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.

From reports I've seen, there's been nothing official, but all indications are that Sounders midfielder Stephen King has been traded to DC United for undisclosed compensation.

The Times Joshua Mayers tweeted about it earlier today, and said the midfielder wasn't at practice today.

Six games into the season, King was the only player who was both healthy and on the active roster not to get any playing time, so this would hardly count as a shocker.

Rarely have I seen a player make such an impressive debut for a club than the one I saw Wednesday night when Javier Hernandez came on as a second half substitute for Manchester United against the MLS All Star team. I've seen him play for Mexico before, but all of his skills were crystalized before my eyes in an incredible 30 minutes of action.

It sure is nice to see the good recovery vibe starting to spread, and US Soccer talks here with Oguchi Onyewu, who took part in 30 minutes of team training on Thursday. Nice to see, indeed.- Greg Seltzer

(Media Information by the Football Association of Singapore)
SINGAPORE, 19 March 2010: The Football Association of Singapore will conduct trials for its Junior Centre of Excellence Under-8, Under-10 and Under-12 programmes on Sunday 28 March.
The trials are specific for residents living in the Western parts of Singapore such as Jurong, Bukit Batok, Buona Vista and Bukit Timah.

First of all, as I'm sure some of you noticed it, last Wednesday we were down for some 30 minutes as we were upgrading our servers. Everything went smoothly and we were back up and ...

Devastated

Bob Bradley might have sealed the United States' fate by starting Ricardo Clark in the midfield. Clark was beaten against England early by Steven Gerrard and then beaten just as badly by Kevin-Prince Boateng early against Ghana.

After a yellow card, and more poor play, Clark was generously substituted 30 minutes in for Maurice Edu.

The University of Denver men's soccer team fell 2-1 to Creighton in DU's exhibition opener at CIBER Field on Saturday night.

Creighton held a two-goal lead with 5:30 left in the game, when freshman defender Theodor Remman scored to cut the lead. After a Bluejays foul, junior midfielder Alex DeCosta fired a pass inside the box, and Remman headed the ball past the Creighton keeper.

Atletico Madrid ended Liverpool's hopes of Europa League glory with an away goals success after extra-time at Anfield.
Diego Forlan, the goalscorer of Atletico's first-leg lead, came back to haunt the Reds in and will now face Fulham in the Hamburg final.
Liverpool, who saw the tie enter an additional 30 minutes after Alberto Aquilani's 44th minute strike, thought they were on their way to an all-English showpiece against the Cottagers when Yossi Benayoun grabbed a 95th minute lead.

That's the amount of time the trainers spent giving massages - today. Figure 16 players at about 30 minutes each, and that is some serious labor. And that doesn't include the treatment and taping before and after training. We asked trainers Ivan Pierra, Jim Hashimoto and Bruce Snell how they can work on players for that long and not get worn out.

It was a tough night for U.S. soccer. The chance to get to a World Cup semi-finals is not something that comes along every four years and I, like most U.S. fans, feel that the U.S. blew a great opportunity to achieve that today.

In an interview after the game Landon Donovan said the U.

one game — one goal

The hype machine is running on max right now for 17 yr old Juan Agudelo, the Colombian-born Red Bulls striker who came on with 30 minutes left in today's friendly against S. Africa, and scored a beautiful goal to win the match for the USA.

CultFootball first picked him out a few weeks back, when we critiqued his play in the Red Bulls loss to the Earthquakes:

The real standout in the losing effort was 17 yr old Juan Agudelo.

Samir Nasri take a bow. Whaddaplaya!

I normally don't go hyper over one player after a game but this match belongs to Nasri. More on this in the course of the write-up.

Top of the League. And a goal that deserves to be first. I almost had three heart attacks in this game but I'm loving it!

The long walk.

I don't want to write this. For several reasons.

One, it's a loss to Arsenal. Fucking Arsenal. Nothing stings quite like a loss to that wretched lot. Much of that stems from the fact that we just don't lose to sides helmed by Arsene Wenger it was two losses in 18 matches prior to Monday's dissection at the Emirates.

The chaps over at tvgolo.com have come up with this brilliant two part compilation of the best clips from 2010. Altogether they are 30 minutes long, so sit back and enjoy...

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Video number two is just here

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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.

Stuart Holden was able to walk off the field in Amsterdam yesterday with the help of a trainer, but it turns out his injury was more than just a bruised shin. X-rays confirmed Holden fractured his right fibula after being tackled by Nigel de Jong 30 minutes into yesterday's Holland – United States friendly.

