[ALGARVE CUP] The USA got two goals in two minutes during the second half but needed goalkeeper Hope Solo to save apenalty kick in both halves to earn a 2-0 victory over Iceland in its opening match at the 2010 Algarve Cup in Portugal. The Americans failed to convert their dominance into goals untilthe 60th […]
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Americans rally for late win
[USA-EL SALVADOR] What can you say about a game in which a goalkeeper makes several outstanding saves, but gifts the other team both of its goals? And how to evaluate the guy who’s playing out of position, again, commits a howler to hand the opposition a goal, yet does just about everything else well if […]
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Former Notre Dame duo teams up in Sweden
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Notre Dame midfielder Michael Thomas, a second-round draft pick of the San Jose Earthquakes in the2010 MLS SuperDraft, has signed with Halmstads BK in the Swedish top division, Allsvenskan. He joins former Irish teammate Ryan Miller at Halmstad. Thomas, a central midfielder, was an all-Big East pick in 2009 after scoring six goals […]
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What They're Saying
“I could have been England manager but I didn’t want to. … When England came looking for me I was the proudest coach in the world. I thought about it a lot. On the one hand I wanted to do it, onthe other I knew that it wasn’t the right job for me because I […]
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Norway-based Goodson eyes World Cup spot
[USA-EL SALVADOR] Two years ago, defender Clarence Goodson left the USA after discussions about a new MLS contract broke down and a foreignoffer came through unexpectedly. His departure not only came shortly after he earned first cap in a 2-0 defeat of Sweden at Home Depot Center, but opened up a whole new world: that […]
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Barcelona needs to do better
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Barcelona isn’t going to defend its UEFA Champions League title the way it played Tuesday at Stuttgart. The Spanish club needed asecond-half equalizer from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to earn a 1-1 tie. In Tuesday’s other game, visiting Bordeaux edged Olympiakos, 1-0. “We had to fight, it was a hard game,”Barca coach Pep Guardiola […]
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Adin Brown returns home
[USSF DIVISION 2] Adin Brown, who was in goal for the 2002 MLS Cup finalist New England Revolution and later spent fiveyears in Norway, has signed with the Portland Timbers for the 2010 season. Brown, 31, underwent successful foot surgery earlier this month and is scheduled to join the club in mid-Marchand begin rehabilitation. He […]
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Bafana Bafana's 'embarrassing' change in plans
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] How chaotic are things in South Africa less than four months before the start of the World Cup? The training facility the host team, SouthAfrica’s Bafana Bafana, hoped to use to prepare for the tournament is so badly run down they can’t use it. And the headmaster of the school chosen as […]
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Houston tests newbies but Oduro shines
[MLS] A few trialists came into the Houston Dynamo camp last week, yet Coach Dominic Kinnear sent out some other auditioning players in a 4-1scrimmage victory over the University of Central Florida Tuesday in Orlando, Fla. Returning veteran striker Dominic Oduro stole the show in the second half by racking up ahat trick in 13 […]
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Valencia gets better of Spector
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Jonathan Spector again lined up at left back for West Ham, this time against his old club ManchesterUnited, but he was no match for Ecuadoran winger Antonio Valencia, who served up two goals for Wayne Rooney in United’s3-0 at Old Trafford on Wednesday. On the first goal in the 38th minute, Spector gave […]