Soccer America Daily

[MLS] Five MLS teams were in preseason action on Saturday, and all five won by comfortablemargins. FC Dallas had the closest call, pulling away from Memphis University on Peri Marosevic‘s free kick in the 74th minute to defeat the visiting Tigers, 3-1. For all Saturday’sresults and this week’s preseason schedule …   Feb. 6 FC […]

[AMERICANS ABROAD] Herculez Gomez scored his first goal since joining MexicanFirst Division club Puebla in its 1-1 tie at Atlante on Sunday.   Gomez, who joined Puebla from the Kansas City Wizards after six seasons in MLS, scored shortly after halftime on a header off a pass from Luis MiguelNoriega.   Atlantelooked set to fall […]

[AMERICANS ABROAD] Goalkeeper Brad Friedel made keys saves in Aston Villa’s scoreless tie with Tottenham and striker Kenny Cooperdebuted for Plymouth Argyle after recovering from a knee injury and leaving 1860 Munich on loan. ENGLAND, PREMIER LEAGUEJozyAltidore (Hull City) 66 minutes, 2-1 win over Manchester City.Altidore scored his first EPL goal in 18 games since […]

[AMERICANS ABROAD] It took 18 games, but 20-year-old Jozy Altidore finally got his first English Premier League goal, and what a goal it was.Altidore teamed up with George Boateng and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink for a well-taken opening goal in Hull City’s 2-1 win over Manchester City on Saturday that movedthe Tigers out of the […]

[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 […]

[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 […]

[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 […]