[U.S. OPEN CUP] The Seattle Sounders will look to return the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final for a fourth consecutive year when they host Chivas USA at sold-outStarfire Stadium in Tukwila, Wash. In Wednesday’s other game, Sporting Kansas City will look to return to the championship game for the first time since 2004 when […]
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MLS clubs stop USL PRO trio in their tracks
[U.S. OPEN CUP] The Philadelphia Union and Sporting Kansas City ended the runs of Harrisburg City Islanders and Dayton Dutch Lions with large victories, butChivas USA needed a late goal from young Colombian Jose Correa to oust the Charlotte Eagles, USL PRO’s third entrant in Tuesday’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cupquarterfinals, with a 2-1 victory. […]
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Sounders end Cal FC's dream with five-goal blitz
[U.S. OPEN CUP] For one half, Cal FC held its own with MLS’s Seattle Sounders. But the amateur club’s dream of beating the three-time Lamar HuntU.S. Open Cup defending champions in the round of 16 quickly ended in the second half as a penalty converted by Osvaldo Alonso after only five minutes. Four more goals […]
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Harrisburg claims fifth MLS victim
[U.S. OPEN CUP] For the second time in a week, USL PRO’s Harrisburg City Islanders took an MLS team to overtime and for the second time prevailed in the LamarHunt U.S. Open Cup. Last week, they came back from 3-0 down after the first overtime period to tie the New England Revolution 3-3 and prevail […]
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Late penalties send three teams into final eight
[U.S. OPEN CUP] Referees weren’t afraid to whistle penalties as Chivas USA and USL PRO’s Charlotte Eagles and Dayton Dutch Lions all won on the road in thelast minute of regulation or overtime on goals from the penalty spot. The Philadelphia Union was one of four teams to win in overtime, defeating D.C. United, 2-1, […]
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Minor-league teams in Open Cup spotlight
[DATEBOOK] For the first time since the launch of MLS, two amateur teams are still alive in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup. Besides the USASA’s Cal FC,which faces MLS’s Seattle Sounders, the PDL’s Michigan Bucks host the Dayton Dutch Lions on Tuesday. Another minor-league team is assured of reaching the final eight […]
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What They're Saying
“I just got tired of it. I was like, these guys are good enough. About two or three months ago, I just said screw it. I’d try to help some of these guys find a (pro) club. It was always the samething. You talk to a club about them and they pick them apart, tell […]
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Wynalda's Cal FC boys fall through cracks
[MEET THE TEAM] Eric Wynalda‘s Cal FC is the sensation of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a hastily assembled team from asmall ethnic league in Ventura County near Los Angeles. It has already beat the 2011 PDL champion Kitsap Pumas, USL PRO’s Wilmington Hammerheads and in the biggest upset in the history ofthe Open […]
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Spencer fumes at Portland's U.S. Cup loss
How could Cal FC, an amateur adult club team coached by Eric Wynalda, have beaten the MLS Timbers 1-0 in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup? “I don’t thinkthere’s any explaining it,” Portland coach John Spencer told Stephen Alexander. “I don’t think I’ve ever been involved ina game playing or coaching where we’ve been beaten […]
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Wynalda's Cal FC stuns Portland Timbers
[U.S. OPEN CUP] The Cinderella story of Eric Wynalda‘s amateur Cal FC continued as the USASA team upset the PortlandTimbers, 1-0, in overtime to move into the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup, where it will face three-time defending champion Seattle Sounders, 5-1 winners over the Atlanta Silverbacks. Cal FC survived a late penalty […]