Frontal Windsurfing Mania News

Minimal stuff again today - Sorry.
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Tonight and tomorrow it's the US Open Cup 4th Round matches:
Tuesday:
DC United v Columbus
Los Angeles v Roma Dallas
Wednesday:
Wilmington v New York
Chicago v Kansas City
Rochester v New England
Salt Lake v Colorado
Houston v Carolina
Charleston v Dallas
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Luis Bueno of LA Soccer News talks to Chivas USA coach Bob Bradley who says LA should beat Roma Dallas "100 out of 100 times".
-And Cobi Jones will start at LEFT BACK for the Galaxy due to all of the teams injured defenders.
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Frank Giase of the Newark Star-Ledger on the Red Bulls newest assistant coach John Harkes.
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Portland have re-signed their former star striker Alan Gordon on loan from Los Angeles for the remainder of the season. He's not going to help.
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MLS have finally officially announced their return to Fox Soccer Channel. The first game was last Saturday night in KC v New England. They actually had announcers Sean Wheelock and Christopher Sullivan on site as opposed to their usual broadcasting technique of calling the game off a studio monitor (which is always a total joke). Good job FSC. Keep it up.
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MLS have also become an official sponsor of the Big Soccer message boards. Cool idea. And way overdue.
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UEFA Champions League Second Qualifying Round second leg matches (1st leg scores included)-
Today:
B36 0-5 Fenerbahce - a punishing 9-nil agg win for the Turkish team
Wednesday:
Dinamo Zagreb v Ekranas (4-1)
Spartak Moskva v Sheriff (1-1)
Rabotnicki v Debrecen (1-1)
Steaua v Gorica 2-0)
MyPa v Kobenhavn (0-2)
Valerenga v Mlada Boleslav (1-3)
Ruzomberok v Djurgarden (0-1)
Legia v Hafnarfjordur (1-0)
Red Bull Salzburg v Zurich (1-2)
Siroki Brijeg v Hearts (0-3)
Dynamo Kyiv v Metalurgs (4-1)
Crvena Zvezda v Cork (1-0)
Sioni v Levski (0-2)
-The Third Qualifying Round matches will take place Aug 8/9 and Aug 22/23, see the draw here, to be followed by the group stages launching in mid-September.
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Inter Milan have signed French midfielder Partrick Viera from Juventus.
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And I know you are all going to be stunned to find out that Italy have postponed the beginning of the Serie A season due to the turmoil surrounding the match fixing punishments that are being challenged in the courts. What a mess of a league.