Soccer America Daily

[USA] Jesse Marsch, who played for BobBradley at Princeton University and in MLS with three different teams, has retired as a player with MLS’s Chivas USA and been named an assistant coach under Bradley on the staff of the U.S.men’s national team. Marsch and Steve Ralston, who moved last week to AC St. Louis of […]

[WORLD CUP] Swede Martin Hansson, whose failure to call Thierry Henry‘s handball duringFrance’s World Cup 2010 qualifier against Ireland in November caused one of the greatest controve rsies in modern soccer history, is among the 30 referees FIFA selected for the World Cup finals. No American was among the four Concacaf referees picked.   Mexico […]

[USA] U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley called up 23 players for a training camp beginning Wednesday at The Home DepotCenter in Carson, Calif. The group is comprised entirely of domestic-based players and will form the core of players for the friendly against El Salvador on Feb. 24 at Raymond JamesStadium in Tampa (TV: ESPN […]

[WPS] Saint Louis Athletica, which traded several players to the Atlanta Beat to gain the first pick in Women’s Professional Soccer’s dispersal draft of Solplayers, used its selection to draft U.S. international Shannon Boxx. With the second selection, the Philadelphia Independence picked goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc, while FIFA Player of the Year Marta, the 2009 WPS […]

[AMERICANS ABROAD] And the U.S. injury list keeps on growing. Midfielder Jose Francisco Torres became the seventh U.S.national team player based abroad to be sidelined since Christmas when he injured his right hamstring playing for Pachuca in Mexico’s First Division. Pachuca coach Guillermo Rivarola says the Texas-born Torres could be sidelined for a few weeks. […]

[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Marcello Lippi, coach of World Cup defending champion Italy, has picked 16 of the 23 players he willtake to South Africa. Amazingly, not one of the probable or possible players is from runaway Serie A leader Inter Milan. Among those still looking to nail down a berth is New Jersey product Giuseppe […]

[MAKING A LIST] Manchester United beat out the New York Yankees as the world’s most valuable team brand in Forbes’ annual ranking of the world’s most valuable sports brands (individuals,teams, events and businesses). Perhaps the biggest surprise on the Forbes’ team list is that six soccer teams ranked in the top eight. The only other […]

[MLS] The New England Revs’ concern over their goalkeeping situation came into clearer focus Thursday when the team announced Matt Reis had undergone kneesurgery. Already sidelined while rehabbing shoulder surgery, a procedure known as quadriceps tendon debridement was performed on his left knee at Massachusetts General Hospital. Rehabtime for the knee is from eight to […]

[NETHERLANDS-USA VIEWING] For those looking to make it a late lunch on the East Coast (or early lunch on the West Coast) and watch the Netherlands-USAgame, here is a list of soccer viewing establishments across the country where you might be able to catch the game. Email Soccer Americawith the name of your favorite soccer viewing […]