The World Cup is peerless in terms of soccer competitions, as we all know, and EPL is a big boy on the world soccer block. Talk of MLS endeavors seems ...Read the complete article: High-Stakes Time - MLS
VAL D'ISERE, France - World champion Lindsey Vonn of the United States led the opening training session for a World Cup downhill event on Wednesday.Read the complete article: Vonn leads downhill training in France
Vonn finished in 1 minute, 44.52 seconds on the Oreiller-Killy course, 0.27 seconds ahead of Elisabeth Goergl of Austria. Julia Mancuso of the United States was third, 0.37 seconds off the pace.
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A super combined is scheduled for Friday ahead of Saturday's downhill. A super-G will be held on Sunday.
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James Haupt’s soccer skills have improved greatly since that early encounter with a soccer ball. Good enough to be recognized as one of the top players in his age group in the United States. Haupt left Sunday for Bradenton, Florida, to join a select group of players being considered for America’s U-17 World Cup team in 2011. It’s the third time Haupt has been called to Florida to showcase his skills for U.S. Soccer Federation head coach Wilmer Cabrera.Read the complete article: Jackson's James Haupt tries out for 2011 U-17 World Cup soccer in Mexico
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•Senior defenders Nick Cardenas (SDSU) and Ryan Peterman (USD) are among the 62 players invited to Major League Soccer's annual pre-draft combine from Jan. 8-12 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A year ago, 42 of the players drafted attended the combine, including 10 taken in the first round. The MLS SuperDraft is Jan. 14 in Philadelphia.Read the complete article: Indoor Sockers brave TJ and the elements
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•A U.S.-Mexico friendly is in the works, most likely for Feb. 24. An announcement is expected in the next few weeks. It isn't looking like San Diego and Qualcomm Stadium will be part of the rotation for Mexico's U.S. tour in 2010 after hosting games the previous three years.
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Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise and offer my congratulations to the Real Salt Lake soccer team, the newly crowned champions of Major League Soccer. While Utah has a number of sports teams with proud traditions-- both collegiate and professional--Real Salt Lake has brought to my home State its first major professional championship since 1971, when the Utah Stars won the ABA title. Fans throughout Utah are thrilled.Read the complete article: More honors for Real Salt Lake
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The 23-year-old, who on current form looks a certainty to be in Fabio Capello's England World Cup squad next summer, collected the ball on the left, held off the challenge of Kieran Richardson and then launched an unstoppable drive into the top corner from fully 25 yards.Read the complete article: Sunderland 0-2 Aston Villa
To their credit, Sunderland continued to probe, and it took a goal-saving tackle from Richard Dunne to deny Kenwyne Jones six yards out just minutes after Milner's strike.
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When Brazil coach Dunga left Ronaldinho out of the squad for the World Cup qualifiers last autumn, there were those willing to speculate this was the end of the international road for him.Read the complete article: Can Milan wait for icon to deliver?
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Which, curiously, is what he appears to have done at the end of 2009, when there were tantalizing indications that perhaps, just perhaps, the former World Player of the Year might still be capable of getting back up there. As Milan has switched to a more attacking lineup (Alexandre Pato-Clarence Seedorf-Ronaldinho playing behind Marco Borriello), Ronaldinho has come up with a variety of glorious assists for either compatriot Pato or Borriello.
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"North Carolina does a great job of pressuring and swarming the ball," Stanford coach Paul Ratcliffe said. "It's easy to talk about as a coach, what you need to do. But it's difficult in there. It was hard for us to get into a rhythm and play our type of soccer."Read the complete article: UNC tops unbeaten Stanford, wins 21st NCAA title
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That left short-handed Stanford's chances of a rally to second-leading scorer Christen Press, and she nearly tied it with a 20-yard shot that Harris punched away.
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(CNN) -- On Wednesday night, TP Mazembe, a Congolese team hailing from the country's second city of Lubumbashi, and New Zealand's Auckland City FC will play a FIFA Club World Cup fifth place play-off in an unseasonably wet and no doubt half-empty stadium in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.Read the complete article: Soccer minnows shine at Club World Cup
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The tournament has long been seen as an inconvenience to the fans of the top European teams, thanks to the fact that it falls in the middle of the domestic season. The schedules have been tweaked accordingly: Barcelona will be parachuted in for the semi-finals, needing only two games to win the title.
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The FIFA World Cup draw was held on December 4 and now all attention turns to the lead up to the quadrennial tournament. Are you ready? World Soccer Shop has the best selection of official soccer gear of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Show the world you are ready and Get in the Gear!Read the complete article: This Day in Soccer
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The FIFA World Cup draw was held on December 4 and now all attention turns to the lead up to the quadrennial tournament. Are you ready? World Soccer Shop has the best selection of official soccer gear of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Show the world you are ready and Get in the Gear!
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Soccer dignitaries from across the globe will gather in Switzerland on Dec. 21 when the winner of the 2009 FIFA world player of the year award is announced at a gala ceremony in Zurich.Read the complete article: Who will win this year's FIFA world player award?
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This year's shortlist of candidates includes players from four countries, but they all have one thing in common - they play in Spain's La Liga, a testament to the prestige and quality of what many consider to be the best league in the world.
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The ball sailed over the crossbar and into the mist that had enveloped the NCAA men's soccer championship game yesterday, the third failed penalty kick in five attempts by Akron after 110 minutes of scoreless soccer.Read the complete article: DIGEST: Virginia men win first soccer title in 15 years
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"I didn't think it was over," he said. "I thought we had to kick again. I just saw everyone running and was like, 'Oh, wow!' "
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It's been a long, cold stretch for professional soccer in this area. However, with the success on the field of WPS's New Jersey-based Sky Blue FC, the growing interest of the World Cup in 2010, a new Red Bull Park and a great template for expansion success in the Philadelphia Union, a new broad based area of opportunity for soccer success and growth in the area may be finally on the horizon.Read the complete article: Red Bulls, Sky Blue, Philadelphia Union and World Cup could end soccer's long ...
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