In response to Senator Richard Blumenthal‘s letter calling on U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati to “actually conduct athorough investigation” into domestic violence accusations against goalkeeper Hope Solo and reconsider its decision to keep Solo on the U.S. nationalteam, Gulati responded on Friday in a letter to Blumenthal that U.S. Soccer sent to Soccer America. Key points […]
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What They're Saying: Sepp Blatter
“I am not certain, but it doesn’t smell good. There are unmistakeable signs: The Americans were candidates for the 2022 World Cup, and they lost. The English were candidates for the 2018 World Cup.They lost.” — FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Swiss radio station RTS, claiming corruption indictments in U.S. Federal court on the eve […]
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What They're Saying: Ottawa Fury spokesperson Graeme Ivory
“You’re not really expecting anything like that on an airplane. But he has no injuries or anything of that nature. There was nothing that would have provoked this in any way.” — Ottawa Fury spokesperson Graeme Ivory after the Fury’s Oliver Minatel was without warning attacked by a man on theNASL team’s Air Canada flight […]
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Domestic assault charges against Hope Solo dropped
U.S. women’s national team star Hope Solo won’t go to trial on domestic assault charges. A week before her trial in Kirkland (Wash.) Municipal Court wassupposed to be begin, the judge granted the motion of her attorney to dismiss the charges. Solo was arrested and charged with two counts of fourth-degree domestic violence after anincident […]
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Solo's trial postponed until January
[JURISPRUDENCE] The trial of U.S. women’s national team star Hope Solo was continued until Jan. 20 after her attorney,Todd Maybrown, successfully argued that he should be allowed to interview her sister and 17-year-old nephew whom she is accused of assaulting. Solo, 33, pleaded not guilty on two counts of fourth-degree assault for striking her sister […]
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Crew's Paladini suspended pending investigation
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The Columbus Crew’s Daniel Paladini, currently sidelined with a broken leg, has been suspended with pay andbanned him from all club activities, pending an investigation into a reported domestic dispute. The 29-year-old Paladini made four league appearances in 2014 before breaking the tibia andfibula in his right leg at training in September. He […]
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Report: 'Soccer Rat' Chuck Blazer was FBI informant
[FIFA] The New York Daily News reported on Saturday night that Chuck Blazer, once the most powerful man inAmerican soccer, was an FBI informant who was “flipped” and used to investigate high-ranking soccer officials around the world. Among other things, the Daily News reported that Blazer, now sufferingfrom colon cancer, was wired and secretly recorded […]
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Murder charges dropped against former Clarkson coach
Former Clarkson men’s coach Oral “Nick” Hillary had murder charges in the 2011 death of a 12-year-old boy dismissed. St. Lawrence County Judge Jerome J. Richards criticized St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary E. Rain for the use of what he called a case “soheavily dependent on circumstantial evidence” and dropped the second-degree murder indictment. […]
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Stars take CSA and FIFA before tribunal
[2015 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP’] A day after FIFA’s Tatjana Haenni said there was no Plan B for replacing the artificial turf atthe six Canadian venues for the 2015 Women’s World Cup, a coalition of women’s internationals representing at least 11 countries, including Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Heather O’Reilly of the United States, filed in […]
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Clemson women's program hit with hazing lawsuit
[JURISPRIDENCE] College soccer has been rocked by another hazing incident. A former Clemson women’s player, Haley Hunt, has filed a lawsuit in South Carolina state court alleging that she was subjected to a preseason hazingincident in 2011 that resulted in her suffering a traumatic head injury. A hazing incident involving the New Mexico women’s program […]