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by Ridge Mahoney
[USA-COLOMBIA REPORT CARD] The USA women clinched a spot in the knockout round of the Olympic soccer tournament by beating Colombia, 3-0, with a strong defensive effort and sharp finishes by Megan Rapinoe, Abby Wambach and Carli Lloyd. Soccer America's Ridge Mahoney grades the U.S. players ...
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by Soccer America
[DATEBOOK] Orlando City clinched the 2012 USL PRO regular-season title with a 4-0 win over the visiting Charleston Battery on Friday night. Two days later, it fell, 1-0, to the English Premier League's Stoke City in an international friendly that drew 10,441 fans at the Florida Citrus Bowl. For all ...
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by Mike Woitalla
[USA-COLOMBIA] The U.S. women, unable to attend Friday's Opening Ceremonies in London because of their Saturday afternoon game in Glasgow, marched through Colombia in a 3-0 win. The game was not without controversy. FIFA will review the incident in which Abby Wambach was hit in the face. Hope Solo lashed ...
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by Soccer America
"The decision is no different than the decision that we made a week ago [FC Dallas' 5-0 home win over Portland on July 21]. We feel that at this point in time, the best thing we can do for Brek is to give him a chance to kind of remove ...
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by Soccer America
[DATEBOOK] Pablo Campos scored four goals, giving him a league-high 15 goals on the season, Greg Janicki added two more goals while Esteban Bayona and Blake Wagner also scored to lift the expansion San Antonio Scorpions to an 8-0 win over Carolina RailHawks on Saturday. The Tampa Bay Rowdies got ...
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by Christen Press
[THE PITCH] Christen Press checks in from the Olympics, where she is an alternate but spending each day with the U.S. women's national team. Her role is to be the best player she can be every day in training in order to push and inspire her teammates. She says it's ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[OLYMPIC SPOTLIGHT] Spain is out of the men's Olympic competition after its second staright 1-0 loss. Roger Espinoza and Andy Najar teamed up to feed fellow MLS player Jerry Bengtson for the sixth minute goal that held up for the Catrachos the rest of the game.
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] Neymar scored on a free kick and set up goals by Alexandre Pato and Oscar to give Brazil a 3-1 win over Belarus and join Japan as the first teams to clinch berths in the quarterfinals of the men's soccer competition at the London Olympics. Mexico got its first ...
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] Great Britain and Brazil joined the USA in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women's soccer competition with wins on Saturday. Japan and Sweden played to 0-0 tie in their rematch of the 2011 Women's World Cup semifinals. France produced the biggest win of the day with a 5-0 demolition ...
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by Soccer America
[WEEK 21] The San Jose Earthquakes' comeback kids did it again, getting a goal from Steven Lenhart (on "Lenhart Wig Night" no less) in the eighth minute of stoppage time, and five minutes after Alan Gordon was red-carded, to earn a 1-1 tie with the Chicago. Fire. The Houston Dynamo ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Michael Orozco Fiscal scored a goal in losing effort for San Luis, Sonny Guadarrama scored the winning goal in the Second Division, but Jose Francisco Torres was red carded for dissent in Pachuca's 3-0 loss to Atlas.<
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by Soccer America
[W-LEAGUE] The host Ottawa Fury captured its first W-League title with a 4-3 shootout win over the Pali Blues. Ottawa trailed the Blues on a goal by former North Carolina star Nikki Washington in the second minute, and didn't get the equalizer until the dying seconds of regulation when Melissa ...
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[WPSL ELITE] The host Western New York Flash won the inaugural Women's Premier Soccer League Elite League championship with a 4-2 shootout win over the Chicago Red Stars after their injury-riddled game ended in a 1-1 tie. The win gave the Flash, winner of the 2010 W-League title and 2011 ...
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by Soccer America
[OBITUARY] Jack Taylor, considered one of the top English referees of all time, died at his home in Shropshire at the age of 82. Taylor officiated more than 1,000 games, one of which was the 1974 World Cup final between West Germany and the Netherlands in Munich, where he made ...
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