Former Socceroo, Canberra Cosmos player and now Canberra United and Assistant Matildas and ACTAS Coach Robbie Hooker talked about his plans as boss of the newest team in town. Should girl's play with boys? Who will we sign and more.....

Canberra United W-League Coach Robbie Hooker fronted up to the Nearpost Radio (98. Click to continue reading...

Group A: Chelsea, Roma, Bordeaux, CFR Cluj

I lol at everybody writing off Bordeaux. Fear Laurent Blanc, people. Fear him. This isn't as straight-forward as it looks.

Group B: Inter, Werder, Panathinaikos, Anorthosis

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The new Canberra United Coach is expected to be announced on Friday at MacKellar Stadium, a call for Assistant Coach and Team Manager will go out ASAP.

And players will be recruited ASAP after that.

And I'm expecting the TV deal to be announced this week as well. September is going to be a busy month for our new National side. Click to continue reading...

FC Dallas midfielder Victor Sikora has suffered a torn meniscus in his right knee and will miss 4-6 weeks of action, according to club officials. The injury occurred during FCD's 1-1 draw against Kansas City on Saturday when the former Ajax star was tackled by the Wizards' Sasha Victorine just minutes into the second half. Click to continue reading...

Nick at We Want Rapidman felt the Colorado Rapids, with new coach Gary Smith at the helm, would be fired up and ready to play at RFK Stadium against DC United. Unfortunately that wasn't the case with the Rapids losing 3-0.

View From The Couch takes a look back at the Clavijo Era. Note that the talk on the street was that Clavijo was a coach in name only.

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Adrie now... EC1988 winner Adrie van Tiggelen is assistant coach at Sparta and is a happy trooper. "Head coach Foeke Booy allows me to do the training often. He just observes, while I do the work. I keep track of progress and discuss the program with him. When Aandewiel was coach, Click to continue reading...

It's finally happened. The Rapids have fired their coach, Fernando Clavijo. Surprisingly, Gary Smith is going to take over for him on an interim basis, whatever that means. I say suprisingly, because it seemed like the Rapids have been preening assistant coach John Murphy for the job. He's been the face of the coaching staff for years, and the Rapids even sent him over to Europe to become the first American to be a UEFA certified manager.

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Well, it happened. Fernando Clavijo and the Colorado Rapids have parted ways with 11 games left in the 2008 MLS season.

I didn't think it would with the Rapids front office seemingly content to wait for Clavijo's contract to run out at the end of the year. Likewise Fernando Clavijo didn't seem interested in leaving before his contract was up.

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Fernando Clavijo has resigned as Colorado Rapids head coach in a move that seemed destined to happen even before the 2008 season began.

"A lot of things happened through the year that I was not happy with in many ways," Clavijo told the Denver Post.

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Another MLS coach faced the firing squad on Wednesday afternoon as the announcement was made that the Colorado Rapids have decided to part ways with head coach Fernando Clavijo immediately. Assistant coach Gary Smith has been tapped to fill the position on an interim basis for the remainder of the 2008 season. Click to continue reading...

Today, the Rapids and head coach Fernando Clavijo decided to part ways.  Clavijo had not only overseen 3 mediocre years for the Rapids, but he recently had go back to his native Uruguay to take care of a family medical emergency.  Assistant coach Gary Smith has been managing training and was the coach in Colorado's [. Click to continue reading...

Well, at least Sarachan is back as his assistant coach. Or "associate head coach... Click to continue reading...

It was a more relaxed-looking and less intense-sounding Bruce Arena who was introduced as the Galaxy's new general manager and coach this morning at Home Depot Center.

The former U.S. National Team coach and two-time MLS Cup winner with D.C. United was under no illusions about the scale of the task facing him to get the Galaxy into the playoffs.

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The LA Galaxy will introduce former US National team coach Bruce Arena as the team's new head coach at a press conference scheduled for 1pm CT today. Arena and assistant coach Dave Sarachan will take over for the Galaxy and have their first game against Chicago this Thursday in Primetime action. Cobi Jones is expected to [. Click to continue reading...

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The Los Angeles Galaxy will introduce Bruce Arena as the team's new head coach at a press conference scheduled for 2pm ET today.

Arena and assistant coach Dave Sarachan will take over for former Galaxy head coach Ruud Gullit, who resigned a week ago, and their first game at the Galaxy helm will be Saturday against the Chicago Fire.

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It looks as if last night's 2-2 draw with Chivas USA will be the only game that Cobi Jones gets to be the head coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy. It has been confirmed by several sources that former U.S. Men's National Team coach Bruce Arena will take over the reins of the club, and should be on the sidelines for the Galaxy's next game, this coming Thursday against the Chicago Fire. Click to continue reading...

With all the shenanigans going on at the troubled LA Galaxy organization, there have also been stirrings this week surrounding the Colorado Rapids. Rumors of coaching changes at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, new players coming in, supporters clubs airing their grievances with the organization. Click to continue reading...

Back before the season began, WV Hooligan put out Fernando Clavijo, Sigi Schmid and Juan Carlos Osario as his top 3 for being in the coaching hot seat in the MLS. Sigi Schmid doesn't appear to be close with the Crew, along with head coaching rookie Dennis Hamlett's Chicago Fire, still in contention with New England for the Supporters Shield. Click to continue reading...

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Eddie Lewis and Cory Gibbs are set to come back to the Major League Soccer.

SBI has learned that the Los Angeles Galaxy are set to acquire the rights to Lewis after passing on Gibbs with the top spot in the MLS Allocation order.

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England manager Fabio Capello has indicated that Spurs front man Darren Bent may be in line for a recall to the England setup. Bent currently has 3 caps for the national side but having sent England assistant coach Franco Baldini to watch Bent against Roma Capello has decided that perhaps it is time for Bent to increase his tally. Click to continue reading...

Updates at bottom.

So the hammer comes down.

The Los Angeles Times, in a story by Grahame Jones, reports that AEG has axed BOTH Alexi Lalas and Ruud Gullit in a meeting held today.

Jones reports,

In a pair of sweeping changes brought about by a Major League Soccer season in meltdown, the Los Angeles Galaxy today removed Alexi Lalas as team president and general manager and Ruud Gullit as coach.

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Graham Jones of the LA Times with the story that comes as no surprise to anyone.

LA Galaxy owners AEG fired both team president/general manager Alexi Lalas and head coach Ruud Gullit today.

The dead give away came when Gullit put his house up for sale last week, then claimed his "wife just didn't really like the place". Click to continue reading...

After Frank Yallop resigned, I was wondering if the head coaching position at the Galaxy might be offered to Cobi Jones. It wasn't, of course, at least not directly.

Thing is, when I was talking to Cobi about becoming Ruud's assistant, back when they were introduced together as a team, there was one thing he made expressly clear. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham's £16.5 million summer signing, Luka Modric, is reportedly carrying a painful knee injury going into the new season. The news comes from Croatia's assistant coach, Aljosa Asanovic. "He is excellent, but he has a knee injury that could prevent him playing at the start of the new championship," said the former Derby County midfielder. Click to continue reading...

Reports suggest Juande Ramos has made an £18million bid for Athletico Madrid striker Diego Forlan. The People claims the Spanish coach has had the hefty bid turned down by Madrid but the paper understands that he will return to pursue the Uruguayan forward. Spurs assistant coach Gus Poyet is known to be a keen admirer of his [. Click to continue reading...