(All times ET unless noted. Consult your regular television listings guides for availability in your area. Schedules are subject to change.) FRIDAY, May 26 ESPN2 Friendly USA-VENEZUELA (live), 7 pm. TELEMUNDO Friendly USA-VENEZUELA (delay), midnight ET/PT. GOL TV Friendly SAUDI ARABIA-CZECH REPUBLIC (live), noon. SETANTA USA UEFA U-21 Championship ITALY-UKRAINE (delay) 6 pm. UEFA U-21 Championship DENMARK-HOLLAND (delay) 7:45 pm. SATURDAY, May 27 ESPN2 MLS REAL SALT LAKE-COLORADO (live), 4 pm. MLS DIRECT KICK MLS NEW ENGLAND-HOUSTON (live), 7:30 pm. MLS KANSAS CITY-D.C. UNITED (live), 8:30 pm. …

This wasnÆt the way Marcello Lippi hoped to begin ItalyÆs final push before the World Cup. The Azzurri coach faced calls for his resignation after becoming embroiled in the widening Italian soccer scandal. No one accused Lippi of doing anything wrong, other than having coached for eight years at Juventus, which is at the heart of the scandal, and being the father of Davide Lippi, who is a consultant for GEA, the soccer management agency that is also being investigated. At the ItaliansÆ training camp in Coverciano, Guido Rossi, who was brought in as an emergency caretaker to run the …

Updates through May 24. With club affiliations (previous college for transfers is in parentheses). AKRON Elliot Bradbrook M England (Ashland) Vedran Ilic M Rockford, Ill. Chicago Magic Oscar Odoch M England Wigan Athletic Ben Zemanski M/F Cuyahoga Falls, OH Cleveland Force AMERICAN Cameron Petty D Manassas, VA Reston FC Karsten Smith D Huntington Station, NY BW Gottschee Jake Van Yahres F Charlottesville, VA SOCA Lightning Dor Yasur M Boca Raton, FL Coral Springs Storm APPALACHIAN STATE Ramsey Ammar D/M The Woodlands, TX TSC Texans George Carmichael F/M Centennial, CO Real Colorado Tyler Cole D/M Greensboro, …

U.S. captain Claudio Reyna limped off with a strained hamstring in the 16th minute of the USAs 1-0 loss to Morocco on Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn. Reyna, making his first U.S. appearance of 2006, played in only 22 of Manchester Citys 38 Premier League games during the past season because of a broken ankle and a shoulder injury. Reyna will undergo on MRI to diagnose the severity of the hamstring injury. "I stretched out for a ball, and just to be cautionary I came out," he said. "It is close to the [World cup]games, so obviously …

Tennessee power Christian Brothers of Memphis and Emmaus of Pennsylvania are the top-ranked boys and girls teams, respectively in the national poll of NSCAA coaches. BOYS Rank School Prev. W-L-T 1 Christian Brothers (Memphis, Tenn.) 1 17-0-0 2 Lincoln East (Lincoln, Neb.)* 2 18-0-0 3 Randolph School (Huntsville, Ala.)* 3 25-1-0 4 Thomas Dale (Chester, Va.) 6 16-0-0 5 Van Buren (Van Buren, Ark.)* 11 20-0-3 6 Snohomish (Snohomish, Wash.) 9 18-1-0 7 Brentwood (Brentwood, Tenn.) 11 20-0-1 8 Jenks (Jenks, Okla.)* 14 15-1-0 9 Lake Stevens (Lake Stevens, Wash.) 15 18-2-0 10 Shades Valley (Birmingham, Ala.)* NR 25-2-0 11 …

BRUCE ARENA, coach ''First of all I think our opponents played a better game than us tonight. They had a definite game plan and the objective was to keep the U.S. team off the scoreboard and they certainly accomplished that. They shortened the game with fouling, delaying and all fair and within the rules of the game. They did a very solid job. They caught us at the end of the game with a mistake and got a goal. I think they would have been very, very happy with zero-zero. "On the other end, we werenÆt sharp. We …

Red Bull New YorkÆs U-17 team captured the 2006 New Jersey State Cup championship, defeating the defending state champion Ironbound Warriors 3-1 in the final on Sunday.Red Bull became the first MLS team to win a U.S. Youth Soccer state championship. ôWe are extremely proud of what this group of athletes has been able to accomplish,ö said Giovanni Savarese, Red Bull New York's Director of Youth Soccer and Player Development. ôThey have played the game with a great deal of class and professionalism, and this championship is a testament to how hard they have worked.ö John Tardy (2 goals) and …

2.80 MLS goals per game average through Week 8 of the 2006 season. 2.96 MLS goals per game average through Week 8 of the 2005 season. 2.61 MLS goals per game average through Week 8 of the 2004 season. 16,128 MLS attendance average through Week 8 of the 2006 season. 14,095 MLS attendance average through Week 8 of the 2005 season. 15,460 MLS attendance average through Week 8 of the 2004 season.

