[AMERICANS ABROAD] Terrence Boyd had a pro debut to remember, scoring two goals and setting up a third in Rapid Vienna’s4-0 victory over Wacker Innsbruck on Saturday to open the 2012-13 Austrian season. Herculez Gomez had the winning goal for Santos in its 2-1 win over San Luisto open the Mexican league season. Josh Gatt […]
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Torres leads U.S. corps in Liga MX
The Mexican league, now known as the Liga MX, kicks off on Friday and Tom Marshall expects some U.S. players to play key roles for their teams. Pachuca brought in a host of expensive names, leaving question marks around Texan Jose Torres‘ role in new head coach Hugo Sanchez‘s project. But Sanchezstarted “el Gringo” throughout the […]
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Bornstein stuck at Tigres
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Unable to find any playing time at Tigres, Jonathan Bornstein hoped things would change with a moveto Atlanta in Cancun, but the U.S. international will remain with Tigres in Monterrey after a loan deal reached in June fell apart when Atlante couldn’t reach an agreement on paying Bornstein’ssalary. Bornstein, 27, moved to Mexico […]
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USA falls to Mexico in U-17 final
[COPA SAPRISSA] The USA fell to Mexico, 3-1, in the final of the Copa Saprissa under-17 tournament held in Costa Rica. It was the Americans’ secondloss to Mexico in the tournament at which they finished with a 3-2-2 record. Mexico scored twice within the first 25 minutes, and USA then lost midfielder Aaron Meyer to […]
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Galaxy's Munoz leads U-17s in Costa Rica
[COPA SAPRISSA] The U.S. under-17 national team closed out group play Wednesday at the Copa Saprissa in Costa Rica with a 3-0 loss to Mexico, its first defeatin five games. The USA finished second in its group to advance to Friday’s semifinals. Rolando Munoz, a 15-year-old midfielder from the Los AngelesGalaxy’s academy program, leads the […]
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Dos Santos and Salcido head Mexico squad
[OLYMPIC COUNTDOWN] Giovani Dos Santos and Carlos Salcido, who started onMexico’s 2011 Gold Cup championship team, are among the 18 players picked to represent Mexico in men’s soccer at the 2012 London Olympics. Salcido, who plays for Tigres, was one of threeover-age selections along with Jesus Corona of Cruz Azul and Oribe Peralta of Santos, […]
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Concacaf power rankings: Panama is surprise
The first of three double-dates got the Concacaf World Cup semifinal round underway, and early results indicate that at least two of the three groups — from which six teams will advance to theHexagonal — could go down to the final day of qualifying in October. Mexico, not surprisingly, and Panama, somewhat surprisingly, were the […]
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Result in St. John favors USA
[WORLD CUP 2014 QUALIFYING … Concacaf] The USA didn’t get the win it was looking for in Guatemala, but it got a break in the other Group A match in ConcacafWorld Cup 2014 qualifying as tiny Antigua & Barbuda took two points from Jamaica with a 0-0 tie in St. John. The results left the […]
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World Cup 2014 qualifying this week …
[CONCACAF] Day 2 of the semifinal round of World Cup 2014 qualifying takes place Tuesday in Concacaf. Perhaps the biggest match will take place in Toronto,where Canada can take a big step toward moving into next year’s Hexagonal with a win over Honduras, a 2-0 loser to Panama in its opening game. The Catrachos won […]
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Lots to play for on Concacaf Day 1
[WORLD CUP 2014 QUALIFYING COUNTDOWN] For the United States and Mexico, perennial favorites to qualify for the World Cup, the only question on Day 1 of thesemifinal round of Concacaf qualifying is how many goals will they win by when they host minnows Antigua & Barbuda and Guyana from the Caribbean zone, respectively. But Friday’s […]