[DATEBOOK] Only five games will be played in Week 2 of Major League Soccer. The action is highlighted by a ESPN2 Thursday night doubleheader featuringHouston-Real Salt Lake followed by the Galaxy-Chivas USA Super Clásico. For all this week’s action … WEEK 2: Thursday, April 1 Real Salt Lake at Houston Dynamo 9 p.m. ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/ESPN360.com […]
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Teams look for bright spots
[MLS] It won’t be easy for D.C. United’s new coach Curt Onalfo to point to positives after United was routed by his former team, andPhiladelphia’s most surprising pick of the expansion draft disappointed, but Chicago and Toronto could find reason for optimism after their losses. Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoneylooks back at the first week of […]
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Diskerud scores for Stabaek
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Teenager Mikkel Diskerud, who played for the USA at the 2009 Under-20 World Cup, scored his firstgoal of the season for Stabaek in its 2-2 tie with Aalesund in Norway’s Tippeligaen. Diskerud, who was born in Oslo to an American mother, joined Stabaek’s youth program in 2005 anddebuted for the first team in […]
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Edson Buddle's promising start
[MLS PLAYER SPOTLIGHT] Forget David Beckham. The biggest question for the Los Angeles Galaxy was which Edson Buddle would showup for the 2010 season. Buddle’s father, who had immigrated to New York from Jamaica, named him after Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento). Edson Buddleplayed one season at State Fair Community College before going pro with […]
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Crowds are up but few goals scored …
[MLS NUMBERS] Opening weekend attendance for MLS’s 15th season averaged 17,921 – more than last season’s first week – andincluded big crowds in back-to-back games at the Home Depot Center. But MLS’s low-scoring trend continued. Last season’s MLS games averaged 2.54 goals per game – itslowest in history. All 16 teams were in action in the […]
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USA falls to Mexico in Super Group showdown
[DALLAS CUP] The U.S. under-19 national team fell to its Mexican counterpart, 1-0, in Sunday’s marquee match on the opening day of the Super Group at Dallas CupXXXI. The Americans finished the game with 10 players after losing defender Chad Barson to a red card. Next up for ThomasRongen‘s Yanks: matches against two foreign teams […]
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U.S. national team weekend [VIDEO]
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Carlos Bocanegra made it four wins in four games in March with French club Rennes when it beat LeMans, 3-1, in Sunday. Freddy Adu and Eddie Johnson both started for Aris in its 1-0 victory over Levadiakos in Greece’sSuper League. Here’s how U.S. national team players did in weekend action abroad, including video […]
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Gomez makes it seven goals in last nine games [VIDEO]
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Herculez Gomez scored his seventh goal of the season, all in the last nine games, to lead Puebla to a2-1 win over Club America Sunday in Mexico’s Torneo Bicentenario. The Las Vegas product is now tied for second place in the league behind only rising Guadalajara star Javier Hernandez. Mexico national team star […]
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Mexico no match in 2010 home opener
[U.S. WOMEN] Forward Amy Rodriguez scored her first international goal in more than a year and a half, and Shannon Boxx and Lauren Cheney added goals on either side of halftime for the USA in a 3-0 win over Mexico Sunday at theUniversity of San Diego’s Torero Stadium. The Americans outshotMexico, 21-2, in their 2010 […]
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What They're Saying
“[Tonight’s loss] is a slap in the face. It is clear that this team has a long way to go to improve … We are going to go back to work and sort out all the things that weremissing today.” — Jaime Moreno, MLS’s all-time lead scorer, after D.C. United fell at Kansas City, 4-0. […]