It's a super live blog for a super Cup Final. Join Jason and a cast of prominent soccer bloggers as find who will be crowned 2009 MLS champion. MLS Cup Final - Super! live blog

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Liverpool have had a very bad start to the season.Thirteen games played only 6 wins and 2 draws to their name with an astounding 20 goals conceded already, our title challenge in all but over in November.Why have Liverpool let in so many goals this season?One has to question the role of backs coach Mauricio Pellegrino. Click to continue reading...

I like the Galaxy to beat Real Salt Lake.

I asked my friend Dan Loney, who is a huge Galaxy fan but hates David Beckham like people who really hate things hate things, "Would you be conflicted if Becks scored the game-winner Sunday night?"

Dan said, "HE OWES US.

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Two teams left, one cup to play for. The long and difficult MLS season has been successfully navigated by Real Salt Lake and Los Angeles Galaxy. On Sunday, the season comes to an end and MLS will crown a champion.

In the city where MLS has been a runaway success this season, a one club will emerge victorious.

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Two teams left, one cup to play for. The long and difficult MLS season has been successfully navigated by Real Salt Lake and Los Angeles Galaxy. On Sunday, the season comes to an end and MLS will crown a champion.

In the city where MLS has been a runaway success this season, a one club will emerge victorious.

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The Second Annual "Gillette - EA SPORTS Champions of Gaming Tournament on Xbox 360," is the world's largest multi-sport online gaming competition that pits gamers from around the globe against each other, and ultimately for the winners, against some of the biggest names in the world of sports, including Gillette Champion Tiger Woods. Click to continue reading...

Greetings, Dynamo fans. As we are all well aware, our beloved Orange fell short of the 2009 championship. It was a valiant effort against David Beckham and the LA Galaxy. Watching from Houston, the Dynamo played well on Friday night, but early Saturday was a different story.

As midnight passed, LA took advantage of two costly fouls by Ricardo Clark.

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I read Anson Dorrance's book "The Vision of a Champion" a while back, his 2nd book where he talks about the competitive cauldron system they use for UNC Women's Soccer. He talked about a coach who had adapted it for youth teams, but the links provided don't work anymore and Google failed me, so I'm working on my own adaption.

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After granting a spot in next year's first division of Brazilian football, Vasco da Gama finished the combo and took home the dubious title of champion of the second division. Wearing a commemorative jersey (not very tasteful, if I may say), the club cameback to beat America-RN at a packed Maracana.

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Bixente Lizarazu. 97 Caps for France, one World Cup winners medal, one European Championships medal, one Champions League winners medal and six Bundesliga titles.
Did you know that he is also the current European jiu-jitsu champion in the under 76kg category for blue belts aged 35-40? Click to continue reading...

I was watching MNF last night and they were interviewing a coach from one of the games Sunday.
The coach said a couple things I thought were important and thus will share them.
He said that each of his players expects excellence from themselves. The individual players work their butts off so they can better themselves as players and contribute to the best of their abilities to the team. Click to continue reading...

Some big news is coming out today. The Team Owners Association or TOA is moving forward in their plan to break away from the USL first division and form their own league. TOA just released a press release making their plans public with the decision to move forward with a new division 2 league in North America.

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Did I call it or what?

Charm City FC defeats La Mara - who had previously won the tournament for eight consecutive years - in a barn-burner championship match that saw the final scoreline stand at 3-2. CCFC has said they'll be back next year to defend their title and I'm sure La Mara will want to recapture the title!

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Valencia netted a 3-1 victory over Zaragoza on Sunday in what could be called a watershed match for the club led by David Villa. Valencia now sits at 21 points and is a mere 5 behind 1st place Barca. Now that the Top 4 teams are within 5 points of one another we can really see a race developing at the top of the Table for the Premier Division.

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I watched the Liverpool vs. Birmingham game on the box yesterday evening and saw the Red's truly batter Birmingham. I muted the TV as I couldn't stand for another Jon Champion assisted commentary and put on Five Live instead. Out of the fire and into the frying pan. Instead of Champion, I got Green, Alan Green. Click to continue reading...

Kickapoo Chiefs -
Glendale Falcons -

The Sectional game between the Carthage Tigers (District 12 champion) and the Glendale Falcons/Kickapoo Chiefs (District 11 Champion) will be played on Tuesday November 10th at 6:30 pm at Cooper Soccer Complex at Lake Country Soccer.

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Kickapoo Chiefs, Ian Kennedy (2010)

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Glendale Falcons 0

The Sectional game between the Carthage Tigers (District 12 champion) and the Glendale Falcons/Kickapoo Chiefs (District 11 Champion) will be played on Tuesday November 10th at 6:30 pm at Cooper Soccer Complex at Lake Country Soccer.

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I might be a bit premature in saying this, but with our Champion's League hopes hanging by a thread, I was looking at the B competition, The Europa League.
In it you have some of the powerhouses of European football such as Stum Graz, FC Sheriff, Fc Twente, Bate, Dinamo Zagreb, Austria Vienna and other Luminaries of the game! Click to continue reading...

Liverpool drew 1-1 with Lyon last night, leaving any chance of getting through the group stages of the Champion's League hanging by a thread' but what do you think went wrong last night? There are a number of possible reasons: Rafa's tactics/his woeful decision to play Voronin/the lack of introduction of Aquilani/bringing on Babel too late, [. Click to continue reading...

