[WPS] Carli Lloyd‘s hard-luck Women’s Professional Soccer career continued when Sky Blue FC placed the 2008 Olympic star on the 30-day injuredreserve after she suffered a broken ankle in Sunday’s 1-0 victory over the Chicago Red Stars, her former club. Lloyd suffered the injury when she slipped on the surface at Toyota Parkand landed awkwardly […]
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Rare hat trick powers Bayern into final
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Croatian striker Ivica Olic scored a hat trick — only the second ever in a Champions Leaguesemifinal — to lead Bayern Munich to a 3-0 win at French club Lyon and a place in the final. Bayern will meet the winner of the Barcelona-Inter Milan series in the final to be played […]
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QUICK TAKE: Mike Petke
[MLS] Red Bull defender Mike Petke, a native of Bohemia, N.Y., is manning the middle for a 4-1-0 team that is atop the Eastern Conference. The34-year-old veteran of 13 MLS seasons took some time to talk about his defensive partner Tim Ream, Coach Hans Backe, and other aspects of New York’ssurprisingly strong start. SOCCER AMERICA: […]
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Lyon aims for first final
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Lyon aims for its first berth in the UEFA Champions League final when it hosts Bayern Munich Tuesday in the second leg of theirsemifinal series (TV: Fox Sports Net, live, 2:30 pm ET). Bayern, which carries a 1-0 lead from the first leg into Tuesday’s game at stade Gerland, has all sorts […]
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Joseph leaves Revs for indefinite period
[MLS] The Revs, for which midfield stalwart Shalrie Joseph has played only one game this season because of injuries, will be missingtheir captain for the forseeable future. Team management announced Monday that Joseph, 31, has been given time to sort out some personal matters. He left Saturday and >the team did notstipulate a timetable for […]
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Few fans in Dallas, New England
[MLS ATTENDANCE] Toronto FC drew the smallest announced crowd in its four-year history, but the crowd of 18,394 for its 2-0 win overSeattle on Sunday was still the largest MLS crowd during a week marked by crowds of less than 10,000 in Dallas and New England. Attendance for the TFC-Seattle game was below the capacityof […]
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What They're Saying
“Somebody took Humpty Dumpty and put him back together again.” — James Hashimoto, a trainer with the United States national team who surpervised therehabilitation of U.S. striker Charlie Davies, who in an October car crash fractured the tibia, fibula and femur in his right leg, and broke his elbow, his nose and his eye socket.His […]
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Davies resumes full training
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Striker Charlie Davies trained Sochaux on Monday, the first time he has participated in full trainingwith the French club since suffering multiple injuries in a car accident last October. “It’s about time & it feels great!” Davies wrote on his Twitter page. “My speed is getting there too! Today was a good day!”
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Houston's Cameron out for season
[MLS] The Houston Dynamo got more bad news on Monday: young star Geoff Cameron, whom it was accounting upon to replacethe departed Ricardo Clark in midfield, was lost for the season with knee injury suffered in Saturday’s 2-0 loss at Chicago. It marked the fourth time in fivegames the Dynamo has lost a player with […]
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Six thoughts from MLS Week 5
[MLS] Maybe it’s taken a while for the goalkeepers to find their form this season; after numerous gaffes resulted in goals the first four weekends, morethan a few keepers played top-notch stuff. Goalkeeper heroics are one of the six thoughts we take from Week 5. … GOALIE GLORY. Stefan Frei stymied BradEvans and Nathan Sturgis […]