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My story in today's paper has a rundown of players who aren't likely to sign for a new club anytime soon (Beasley, Edu, Cooper, Johnson), those who might make summer moves (Convey, Onyewu), those who may be loaned (Zizzo) and those who could be moving (Davies). Things could always change before ...
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Marta
Sweden
Major League Soccer
Davy Arnaud
Santino Quaranta
Working on a story for Wednesday, but what I can tell you so far is that a lot of players who could be moving are not. Goal.com has a good source on Kenny Cooper 's intent to stay in Dallas. He's Kenny Cooper. See the video . If you can be in front of GolTV this afternoon, you can check out ...
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Kenny Cooper
Barcelona
Atlético
Tottenham Hotspur
The weekend was predictable in Spain and unpredictable in England. FA Cup games of the weekend (home teams listed first) - Forest Green 3, Derby 4: Dubious penalty spoils the chances of a team in danger of being relegated from the fifth-tier Conference. - Chelsea 1, Southend 1: Late goal ...
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England
Reading
Everton
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Most year-end or season-end awards for U.S. soccer
players are based either on MLS play (Best XI,
MVP, etc.) or national team play. For this list, everything counts -- MLS, overseas clubs, Olympics and national team. The national team only played a ...
One disclaimer at the beginning that I say over and over: Don't believe it until you see it. Transfer gossip can be based in reality, or it can be based in someone's trial balloon, a half-completed deal or mere wishful thinking. Many things can derail a transfer deal. The teams can agree to a ...
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Landon Donovan
Just kidding, of course -- any good soccer traditionalist loves the FA Cup, particularly when the Premier League teams pop in to risk humbling against East Farthingpenny and Tudor Albion or some sort of unknown team from League Two, the Conference and beyond. From a peek at the January schedule ...
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Soccer
Tottenham Hotspur
Argentina
Australia
The one obvious observation: This roster is all MLS and Scandinavia. In other words, players who are available now. Camp runs Jan. 4-25. No word on whether they get to roast marshmallows and tell ghost stories. Shamelessly copied-and-pasted roster ( see the release for yourself): GOALKEEPERS ...
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Columbus Crew
Houston Dynamo
Chicago Fire
Major League Soccer
Club Deportivo Chivas USA
This is not a flashback to 2001: The idea of breaking off the top teams in Scotland, Portugal, the Netherlands and Scandinavia to form an Atlantic League is back in the news , though the business reality is that it likely couldn't happen soon . That would be a fun league, wouldn't it? You'd get ...
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Portugal
Scotland
Netherlands
Major League Soccer
Everton
News of the weekend includes a breakout game for Clint Dempsey, an interesting story turning sad in the FA Cup and progress -- possibly -- in Houston . - Dempsey: Not sure what he's doing in this celebration photo (not the photo here in the blog, a Getty Images shot from national team play ...
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Houston Dynamo
Chelsea
As promised but not delivered yesterday (other beats intruded), we're checking in with Freddy Adu 's progress at Monaco. It's not encouraging. Adu isn't starting, and his team is clearly dysfunctional. In Monaco's last two games, the team has been soundly beaten by one of the worst teams in the ...
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Freddy Adu
I'll have to put today's main topic on hold, possibly until tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a few tidbits on Americans and Canadians. - Great buildup from Fulham leading to a Clint Dempsey goal this weekend. Watch the video . - In Toronto, departing beat writer Morgan Campbell is finding a ...
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Fulham
Clint Dempsey
Dwayne De Rosario
St. Louis has had a hand in almost every phase of U.S. soccer history -- a thriving league of its own with Open Cup-winning teams, the backbone of the famous 1950 World Cup team, a USA-centric team in the NASL and a successful college team. Check the Net's great curator of U.S. soccer history, ...
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Major League Soccer
We'll start today with a story in the Telegraph on picking the next World Cup hosts, in which we learn that they'll do 2018 and 2022 at the same time. That'll give someone almost 12 years to prepare, but during that time, that nation could be absorbed into another country, forced underwater ...
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World Cup
England
On this remarkably newsless day (unless you're really into the UEFA Cup or transfer rumors with little to no grounding in reality), you might want to take a peek at the latest TV listings to plan your holiday viewing. SATURDAY/SUNDAY: Typical weekend fare in Europe, minus winter-breaking ...
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Germany
Manchester United
Pachuca
Gamba Osaka
Argentina
Oh, the hue and cry! How could U.S. Soccer hold the February qualifier somewhere other than Columbus, where Mexico clearly has trouble playing? Why would they hold it somewhere else. Guess what? They're not .
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Columbus Crew
Mexico
Had this in today's paper and it somehow fell out: After a long hiatus of top-flight women's soccer, the reigning champions will be first to take the field in a new league. The Washington Freedom, which won the WUSA in 2003 and kept its club structure in place after the league folded, will ...
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Los Angeles Galaxy
Marta
Abby Wambach
Sigi Schmid
Just in: U.S. women's coach Pia Sundhage , who led the team to Olympic gold just a few months after taking over, has signed a contract extension through the 2012 Olympics. Sundhage had signed a one-year deal when she was hired -- basically, get them through the Olympics and see what happens. To ...
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The highlight of the weekend was announced this morning: WPS - The league has a three-year deal, pegged by The Wall Street Journal at roughly $10 million, with Puma to become its "founding partner and official sponsor," in the words of a press release not yet posted on the league's site . ...
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Reminders, items you may have missed, etc. ... - Second leg of the Mexican final is Sunday. For the first leg, check in at The Touchline . - Want to make sure you get the stipulated 10 yards on a free kick? How about some spray paint? That should do the trick, right? They'll try it in ...
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Remember when we were all waiting for Brian McBride to go to Chicago, but Toronto had the rights, and we had this half-secret, half-public multiple-party negotiation until it happened? That's sort of what's happening with Sigi Schmid , who won MLS Cup in his final game as Columbus Crew coach. ...
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All-American Best XI of 2008