Despite being without Christian Benteke, Roberto Firmino and Danny Ings — who suffered a season-ending ACL tear — for the trip to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, new Liverpoolcoach Jurgen Klopp expressed his faith in Daniel Sturridge and Divock Origi to bring the goods. “We have Origi — do you know him?” Klopp told the Liverpool […]
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Video Pick: A charming trip to Robert Lewandowski's Warsaw
Robert Lewandowski is by far the hottest striker in the world right now, scoring loads for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, where he set several records with five goals in nine minutes, and Poland, which he shot into Euro 2016. This 4-minutemini-doc visits his hometown of Warsaw, where he’s idolized by 10-year-old Kuba Wolski.
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Klopp: 'I want more bravery, more fun in your eyes'
The new Liverpool coach, German Jurgen Klopp, facing the media before his debut match at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, said he told Liverpool players he wants to see “more bravery,more fun in your eyes” — but said it is not time to impose too many changes on the squad. Klopp also spoke about the intense […]
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Klinsmann has molded a team that resembles himself
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) First of all, let’s sum up the last few months for the men’snational team and its subset, the under-23s. Put aside the Brazil game, though it must be said that trying out a new central defender pairing (Ventura Alvarado,Michael Orozco) and assigning defensive midfield duties to a primarily attacking type (Alejandro […]
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Fort Lauderdale Strikers to face Schalke 04 and Santa Fe
The NASL’s Fort Lauderdale Strikers will be the lone U.S. club participating in January’s nine-team 2016 Florida Cup in Orlando, Fla. and South Florida. The Strikers will face Germany’s Schalke 04 andSanta Fe of Colombia. Also participating are Brazilian clubs Atlético Mineiro, Corinthians, Fluminense and Internacional, Germany’s Bayer Leverkusen and Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk. “We are […]
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Belgium: World's best team or Euro 2016 dark horse?
For the first time in its history, Belgium will be the No. 1 ranked team in the world when FIFA’s rankings are released in early November. So what expectations should be placed on this countryof 11 million people for Euro 2016, a nation that has played soccer for over 110 years without winning a major […]
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Controversial Effenberg named Paderborn coach
Former Germany star and Bayern Munich Champions League winner Stefan Effenberg, more than a decade after the end of his playing career, has taken his first coaching job — head coachof Germany second division club Paderborn. Effenberg, who was famously sent home from the 1994 World Cup after showing German fans the middle finger, is […]
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Mexico is Concacaf U-23 champion
Mexico and Honduras, which had qualified for the 2016 Olympic men’s soccer tournament with semifinal wins over Canada and the USA on Saturday, met Tuesday in the final of the Concacaf OlympicQualifying Tournament, a U-23 competition. The Mexicans prevailed, 2-0. Mexico took the lead in the 42nd minute on an own goal by Bryan Acosta, […]
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USA's Kiesewetter wins U-23 Concacaf Golden Boot
German-raised striker Jerome Kiesewetter, who scored four goals and assisted twice for the USA during its third-place finish at the Concacaf Olympic Qualifying Tournament, won theGolden Boot and was the only U.S. player named to the tournament’s Best XI. Kiesewetter’s fourth strike came on a penalty kick, after he was fouled, against Canada on Tuesday […]
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Netherlands: From World Cup semis to Euro 2016 failures
Next year’s European Championship in France was enlarged from 16 teams to 24. There still wasn’t a place for the dismal Dutch. The 1988 European champion and three-time World Cup runner-up completed acatastrophic qualification series Tuesday with a humiliating 3-2 defeat in Amsterdam to the 10-man Czech Republic. As if saving their worst for last, […]