By Ridge Mahoney Africa is Africa, one huge, mysterious continent to the rest of the world, except when you're talking about soccer. Want to get a Nigerian riled up? Tell him how good Cameroon is. Needless to say, the pragmatic Cameroonian reliance on defense doesn't impress fans in Lagos. And vice versa. So to put a lot of faith in Morocco, tonight's U.S. foe in the first of three warmup matches* prior to the team's departure for Germany, being much like Ghana is scarcely relevant. As Coach Bruce Arena stated repeatedly throughout the …

The U.S. under-15 girls national team is currently holding its second training camp of the year at The Home Depot Center. The 23-player camp started last May 20 and runs through May 26. U.S. coach Tad Bobak has called in a completely different roster than from the first U-15 training camp of the year. Some players may be a part of the team that will compete for the USA in the first-ever FIFA U-17 WomenÆs World Cup, to be held in 2008. U.S. under-15 girls national team roster: GOALKEEPERS (3): Lauren Arnold (Hoover, Ala.), Alyson Gleason …

The U.S. Under-18 boys national team will travel to Spain and Portugal in early June to take on the Real Madrid juniors and compete in the Lisbon International Tournament. U.S. U-18 boys national team roster: GOALKEEPERS (2): Joe Bendik (Marieta, Ga.), Brian Perk (Santa Margarita, Calif.); DEFENDERS (7): Bryan Arguez (Miami, Fla.), Kyle Davies (Pleasanton, Calif.), Greg Eckhardt (Orange Park, Fla.), Blair Gavin (Franklin, Tenn.), Colin Givens (Troy, Mich.), Cameron Lamming (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Bobby Warshaw (Mechanicsburg, Pa.); MIDFIELDERS (5): Corben Bone (Plano, Texas), Cameron Brown (Garland, Texas), Daniel Kelly (Hendersonville, Tenn.), Jonathon Villanueva …

The U.S. under-20 womenÆs national team, which recently won three of four games on its European tour, will return to The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., for training May 28-June 4. The only new faces are Ameera Abdullah, a defender from the University of Florida, and high school senior Casey Noguiera, a veteran of the USAÆs U-16 and U-17 national Teams, who was slated to come into earlier U-20 camps but was ruled out due to a knee injury.U.S. U-20 womenÆs national team roster: GOALKEEPERS (3): Kelsey Davis (Thousand Oakes, Calif.), Joanna Haig (Inver Grove Heights, …

* The New York Red Bulls won their first game of the season as Jean Philippe Peguero notched a hat trick in a 5-4 barn-burner over Chivas USA at Giants Stadium. Chivas USA has not won since its opener against Real Salt Lake.* Defending champ Los Angeles fell, 1-0, at home to Colorado on a goal by rookie Jacob Peterson. Coach Steve Sampson?s Galaxy has now been shutout in four straight losses while conceding nine goals.* Carlos Ruiz scored his fourth and fifth goals of the season and notched his third assist as Dallas thumped New England, 4-0. On his …

MLS owner Philip Anschutz and St. Louis native Al Trost, a veteran of the North American Soccer League, have been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.Anschutz has been chosen to receive the highest honor awarded in soccer, the National Soccer Medal of Honor and induction into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. This will mark only the fourth time the medal has been presented as the recipientÆs contribution to soccer must be so significant as to have changed the course of the sportÆs history. Phil Anschutz, through his company AEG, is a founding investor-operator of Major League Soccer …

USL First Division Wednesday, May 17 Seattle 1 (Weaver 85) Rochester 2 (Delicate 70, Howes 90). Friday, May 19 Portland 0 Rochester 1 (Delicate 62). Saturday, May 20 Charleston 0 Puerto Rico 1 (Oehlman 22). Seattle 2 (Sutton 3, Tomlinson 79) Toronto 0. Sunday, May 21 Montreal 4 (Pizzolitto 9, Leduc 30, Ribeiro 67, Antoniuk 87) Minnesota 0. Miami 0 Virginia Beach 1 (Fenger 39). Portland 2 (Kreamalmeyer 52, O Bullen 61) Toronto 1 (Neto 90). USL Second Division Saturday, May 20 Wilmington 3 (Bundy 19, Maher 88, 89) Charlotte 3 (Spencer 34, 59, …