[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Barcelona isn’t going to defend its UEFA Champions League title the way it played Tuesday at Stuttgart. The Spanish club needed asecond-half equalizer from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to earn a 1-1 tie. In Tuesday’s other game, visiting Bordeaux edged Olympiakos, 1-0. “We had to fight, it was a hard game,”Barca coach Pep Guardiola […]
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Barcelona looks to avoid upset
[PREDICTIONS] Can defending champion Barcelona avoid an upset at red-hot Stuttgart? Visiting Bordeaux and Sevilla appear to have the edge against Olympiakos andCSKA Moscow, respectively. The big match in the second set of first legs in the UEFA Champions League’s round of 16 again takes at the San Siro. Last week it was DavidBeckham and […]
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Leverkusen bemoans record-tying result
[GERMANY] A day after Bayern Munich’s 13-game winning streak in all competitions ended with a 1-1 tie at relegation candidate Nuremberg, Bayer Leverkusen blew achance to regain the outright lead in the Bundesliga when Per Mertesacker‘s late header forced it to settle for a 2-2 tie with Werder Bremen. The tie leftLeverkusen ahead of Bayern […]
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Herculez Gomez scores again [VIDEO]
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Herculez Gomez scored his third goal for Puebla in its 3-2 loss at Guadalajara (see video below). InSunday play, Brad Friedel was in goal for Aston Villa in its 5-2 win over Burnley. For all the weekend action … ENGLAND, Premier League Jozy Altidore, sub: 25 minutes (Hull City, 0-3, at West Ham) […]
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Spector victorious in U.S. duel
[AMERICANS ABROAD] U.S. teammates Jonathan Spector, starting again at leftback, and Jozy Altidore, a second-half sub, squared off Saturday in the English Premier League. Spector’s West Ham romped with a 3-0 victory over HullCity, which is back in relegation danger. Eight Americans played in the top two levels of English soccer on Saturday. For all […]
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Americans split against European powers [VIDEO]
[ID2 NATIONAL SELECTION] U.S. Club Soccer’s id2 National Selection all-stars finished their first European tour with a 2-2 record, losing to older teams fromPSV Eindhoven (6-0) and Borussia Dortmund (6-3). Anthony Calvo’s spectacular goal gave the Americans the lead against Dortmund, which rallied inthe second half to win. Brandon Tetro (penalty kick) and Corey Baird […]
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Wright joins Energie Cottbus
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Chris Wright, the former MPSF Player of the Year at theUniversity of New Mexico, has signed a contract with Energie Cottbus of the German Second Division. Wright, a 2009 finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, will likely spend the rest of the season playingwith Cottbus’ under-23s, who play in the Oberliga Nord. The 6-foot-5 […]
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Bayern fortunate to beat Fiorentina
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] All signs pointed to a Bayern Munich victory, but the German club needed a late goal from MiroslavKlose — scoring in an offside position — to beat 10-man Fiorentina in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League round-of-16 series on Wednesday. Klose, who scored on a headerin the 89th minute after […]
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Beckham set for emotional game
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] David Beckham faces Manchester United for the first time since he left Man U in 2003 when Milanhosts United at the San Siro. French striker Karim Benzema returns to the stade Gerland for the first time since time being sold by Lyon to Real Madrid forapproximately $50 million last summer. Tuesday, Feb. […]