Borussia Dortmund has scored 17 goals in its last three games, following up on Saturday’s 6-0 win over Darmstadt with a 5-1 victory over Wolfsburg on Tuesday in which American ChristianPulisic played the first 45 minutes. Last Wednesday, Dortmund beat Legia Warsaw, 6-0, in UEFA Champions League play. Against Wolfsburg, Gonzalo Castro, who replacedPulisic at […]
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Venezuelan club's bus hijacked and robbed
Six armed men hijacked the team bus of Venezuela’s Trujillanos and stole most of the players’ and coaching staff’s belongings. “The team was held up for 2hr.35min. (The armed men)threatened that if the bus had a GPS or was under escort they would detonate grenades to destroy evidence,” Trujillanos said on its official Twitter account. […]
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Guardiola: Toure benched until agent apologizes
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola says he will not play Yaya Toure until his agent apologizes for criticizing the decision to leave the player out. The 33-year-oldToure has made one appearance this season and he was left out of the Champions League squad, prompting his agent Dimitri Seluk to compain that the midfielder had been”humiliated.” […]
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Video Pick: Klinsmann takes Matthaeus for helicopter ride
Jurgen Klinsmann, who got his helicopter license a few years ago to fulfill a childhood dream, gave his former Germany and BayernMunich teammate Lothar Matthaeus an aerial view of Los Angeles while Matthaeus was in town on a Bundesliga Legends Tour.
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Video Pick: Pulisic's third Bundesliga goal
In Christian Pulisic‘s first Bundesliga appearance of the season, he scored his third Bundesliga goal in a 6-0 win over Darmstadt during a 90-minute performance. Last season he scoredtwice in nine league appearances, against Hamburg SV and VfB Stuttgart.
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Video Pick: A bad bounce off Arsenal's Cech
Arsenal keeper Petr Cech wins our Own Goal of the Week honors. He soared high enough to reach a free kick by Southampton’s Dusan Tadicin last weekend’s 2-1 Gunners’win — but failed to tip it over the crossbar, so it bounced off his body and into the net.
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FIFA to suspend Guatemalan federation
FIFA will suspend Guatemala’s national soccer federation (Fedefut) because of a dispute over a committee overseeing the body. “At this moment FIFA and Concacaf are talking and shortly the decisionwill be reached which will be the suspension of Fedefut because of third party interference,” Primo Corvaro, FIFA’s head of member associations. Last week, the SportsConfederation […]
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Europa League: Man United falls to Feyenoord
Manchester United fell, 1-0, at Feyenoord and Inter Milan lost, 2-0, at home to Israel’s Hapoel Beer-Sheva as the Europa League group stage got underway on Thursday. Coach Jose Mourinho’s star-studdedMan United side fell victim to a late goal by Tonny Trindade. Inter, also with a new coach this season, Dutchman Frank de Boer, fell […]
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The Trailblazers: When Caligiuri played against Klinsmann
By Mike Woitalla @MikeWoitalla Watching Christian Pulisic break through with BorussiaDortmund reminded me of the time Paul Caligiuri played against Jurgen Klinsmann. To be exact, the excitement of seeing an American-bred player on the Europeanstage recalled the time when U.S. players first ventured abroad — and how delighted we were to see them play pro […]
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U.S. Abroad: Pulisic makes the grade in UCL debut
Christian Pulisic, who turns 18 on Sunday, became the youngest player ever to start for Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League, playing the entire match in its 6-0 win at Legia Warsawto open its 2016-17 campaign. He assisted on the fifth goal scored by substitute Gonzalo Castro and terrorized the Legia defense on the […]