[VIDEO PICK] The highlight of last weekend’s 0-0 tie between Liverpool and Tottenham came when a grey and white tabby took the field in the 10th minute. The cat, which had been seen around Liverpool’s Anfield stadium but had never reached the field, visited Tottenham’s American goalkeeper Brad Friedel.
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Juninho rejoins Galaxy for third season
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] Brazilian Juninho will be playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2012 after all. The 23-year-oldmidfielder, a starter on the 2011 MLS championship team, had returned to Brazil with the intention to play for Sao Paulo, which had loaned him out to the Galaxy in 2010 and 2011. A deal was eventuallyreached so […]
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Zambia and Mali out to surprise
[AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS] Zambia and Mali will be underdogs when they face Ghana and Ivory Coast, respectively, in the semifinals of the Africa Cup of Nations,but both teams, coached by Frenchmen, enter the game full of confidence. The Chipolopolo, Zambia’s team of no-names, is seeking its first appearance in the final since 1994, while […]
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MLS preseason this week …
[SCOREBOARD] The Portland Timbers got goals from Futty Danso, Bright Dike, James Marcelin and Jorge Perlaza to beat the defending MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy, 4-1, in preseason action. The firsttwo goals were set up by trialist Franck Songo’o — the 24-year-old son of former Cameroon keeper Jacques Songo’o— in the first nine minutes. In […]
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“There was nothing wrong with his timing, he was just a bit late.” — Expert analysis from BBC pundit Mark Bright. (Mirror)
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Is salary space an issue for Galaxy? Who knows?
[MLS CONFIDENTIAL] Doing the math in MLS is like running blindfolded down a dead-end alley: just as you get up to speed, you crash headlong into a greatunknown, reel backward from the impact, and crumple to the ground bleeding, battered, defeated. The MLS Players Union annually releases player salaries, and from those numbers the morezealous […]
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Chelsea-Man. United game earns 1.0 rating
[TELEVISION WATCH] The barnburner between Chelsea and Manchester United, aired live on Super Bowl Sunday on Fox, drew a 1.0 overnight rating, up from the 0.9rating for the first U.S. live telecast of the Premier League on an over-the-air network two weeks earlier. Manchester United rallied for 3-0 down to earn a 3-3 tie at […]
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Surgery on 'El Trencito' successful
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] Jose Adolfo Valencia, the first MLS signing to a Young Designated Player contract, won’t be playing anytime soon. The son of former Colombian great Adolfo “El Tren” Valencia underwent successful surgery Monday afternoon to repair damaged cartilage in his leftknee. He’ll miss 6-12 months. “El Trencito” trained with the Timbers just once in […]
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Referees — are we all nuts?
[REF WATCH] Look at the facts. We are an endangered species. More than half million of us worldwide; dying out like dinosaurs of a bygone age. Our demise islargely due to our own folly for we suffer the cruelty of human nature from the very people we help add sunshine into dull lives. We put […]
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MLS preseason this week …
[SCOREBOARD] The Seattle Sounders and Vancouver Whitecaps opened their preseason campaigns with a 1-1 draw in a 120-minute game on Monday night at Grande SportsWorld in Arizona. Servando Carrasco scored for the Sounders and Camilo scored the lone goal for Vancouver. There were 10yellow cards and one red card issued in the match. For all […]