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/ 6931 days agoGiuseppe Rossi Parma 1-0 Fiorentina
Maybe, just maybe someone can convince Rossi to play for the USA. What a goal!
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/ 6932 days agoMLS officiating is not up to International Standards
While Major League Soccer has made great strides in its level of play it cannot be considered a truly top flight international league until the quality of referees improves. Since 1996 the league has had a program in place to evaluate referees and to reward top referees with plum assignments but with the exception of […]
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/ 6934 days agoUS to play Sweden
The US Men's National Team will play Sweden in Gothenberg on August 22nd. It will be first true road game for the United States since the end of World Cup 2006 qualifying.
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/ 6934 days agoMLS Power Rankings Changes
Due to numerous requests the deadline for all future power poll rankings will be extended until Tuesday at Midnight PST. (Wednesday morning on the east coast.) I had initially anticipated only a handful of people voting but because of the Beckham affect or perhaps because of the lack of available MLS oriented websites, this power […]
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/ 6935 days agoBrian McBride ’s Goal vs Man United
Fulham is facing relegation currently, but enjoy Brian McBride's goal that briefly gave Fulham a lead over Man United last month. United eventually got a draw in the match and continue to lead Chelsea by 3 points in the premiership title race
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/ 6935 days agoJoey Barton vs Stuart Pearce
Thi post about Manchester City isn't US Soccer related so it is over at my EPL Talk Blog: http://epltalk.communityserver.com/blogs/kkfla737/default.aspx Check it out.
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/ 6935 days agoMLS Power Poll Week 3
Last week Houston got all ten first place votes. This week we had nine voters, and five different first place teams on ballots. An interesting shake up in the poll finds Red Bull New York closing in on the top. Quite honestly if it were not for two voters (one was yours truly) Red Bull […]
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/ 6935 days agoMLS 2007 – Week 3 Goals
Twellman, Razov, Nunez, Altidore, Odouro and all the rest.
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/ 6937 days agoIs The Beckham Rule a Farce?
For years Major League Soccer has protected its financial records with a ruthlessness that is both admirable and somewhat worrying. Outsiders can only speculate as to whether the league's financial health is good or not, and to whether teams actually adhere to salary cap. Much positive press was generated this past year as MLS owners […]
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/ 6939 days agoMemo to ESPN: Keep Tommy Smyth on the MLS telecasts!
ESPN's typical amateurish MLS telecast gained some new life tonight as Tommy Smyth joined Eric Wynalda and Rob Stone on the call of New England-Columbus. Smyth's presence in the booth made an otherwise unwatchable midweek game between two teams who were completely out of form watchable. Both Derek Rae and Tommy Smyth have experience calling […]
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/ 6940 days agoDaniele Dichio Signs With Toronto
Daniele Dichio who has floated around England the past several years signed with Toronto FC yesterday after securing his release from Preston North End. Dichio, a forward benefited from playing alongside Kevin Phillips with Sunderland between 1999 and 2001, scoring 11 goals in two seasons of EPL action. His production has tailed off since but […]
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/ 6940 days agoCisse "It’s a bit early to go to New York."
The signings of David Beckham and Juan Pablo Angel were supposed to change the image of MLS in Europe. To put it quite frankly, they have not. Robbie Fowler has discounted a move to MLS preferring a potential move to Australia's A-league and now Djbril Cisse who is the property of Liverpool but on loan […]
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/ 6941 days agoGreg Lalas on MLS International Signings
As I have said before in the face of constant criticism, MLS had far superior international players in the early days of the league, than it has had in the past six or seven seasons. Greg Lalas of SI.com has a good column on MLS rolling the dice on new signings and correctly attributes the […]
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/ 6941 days agoBeckham to Visit Vancouver
LA Galaxy has scheduled a friendly with USL side Vncouver Whitecaps for October. It's nice to see that the Galaxy are willing to involve USL teams in the Beckham mania that will sweep the US Soccer world. Hopefully Beckham will visit Rochester, Portland and other top USL towns in the future.
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/ 6941 days agoDo Red Bull Have a Clue About the Beckham Rule?
Soccer websites are abuzz today with the news that Juan Pablo Angel has signed as a Beckham rule player with MLS traditional stomping bag, the New York franchise. Throughout the history of the Metrostars/ Red Bull franchise they have failed miserably regardless of the reputation of the players allocated to them by the league and […]