youtube.com - 6/29/2009
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LA Galaxy's and USA's Landon Donovan scores a fantastic goal on the counter attack to make it 2-0 for USA in the Confederations Cup final against Brazil in S...
sports.yahoo.com - 7/1/2009
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sports.yahoo.com —
June 30 --- AP / Yahoo!: Sunday’s FIFA
Confederations Cup Final was the third-largest ever to watch...
the US soccer on ESPN, trailing only 2 World Cup matches. --- Numerous USMNT matches on ABC have had higher ratings; these numbers do not take into account ESPN Deportes or other US Spanish networks.
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USA v BRAZIL: Most viewers for US soccer on ESPN outside ...
guardian.co.uk - 6/29/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Although dismissed by many, the tournament offered a
few clues ahead of the 2010 World Cup in...
South Africa 1. South Africa is cold in June World Cups are hot. Everybody knows that. Teams are always having to acclimatise and remember to take on ...
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The lessons of the Confederations Cup
soccer365.com - 6/29/2009
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soccer365.com —
On an evening where emotions probably ranged from
"Oh dear Lord, we can win the Confederations Cup!"...
to "Oh dear Lord, we've missed a chance to win the Confederations Cup!", the U.S. National Team put in nearly 80% of an instant classic performance ...
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What We Learned: Garth Snow is a genius; draft winners, losers)
Puck Daddy —
Hello, this is a feature that aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. Remember a couple years ago when the Islanders announced that Garth Snow, the guy that had been their backup goalie just 15 minutes before, would be their general manager? Oh how we all laughed and laughed. "HIM?" we scoffed. "Garth Snow? The guy went to MAINE for God's sake! How smart could he be?" And, quickly, he gave us an impetus ...
Landon’s Brazil Goal — Not PMS
LA Galaxy —
You need to know what I did when he scored the goal. It’s embarrassing, but as you know your verbose blogger has to share these things.
First, a little recap.
First, I screamed. I scared the crap out of my seven-year-old daughter who was scrapbooking in the kitchen.
My husband screamed too — but in a more manly way. He never watches soccer with me, unless it’s a big game like this one, or unless it is highlights of EPL goals.
Then I sat up in my chair and I started crying. Not boo-hoo crying. Just ...
Donovan’s gem ends Revs streak
LEEInks —
A Spice Girls song blasted over the Gillette Stadium loud speakers Saturday night. No, it wasn’t a reunion concert, thankfully. It was a pre-game warm-up song for the Revolution and L.A. Galaxy. The song no doubt welcomed Spice spouse David Beckham to Foxboro along with 26,623 nearly filling the lower bowl at Gillette.
The 2-1 Galaxy win was also a welcome site to Beckham. But it was his teammate Landon Donovan who deserved the attention Saturday, controlling the field early on and scoring a goal worthy of SportsCenter’s ”Top Plays” in the first half.
Donovan’s goal in the 21st minute took some ...
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