[AMERICANS ABROAD] Two months after he returned from Scotland, where he trained with Celtic, U.S. under-20 national team forward Adrian Ruelas became the 11th American to play in Mexico’s Primera Division this season when he came on late in Santos’ 3-2 loss to Club America. Ruelas, 19, had scored sixgoals in four games for Santos’ […]
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Monterrey joins Cruz Azul in semifinals
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Monterrey joined Cruz Azul as the two Mexican representatives in the Concacaf Champions League semifinals thanks to itssecond 1-0 win over Toluca on Wednesday. Argentine midfielder Neri Cardozo clinched the series sweep with the lone goal on an assist by Aldo De Nigris in the 88th minute in Monterrey.
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Acuna and Buddle get second goals
[AMERICANS ABROAD] California-born Isaac Acuna, 21, scored in his second straight game for Mexican First Division clubQueretaro in its 1-1 tie with Cruz Azul. Edson Buddle scored his second goal for German second division club FC Ingolstadt in its 4-1 win at Karlsruhe, whichstarted Luis Robles in goal. Acuna, who was born in Imperial, joined […]
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FC Dallas signs highly rated keeper
[MLS] FC Dallas signed its sixth homegrown player, 16-year-old keeper Richard Sanchez. He is the third FCD youth signingwith ties to the Mexican national team program. The California-born Sanchez was recently named the top goalie at a youth tournament in Chile. Sanchez played for Texas FC and FC Dallas with astint in between at Spanish […]
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TeleFutura garners high ratings for Mexico game
[TELEVISION] If you weren’t a soccer fan, you’d have probably never heard of Spanish-language network TeleFutura, but it hit the jackpot — on a February sweepsnight no less — with its broadcast of the Mexico vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina friendly last Wednesday night. TeleFutura, part of the Univision family of networks, ranked as the No. 2 network,behind […]
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Allstate signs on board
[MLS] Allstate signed a four-year agreement to become the official insurance sponsor of Major League Soccer. The agreement with with Soccer UnitedMarketing also calls for Allstate to sponsor the U.S. men and women’s national teams and renews the deal SUM had with Allstate to sponsor the Mexican national team during its friendly matches onU.S. soil. […]
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Bocanegra scores, Holden assists, Altidore debuts
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Jozy Altidore started his first game for Turkish clubBursaspor in its 1-1 tie with Eskisehirspor on Sunday. Stuart Holden assisted on the first goal in Bolton Wanderers’ 2-0win over Tim Howard‘s Everton. On Saturday, American Carlos Bocanegra had the first goal of the game, but everythingthen went wrong for St. Etienne as the […]
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Mexico draws crowd in Atlanta
You might not think of Atlanta as a hotbed of support for Mexican soccer, but Mexico’s national team drew a crowd of 50,507 for its 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina on goals by Javier Hernandez and Edgar Pacheco Wednesday night at Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, the first game under Chepo de la Torre.
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De la Torre picks team for first Tri match
[MEXICO] For his first game as Mexico national team coach, Jose Manuel “Chepo” de la Torre called up onlysix European-based players for Wednesday’s game against Bosnia-Herzegovina at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Joining the Mexican team are standouts Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez (Manchester United, England), Giovanni dos Santos (Racing Santander, Spain), and Carlos Salcido (Fulham, […]
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Howard foul proves costly
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Tim Howard‘s foul on Maxi Rodriguez in the penalty area setup Dirk Kuyt‘s tying goal on a penalty kick in the 67th minute and cost Everton a win in its 215th Merseyside derby with Liverpool. The 2-2 tie gave Liverpoolits first point in three games since Kenny Dalglish took over as manager. For […]