Last And Last News

SuperLiga begins Saturday!

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It's nice to have your own hotel. (Thanks to FS for the photo.)


US Open Cup

One last round before the tournament takes a month off.
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4th Round/Quarterfinal Matches & Scores:
-Tue Jul 8
New England Revolution v Crystal Palace Baltimore
DC United v Chicago Fire
FC Dallas v Charleston Battery
Kansas City Wizards v Seattle Sounders
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MLS Scoreboard

Week 15
Matches & Scores:
-Thu Jul 3
Salt Lake 0-0 Houston
Attendance: 17,898
-Fri Jul 4
Dallas 1-1 Kansas City - FCD goal by Abe Thompson. KCW goal by Scott Sealy.
Attendance: 16,765
Match report by Diego Aparicio of the Dallas Morning News.
Match report by Tobias Lopez of the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
Match report from the Kansas City Star.
Colorado 4-0 New York - CR goals by Tom McManus, Mehdi Ballouchy, Colin Clark & Omar Cummings.
Attendance: 18,776
Match report by Pat Rooney of the Rocky Mountain News.
Match report from Big Apple Soccer.
Match report from the Herald News.
Player ratings for NYRB players from Jack Bell on the New York Times blog Goal.
Los Angeles 1-2 New England - LAG goal by David Beckham. NER goals both by Adam Cristman.
Attendance: 27,000
Match report from the LA Times.
Match report by Scott Wolf of the LA Daily News.
Match report by Kyle McCarthy of the Boston Herald.
Post game notes by Nick Green of the Daily Breeze on his blog 100 Percent Soccer.
-Sat Jul 5
Columbus 2-2 Chicago - CC goals by Emmanuel Ekpo & Steven Lenhart. CF goals by Chris Rolfe & Calen Carr.
Attendance: 17,172
Match report by Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch.
Post game notes by Mitchell of the Dispatch.
More post game notes by Mitchell on his blog Covering The Crew.
Chivas USA 1-0 San Jose - CUSA goal by Ante Razov.
Attendance: 13,561
Match report from the LA Times.
Match report by Phil Collin of the LA Daily News.
Match report from the San Jose Mercury News.
Match report by Jeff Carlisle of Center Line Soccer.
Post game notes by Nick Green of the Daily Breeze on his blog 100 Percent Soccer.
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Ejections:
Chris Wingert - Salt Lake - Red Card
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MLS Standings

Eastern Conference
33 New England
27 Columbus
22 DC
21 Chicago (GD +9)
21 Toronto (GD 0)
20 New York
17 Kansas City
Western Conference
21 Los Angeles (GD +3)
21 Chivas (GD +1)
20 Salt Lake (GD -1)
20 Houston (GD -2)
19 Colorado
18 Dallas
12 San Jose
(Goal Differential is the first tie breaker)
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MLS News

COLORADO RAPIDS

Friendly
-Wed Jul 9
Colorado v UANL Tigres
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COLUMBUS CREW

Steve Sirk's always awesome, and very long, notes on the Crew. Via MLSnet.
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The teams plays a friendly on Wednesday against Independiente of Argentina.
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FC DALLAS

Diego Aparicio of the Dallas Morning News reports that former FCD player and coach Oscar Pareja has been hired to run the teams Youth Development program.
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Tobias Lopez of the Fort Worth Star Telegram tells us what the team needs to do in the second half of the season to reach their potential.
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Buzz Carrick of 3rd Degree with his notes from watching FCD practice last week. Some very interesting stuff in here concerning the new coaches ideas.
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DC UNITED

The Ben Olsen comeback only lasted a few minutes. He is having ankle surgery today. But if all goes well he will be back later this season. Damn.
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KANSAS CITY WIZARDS

Jack Bell of the New York Times blog Goal on Josh Wolff back in the USSA. And MLS. And KC.
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The team plays a friendly on Fri Jul 11 v Atlas of Mexico, at Community America Ballpark. Atlas and KCW are partners of some sort. (Have we ever really figured out what this partnering thing has done for most teams?)
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The blog Seattle MLS has a Q & A with KC defender Jimmy Conrad.
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RED BULL NEW YORK

Metrofanatic has named coach Juan Carlos Osorio as their "Bum of the Week." Why, you ask? "Plays scrubs in the Open Cup to concentrate on the league... Team gets crushed twice."
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Soccer by Ives wonders if this hasn't been the WORST week yet in team history.
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Over 41,000 tickets have been sold for this seasons appearance of LA & David B on July 19.
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REAL SALT LAKE

Xango Cup Friendly
Match & Score:
-Wed Jul 9
Salt Lake v Santos Laguna
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TORONTO FC

Carlsberg Cup Friendly
Match & Score:
-Sat Jul 5
Toronto 1-1 Pachuca - TFC goal by Julius James. Pach goal by Christian Correa. - Pach win it 4-3 on PK's.
Match report by Larry Millson of the Globe & Mail.
Post game analysis by Ben Knight on the G & M blog On Soccer.
-Minneapolis's own Abdusalam Ibrahim started in this match. Ben Knight called him the "Star of the night." He played 64 minutes.
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The team has released forward forward Andrea Lombardo.
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GENERAL

Luis Bueno at Sports Illustrated makes the case that MLS should look for star power from Mexico over star power from Europe. He is a smart guy, and knows his Mexican soccer. So I cannot argue with this logic. Although I would still love to see Henry & Ronaldinho here very soon.
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Greg Lalas also at Sports Illustrated outlines an American Soccer Fans Bill of Rights. Great start!
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Soccer by Ives with a look at the two biggest impact players in the league at this very moment - Luciano Emilio and Steve Ralston. Could not agree more.
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MLS Rumor City - Don't Tease Me Bro!

