Toronto acquires Freeman from Red Bulls
soccerbyives.net 9/12/2008 — Toronto FC has acquired right back Hunter Freeman from the New York Red Bulls for a supplemental draft pick, sources with knowledge of the deal told SBI on Friday morning. Freeman leaves the Red Bulls after two seasons. He will join a Toronto ...

ESPNsoccernet - FIFA World Cup 2010 - Keane hits back at 'clown' Warner in Yorke row
soccernet.espn.go.com 9/12/2008 — Sunderland boss Roy Keane has fired a withering blast at FIFA vice-president Jack Warner by branding him ''a clown''. Warner, a special advisor to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation, wrote to Keane this week to accuse him of ''insensitivity ...

Shaka Hislop: USA faces its own club v country debate | Sport
guardian.co.uk 9/12/2008 — DaMarcus Beasley, USA DaMarcus Beasley in action for the USA against Italy at the 2006 World Cup finals. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Guardian

Africa FIFA World Cup Group Standings
fifa.com 9/12/2008 — The 12 group winners and 8 best runners-up will advance to Round Three. The 20 teams will then be grouped into 5 round-robin, home-and-away groups of 4 teams.

Europe FIFA World Cup Group Standings
fifa.com 9/12/2008 — Some information, rankings, and individual team standings for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Verdict on illegal player could take weeks, CAS says (Reuters) — Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News 9/12/2008
A verdict on whether FIFA was wrong not to sanction Qatar for fielding an ineligible player in a World Cup qualifier could take several weeks, according to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

FIFA throw Ethiopia out of 2010 World Cup — ESPNsoccernet 9/12/2008
World soccer's governing body FIFA has thrown Ethiopia out of the 2010 World Cup following a long-running row over the leadership of the country's football federation. > >

FIFA kicks Ethiopia out of World Cup (PA SportsTicker) — Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News 9/12/2008
Ethiopia has been thrown out of the qualifying competition for the 2010 World Cup immediately, FIFA announced on Friday.

Keane calls FIFA VP Jack Warner a `clown' (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News 9/12/2008
Sunderland manager Roy Keane called Jack Warner a "clown" after the FIFA vice president complained when the Premier League team forced forward Dwight Yorke to miss Trinidad and Tobago's World Cup qualifier against the United States. After Yorke played ...

Ethiopia kicked out of World Cup (AFP) — Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News 9/12/2008
Ethiopia were kicked out of the World Cup by FIFA on Friday after the long-running power struggle within the game in the African nation failed to be resolved.