FC Milwaukee had the most teams playing in the semifinals of the Wisconsin Youth soccer Association State Championships, with five sides in action Saturday.

And all five will play for state championships and berths in the U.S. Youth Soccer Region II Championships on Sunday after winning their matches at the USA Youth Soccer Complex in Appleton.

While the title race has been decided, there is still the matter of a Champions League spot, two Europa League berths and two relegation places are to be claimed or avoided in what promises to be a nerve-wracking finale to the La Liga season on Sunday.

Here are some of the stories to follow Sunday in Spain.

While the title race has been decided, there is still the matter of a Champions League spot, two Europa League berths and two relegation places are to be claimed or avoided in what promises to be a nerve-wracking finale to the La Liga season on Sunday.

Here are some of the stories to follow Sunday in Spain.

In January, Matt Bruce described the progress of the Football League's New Town clubs as ‘faltering' since joining the 92, but this past week may go down as the one in which their vanguard arrived for real. As Milton Keynes Dons and Stevenage confirmed their play-off berths in League 1, a nail reducing victory at Accrington saw Crawley Town finally confirm a spot in English football's Tier Three for next season.

Stay up, or go down, Bolton can count on Stuart Holden to stick around.

The U.S. midfielder, who is continuing his comeback from fall knee surgery, pledged his future to the club regardless of what happens in its battle against relegation. In order to stave off the drop and remain in the Premier League, Bolton need to defeat Stoke City on Sunday while hoping that Queens Park Rangers lose to Manchester City.

The official Host Cities for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada have been announced and U.S. fans should be looking forward to some much easier travel for this tournament.
The six official host cities named are:
Edmonton, Alberta
Moncton, New Brunswick
Montreal, Quebec
Ottawa, Ontario
Vancouver, British Columbia
Winnipeg, Manitoba
The Women's World Cup – the largest single sports event for women in the world – will be the first single sport event in Canada to be held from coast to coast.

Virginia players Brittany Basinger (FC Virginia; Purcellville, Va.) and Andi Sullivan (Bethesda SC; Lorton, Va.) helped the U.S. U-17 Women's National team defeat Mexico in a 3-0 shutout during Group B action of the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Championship in Guatemala.  U.S. UNDER-17 WNT DEFEATS MEXICO 3-0 TO WIN GROUP B AT 2012 CONCACAF WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP

• USA Will Face Panama in Semifinal on May 10 for Berth to 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
• Summer Green Nets All Three Goals to Notch Her Second Hat Trick of the Tournament
• With a Tournament-Leading Nine Goals, Green Matches Lindsey Horan's Nine-Goal Performance from the 2010 CONCACAF U-17 Women's Championship After Just Three Matches

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (May 7, 2012) - The U.

Gareth Bale says he'll have to "see what's best for myself" if Spurs don't reach the Champions League.

A run of one win in nine league games has seen Spurs slip from title challengers to fifth place, outside the Champions League berths and facing the prospect of a second season of Europa League football next term.

Gareth Bale says he'll have to "see what's best for myself" if Spurs don't reach the Champions League.

A run of one win in nine league games has seen Spurs slip from title challengers to fifth place, outside the Champions League berths and facing the prospect of a second season of Europa League football next term.

Bend it like Beckham, meet Power it like Pabon.

Colombian side Atletico Nacional sits atop its group in the Copa Libertadores, and the play of Dorlan Pabon is a big reason why. The 24-year-old Colombian international attacker, who leads the tournament with six goals, sent a powerful, swerving free kick from more than 40 yards into the right upper 90 as part of Atletico Nacional's 3-0 victory over Penarol Tuesday night that is worth at least a few looks.

When Mexico and Honduras square off on Monday in the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying final, there will be little to play for other than bragging rights.

Both teams will represent CONCACAF in this summer's Olympics after securing berths to the competition in London this past Saturday. Honduras defeated El Salvador 3-2 in extratime in the first semifinals match, while Mexico topped Canada, 3-1, in regulation.

BY ADAM SERRANO

CARSON,Calif. -- A night after the United States slipped against Canada, Mexico made sure that there would be no letdown from them.

Alan Pulido scored a hat trick as Mexico defeated Honduras, 3-0 at the Home Depot Center.

