All you who criticized Bruce Arena, said the game had passed him by, said he relied too much on old veterans...all you who said Dema Kovalenko was a one-dimensional hack...all you who said there was no way Ricketts or Berhalter would make it through the whole season...all you who said that Beckham and Donovan couldn't work together. Click to continue reading...

If you follow this blog with any regularity you know that unlike most soccer blogs, English people who are not under the employ of the LA Galaxy are a sighting as rare as goals by goalies. But when someone like Sunderland's Darren Bent decides get custom boots branded with his Twitter handle and Twitter logo it's kind of special. Click to continue reading...

Fox Soccer Channel today put out a press release on the growth of its ratings numbers over the past year, its first as a Nielsen-rated channel.

Among reports of increases in Serie A and English Premiership viewers, the statement also points out that "Major League Soccer audiences are up 89%, averaging 51,000 viewers last month vs.

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Columbia, Mo.- The Missouri State High School Activities Association in partnership with When We Were Young Productions have launched MSHSAA.tv. The website will contain live game action, as well as archived events and highlight summaries at no cost to the viewer.

"We have been expanding internet coverage of our championships for the past few years," said MSHSAA Executive Director Dr.

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American soccer fans looking forward to watching the 2010 World Cup will have a familiar voice calling World Cup matches on ESPN.

Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch is reporting that ESPN is set to hire English broadcaster Martin Tyler as lead play-by-play announcer for American broadcasts of the 2010 World Cup.

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As a sports presenter on our local community radio (Every other Saturday afternoon 3-5pm), I feel duty bound to keep an eye on our local football team "Forest Green Rovers" who inhabit a local hill and the Blue Square Premiership.
The club sponsors the station and we regularly play jingles encouraging people to go along to watch. Click to continue reading...

Announcing the 2009 Minnesota Thunder Supporters Post-Season Banquet & Silent Auction
Tue Sep 22
7:30pm Central
The Sweetwater
(in one of the banquet rooms)
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Fans of all ages are welcome to attend. Food and Drinks will be available to order.
Here are this years Nominees for the Thunder player awards:
Player of the Year:
Jeremiah Bass
Jonathan Greenfield
Nicolas Platter
Newcomer of the Year
Quavas Kirk
Lawrence Olum
Marco Terminesi
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The Guardian reported last night that the Premier League have been dealt a massive legal blow in its fight against online piracy when an Israeli court threw out an attempt to shut down a pirate website that was showing live matches free of charge.

Some of the observations made by the Israeli court include:

• it was a case of "fair use" since no profit was made from the broadcasts and that, in Israeli law, breach of "broadcasting" copyright only referred to cable or wireless transmission and not streaming over the internet.

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Relax - this post is nice and short.*
The "Summer of Soccer" was bullshit. But, it was important bullshit.
Take a look at the attendances from the big international summer friendlies MLS played these past couple of months. The numbers are damning. Take the statistics closest to me (and therefore, the most important) - high-priced sell-out for AC Milan, 81,000 for Chelsea Inter, another 90,000 to see Barcelona, plenty of great seats available for Galaxy-Chivas. Click to continue reading...

I wasn't a huge fan of the FOX broadcast yesterday. The whole thing (pregame, broadcast, highlights of other games, everything) seemed amateurish.
God save me, I longed for Tommy Smyth.
I know. Anyways, here are the scores:

• Celtic 0-2 Lucky Arsenal
  
• FC Copenhagen 1-0 Apoel Nicosia
  
• Sheriff Tiraspol 0-2 Olympiakos
  
• P.

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Today's topic: Â

Seattle - And the reaction of some MLS fans to the city's success

by Glenn Davis

I have gotten alot of feedback lately on the Seattle Sounders FC and most of it has been positive yet I am a little perplexed but some of the reaction that comes from fans who seem tired of the story in the Pacific Northwest.

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(Now just replace the kicker with Christian Gomez and the kickee with Pablo and you have a good image of what happened on Saturday)
I'm going to dispense with my standard recap of the 3-1 loss in DC. Just assume it was crap and move on. Instead here's just some extended thoughts on what I saw. Click to continue reading...

Unless you have some way of watching the Los Angeles Galaxy - AC Milan match tonight, chances are you won't see it until FSC broadcasts it this week. Either way, if you were wondering what reception Beckham would get, here's...

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The plight of the National Team, branding Giuseppe Rossi a traitor, the top team in USL-1 and Mount Rushmore redux are the topics on this week's episode of Four At The Back.

