Kansas City defeated the Arizona Sahuaros in the Wizards first preseason game. Kansas City played 3 full teams for 30 minutes each. The first team scored 4 goals and the third team added one as well.This information is from a fan that attended the game last night. The goals were as follows:6:00 – Wolff - Wizards played a short corner from Espinoza to Arnaud andback to Espinoza who crossed it Click to continue reading...

Training went well again this morning. We broke up into 3 teams and played 11 v 11 full-field (12 minute games). This was the first time that we've gone full-field this year. It was a good opportunity to get the guys moving together and getting used to playing in a full-sided atmosphere as we build towards our first game tomorrow night. Click to continue reading...

Thai Port won the 2010 Isuzu Cup, after a very comfortable 5-1 win over FC Phuket at the Trang Municipal Stadium.
It was a good day for Port striker Pitipong Kulidilok (pic below), who missed the end of last season with a broken leg. He managed to scored twice early on, before FC Phuket briefly reduced the deficit to a single goal. Click to continue reading...

Omar Cummings will not be at DSG Park much of this week as the Colorado Rapids players report back for preseason duty. Like fellow Rapids' striker, Conor Casey at the weekend, the frontman is on international duty this Sunday as the Reggae Boyz turn out in Kingston to play Canada in a friendly. Click to continue reading...

Nicholas "Niko" Gkionis is a friend of mine, pro soccer player, a special guest Online Soccer Academy player, and has guest blogged and appeared for JMSocccer10.com a few times. You can read his past guest blog posts by clicking here. Today he talks about why he recently switched teams in Belgium.

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Cavalieri
Degen Carragher Agger Insua
Aquilani Lucas
Kuyt Gerrard Benayoun
Torres
Goals:
Bertrand (og) 45+1'
Sigurdsson 90+3' (pen)
Long 100'
Comical. Unfortunate. Deserved. Typical. And no, there's no acronym there.
It looked like Liverpool would hold onto the one slice of luck received – a chance deflection in the last minute of the first half – but not this season. Click to continue reading...

Sometimes I'm not surprised that online piracy is so rampant when it comes to soccer. Trying to find out who has the rights to a game or tournament is very difficult, and even when you find a stream, you're not sure whether it's an official one or not.

Take, for example, the African Nations Cup which kicks off in a few hours from Angola.

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Following the ambush of the Togo national team bus on it's way to Cabinda for the African Cup of Nations 2010, I wrote a preliminary piece on Just Football with some of the main issues that needed addressing. Reports were hazy at the time and as the hours have passed further details are beginning to emerge. Click to continue reading...

The Togo national football team bus was ambushed as they were on their way to the African Cup of Nations. They came under attack from machine gun fire for 30 minutes whilst they were trapped on the bus. Two of their players were shot and taken away for treatment, whilst the bus driver was shot dead.

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Hull boss Phil Brown wants his two players back home now. "I am appalled. This throws a question mark against next summer's World Cup.You simply cannot put the safety of players, officials and fans at the slightest risk. That is totally unacceptable. I have two players -Daniel Cousin and Seyi Olofinjana - on duty and I want them back home here with us as quickly as possible,"
Pompey chief executive Peter Storrie said: "This is a terrible, tragic incident and I am very concerned about this whole situation.

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Here is a play-by-play account of the 2011 Asian Cup Qualifier at Rajamangala Stadium between Thailand and Jordan. The kick off was delayed by 30 minutes, presumably because of the pre match downpour, which meant the pitch was very wet, and not easy to play on.
Thailand: Kosin Hathairattanakool, Suree Sukha, Nattapong Samana, Panupong Wongsa (C), Nattaporn Phanrit, Rangsan Vivatchaichok, Pichitipong Choichieu, Suchao Nutnum, Sutee Suksomkit, Narongchai Vachiraban, Teeratep Winothai. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United 5-0 Wigan Athletic

Manchester United normally perform to the best of their ability post-Christmas time, and that was evident here on this cold evening at Old Trafford where Wigan were better off staying at home watching Piers Morgan's Review of the Year.

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Happy Christian Christmas Morning to you. I'm not a christian, so happy day-off-work-get-lots-of-free-stuff day.
Short and sweet today for the obvious reasons.
Watching Wenger's web chat part 2 (it's free on Arsenal TV) he was asked what was his favourite city, his answer couldn't have been more gooner.

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The draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is set to kick off in about 30 minutes and we will update the proceedings as the groups fill out. After they're done, I will attempt to make the fastest sweet 16 prediction in the world.Get your refresh button ready, the lottery basket starts spinning at 10 minutes before the top of the hour. Click to continue reading...

The highlight of this EUROPA LEAGUE game between Austria Vienna& Spanish Club Athletic de Bilbao was the pitch invasion by "hooligans"that stopped the match in the 2ºhalf for about 30 minutes. Apart fromthe flares & the numerous objects thrown onto the pitch the behaviourneeds to be punished, something we hope UEFA will do. Click to continue reading...

Barca showed Real Madrid who's boss in El Classico 1.0 and now we see some of what Leo Messi has and Cristiano Ronaldo has not. It's plainly clear that we have leadership issues to discuss in regards to play in the Spanish Premier Division and those leadership start at the top of the most elite clubs.

