The second of the Cascadia Cup rivals meet for the first time Saturday night when the Seattle Sounders host the Vancouver Whitecaps at Qwest Field. Don’t expect the rivalry to be as intense as theSeattle-Portland rivalry. “There’s some real contempt, disdain, orneriness between Seattle and Portland and I don’t think fans in either city look […]
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Another Hassli red card mars Soehn's debut
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The coaches may change in Vancouver, but the scourge of Eric Hassli apparently cannot be exorcised. In his firstgame as the Whitecaps’ head coach, Tom Soehn got a full dose of what predecessor Teitur Thordarson had to deal with. With the score tied, 1-1, midway throughthe second half Designated Player Hassli incurred yet […]
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Tom Soehn heads back to the coaching grind
By Ridge Mahoney He was hired with the big picture in mind, but now Tom Soehn goes back to the 24/7 headache of head coaching in which any day could come disaster. That’s a pessimistic, even fatalistic, viewpoint of course, yet the haunted, tortured demeanor that Soehn wore during his final months in charge of […]
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Khalfan, Vancouver's 'homegrown' Tanzanian
[HOMEGROWN WATCH] The Vancouver Whitecaps’ Nizar Khalfan is the only homegrown player to have played in every game hisMLS team has played in, but he hardly fits the notion of a “homegrown” player. Khalfan was 18 when he debuted for Tanzania five years ago and had spent two seasons playing for MtibwaSugar FC and Moro […]
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Vancouver's Harris out with knee injury
The Vancouver Whitecaps became the latest MLS club to lose one of their top attacking players when striker Atiba Harris had surgery on his injured rightknee. The 26-year-old Saint Kitts & Nevis international will be out indefinitely. He had contributed two goals and three assists in five games but had taken a pounding fromdefenders. Harris […]
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American soccer this weekend …
[SCOREBOARD] The Los Angeles Blues suffered their first loss in their home opener, a 1-0 loss to Barracuda FC thatpropelled the Antigua club to first in USL PRO’s International Division. The Richmond Kickers won their fifth game in a row with a 6-0 win at the Dayton Dutch Lions. The Puerto Rico Islanders remainedin first […]
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What They're Saying
“The same thing happened to Zakuani last night. A very gifted player with a compound fracture. So, what goes through my mind is a player taken down from behind and not a foul being called, and he’sat the hospital right now seeing if it’s a fracture.” — FC Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman after 2010 MLS […]
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MVP Ferreira suffers fractured ankle
[MLS] After Seattle winger Steve Zakuani, who suffered a fractured right tibia and fibula on a foul by Colorado’s Brian Mullan Friday night, another MLS star has gone down. David Ferreira, the 2010 MLS MVP, went off with what a fracturedankle on a hard tackle by Jonny Leathers in FC Dallas’ 2-1 win at Vancouver.described […]
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Young pros lead FC Dallas U-18s past Barcelona
[HOMEGROWN WATCH] Playing at home, the FC Dallas U17-U18 academy team recorded the biggest win in its history when it beat Spanish club Barcelona’s Juvenil Bteam (mostly U-17 players), 3-1, in Sunday’s Super Group action at the Dr Pepper Dallas Cup. FC Dallas homegrown players Jon Top and Victor Ulloa teamed up for the first […]
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Eduardo Salgado keeps son Omar grounded
On all fronts, Eduardo Salgado, father of Vancouver Whitecaps rookie Omar Salgado, loves Vancouver. “I come from Juarez, the most dangerous place in the whole world,” Eduardo says. “I told my wife, even the part that’s not the nicest place in Vancouver, that would easily bethe nicest place in Juarez.” Eduardo Salgado raised his family […]