[AMERICANS ABROAD] Charlie Davies tweeted the good news on Thursday: “It’s official! I’m done with rehab!!! Leaving forSochaux tomorrow! Who said I couldn’t be back training so soon!? Let’s go!! God Bless!!” Davies is finishing his fourth week of rehabilitation at the CERS de Capbreton, the sportstraining center in in southwestern France. He’s spent more […]
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Holt: 'We're going to stick to our niche'
[USL] The number of pro teams operating below Major League Soccer will at an all-time low in 2010 with 12 teams in the USSF Division II and six teams in thethird division USL-2. For the first time in more than a decade, United Soccer Leagues won’t be operating a Division II pro league in 2010. […]
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UNAM completes another Mexican sweep
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] For the second year in a row, the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League will be an all-Mexican affair. UNAM made sure of that,getting two goals from former Chivas USA striker Juan Francisco Palencia and crushing Marathon of Honduras, 6-1, to avenge the only loss by a Mexican team inthe two-leg quarterfinals. […]
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Preseason Schedule
[MLS] All 16 MLS teams will be in action on the final weekend of the preseason though they may be missing players attending the MLS labor talks in Washington,D.C. Play begins Friday with two games. Colorado hosts Seattle, while Philadelphia plays the new Tampa Bay Rowdies of the USSF Division 2 in Tampa. For all […]
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What They're Saying
“Dempsey winner sends Cottagers into dreamland.” — Headline in UK’s Independent after American Clint Dempsey scored the fourth goal — with a “disguised lob” from justoutside the penalty area — of Fulham’s 4-1 over Juventus that sent the Cottagers into the Europa League quarterfinals with a 5-4 aggregate win. (The Independent)
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Houston's Kinnear comes home for 'chippy' clash with Quakes
[MLS] Houston Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear and his childhood friend, San Jose Earthquakes general manager John Doyle,described the 0-0 friendly played by their teams Wednesday at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco – not far from where they grew up — as “chippy.” They had met Thursday afternoon in thelobby of the Fairmount Hotel in […]
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OBITUARY: Bob Kap (1923-2010)
Bob Kap, who died on Sunday at the age of 87, is best known as the godfather of soccer-style kickers, but he was also an American soccer pioneer, who tookthe Dallas Tornado on the longest tour in the history of soccer — six months with games in 19 countries on five continents, including two games […]
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USA doesn't qualify for World Cup!
[CONCACAF UNDER-17 WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP] After the USA outscored its opponents, 32-0, in three games in group play, who would have imagined? The USA won’t be going to the 2010 Under-17 Women’s World Cup after playing to a 0-0 tie with Canada and then falling on penalty kicks in the semifinals of the CONCACAF U-17 Women’s Championship […]
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GOLAZO: Dempsey chip clinches historic Fulham win [VIDEO]
[AMERICANS ABROAD] With U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley and England coach Fabio Capello both inattendance, Clint Dempsey came off the bench and scored the series winner in Fulham’s 4-1 win over Italian giant Juventus, a delicate chip from 20 yards over39-year-old Antonio Chimenti, the third-string Juve keeper, that gave the Cottagers a 5-4 win […]
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D.C. United, RSL win in Challenge Cup
[MLS] D.C. United took over first place in the Carolina Challenge Cup by winning its second straight game, and defending MLS champion Real Salt Lake moved intosecond place by beating the host Charleston Battery in matches played Wednesday night. Jaime Moreno scored the only goal of the game to give D.C. a 1-0 win over […]