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Today is expected to be quite a day for American soccer. The US face Spain in a big time clash in the Confederations Cup over in South Africa. While I won’t be doing any formal preview of that game (I’ll let those who are better at covering the US to do that) I will say…[continue reading]

I guess when the news came across yesterday that FC Dallas has scheduled another international friendly at Pizza Hut Park this summer I just ignored it since I knew it would be another mid-week game that the reserves would see action in rather than most of the starters. While the ladder part is definitely true…[continue reading]

I meant to bring this up earlier in the day but nearly forgot. For those of you lucky bastards in the New York City area, there is an event that you need to be at tomorrow in Chinatown. What is it? The second annual Showdown in Chinatown featuring NBA stars and international soccer stars such…[continue reading]

The preliminary schedule for three MLS clubs in the CONCACAF Champions League has been announced today. DC, New York and Toronto all now know the times and places of their games. The eight winners of the Preliminary Round will advance to the Group Stage, which will begin the week of August 18-20. PRELIMINARY ROUND SCHEDULE…[continue reading]

Some bit of good news for those wondering about the Houston Dynamo stadium situation. Yesterday in a report by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the Dynamo stadium only has a couple minor hurdles to clear before construction begins this fall. Oliver Luck, president of the Major League Soccer team, says although he did not expect…[continue reading]

Week number 14 is in the books and honestly this was a tough week due to the lack of in-league games played. Only a few clubs saw league action this week while others were on break for SuperLiga or in Toronto’s case for the final match in the Canadian Cup against Montreal. Due to that…[continue reading]

Going back to Friday’s thoughts about the 2009 edition of SuperLiga, I realized that maybe one thing to help improve the tournament’s ability to reach people may be to do what happened in St. Louis this past weekend. For those who don’t know the city of St. Louis hosted an opening round game for Kansas…[continue reading]

Slowly ESPN continues to gobble up more soccer coverage. While the Worldwide Leader lost rights to the UEFA Champions League earlier this year to FSC they gained big time market to broadcast. ESPN landed a share of U.S. broadcast rights to la Liga today, splitting TV rights to the Spanish league with GolTV. ESPN2 will…[continue reading]

Time once again for the goals of the week. Not as many MLS games this week to pick goals from but there were still plenty of quality goals out there this weekend to view. Order of goals: Omar Cummings, Brian Ching, Eric Avila, Fredy Montero, Chirs Pontius, Osvaldo Alonso, Nate Jaqua, Fredy Montero, and Christian…[continue reading]

A lot can be said about this past week for Major League Soccer and soccer in the US in general. Going into the weekend most had written off the US national team until the Brazil-Italy result became a good one for us. Some folks had worries about the MLS clubs going into SuperLiga play but…[continue reading]