[WEEK 2] Luis Miguel Valle scored in the 90th minute to give Alajuelense of Costa Rica a 2-2 tie with Tigres of Mexicoin the group stage of the Concacaf Champions League. Former Chivas USA star Jonathan Bornstein did not suit up for Tigres, but 19-year-old Texan Victor Garza was on the bench. For all the […]
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Real Salt Lake relieves some pressure
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] For the past month or so, among the more intriguing aspects of MLS 2012 is whether Real Salt Lake’s perceived problems are real orimagined. Heading into a Concacaf Champions League match against Tauro FC of Panama Tuesday night at Rio Tinto Stadium, RSL had lost four in a row, including a crushing […]
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[WEEK 2] Santos of Mexico, the 2012 runner-up, opened play in the group stage of the Concacaf Champions League with a 5-0 win over Aguila of El Salvador. Carlos Darwin Quintero scored a hat trick for Santos. American Herculez Gomez didn’t score in his brief second-halfappearance. Guatemala’s Xelaju stunned Guadalajara of Mexico, 1-0, on a […]
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Real Salt Lake up against the wall
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Regional play continues with Day 2 of the Concacaf Champions League group stage. Loser of four games in a row, Real Salt Lakealready finds itself in a must-win situation Tuesday after falling at Herediano on Day 1. RSL coach Jason Kreis says only one result will be acceptable againstTauro FC of Panama. […]
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Rookie Rose leads Sounders past Caledonia
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] English rookie Andy Rose scored one goal and had assists on first-half goals by Sammy Ochoa and Fredy Montero to to lead the Seattle Sounders to a 3-1 win over Trinidad & Tobago’s Caledonia AIA in theirConcacaf Champions League group stage play on Thursday.
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Toronto crushes late-arriving Aguila
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] If Salvadoran club Aguila looked a little worse for wear in its 5-1 loss to Toronto FC, it had good reason. It didn’t arrive inToronto until a few hours before kickoff after missing a connecting flight through Miami. Bermudan Reggie Lambe scored twice to lead TFC to thewin. Luis Silva, Terry Dunfield […]
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Short-handed RSL falls in opener
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Real Salt Lake has its work cut out for it if it expects to return to the knockout stage of the Concacaf Champions League in whichit finished second in 2011. It fell at Costa Rica’s Herediano, 1-0, in Tuesday’s opener. The MLS club finished with 10 men after Nat Borchers was sent […]
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Real Salt Lake kicks off regional play
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Real Salt Lake, the 2011 runner-up in the Concacaf Champions League, returns to action in the regional club competition Tuesday whenit plays at Herediano of Costa Rica at San Jose’s Estadio Nacional (TV: Fox Soccer, live, 10 p.m. ET). The Herediano-RSL game and the match pitting two-time defending champion Monterrey of Mexicoagainst […]
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Five MLS entrants set for group play
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Five MLS teams were placed in the groups for the first round of the 2012-13 Concacaf Champions League. Instead of four groups offour, there will be eight groups of three. The four American entrants — MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo, Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders — avoided Mexican teams in […]
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Monterrey repeats as champion
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Monterrey repeated as Concacaf Champions League champion with a 3-2 aggregate victory over fellow Mexican club Santos in the final.The Rayados won the first leg, 2-0, and trailed, 2-0, in the second leg before Neri Cardozo scored the deciding goal of the series in the 82nd minute to reducethe deficit. Argentine Daniel […]