Are you hungry for a banana? If so, you can just go right outside the U.S. hotel and grab one. Of course, you'll have to wait for these to get ripe first. Coffee and bananas comprise 50% of Costa Rica's exports.

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Planning that early-season vacation around the long-talked about U.S.-Mexico match, the one U.S. Soccer has been working on for months, the one most likely headed to Houston?

Uh, better put those plans on hold for now.

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The exclusive! The sort of thing that every journalist dreams about but almost never delivers. In the world of modern media, an "exclusive" is almost as rare as a defender's hat-trick or a tasty brown banana.

And yet last week we had one. There weren't any clandestine meetings or weeks of research, but it was a bona fide exclusive nevertheless.

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TORONTO - The schedule has finally been released, and Pistolas FC find themselves in tough against the likes of teams like GU, The Zat Knight, alongside more well known teams such as Braga Contracting, Original 21 and the ever flashy FC Bada Bing.
GU and The Zat Knight are unknowns to the PFC organization, and as we've learned in our experience, never underestimate an opponent. Click to continue reading...

AAAAHHHHHHHH I AM ARTUR BORUC AND THIS IS A LIST OF THINGS THAT MADE ME ANGRY THIS WEEK:

1. POLAND MISSING THE WORLD CUP THIS WOULD HAVE SUCKED EVEN MORE IF I WAS ACTUALLY STILL ON THE TEAM!!!!!! BUT IT WAS NICE TO SEE THEM SCORE OWN GOALS ON SOMEBODY ELSE FOR A CHANGE!!!!!! PLUS I MIGHT GO TO SOUTH AFRICA NEXT SUMMER ANYWAY JUST TO DIG UP THESE BLOOD DIAMONDS I KEEP HEARING ABOUT!

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Parece que Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink tiene competencia a su titulo de mejor nombre en el futbol. Leyendo los resulatdos del mundial sub-20 en Egipto me encontre con un jugador de Camerùn llamado Yaya Banana! Facil que mi amigo Banana se lleva el titulo en cuanto nombres se trata.
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Team USA humbled favoured Cameroon 4-1 in their Group C game of the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt yesterday. After an evenly matched first half, Hertha Berlin's Bryan Arguez gave USA the lead in stoppage time. Tony Taylor and then Dilly Duka added goals for the U.S. in the second-half before Cameroon's Banana Yaya scored from the [. Click to continue reading...

Ha!
How you like that Cameroon? And our U-20 team supposedly sucks (look at that celebration!).
Though you do get props for having a guy named Banana Yaya on your team.
The Americans are still very much alive after two World Cup group stage games. They play last-place Korea in a couple days. Click to continue reading...

So much for that result against Germany. The United States turned on the offense in their second Group C game, beating Cameroon 4-1. Bryan Arguez opened th scoring for the US in first-half stoppage time. Tony Taylor made it 2-0 two minutes in the second-half, and Dilly Duka had the US up three in the 67th minute. Click to continue reading...

Manchester City host Arsenal, Tottenham host Manchester United, Chelsea go to Stoke, Liverpool host Burnley, Blackburn welcome Wolves, Bolton are at Pompey, Sunderland host Hull, Wigan welcome West Ham, Birmingham Derby as Villa go to St. Andrews and Fulham host Everton...
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Unbeaten Spurs face United test
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Numa altura em que se fala do interesse do Grémio de Porto Alegre e do Corinthians em Fabio Rochemback aqui fica uma pequena brincadeira sobre um possível dia na vida do médio brasileiro... Qualquer semelhança com a realidade é pura coincidência...
"7.30 acorda antes do despertador tocar porque quando se vira na cama fica com a cabeça em cima de um pacote de batatas fritas que comeu antes de adormecer. Click to continue reading...

Is the FFA going to follow through with its edict on diving? If it is Gold Coast could be in a bit of trouble. They would loose both Robson and Culina. Robson dives when he can, he deliberately got Tiatto booked. Culina may just have been having fun but he won a free kick off Craig Moore.
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Newcastle took on Leeds in a friendly at St. James Park today, so I thought we'd check in and see how things went as the Most Troubled Club on the Planet played host. The caption attached to the above picture:

"Newcastle United's Kevin Nolan holds his face in his hands before kick off.

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The new Everton "Flash of Brilliance" Away Kit for the 2009-10 season has been revealed. But for many Toffees fans, the new kit looks anything but brilliant, and it has even been touted as a possible rival for Newcastle's horrible looking banana strip for the worst kit of the season award. Some fans weren't too [. Click to continue reading...

The overwhelming embarrassment that has consumed Newcastle United is chugging along with no end in sight. What now, you ask? Well, they finally released their terrible away kit yesterday and just three people as in, one person plus one person plus one more person queued up to buy it.

Making the situation even worse is the fact that the club even went so far as to make the offer shown above, giving any poor sap who buys this horrid thing 20% off right away marking perhaps the first time ever an item has been reduced in price the very second it went on sale.

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Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

Black and hot pink are not the best colours for a football strip. And Everton's new away strip will no doubt, win the award for worst strip of the season, easily beating Newcastle's banana strip.

Footballers already have the reputation of being girls, when they fall at the drop of a hat, writhing in agony one minute because a blade of grass got in their way.

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Ever wondered how decisions are made at football clubs? Well, most clubs have board of directors while some clubs have someone like Mike Ashley at the helm to decide things like this abomination, without a doubt one of the worst kit for the upcoming season. Fortunately, we won't be seeing this zebra-wearing-a-banana-suit-inspired design in the [. Click to continue reading...

I saw these new Newcastle beauties over at 101 Great Goals yesterday.
Is June 22 like the April Fools of England?
These can't be serious.
Banana creamsicles? What do you think? Click to continue reading...

In keeping with the hoary old MLS tradition of never announcing anything that everybody doesn't already know, the Philadelphia MLS entry will announce on Monday that they're going to be known henceforth as THE UNION.
Since it's been bouncing around the interweb all week, beginning with the now-customary "practice run" on mlsnet. Click to continue reading...