After last night's rout against AZ Alkmaar in the Champion's League Group stage, Arsene Wenger said that he does not need to buy new players when the transfer window re-open again in January.
Arsenal boast abundance of attacking options at their disposal, with the likes of Van Persie, Bendtner, Eduardo, Walcott, Vela, Rosicky, Nasri, Arshavin, Denilson, etc. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool face Lyon in the Champion's League tonight, but given the fact that Rafa has an injury list longer than his arm; who do you think should play? The squad is as follows: Reina, Cavalieri, Carragher, Ayala, Darby, Insua, Agger, Kyrgiakos, Kuyt, Lucas, Benayoun, Aquilani, Babel, Mascherano, Spearing, Plessis, Ngog, Voronin, Torres. Click to continue reading...

Sir Alex Ferguson has referee issues again.He called referee Olegario Benquerenca's decision not to give Darren Fletcher a penalty in the Man U v/s CSKA champion's league clash the worst decision he has ever seen.Meanwhile the game ended at 3 goals a piece.Michael Owen's goal stretched the offside rule to the limits of its credibility.

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The Reds of Liverpool showed great promise early in the season going on a 6 match winning streak after dropping their first match to Tottenham. Then, over the last 4 matches...they've lost 3. Liverpool was so UPthat I considered doing a long interest piece on the team, then I got distracted with all the other mayhem and foolishness going on in the Premier League and now I look up and they've lost 3 of 4 matches.

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The News Of The World have had a statement from a Man United ‘insider', who claims that defender Rio Ferdinand could be out for up to eight weeks. Ferdinand has struggled with a back injury ever since last season's Champion's League game against Porto.
It has been obvious that there is something wrong with Ferdinand; he hasn't quite been himself and if that is down to an injury then hopefully that can be sorted. Click to continue reading...

Its got to be Liverpool's worst run in years.Five defeats in the League already, beaten twice in the Champion's League and we will be going out unless we win our last three group matches, plus out of the Carling Cup alreadyIt is Rafa Benitez's poorest spell in charge of Liverpool since he joined us five years ago. Click to continue reading...

News tonight that Steven Gerrard may need surgery on his troublesome groin injury will be meet with dismay by Liverpool football club and its fans.Gerrard, after all, got injured playing for England against the Ukraine when England had already qualified for next year's World Cup so what was he doing playing in that match in the first place? Click to continue reading...

So once again, right here on the cusp of the playoffs, when we should all be feeling good about MLS and the competition and the soon-to-be champion, we get reality smacking us in the face that this is a league that is run by a bunch of marketing executives who think that selling toothpaste is the same as running a sports league. Click to continue reading...

Police are looking for a man who bit part of a fan's ear off before the Champion's League final between Man United and Barcelona last May.
Mobile phone footage of the attack has emerged so police are now looking for the man.
The victim, aged 46, intervened an argument between the attacked and a woman before the game. Click to continue reading...

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Alberto Paloschi, attaccante del Parma ma cresciuto nel vivaio rossonero; Nicola Pozzi, anche lui bomber scuola Milan, arrivato quest'anno in Liguria, sponda blucerchiata, dopo quattro stagioni trascorse in Toscana, all'Empoli, e infine Davide Santon, nato calcisticamente come esterno a Ravenna e poi reinventato terzino da Mourinho che lo ha portato subito in prima squadra, facendolo esordire in Coppa Italia contro la Roma. Click to continue reading...

Over the past week or so, I've found myself pondering the playoff structure that MLS uses to determine its champion. I'm both solidly American (and no, that's nothing to be ashamed of) and a fan of...

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After Barca destroyed Zaragoza 6-0 the other day now we have saying Xavi saying it's all good in the home of the '92 Olympics.

I beg to differ.

Listen, they drew Valencia (no slouch of a team, but they're not as good as Barca), they lost to a Russian club in the Champion's League and then they took out their frustrations on Zaragoza.

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Joe Royle, Football and Management legend and current ESPN UK co-commentator joins us on the EPL Talk Podcast.

Hear Royle's thoughts about the opportunity to work with the legendary Jon Champion on ESPN, as well as his memories of the epic second division playoff final at Wembley between Manchester City and Gillingham.

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Pink Panthers U14, Missouri Mule's 2009 Tournament Champions

This weekend we played the Missouri Mule tournament hosted by the Summitt Soccer Club in Blue Springs, MO (outside of KC). The Panthers played incredible soccer resulting in three consecutive shut-out matches in the Black Molly Division. Click to continue reading...

Pink Panthers U14, Missouri Mule's 2009 Tournament Champions

This weekend we played the Missouri Mule tournament hosted by the Summitt Soccer Club in Blue Springs, MO (outside of KC). The Panthers played incredible soccer resulting in three consecutive shut-out matches in the Black Molly Division. Click to continue reading...

We've seen it happen before. Many times over. Sadly, companies and their marketing teams like to take hot footballers and turn them into dorks for sales purposes. It's a wide-spread (albeit, entertaining) issue in our community.

This Gillette ad wants you to rate the "champion of the future" and you can win a razor.

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