Is it just me or has The Score become the biggest instigator in Canada since Ty Domy? Hot on the heels of their 17 minutes in Ali Gerba-heaven video they've got a half-hour of former Toronto coach Chris Cummins just going off on the phone on MoJo and TFC. If you don't have a spare 30 minutes to watch the whole shebangabang, here's the highlights.

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Giovanni Trapattoni urged his Ireland players to believe in their ability after beating World Cup qualifiers Paraguay 2-1.
While Paraguay booked their ticket to South Africa with two games to spare, Ireland were denied a place at next month's finals in a controversial play-off with France.

So the suspense is over. US Men's National Team head coach Bob Bradley has named his 23-man roster that will represent the nation in the upcoming World Cup, which begins June 11.
Much of the team was pretty well known before today, based on those who didn't even need to be in uniform for last night's 4-2 loss to the Czech Republic, and how others had been reported to be training in the run-up.

So, no time for standing still, but it is worth reflecting a little on one of the more striking elements of England's 1-1 draw with the USA the fact that the previously invincible looking Fabio Capello looks a bit more fallable than he previously did.

There were creeping doubts in the friendlies to be fair, in which we were unconvincing, but I think most of assumed that when it came to crunch, we'd find our qualifier form all over again.

You know those pseudo-intellectual, semi-respectable, journalistic (and probably pretentious!) types of posts I often write here about the Union, their tactics and the future?

Yeah, well, this isn't one of them.

This is a look back at a night that was basically my ultimate WTF game, for so many reasons.

spotted at First Team Football

Pep Guardiola surprised everyone today in a press conference on Barcelona's trip to Korea by announcing that Messi will not be playing in the upcoming friendly.

He announced that Messi "will not play, in principle, because he is not in a condition to compete.

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp insists that yesterday's Champions League qualifying defeat against Young Boys was a "great defeat." Tottenham went 3-0 down after less than 30 minutes of play, but the Premier League side battled back to score two unanswered goals, one each side of halftime.

"What did I say to the players at the end?

Back in the days of the WFW Podcast, I always had Nils Lofgren in the back of my mind as a potential guest. It was one of those things that made sense for a whole bunch of reasons. I just wanted to wait until the time was right before making the contact. But then the E Street Band went on tour in late 2007 and by the time they stopped, I stopped the podcast.

Best friends and roommates Omar Cummings and Kosuke Kimura put a beat down on the Under-A-Chivas Saturday night. After a first half where nothing happened but the Rapids controlled play mainly through Chivas' inability to do anything in the offensive third Omar decided it was time for a change...to his shoes.

Colorado's starters will have to wait until Thursday to find out what the team will look like after Tuesday's trade of midfielder Mehdi Ballouchy for forward Macoumba Kandji.

The starters are scheduled to take the day off from practice on Wednesday, which gives the team a couple of days to figure out where Kandji fits and who will be called on to create from the midfield in front of Saturday's 7 p.

WNT players wait out the lightning in the players' lounge at KSU Stadium. Eventually, practiced was called

Today, we believe, was a first for the WNT. For the first time in WNT history a training was cancelled due to lightning. The sun was out when the squad left the team hotel, but by the time they hit the field there were some ominous dark clouds forming and after 30 minutes, lightning strikes hit, strikes that seemed not that close, but also not that far away.

Paddy Bordier, Eamonn Flanagan and Lucy Zelic talk us through the best in Aussie football. What a fantastic podcast.
Are we seeing more Aussie Number 10's than ever before, 75% of all games decided i the last minute, Ray Gatt disected, Jesse Fink out thought, and all the Socceroos news, opinions and views.

The pitch is on fire Italy's match against Serbia was suspended after just six minutes following rioting by the visiting supporters. The game, which was being played in Genoa, had already been delayed for 30 minutes by the hooligans. Scottish referee Craig Thomson eventually got the game under way, only to call it off minutes [.

Exactly what no Manchester United supporter wants to hear but it seems like Wayne Rooney is on his way out of the club.

It is hard to contemplate how quickly Rooney's career has completely turned on its head. In March, the England striker was being tipped to win the World Player of the Year award after banging in 34 goals last season.

I was hoping, based on his excellent first attempt, that Stuart Robson will provide interesting insights into the Fulham game in his tactical analysis on ATVO. This time it seems to me that the former Arsenal man got his observations right but his analysis wasn't at the expected level. Still I'd say the show is a fantastic addition to the ATVO subscription service and adds a bit more value for the money.

A "YouTube" user from Argentina with the nik "youtuveXD3" has set up his channel & has posted so far only 3 videos. Two of those are part 1 & 2 of LIONEL MESSI scoring all his 150 goals for FC BARECLONA so far with the exception of last week. Here are both those videos for you. If you have 30 minutes (difficult) you can see all the goals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.