The USA took a big step toward qualifying for the 2017 U-20 World Cup by opening the second round of the Concacaf U-20 Championship with a 1-0 win over Mexico on a goal by captain Erik-PalmerBrown. The top two finishers of the three-team group that includes ElSalvador earn World Cup bids. Mexico faces El Salvador […]
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Video Pick: U.S. beach keeper scores twice
When the USA fell, 6-4, to Panama in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship, it got two of its goals from goalkeeper Christopher Toth, who tied the game at 3-3and struck again in similar fashion for a late consolation goal.
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Video Pick: How Bayern beat HSV 8-0
For the second time in two years, Hamburg SV fell, 8-0, in to Bayern in the North-South Classic. This time, Arturo Vidal opened the scoring, RobertLewandowski hit a hat trick, Kingsley Coman struck twice, and David Alaba and Arjen Robben got one each.
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USWNT: No Klingenberg, no A-Rod for SheBelieves Cup
U.S. women’s national team head coach Jill Ellis has named the 23-player roster for the 2017 SheBelieves Cup against Germany, France and England. Three picks are uncapped: goalkeeper JaneCampbell and midfielders Rose Lavelle and Brianna Pinto (only 16). Not picked from the pre-tournament camp team were Meghan Klingenberg, Amy Rodriguez and SarahKillion. SheBelieves Cup: March […]
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Report: UCL headed to Turner and Univision in 2018
Turner Sports and Univision have snatched the U.S. media rights to the UEFA Champions League away from Fox Sports, starting in 2018-19, multiple sources told Sports Business Daily’s John Ourand.
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Video Pick: Messi-like golazo by Barcelona youth
In UEFA Youth League play, 17-year-old Barcelona striker Jordi Mboula scored a spectacular solo goal in Barca’s 4-1 round of 16 win over Borussia Dortmund. Mboula, who wasborn in Spain to a Catalan mother and a Congolese father, starts with a 360 spin-move near the halfway line.
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Video Pick: Pouting keeper protests by giving up
So upset was the goalkeeper of Vietnamese team Long An at a penalty kick call he turned his back to the shooter and let in two more goals, somersaulting during a breakaway and completely vacating thegoal for the final strike of a 5-2 loss.
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U.S. U-20s rebound with win over Haiti
After opening its U-20 World Cup qualifying campaign with a 1-0 loss to Panama, the USA rebounded well, beating Haiti, 4-1, in its second Group B game of the Concacaf U-20 Championship.
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Video Pick: Chicharito among Top 5 Bundesliga Golazos
Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez’s fifth goal in three games for Bayer Leverkusen rates among the Bundesliga’s Top 5 goals from gameday 21. Also featured weregoals by Hoffenheim’s Andrej Kramaric, Hamburg SV’s Aaron Hunt, Werder Bremen’s Thomas Delaney and Cologne’s AnthonyModeste.
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Video Pick: America coach tackles player, gets ejected
During the Super Clasico, Club America coach Ricardo La Volpe stepped on the field and tackled Chivas’ Jesus Sanchez. The move got La Volpe sent to the standsfor the final 15 minutes of his team’s 1-0 loss on a goal by Chivas’ Angel Zaldivar.