Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have announced the approval of their 350m GBP debt refinancing, allowing them to maintain ownership of the club and to begin construction on a new 70,000 seat stadium. Only 105m GBP of the debt will be saddled upon Liverpool F.C., with the remainder to be assumed by Hicks […]

Argentine star Marco Ruben was bought by Villarreal just a few days ago, but the former U-20 is not quite ready to unpack just yet as his final destination will be in Huelva. Because of the impact of forwards Giuseppe Rossi and Nihat up front along with others that are integral to Villarreal's success, that […]

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I'll tell you what, this year's edition of the African Cup of Nations is getting better and better. The quality of some of the goals scored has been absolutely fantastic and yesterday we saw more of the same. The 2010 World Cup hosts, South Africa, earned a point out of nothing against Angola as substitute […]

The month long US training camp at the National Training Center in Carson, CA continues with some cuts and releases following the Sweden match. the following 21 players, 16 of which are based in MLS, the other 5 who are based in Scandinavia will continue preparation for the super classico clash with Mexico on February […]

With the annual January training camp in full swing for the US, and January B+ friendly as I like to call it out of the way let's look ahead towards qualifying. Here and now in 2008 the US has a deeper player pool than ever before. But at the same time, the talent at the […]

You all know my feelings towards Rolando Bianchi. After he came out in an interview with Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport back in late December and criticized all things English soccer, I wrote here about how selfish Bianchi is and how he should be on the next plane out of Manchester when the January […]

Yesterday's action in the African Cup of Nations involved Group C, and Egypt's 4-2 victory over Cameroon put the defending champions in a great position while Cameroon will now have to battle out of a hole to advance to the quarterfinals, which had to have been their minimum expectation before the tournament began. This was […]

Johnson Eddie Johnson to Fulham confirmed and Fabrice Pancrate potentially to Chicago are just two of several updates in our CSRN American Soccer Show Transfer Center. Our team of correspondents have feelers all over the league to gauge the latest transfer activity all over MLS. Check it out! The page will be updated at least three […]

USL on FSC 2008 Schedule Day Date Away team Home team Time (ET) Friday April 25 Montreal @ Atlanta 8:00 pm Friday May 2 Seattle @ Atlanta 8:00 pm Friday May 9 Miami @ Charleston 8:00 pm Friday May 16 Minnesota @ Atlanta 8:00 pm Friday May 23 Seattle @ Vancouver 11:00 pm Friday May […]

The latest "I'm On Setanta Sports" episode featuring Jose Mourinho is now available. This one focuses on Kevin Keegan and Big Brother. Enjoy. View it now.

While at NSCAA, EPL Talk interviewed Fox Soccer Channel Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications and Creative Services Raul de Quesada. Here's what we learned from Raul and other Fox representatives: To find out which matches your local Fox Soccer Channel Viewing Party location will be showing, you'll need to visit the pub's website […]

The first important game of the 2008 African Cup of Nations took place yesterday and once again, a player who earns his paycheck in the Premiership took center stage. Chelsea striker Salomon Kalou capped a beautiful solo run by coolly slotting the ball past Nigerian goalkeeper Austin Ejide and into the net to give Ivory […]

As discussed on the soon to be released 6th episode of the American Soccer Show, the Transfer Market in MLS is hotter in this January window than ever before. Thus we are adding to CSRN's American Soccer Spot a real time Transfer Center page which you can access by clicking on the tab titles Transfer […]

The future looks bright for Steve McClaren. Unless Major League Soccer decides to appoint him as a coach or McClaren gets desperate, I don't see Second Choice Steve getting a job anytime in the near future. The future does look bright for him, though, because he definitely could continue doing the speaking engagements as he […]