[SCOREBOARD] Goalkeeper Michal Misiewicz made two big saves and Canada held on to tie El Salvador, 0-0, in the openingGroup A game in the Concacaf Olympic men’s qualifying tournament at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. Group B opens Friday night with two games at the Home Depot Center: Honduras-Panama and Mexico-Trinidad& Tobago. For the complete […]
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Mexico, Canada and Honduras win warmups
[OLYMPICS COUNTDOWN] Mexico tuned up for the Concacaf Under-23 Championship with a 2-1 win over Senegal thanks to two first-half penalty kicks by American-bornMiguel Ponce in a friendly played Saturday at San Francisco’s AT&T Park. Canada, which will face the USA in Group A, beat Trinidad & Tobago, 1-0, onFriday, thanks to a goal by […]
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MLS clubs make Concacaf Champions League worth following
[WORLD VIEW] Say want you want about the 6-1 mauling the Seattle Sounders suffered at the hands of Santos in the Concacaf Champions League on Wednesday night inMexico. Call them sloppy. Call them naive. The one thing you can’t say about the Sounders was that they didn’t go for it. They came to play in […]
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Concacaf Champions League this week …
[SCOREBOARD] UNAM buried Isidro Metapan, 8-0, to cruise into the semifinals of the Concacaf Champions League, where it will face Mexican rival Morelia. TorontoFC will meet Santos of Mexico in the other semifinal. For all the quarterfinal results and semifinal schedule … RESULTS: Quarterfinals, Second Leg Thursday, March 15 UNAM 8 Isidro Metapan 0. UNAM: […]
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MLS teams must outgrow Mexico myth
By Paul Gardner Poor Seattle! Did they really deserve that 6-1 pounding that Santos Laguna inflicted on them on Wednesday? On the night, looking strictly at the waythe Sounders played, yes they did. Poor Seattle indeed — very poor. Yet you have to feel that Seattle is nowhere near as bad as that — that […]
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Herculez Gomez takes down sloppy Seattle
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Seattle did all the little things to prepare for its Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal series against Santos, traveling toMexico in preseason for a single game and bringing another Mexican team to Seattle for another and sending advance scouts to prepare for the second leg in Torreon. It got an off weekend to […]
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Seattle seeks historic triumph in Mexico
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Whether it fails or succeeds in the Concacaf Champions League, all those connected with Seattle Sounders FC will believe they gavethe competition their best shot, on and off the field. Seattle flew to Dallas for a training session Tuesday, then continued on to Torreon, Mexico, where it faces Santos Laguna (8 p.m. […]
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Concacaf Champions League this week ..
[SCOREBOARD] Chilean Humberto Suazo followed up on his two goals in the first leg with two goals to leaddefending champion Monterrey to a 4-1 second-leg victory over Morelia and 7-2 win on aggregate in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions League. For all the action … RESULTS: Quarterfinals, Second Leg Tuesday, March 13 Monterrey 4 Morelia1. MON: […]
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Concacaf Champions League this week …
[SCOREBOARD] Mark Blanco scored two goals to give El Salvador’s Isidro Metapan a 2-1 win over UNAM of Mexico in thefirst leg of their Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal series. For all the Concacaf Champions League action … RESULTS: Quarterfinals, First Leg Thursday, March 8 Isidro Metapan 2 UNAM 1 MET: Mark Blanco26 MET: Mark Blanco […]
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Concacaf Champions League this week …
[SCOREBOARD] Chilean Humberto Suazo showed why is considered one of the best players in Mexico, scoring all three goalsas defending champion Monterrey beat Morelia, 3-1, on the road in the first leg of their Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal series. For all the Concacaf Champions League action … RESULTS: Quarterfinals, First Leg Tuesday, March 6 Morelia […]