Borussia Dortmund’s Turkish playmaking star, Nuri Sahin, will miss the final four games of the German league season with a partially torn ligament afterbeing injured in Dortmund’s 3-0 victory over Freiburg on Sunday. The 22-year-old Turkey international, who has six goals and eight assists for the runaway Bundesliga leader, will be outfor an estimated six […]
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Altidore scores first goal in Turkey
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Jozy Altidore scored his first goal since moving to Turkey on a header, but Bursaspor dropped a 3-2decision to Antalyaspor, blowing a 2-1 lead at home. For video of the goal … Altidore goal:
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Adu strikes from distance
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Freddy Adu scored his first goal for Turkish club Rizespor with an excellent strike from 20 yards inits 1-0 victory over Gaziantep. Adu took a ball at the edge of the right side of the penalty area, turned away from his defender and fired a curling shot on one bounce inside the farpost. […]
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Adu stars in Turkish debut, Altidore injured
[AMERICANS ABROAD] The news out of Turkey this weekend was mixed. Freddy Aduplayed his first competitive game in 10 months, starting for Rizespor and earning two assists in its 3-0 win over Orduspor, while Jozy Altidore limped off witha twisted ankle in the first half of Bursaspor’s 4-1 loss to visiting Gaziantepspor. For more on […]
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Soccer streaming site moves quickly
[ONLINE WATCH] The U.S. government has seized 10 web sites popular for streaming live sporting events for free on the Internet. Among them was atdhe.net,popular for the streaming of soccer games from around the world, but the site was quickly back up at a new address … The U.S. government seized the sites on charges […]
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Altidore and Johnson loaned again
[TRANSFER WATCH] For the third time in three seasons, Jozy Altidore and EddieJohnson have been loaned out. Altidore joined second-place Turkish First Division club Bursaspor after seeing little playing time at Villarreal, while Johnson, in his last season at Fulham,will play for Preston North End, last in the English League Championship. They become the seventh […]
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Bradley and Adu about to move
[TRANSFER WATCH] As the January transfer deadline was set to come to a close on Monday in Europe, two prominent Americans were about to move on loan. Afterweeks of talk of a permanent move from German club Borussia Moenchengladbach, Michael Bradley was about to wrap up a loan move to England’s Aston Villa. Freddy Adu‘s […]
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Klose can't explain his stellar German form
[EURO 2012 QUALIFYING] Miroslav Klose is at it again. The Polish-born striker, who tied the all-time German World Cupscoring record at this summer’s tournament, has yet to score for Bayern Munich in seven games but scored twice in Germany’s 3-0 win over Turkey in Berlin on Friday to give him five goals in three Euro2012 […]
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Top deadline-day wheeler dealers
[TRANSFER WATCH] Europe’s summer transfer window closed Tuesday, and there was a flurry of action. Here’s the top 10 wheeler dealers on deadline day … 1. AC MILAN. Robinho joined his Brazilian buddy, Ronaldinho, at AC Milan, from Manchester City in a deal valued at a minimum of $29 million. Some of the money was […]