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Zlatan Ibrahimovich came off the bench to score the only goal in FC Barcelona's fiercely contested 1-0 victory over archenemy Real Madrid in the Spanish "El Gran Clasico" at the Camp Nou Stadium on Sunday. Barcelona played the last 30 minutes with 10 men following Sergio Busquets' second yellow card. Click to continue reading...

Half the season hasn't gone by but by Sunday evening, we'd have played half of our london derby matches. A good indication that the fixture computer can't fix every imbalance when creating those fixtures.

It does prove to be very good for TV broadcasters, one of whom have the pleasure of showing the Merseyside derby and the El Classico, either side of our game vs Chelsea here in England.

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FC Barcelona traveled to face Athletic Bilbao on Saturday, November 21, 2009 in the Spanish Primera Division (La Liga). With Real Madrid's win earlier in the day, Barcelona would need a victory to stay top of the table. Were they able to get it? Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights.

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There are loads of things that we know, or think that we know, and we use those things. And there's other things that we don't know, and we use the things that we do know, or think that we know, to solve the things that we don't know.
When you are dealing with Big Fake, the solution becomes self-evident. Click to continue reading...

The lights went out twice in Carson, California last night, but LA scored twice in the overtime portion to eliminate Houston and win the west.
I would like to salute myself for tactical wizardry in the area of PVR programming. I did not stay up all night to watch this, I pvr'ed it to watch Saturday morning. Click to continue reading...

Join Matilda and myself for some chit chat about understrength England vs understrength (but still scary) Brazil, from about 30 minutes before kickoff on Saturday, November 14th, 2009. If you're in the UK it's a 5pm kickoff on ITV1. If you're in the US it's a 12 noon kickoff on Fox Soccer Channel.

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The papers over the weekend were linking Wayne Rooney with an £85m move to Barcelona whilst Cristiano Ronaldo said he would welcome Wayne at Real Madrid.

Rooney has moved to put an end to end rumours before people start getting carried away by again claiming he wants to spend the rest of his career with us.

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I think I would have preferred Group B rather than Group A, but as you know, there are no easy games for Cambodia at this level.
The tournament here is going really well. It is very good preparation for the SEA Games. A good opportunity to play against strong opposition, and playing every second day, like we will do at SEA Games. Click to continue reading...

But I'm not making that sign with the index, or pinkie, or ring, or thumb... I had what I thought was a great follow-up post on the Lambert affair but when I hit 'Publish', Typepad decided to do a server reset and I ended up losing almost 30 minutes of work. Yes, the autosave failed, too. It's late, and you will have to wait until tomorrow for that post. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal hosts AZ Alkmaar on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 in the UEFA Champions League. The two teams played last matchday as Alkmaar scored a late goal to get a draw. Arsenal will be looking to get three points playing at home and to put them in great position to advance to the knockout stage. Here's a recap and video highlights of the match.

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The UEFA Champions League had a full set of group stage matches on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 including Chelsea traveling to play Atletico Madrid in Spain. Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights.

Chelsea draws with Atletico Madrid 2-2 Video Highlights

It was a quick start as Atletico Madrid came out with confidence playing at home.

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Manchester United looks to recover from last weekend's defeat to Liverpool as they face Blackburn Rovers. Were they able to win or did Blackburn get a result? Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights.

Manchester United beats Blackburn 2-0 Video Highlights

The match had a slow start as neither team really had any great chances in the first 20 minutes.

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Pay Mario Karlovic for a full game. Leave Cernak out.
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Royston Drenthe grabbed his chance in the Real Madrid - AC Milan CL game last week. Although the Galacticos lost the game, the young Dutchman impressed 30 minutes. Bert van Marwijk watched the game with one eye, using the other one to check out Bayern Munich vs Bordeaux. Did you look Click to continue reading...

Chivas USA 1 Dynamo 3

Chivas USA have pulled one back eight minutes after the Dynamo made it 3-0.

Justin Braun was the creator sending over a cross to the far post that was met by Paulo Nagamura who set up Michael Lahoud for a simple tap in in the 59th minute.

Sensing an opportunity, Preki has sent in Eduardo Lillingston for Maicon Santos up front with about 30 minutes left in the game.

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Columbia, Mo.- The Missouri State High School Activities Association in partnership with When We Were Young Productions have launched MSHSAA.tv. The website will contain live game action, as well as archived events and highlight summaries at no cost to the viewer.

"We have been expanding internet coverage of our championships for the past few years," said MSHSAA Executive Director Dr.

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Where is the refing consistency? Fox, who have now clearly turned to supporting the Roar after ditching them after game 3, clearly need to write to the FFA that the Refs need to be re-briefed. Well maybe not. But apart from Miller's punch, how was the Roar's treatment of Kruse worse than Sydney's treatment of Oar? Click to continue reading...

The UEFA Champions League group stage returned on Tuesday with eight matches. One of them was Inter Milan (Internazionale) v Dynamo Kiev at the San Siro. Â Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights.

Inter Milan (Internazionale) draws with Dynamo Kiev 2-2 Video Highlights

Inter Milan once again could only manage a draw in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday against Dynamo Kiev.

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Arsenal 3-1 Birmingham City

I suppose football is the popular game that it is partly because, while money, good management and history will always bubble to the top over the course of a season, so much still relies on the vagaries of the human mind.

So it was yesterday.

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