Their Words "Fulham have been major players in increasing awareness of what American soccer players have to offer." former Fulham forward Brian McBride. Other Sources Olympic Qualifying: USA, Mex. favored for London berths - from MLSsoccer.com's Greg Lalas: As is usually the case, the USA and Mexico are favorites to qualify.

The U.S. WNT will play a HUGE match early in year on Friday night, Jan. 27, when it faces Costa Rica in the semifinal of the 2012 CONCACAF Olympic Women's Qualifying Tournament for a berth to the London Olympics.
A HIGHLY motivated U.S. team will kick-off the clash with the Central Americans at 5 p.

Carli Lloyd scores a hat trick, Heather O' Reilly chips in with another as USA easily beat Mexico, 4-0, to secure a semi-final spot against Costa Rica in the Olympics qualifiers. This result reversed their shocking loss to Mexico in the World Cup qualifiers which forced them into a playoff match.

Photo by Stephen Brashear/ISIphotos.com

They might have been held to single digits on the scoreboard for the first time during the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament, but the U.S. women's national team remains on a roll.

Carli Lloyd netted a hat trick, and the U.

U.S. U-17 WNT captain Morgan Andrews
As 2011 comes to a close, 2012 will be a big year for the USA's youth women's national teams as both the Under-17s and Under-20s prepare for regional qualifying for their respective FIFA Women's World Cups, which will be held toward the end of the year after the Olympics.

By Alan Duffy

Kenny Dalglish enjoyed his second win at Stamford Bridge in just 10 days as Liverpool ran out comfortable 2-0 victors in the quarter-finals of the Carling Cup on Tuesday night.

Both Chelsea and Liverpool put out fairly strong sides, with Bertrand, Romeu, McEachran and Lukaku the youngsters given starting berths by Andre Villas-Boas, while Sebastian Coates, Martin Kelly and Jay Spearing got the nod for the Reds.

The NCAA men's college soccer season wraps up pre-NCAA Tournament play today on what is essentially conference championship Sunday, with most of the country's biggest conference crowning champions today.

The Big East, ACC and Big Ten are among the conferences that are holding championship games today, and along with the conference titles up for grabs, there are also the automatic NCAA berths that go along with them.

Feel free to begin making your plans to catch the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.

CONCACAF announced that the tournament will take place at three sites starting in late March, with eight teams vying for two spots at the 2012 Olympics in London. So far, the United States, Mexico, Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama have qualified for the tournament.

Liverpool defender Daniel Agger has warned Liverpool must raise their game if they are to avoid yet another season without Champions League football.
Liverpool were held to a goalless draw in Saturday's home meeting with Swansea at the weekend, meaning the club have now won just two of their six Premier League matches at Anfield this season.

Panama clinched Central America's third and final berth for CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying with a 1-1 draw against Costa Rica. The two met Nov. 3 at Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto in Alajuela, Costa Rica. Panama won 3-2 on aggregate after a 2-1 win in the first leg at home in Panama City Oct. 26.
Honduras and El Salvador round out the group of qualifiers from Central America.

Arsenal vs Stoke City: Can Gunners finally make a comeback? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Arsenal host Stoke City in the Premier League this Sunday as the Gunners will be hoping to maintain their fine recent form. Statistically speaking, it looks like Arsenal will edge this meeting. Arsene Wenger's charges have won five of their last six games but the Potters will prove a stern test as they have enjoyed a strong start to their season with just two defeat in their first 16 competitive matches of the season.

Kasey Keller will have 60k+ fans on hand to see his final home game. (Getty Images)

The all important second-to-last week in the regular season for Major League Soccer. Six playoff spots are still up for grabs and a few clubs could clinch those berths this weekend. MLS is getting exactly what they wanted with this new playoff format, excitement down to the very last week.

Sigi Schmid may do as much to earn his paycheck in the next couple of weeks of relatively unimportant games as he did during the Seattle Sounders' hectic run of critical league games, cup finals, and CCL group stage matches. The task during that difficult (and almost perfect) autumn run was to keep up the winning while rotating through a deep roster to keep everyone as healthy and fit as possible.

Four teams will celebrate state titles and earn berths in next summer's U.S. Youth Soccer Region II Championships as the fall Wisconsin State Championships wrap up Sunday at UW-Oshkosh's Titan Stadium.

