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Santino Quaranta likely deserved a less abrupt end to his playing career. Instead, he is getting an unprecedented chance at a new beginning.

After not being offered a new contract with D.

The 2012 African Cup of Nations begins this weekend with two host nations, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, which have such a limited record in this competition. The former has never qualified for an African Cup of Nations before and will be an unknown quantity to most observers of this year's tournament whilst the latter have competed in just four previous tournaments and have only progressed beyond the group stage on just one occasion when reaching the last eight in 1996.

Japanese World Cup winner Homare Sawa beat out a strong field that included Brazilian Marta and Abby Wambach to win the FIFA Women's World Player of the year 2011.

Marta who was looking to win the award for a 6th consecutive time had to contend with a second place finish while Abby Wambach of the USA came in in third place.

Lionel Messi won the FIFA Balon d'OR for the second consecutive time after the inception of the award last year. With this victory he has won the FIFA World Player of Year and Balon d'Or for the third consecutive time. It was a no btainer from the time the three man shortlist was announced.

The Philadelphia Union announced on Tuesday that the 2012 season opener will take place against Portland Timbers at Jeld-Wen Field on Monday, March 12.

Kickoff will be at 9:30pm EST and the match will be nationally broadcast on ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and ESPN3.

The Union recently announced that the home opener will take place on Sunday, March 18.

I am a big fan of Brazilian legend Pele, however, his recent remarks about players from other nationalities is sad to say the least. Only a few weeks ago, Pele was in the news making similar comments regarding Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi. This time, Pele has shifted his attention to England international Wayne Rooney.

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Suarez 'embarrassed' to win Liverpool player of the month award for third consecutive time

"I'm just doing my job and I'm working hard for the team," says modest striker

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The Seattle Sounders won the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup title for the third consecutive time Tuesday night by defeating the Chicago Fire 2-0, to the delight of the huge crowd at their CenturyLink home field. The Sounders made Open Cup history by becoming only the fourth club in the nearly 100 years of the [.

It's been a summer marred by disappointment for U.S. Soccer. Most notably there was the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final collapse against Mexico by the U.S. Men's National Team and the loss to Japan in the Women's World Cup Final by the U.S. Women's National Team.

But while those two defeats may have garnered the most attention, the youth national teams on the men's side were also falling well short of expectations.

After winning the Scottish Premier League for the third consecutive time, Maurice Edu and Rangers will be aiming to kick of the season where they left off when the host Hearts on Saturday.

NASL Week 14 consisted of two reversals of fortune, as NSC Minnesota beat the Carolina RailHawks 1-0 Saturday to break Carolina's 13 game unbeaten streak, while the Atlanta Silverbacks got only their second win of the season, holding on for a 3-2 victory in Fort Lauderdale over the Strikers.

Is it time for Bob Bradley to go?
Most US national team supporters will answer with a resounding "Yes!" when asked that question. I've not been calling for Bradley's head on a platter or anything of the sort, but I'm starting to think that removing him is the only way for the US to really move forward.

Come join Minnesota supporters of the Men's National Team, along with readers of IMSoccer News, duNord Futbol, and the Dark Clouds supporters group for a US National Team watch party.

The US National Team plays Panama in a CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal game, Wednesday, June 22 with a 6:00 p.

(This entry is formulated with extracts from the press release issued by the Football Association of Singapore)
(Pictured above) The result of the draw
Defending champions Bangkok Glass confirmed the earlier quibbles of not coming back to defend the RHB Singapore Cup they won last year, while last season's runners-up Tampines Rovers will face Geylang United in a "eastern derby" showdown.

While one Brazilian icon exits the soccer stage, a future one took another step toward entering the limelight after a stellar showing in the CONMEBOL Under-20 championships in Peru.

Neymar scored two goals in the finale on Saturday -- a 6-0 thrashing of Uruguay -- to capture the tournament's golden boot with nine goals, outlasting his closest competition by five scores.

As protests ended in Egypt today, and Egypt went into a very new phase in history, I hope everything will be very positive in future, this is a gift with a video with a song and nice celebrations in Egypt when they won the African Cup for the third consecutive time