[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Dallas product Ramon Nunez (White High School, Texans, SMU and FC Dallas) wasn’t called up for theHonduran national team’s match against Turkey March 3. He was one of three regulars during World Cup Coach Reinaldo Rueda did not call up. Nunezmoved to Mexico last year to play for Puebla. After a strong […]
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Bradley takes 20 players to Tampa
[USA-SALVADOR] U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley named the 20 players he will take to Tampa for Wednesday’s friendlyagainst El Salvador. Four players in the national team at the Home Depot Center were droppped: goalkeepers Kevin Hartman and Zach Thornton and defenders Omar Gonzalez and Michael Orozco. For the U.S. roster … U.S. Roster: GOALKEEPERS: […]
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Recovering Onyewu trains some with USA
U.S. and AC Milan defender Oguchi Onyewu took part in portions of a U.S. training session Thursday morning at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., marking the first time he hasstepped on the field with a team since rupturing a patellar tendon in his knee on Oct. 14 last year Onyewu trained for about […]
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South Africa's World Cup tourism expectations
A detailed look at South Africa’s hope for a big boost in tourism during the World Cup includes links to tour operators, ticket sales and lodging information. Hotel prices could drop after April10, FIFA’s deadline for releasing unsold inventory (its hospitality arm, Match, has contracts with more than 75% of major hotels for the period).
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Tickets sales lag with four months to go
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke confirmed what had been reported for weeks. World Cup ticketsales are suffering. Twenty percent of VIP tickets for luxury boxes have been sold. And the number of expected visitors to South Africa for the World Cup has been revised downward by as much as100,000. Valcke said 2009 […]
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'Chicharito' gets Mexico callup
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, the new darling of Mexican soccer, headlines the team of 18 players– all domestically based — Mexican national team Coach Javier Aguirre named for the upcoming international match on Wednesday at Candlestick Park in San Francisco againstBolivia. “Chicharito” (“Little Pea”) has eight goals already for Guadalajara, which set a […]
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Davies: 'I've come a long way' [VIDEO]
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Charlie Davies is back in France at Sochaux four months after being seriously injured in a caraccident that took the life of another passenger in Northern Virginia on the eve of the USA-Costa Rica World Cup qualifier. In a lengthy and quite revealing interview for the Sochaux web site,Davies talks about his injuries, […]
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Dempsey is recovering well
Fulham manager Roy Hodgson says injured American star Clint Dempsey should return to action before the end of theseason, putting him ready for the World Cup. Hodgson said Wednesday that “his progress is good and he is working very hard to recover. The medical staff are very happy with him.” Dempsey damaged his right knee […]
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USA to get sendoff against Czech Republic and Turkey
[DATEBOOK] The USA will face 2006 World Cup opponent Czech Republic and Turkey in its two final warmup matches before heading to South Africa for the World Cup.The Czech Republic game will be played May 25 at a site to be announced — Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn., has been mentioned as a possible […]
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Reclusive Lacen responds to Algeria's call
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Most players would jump at the chance to join their national team. French-born Mehdi Lacen, basedat Spanish club Racing Santander, took almost three weeks to respond to calls from the Algerian national team that he had been called up for the Desert Foxes’ game against Serbia Wednesday inAlgiers. When Lacen didn’t respond […]