn't put into question everything Jurgen Klinsmann has put in place in the last eight months, he better step forward and take responsibility for the direction of the national team program. He has certainly laid out lofty goals ...
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by Ridge Mahoney
[USA CONFIDENTIAL] The ultimate aftereffects of not qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games will only be known by the end of this decade, when the national team fates of these U-23 players can be evaluated. But the U.S. failure to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games may not bode well ...
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] Olympic qualifying in the Concacaf region will go on without the United States. Mexico and Honduras joined El Salvador and Canada in Saturday's semifinals at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan. The winners of the Mexico-Canada and El Salvador-Honduras games will go to the London Olympics. For all ...
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by Mike Woitalla
[MLS ATTENDANCE] Five teams had their home openers last weekend, including Columbus, whose crowd nearly doubled the figure from a year ago. For MLS team attendance rankings ...
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by Soccer America
[WEEK 4] MLS action will kick off when D.C. United, still looking for its first win of the season, hosts FC Dallas in the Friday night game on NBC Sports Network. For all the weekend action and Tuesday's Reserve League results ...
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by Soccer America
[VIDEO PICK] Cypriot fans held out hope for more than an hour that tiny APOEL might get a result against Real Madrid in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal series, but the Merengues were too much, getting two goals from Karim Benzema and a third by Kaka ...
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by Soccer America
[DATEBOOK] The Concacaf Champions League moves into the semifinals, where Toronto FC will host Santos of Mexico and Mexican clubs Monterrey and Morelia will meet in Monterrey in Wednesday's first leg. Toronto will be without injured German international Torsten Frings, who played so well in the two quarterfinal games against ...
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