Trouble Ahead Trouble Behind News

ADDITION: Ives Galarcep at Soccer By Ives is reporting that Danny Szetela has been sold by Columbus to Racing Santander in La Liga. La Yeeeeeeeeeees! Go Danny Go!


MLS
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Aug 29
Salt Lake 3-1 Kansas City - RSL goals by Mathias Mantilla, Fabian Espindola & Andy Williams. KC goal by Eddie Johnson.
-Sat Sep 1
New York v Chicago - 6:30pm central on Direct Kick
Dallas v DC - 7:30pm central on Direct Kick
Houston v Kansas City - 7:30pm central on FSC & FSE
Los Angeles v Salt Lake - 9:30pm central on HDNet
-Sun Sep 2
Columbus v Colorado - 2pm central on TeleFutura
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You could call LA v RSL the Toilet Bowl.
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DC United goalkeeper Troy Perkins has been named MLS Player Of The Month for August.
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Dylan Butler of Big Apple Soccer talks to New York's keeper Jon Conway about last weekends horrible own goal.
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Grahame Jones & Jaime Cardenas of the Los Angeles Times report on the Beckman injury and how he is probably done for the season.
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Christine Daniels of the LA Times gives AEG & Co. an earful.
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Filip Bondy who writes regularly for the New York Daily News has an article for MSNBC saying that MLS could be in big trouble with the thousands of fans who bought tickets to see Beckman play. All clubs so far have said, "No refunds".
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3rd Degree is reporting that new Dallas signing Denilson has his work visa in hand and will be available to play this weekend. Don't miss it.
-Space for Denilson on the FCD was created by placing midfielder Marcelo Saragosa on the Season Ending Injury List. Which means that even if Saragosa heals he will not be able to play this season.
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One of Kansas City's owners Robb Hieneman has posted a note on Big Soccer updating fans one year after they bought the team from the Hunt family.
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Dema Kovalenko may be ready to play for New York this weekend. He has missed almost 3 weeks since a car accident.
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John Meyer of the Denver Post with an article on Herculez Gomez who has lost his spot in the Colorado starting 11. This is no surprise to those of us who didn't think he was good enough in the first place. The reason he was starting in Colorado is because they were terrible. Their other former starting striker Roberto Brown was cut from the team all-together. What does that tell you?
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Goal.com has a Q & A with Herculez.
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Columbus Crew defender Chad Marshall is going to be forced to sit out the rest of this season after suffering his 3rd concussion of the year. This is really sad. I have always liked him as a defender, and even though he has not had a great MLS career so far, I still think he has the skills to be a great one.
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Frank Dell'apa at Soccernet highlights the top 5 stories of MLS right now, not named B******.
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Andrea Canales at Soccer365 talks to Landon Donovan (mainly) & Joe Cannon (a little) about the state of Planet Galaxy today.
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James Edward of the Deseret Morning News writes about the up and down and around first season for RSL forward Robbie Findley.
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Andrea Canales at the US Soccer Players Assoc gives her post-tournament analysis of SuperLiga.
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Luis Bueno at Sports Illustrated counters with his own SuperLiga analysis.
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USL First Division
Matches & Scores:
-Thur Aug 30
Vancouver v Minnesota
-Fri Aug 31
Montreal v Rochester
Seattle v Minnesota
-Sat Sep 1
Carolina v Portland
Atlanta v Puerto Rico
-Sun Sep 2
Miami v Charleston
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Jesse Erdmann of Blue Sky Soccer with this weeks First Division Power Rankings.
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Steven Goff of the Washington Post writes about the number of top quality soccer players leaving college early to turn pro.
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U17 World Cup from South Korea.
Quarterfinal Matches & Scores:
-Sat Sep 1
France v Spain
Ghana v Peru
-Sun Sep 2
Argentina v Nigeria
England v Germany
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The Daily Mail of England talks to USA & Reading midfielder Bobby Convey about this second season in the Premiership, the added pressure to succeed, and the new found attention. (thanks to BQ for this one)
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Two of the top teams in the current Mexican Appertura clash on Saturday:
Pachuca v San Luis
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Honduran midfielder Wilson Palacios has been loaned by his home club Olimpia to Birmingham. Great move for him.
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UEFA Champions League
3rd Qualifying Round matches - Second leg matches (first leg scores included)
-Mon Sep 3
AEK Athens v Sevilla (0-2)
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UEFA Super Cup
-The game that has become a tribute to Antonio Puerta, today:
Sevilla v Milan - in Monaca
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Looking ahead - Champions League Match Day 1 is Sep 18 & 19!
-Freddy Adu - Benfina at Milan - Sep 18
-DaMarcus Beasley - Rangers v Stuttgart - Sep 19
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Several Americans are involved in the UEFA Cup - next round is Sep 20.
-Michael Bradley - Heerenveen v Helsingborg (Sweden)
-Danny Callif - Aalborg at Sampdoria
-Charlie Davies - Hammarby v Braga
-Gabe Ferarri - Sampdoria v Aalborg
-Brad Friedel - Blackburn at Larisa (Greece)
-Tim Howard - Everton v Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine)
-Oguchi Onyewu - Standard at Zenit St Petersburg
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Big Euro matches this weekend to follow:
-Sat Sep 1
Manchester United v Sunderland - the return of Roy Keane to Old Trafford to take on his old master.
Bordeaux v Monaco - #4 hosts #2 looking for early supremacy.
-Sun Sep 2
Villarreal v Real Madrid - last weeks surprise big winners were Villa, lets see what they can do this week.
Paris St Germain v Marseille - always bad blood.
-Mon Sep 3
Milan v Fiorentina - old rivals battle.
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Torino has signed Uruguayan forward Alvaro Recoba on loan from Inter.
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Atletico Madrid signed Brazilian defensive midfielder Thiago Motta from Barcelona.