So after LA ditches Carlos Ruiz, will they be signing 6 ft tall Argentine defender Eduardo Dominguez formerly of Huracan in Buenos Aires?
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Copenhagen chasing Dwayne De Rosario of Houston.
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Rosenborg (still) and others chasing Kenny Cooper of Dallas.
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Jack Bell on the New York Times blog Goal throws out one of those great "What If's". Ronaldinho in MLS. New York? I know everyone says no way. But I am one of those who says yes way. I can see this happening. Soon.
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USL First Division Scoreboard

Matches & Scores:
-Thu Jul 3
Atlanta 3-2 Minnesota
Carolina 2-2 Seattle
-Fri Jul 4
Miami 1-0 Puerto Rico
-Sat Jul 5
Charleston 1-0 Seattle
Rochester 3-1 Vancouver
-Sun Jul 6
Montreal 0-1 Puerto Rico
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USL First Division Standings

Standings (games played):
27 Charleston (14)
23 Vancouver (13)
21 Portland (16)
20 Seattle (15) (GD +4)
20 Atlanta (14) (GD -2)
19 Miami (17)
18 Puerto Rico (13) (GD +2)
18 Carolina (14) (GD -5)
16 Minnesota (15)
15 Montreal (14)
14 Rochester (13)
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USA U20 News

Coach Thomas Rongen takes the team to Texas for a friendly game this week.
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Match & Score:
-Tue Jul 8
USA v Mexico - 8pm central in Laredo TX
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USA U20 Roster
G:
Josh Lambo - FC Dallas
Brian Perk - UCLA
D:
Richard Balchan - Indiana
Ike Opara - Wake Forest
Zarek Valentin - IMG Academy
Sheanon Williams - North Carolina
M:
Jose Altamirano - Del Mar Sharks
Daniel Cruz - UNLV
Jorge Flores - Chivas USA
Frank Lara - Laredo Heat
Brandon Manzonelli - New England Revolution
Amobi Okugo - San Juan Lightning
Brek Shea - FC Dallas
Anthony Wallace - FC Dallas
F:
Eder Arreola - UCLA
Felix Garcia - Laredo Heat
Peri Marosevic - Michigan
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Soccer In America

Gabriel Cabbarouy of the Dallas Morning News with the story on a Dallas 12 year old that some big Euro teams are watching. And he is the grand son of new FC Dallas coach Schellas Hyndeman too.
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Americans In Europe

Today's rumor - Freddy to Monaco.
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How are our Americans doing:
Norwegian Tippeligaen:
-Adin Brown - Aalesunds - no game this weekend.
-Mikkel Diskerud - Stabaek - lost at Valerenga 2-1
-Pat Noonan - Aalesunds - no game this weekend.
-Troy Perkins - Valerenga - played all 90 in goal as they beat top team Stabaek 2-1 at home.
-Brian Waltrip - Molde - on the bench as they beat HamKam 2-0.
-Brian West - Fredrikstad - did not dress as they tied at Viking 1-1.
Norwegian Adeccoligaen:
-Matthew Allen - Bryne - tied 1-1 at Haugesund
-Clarence Goodson - Start - tied 0-0 at home against Moss
-Joseph Lapira - Nybergsund - won 2-3 on the road at Hodd
-Jay Needham - Alta - lost 0-2 at home to Honefoss
-Chris Rodd - Bryne - tied 1-1 at Haugesund
-Kyle Veris - Hodd - lost at home 2-3 to Nybergsund
-Cam Weaver - Haugesund - tied 1-1 at home against Bryne
Swedish Allsvenskan:
-Colin Burns - Ljungskile - did not play as they lost 0-1 at home to Orebro
-Charlie Davies - Hammarby - started and went 61 minutes, scoring a goal as they won 4-3 at home over Norrkoping.
-Etchu Tabe - Ljungskile - played all 90 as they lost 0-1 at home to Orebro
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Canada & CSA News

The fifth of six games between Toronto, Vancouver & Montreal to determine their countries entrant in the CONCACAF Champions League takes place this week:
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Matches & Scores:
-Jul 9
Vancouver v Toronto
-Jul 22
Toronto v Montreal
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Standings (games played):
6 Montreal (3)
3 Toronto (2)
3 Vancouver (2)
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England News

Harry Kewell has left Liverpool to sign with Turkish club Galatasaray.
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European News

GERMANY

Reuters Soccer Blog with an article on the renew energy at Bayern from new coach Juergen Klinsmann.
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ITALY

Reuters reports that 4 Livorno and 1 Atlante players have been charged with match fixing, stemming from games last December & May.
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Reuters Soccer Blog with an article on Jose Mourinho, and his mission to bring Serie A back to the top of Europe.
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SPAIN

Atletico Madrid has signed French keeper Gregory Coupet from Lyon.
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UEFA Cup

UEFA is meeting to discuss changing the name of the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. OK. Dumb name. Whatever.