Dan Loney and I look at the first two games of the Confederations Cup for the US and ask "What's next?

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We spoke earlier of the vuvuzelas, the rather distinct sounding horns carried by the South African soccer faithful. No doubt you heard the cacophony of sounds throughout the broadcasts of the Confederations Cup matches, which bear a tormenting resemblance to the instruments played at matches for our neighbors to the south. Click to continue reading...

Yle started their Veikkausliiga broadcasts today as FF Jaro played FC Lahti. The system in Finland is quite interesting: Urheilukanava broadcast the games from April to September, and Yle are only interested when the title is about to be won. The move from Urheilukanava to Yle may raise the number of people watching, as Urheilukanava is [. Click to continue reading...

Only three USL Second Division teams remain in the US Lamar Hunt Open Cup race as we head in to the third round. Joining the fray are the eight MLS teams who qualified through MLS' play in tournament.
Matches across the United States will take place Tuesday night, July 1st to determine who advances to the quarterfinals the following week. Click to continue reading...

Watching the game between Chicago fire at CD Chivas USA, last night, we were struck by what seemed like yet another increase in the production value of the broadcast. From the pre-game show to the slightly higher field of view and the sideline camera angles, everything just looked much better than at the start of the season. Click to continue reading...

If you happen to notice a sense of relief coming from ESPN in the last few days, there is a reason for it.  It's because, while they are not coming in World Cup numbers, viewers are tuning in to the network's broadcasts of Euro 2008. ESPN announced today that, for the 15 Euro 2008 matches shown [.. Click to continue reading...

Rating: 3 (Possible)
This comes to us via our mailbag:
" I've never written ya'll before but i thought this was pretty big news so I thought it would be useful for your website. It was shown by a Mexican News Show (show to be named after i find out which one it was) that broadcasts here in Houston that, Oscar De La Hoya has shown interest and is going to stop at nothing to bring Jared borgetti to the big orange machine. Click to continue reading...

As a football-loving American, I've often gone to great lengths to see broadcasts of live matches.  Justin.tv, Sopcast, various dodgy looking sites from China- I've scoured them all for English-speaking footy commentary at one time or another.   Though the Euro2008 matches are shown on ESPN, I would rather listen to vigorous elephant-on-pig action than hear [. Click to continue reading...

Lots of stuff going on tonight, watching the Houston-New England MLS match along with the Portland-Silverbacks match on USL Live.
Thoughts:

• New England has been pretty impressive, even without their missing stars. The more I see this Dube kid, the more I like him.
  
• Tony Caig is possibly the worst goalkeeper in MLS.

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So, after having over 1 million viewers tune in for the UEFA Champions League Final last month, how is ESPN doing with the early broadcasts for Euro 2008?  The answer is not as well as the final, but fairly decent overall.  According to the Associated Press, these were the numbers for each game broadcast over [. Click to continue reading...

As promised, in MLSR's effort to help in the task of giving our country's oldest knockout competition and out National Cup some exposure we are providing the following links to watch or listen to tonight's games. Some are carried on Video others on Radio or Online Audio. We are hoping to provide a centralized "one-stop" to listen or watch tonight's 94th US Open Cup First Round. Click to continue reading...

Much more going on today than the Euro 2008 broadcasts, which we hope will perk up now that the Dutch side has reminded us that the object of the game is to put the round spheroid in that big net at the other end of the field.

- Explaining transfers (esp. McBride's): MLS has issued a clarification to its 2008 media guide on the transfer window.

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So I decide that I need a footie fix on Saturday night. I proceed to invoke the power of MLSlive.tv to drop in on the Red Bulls-Revs match, when what to my wondering ears should appear, but some halftime bimbette on MSG (read as: Red Bulls TV) narrating the highlights of the United-Crew match. Almost immediately, she pulls off a Christian Miles-esque "Nahm-off", and follows it up with a Click to continue reading...

*For those of you who watched last night's US-Mexico match, you just witnessed a star being born.
Thrown into the wolf den known as the fiercest rivalry in North America, the much-heralded Jozy Altidore shined. Even without the deft header he scored to put the States up 2-1, the 18-year-old looked like a man amongst boys many times. Click to continue reading...

I saw an article on a Chivas related website today talking about how the MLS needed to distance themselves from ESPN. The writer of the article was obviously furious with the telecast last night between Chvias and DC United because ESPN failed to get the game on live and on time. I totally understand the problem [...] Click to continue reading...