[MLS] Seattle soccer fans will turn out to see anyone. With the Sounders struggling in MLS, you’d forgive them if they passed on Wednesday’s friendly againstArgentina’s Boca Juniors, missing its star players, but a crowd of 40,122 watched Sounders win, 3-0. Roger Levesque gave the Sounders the leadshortly before halftime, and Pat Noonan and Michael […]
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Japan's Okada offers to quit
[WORLD CUP WARMUPS] Japan coach Takeshi Okada offered to quit after the Blue Samurai lost at home to archrival SouthKorea. Argentina coach Diego Maradona was pleased, but Australia’s Pim Verbeek was livid with two of his players.Meanwhile, Portugal’s Carlos Queiroz was surprisingly low key after his team’s 0-0 tie at home against Cape Verde Islands. […]
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Teenager Bowen leads Galaxy past Boca
[MLS] Three days after getting his first MLS start, academy product Tristan Bowen scored to lead the Los Angeles Galaxyto a 1-0 victory over Boca Juniors in an exhibition match Sunday night at the Home Depot Center. Bowen scored in the 83rd minute, taking a pass from rookie Michael Stephens. Goalie Josh Saunders made 13 […]
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Mighty Milito, King of Europe
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Once again, an Argentine forward was the dominant figure of the European season. But this time, it wasn’t Lionel Messi. Two and a half weeks after his goal gave Inter Milan the Coppa Italia title and less than a week after he scored the goalthat clinched Inter’s fifth straight Italian league title, […]
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Maradona's latest media clash
[ARGENTINA] Diego Maradona and the press sure don’t go together. In the latest incident involving the Argentina nationalteam coach, he accidentally ran over the leg of a cameraman as he was driving to Wednesday’s press conference in Buenos Aires to announce his 23-player roster for the World Cup and was surrounded byjournalists and cameramen. To […]
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Maradona goes with youngsters
[ARGENTINA] The release of Argentina’s 23-player roster for the World Cup was such big news that the traffic shut down the Argentine federation’s web site forhours. Coach Diego Maradona, who called up 108 players in 18 months, finally settled on a team of mostly European-based players but he’s expected to rely on acore of young […]
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World Cup squads: the predictable surprises
By Paul Gardner Looking at the preliminary World Cup squads, there are certainly some selections and omissions that you could call “surprises.” Except inthe case of Brazil, of course. No one should ever be surprised at who is, and is not on the Brazilian roster. This is a country with so many good players that […]
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Maradona overlooks Inter pair
[ARGENTINA] Coach Diego Maradona called up Diego Milito and Walter Samuel but their was no room for their Inter Milan teammates, Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso, in Argentina’s 30-player provisional roster for the World Cup.
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Celtic, Rangers and Boca Juniors headed to U.S.
[DATEBOOK] The Seattle Sounders announced plans to host Argentina’s Boca Juniors and Scotland’s Celtic in a pair of exhibition matches. D.C. United has scheduled a match against Celtic rival Rangers in July. Celtic and Rangers are negotiating to renew their Old Firm rivalry in the United States during their summer staysin the United States. May […]
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Milito steals the show
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Diego Milito stole the show from fellow Argentine LionelMessi, scoring once goal and setting up two more as Inter Milan stunned defending champion Barcelona, 3-1, in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semifinal series. Neverhad Barcelona lost by more than one goal since Pep Guardiola took over as head coach […]