The four divisions for high school-aged girls teams play their State Championships, commonly known as the State Cup, in the fall because the WIAA season is in the spring when the rest of the tournament is contested.

Wednesday's tie against the San Jose Earthquakes was touted as a must win, so to many Timbers fans taking only a single point against one of the league's bottom teams felt like a crushing defeat. Luckily, all is not lost. The Timbers, thanks largely to some fortuitous results around the league, still moved up into tenth place and are in possession of the final playoff spot.

They made not be going to the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup after being banned due to the positive drug tests this summer in Germany, but North Korea will be at the Olympics in London next summer after finishing second behind Japan in the AFC Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

North Korea just needed to avoid defeat against Thailand in its final match to join the already-qualified Japanese in London and ended up winning 5-0.

Tickets went on sale today for the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualify being held at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada from Jan. 19-29.
If you live in the Northwest, that's would be awesome if you could come. If you don't, and you still come, well that's one way we define a great fan of the U.

Should be slightly happier after scoring 4 goals for Holland

International break, the kind of break we as club supporters always detest. In this instance though, it is a welcomed one. Especially after the crazy last week that we had. Starting with the bashing we took at the reigning champions to the frenzy last few days of the transfer window.

Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni has rewarded Shane Long for his strong start to the season at West Brom with a starting place for tomorrow's vital European Championship qualifier against Slovakia, with Kevin Doyle the player to miss out.
Kevin Kilbane has failed to recover from a back injury and will return to Derby County this afternoon.

The Copa America will see Uruguay take on Paraguay in the final on Sunday after both nations secured their berths with semi-final victories over Peru and Venezuela respectively.

The Uruguayans are now many people's favourites to win the competition after their 2-0 win over Peru on Tuesday.

The midfields of both Real Madrid and Barcelona are beginning to resemble Japanese trains at rush hour. If Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola continue to pack more and more players in, it is likely they will struggle to keep each one happy and in form. Something has to give. So who will survive the cull, and who will earn starting midfield berths in 2011-12?

Sixteen of the country's top boys soccer teams are making travel plans for Milwaukee after earning berths in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy Finals Week.

Eight teams apiece claimed spots in the Under-17/18 and Under-15/16 divisions at the Academy playoffs, which wrapped up Monday and today at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas.

Two Croatian Eagles teams will play for U.S. Adult Soccer Association Region II championships.

The club's men's Under-23 and women's sides won their groups Saturday at the tournament in Overland Park, Kan., to earn berths in Sunday's finals.

In Under-23 play, UW-Green Bay's Anthony Santaga (Green Bay Notre Dame) scored lone goal as the Croatians topped KC United 1-0 to finish 3-0-0 atop Group B – one of their matches was a forfeit over a Michigan team that dropped out of the event.

One Major League Soccer team will be a step closer to the U.S. Open Cup field of 40 by night's end.

The San Jose Earthquakes travel north to JELD-WEN Field to face the Portland Timbers in an Open Cup qualifying semifinal. The winner advances to a final play-in game against the Chicago Fire, where one of the league's two play-in berths in the Open Cup proper will be on the line.

The United States would enter CONCACAF qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in the semifinal phase under the proposed format brought by the CONCACAF Executive Committee. The proposal awaits the approval of the FIFA Executive Committee, which meets at the end of May in Zurich, Switzerland.
In the previous two World Cup cycles, the U.

Any talk of promotion and relegation in Major League Soccer was squashed this week when MLS president Mark Abbott announced that there are no plans of doing so. He also mentioned that the league has no plans of switching to the same international calendar that most other leagues in the world use.
Whether the rumors of exploring both were genuine, or just a ploy to attempt to influence FIFA in giving the United States a World Cup bid, it appears that any chance of either of those changes are gone for now.

The four berths to the FIFA U-17 World Cup from South America have been decided - Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Ecuador will travel north to Mexico this summer.
The six-team round robin tournament was held in Ecuador and the four teams were decided with one round of games still to be played.

Photo by ISIphotos.com

United States-Mexico World Cup qualifiers might not be a thing of the past after all.

CONCACAF officials have submitted a World Cup qualifying plan to the region's executive committee that would keep the current hexagonal format intact.