Angel City FC has signed the New Jersey product Casey Phair, who at 16 played for South Korea at the 2023 World Cup.
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Scouting Report: South Korea looks to regroup after tumultuous year
A lot of teams could take away positives from their participation in the2019 Women’s World Cup. South Korea, which faces the USA Thursday and Sunday, wasn’t among them. The Taeguk Ladies’ stay in France was short. They exited after three games,all defeats. It wasn’t until the 78th minute of its third game that South Korea […]
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What They're Saying: Pedro Velasco
“There’s always something that gets lost along the way, but as time passes they get to know me, and I get to know them, so the percentage of lost messages decreases.” —Pedro Velasco, coach of Spanish club Qum FC, an all-Korean team that has won promotion for the second year in a row and will […]
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Large Panama contingent heads MLS representation
A fleet of MLS players were on the field Sunday and Monday as Costa Rica and Panama, respectively, kicked off their World Cup campaigns. Costa Rica has five current MLS players as well asthree other players with MLS experience. Panama head coach Hernan Dario Gomez named 13 current or former MLS players to his 23-man […]
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Lloyd and Sullivan return to USWNT for games against South Korea
Carli Lloyd, who is recovering from an ankle injury that kept her out of the September matches against New Zealand, and Stanford senior Andi Sullivan, who was sidelined with a kneeinjury suffered in November, have been recalled for the U.S. national team’s matches against South Korea in New Orleans on Oct. 19 and Cary, N.C. […]
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Datebook: South Korea fills out USWNT's fall schedule
The USA will face South Korea in two women’s friendly matches in October in New Orleans and Cary, N.C., to fill out its slate of six games in the fall. The games at the Mercedes-BenzSuperdome and WakeMed Soccer Park will come the week after the NWSL wraps up its fifth season. Last meeting: 0-0 (May […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]
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Chung takes FIFA fight to CAS
South Korean Chung Mong-Joon, the longtime FIFA executive committee member, is taking his fight against a soccer ban imposed by FIFA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport 18 months after theoriginal ban was imposed. Chung battled former FIFA president Sepp Blatter for years.
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Asian World Cup qualifying will go down to wire
The USA is in much better shape after its 6-0 win over Honduras and 1-1 tie with Panama, but if form held through the remainder of World Cup 2018 qualifying in Concacaf — every team won itsremaining games at home and lost on the road — it would still finish in fourth place in the […]
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WCQ: Japan and Saudi Arabia pull clear
Japan and Saudi Arabia opened up a three-point lead in Group B of Asia’s World Cup 2018 qualifying tournament after recording wins over the United Arab Emirates (2-0) and Thailand (3-0), respectively.Iran leads Group A by four points over South Korea after its 1-0 win over last-place Qatar. The two two teams in each group […]