[AMERICANS ABROAD] Midfielders Benny Feilhaber and Stuart Holden, the mostrecent U.S. national team regulars to be injured, are improving. Feilhaber has resumed training with Danish club AGF after receiving treatment for his ankle injury in Brazil, while Holden is againwalking without crutches. Feilhaber will rejoin the AGF first team next week after spending several weeks […]
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Davies to resume training at Sochaux
[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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“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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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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Friedel's Aston Villa inches closer to top four
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Amid reports that Aston Villa might bring in competition for him and fellow American Brad Guzan ingoal, 39-year-old Brad Friedel picked up the victory as Aston Villa won, 2-1, at Wigan on Tuesday. Friedel could do nothing to stop Gary Caldwell‘s header, but he did well to stop Honduran Maynor Figueroa‘s long-distance shot.
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Struggling Pachuca ends skid
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Having lost three straight Mexican league games — two by 3-0 scores at home — struggling Pachuca needed all the breaks it couldget to survive its Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal series with Comunaciones. The Guatemala City club had two players sent off two minutes apart in the second half, and Pachuca went […]
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Bradley's Gladbach slipping
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Winless in four games and outscored, 7-0, in its last two matches, alarm bells are going off at Borussia Moenchengladbach, where WorldCup-bound Michael Bradley plays in midfield. Gladbach is in 12th place in the 18-team league, seven points above the relegation zone. But after a 3-0 loss to BorussiaDortmund and a 4-0 loss […]
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Altidore's Hull City fires manager
[ENGLAND] Phil Brown, who led Hull City to the English Premier League for the first time in 2008 and kept the Tigers upon the last day of the 2009 season, was fired on Monday. Hull, whose forward line includes American Jozy Altidore, is three points inside the relegation zonewith nine games to play and is […]
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Rongen names U-20 squad for Dallas Cup
[U.S. UNDER-20 NATIONAL TEAM] Philadelphia Union midfielder Amobi Okugo and Houston Dynamo midfielder Francisco Navas are among the 20 players Coach Thomas Rongen called up for the U.S. under-20 national team (players 19 andunder in 2010) for the expanded Super Group at the 2010 Dallas Cup. Former U.S. U-17 Victor Garza, Orozco’s teammate at Tigres, […]
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Bedoya opens 2010 Allsvenskan with win
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Alejandro Bedoya, who in recent months has emerged as a candidate to make the U.S. World Cup team,opened his second season as a pro in Sweden with a 2-0 win for Orebro SK over Atvidaberg on Monday. Bedoya, who played at Fairleigh Dickinson and Boston College, played the entire 90minutes in midfield for […]