Spoken like a true Phillies phan, I know.  There's lots of news this morning on the Boston Breakers front, starting with the fact that an agreement has been reached between the Boston Aztecs and the Boston Breakers. Under the agreement the Aztecs will become the reserve team of the Breakers. Seems like a positive [.

July 13, 1977 - Former Manchester United and Northern Ireland great George Best (left) was held scoreless as his visiting Los Angeles Aztecs fell 4-1 to the Rowdies in Tampa Stadium. Entering the match, Best was the NASL assist leader, but was unable to produce either a goal or assist against Tampa Bay.

Several MLS teams took place in the 3rd round of the US Open Cup today. A few of those teams will play again in the 4th round several will not.

Defending MLS Champions Columbus Crew went to OT and then to PKs against the always dangerous Rochester Rhinos. The Rhinos came out on top in PKs at 5-3 to move on.

Sol tarafta Turuncu Aztec eşofmanıyla Elton Joh ve yanında efsane George Best. Best'in LA Aztecs günlerinden...

It was a sad ending to a great story. A team puts the Islanders out of the CONCACAF Champions League (CCL).

Cruz Azul lead the Islanders 2-0 after 90 minutes to tie the aggregate, even though the Aztecs were a man down for the last 59 minutes of regular time, to send the series into overtime.

Coliseum officials announced today they had been forced to cancel the Independence Day exhibition game that was to star Lionel Messi after receiving word football's worldwide governing body had objected to the event:

Coliseum officials were notified by CONMEBOL that it has received communications from FIFA, dated June 23rd and 24th, stating that it is FIFA and CONCACAF's position that the exhibition scheduled for July 4th in the Coliseum is not permitted.

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*Cal State Fullerton Titans (1-1), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers (1-2) and the Fairleigh-Dickinson Knights (2-0) visit the Matadors (1-1) this weekend.

Schedule: 1:30 p.m. Friday Titans-Panthers and 4:30 p.m. Matadors-Knights; 11 a.m. Sunday Titans-Knights and 1:30 p.

We are unveiling a new feature for Everton USA members: Interviews with Ex-EFC players/personalities!! Mr. Domingo1878, our Philadelphia contact person, has arranged a phone interview next week with Adrian Heath, right after he gets back off the road with the Austin Aztecs.What we need you fans to do is send in some decent questions to ask!

Yet another big, BIG game at the Grove tonight. Massive. Huge. Enormous. You get the drift.

The Dutch master coach, Rinus Michels inventor of "total football" with Ajax, Barcelona, Cologne, the Los Angeles Aztecs of the old NASL and de oranje of the Netherlands in 1974 and 1988, always said football is a simple game.

One team I sponsor in the Online Soccer Academy family is the U-11 Aztecs Thunder near San Diego, California. One of their players, Mat Schumacher you have seen a few times on this blog. His mom, Carey Schumacher is incredible and the main reason they have such an awesome website and team blog!

Later this week I'll have the distinct pleasure of interviewing Ron Davies, a football legend who achieved incredible success at Southampton and Norwich City, as well as playing for Manchester United and several other clubs.

In fact it was while playing for Southampton against Manchester United at Old Trafford in August 1969 where Davies scored an incredible four goals.

I put down my writer's notebook to join the fans at the 2004 European Championships in Portugal; This was before the Holland-Czech Republic quarterfinal.

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I really don't know much about my lineage.