[OBITUARY] Herkimer County Community College is in mourning following the death of its popular soccer star, 22-year-old Scotsman, Peter McAvoy, who collapsed and was unresponsive in his campus apartment at the upstate New York school on Saturday. The 2013 NSCAA National Player of the Year was pronounced deadat a local hospital. McAvoy, an All-American defender, captained […]
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Shawn Kuykendall succumbs after courageous cancer fight
[OBITUARY] Former D.C. United and New York Red Bulls midfielder Shawn Kuykendall died early Wednesday at the age of 32 fromthymic cancer. His public fight with the rare and incurable form of cancer inspired many people in and outside the soccer community and drew support from MLS players, who wore “kuykenstrong” T-shirtsprior to the 2013 […]
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Finney, 'the Preston Plumber,' remembered
[OBITUARY] Tom Finney, the oldest-living English international and one of the legendary players of the post-World War IIheyday of English soccer, died Friday at the age of 91. A plumber by trade in his native Preston — hence his nickname “the Preston Plumber” — Finney did not debut for Preston North Enduntil the age of […]
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Mentor of Denmark's memorable Euro title dies
[OBITUARY] The man who steered his country’s national team to one of the most stunning accomplishments in soccer history has died. Richard Moller Nielsen, architect of Denmark’s incredible run to the 1992 European Championship, died Thursday morning at the age of 76. Moller Nielsen had been inill health since undergoing surgery for a brain tumor […]
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Eusebio's short but turbulent NASL career
[OBITUARY] The great Portuguese star Eusebio, who died of heart failure on Sunday at the age of 71, was arguably the bestplayer of his generation after Pele. He led Benfica to the 1962 European Cup title, won the Ballon d’Or as the European Player of the Year in 1965 and scorednine goals in leading Portugal […]
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OBITUARY: Jack Hynes (1920-2013)
National Soccer Hall of Famer Jack Hynes passed away Saturday at the age of 92 at his home in Staten Island, N.Y. The Scottish-born U.S. international starredin the American Soccer League in a 23-year career interrupted only by service in World War II, where he was injured in the Battle of the Bulge. Hynes returned […]
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OBITUARY: The multi-talented Josef Schulz
Austrian Josef Schulz, who lost his battle with cancer at the age of 61, is best known as the South Florida youth coach who discovered Jozy Altidore playing in a pickup game in his neighborhood and telling his father that his 8-year-old would one day play on the U.S. national team. But he was much […]
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OBITUARY: Phil Woosnam (1932-2013)
Phil Woosnam, who served as the commissioner of the North American League Soccer (1969-83) and under whose guidance pro soccer took off in the United States inthe 1970s, die Friday due to complications related to prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 80 in Dunwoody, Ga. Less known is the fact he served […]
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U-17/18 academy standout Julio Chavez dies
[CHIVAS USA] Julio Chavez, a standout on the Chivas USA U-17/18 academy team that is hoping to return to theDevelopment Academy’s Finals Week, died Monday night, according to Chivas USA academy. Details of his death were not immediately available. Chavez, a forward, played on onChivas USA’s U-17/18 team in 2011-12 and 2012-13 and was called up to play […]
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Goldberg got Long Island soccer boom going
[OBITUARY] When Joe Goldberg and Ian McDougall founded the Oceanside UnitedSoccer Club in 1962, orange and blue were chosen as the colors of the new club. Not because they are the colors of the New York Mets that started play that year but because orange and blue are thecolors of Nassau County and Oceanside United […]