Leo Messi continues his incandescent national form which can only be good for Argentina's World
Cup chances. The little maestro unleashed a free kick that swerved past the wall and lodged into
goal. The Albiceleste's Real Madrid contingent also contributed with Angel Di Maria opening his
country's account and Gonzalo Higuain adding to that tally.
Leo Messi continues his incandescent national form which can only be good for Argentina's World
Cup chances. The little maestro unleashed a free kick that swerved past the wall and lodged into
goal. The Albiceleste's Real Madrid contingent also contributed with Angel Di Maria opening his
country's account and Gonzalo Higuain adding to that tally.
The Swiss cut open the German defense like one of their cheeses. To be fair they were missing
the Bayern Munich contingent with Manuel Neuer, Philipp Lahm, Holger Badtstuber, Derek Boateng,
Toni Kroos, and Bastian Schweinsteiger rested for this match.
Eren Derdiyok scored a hat trick, two of them through headers, as the Germans elected to remain
earthbound.
Joe Allen claims to have 'massive belief' in his ability and to have embraced the pressure which
accompanies a big-money move to Liverpool.
The Wales international moved to Anfield during the summer transfer window in a £15million switch
from Swansea.
He may only be 22, but Allen is now regarded as a key figure for club and country.
Tottenham's transfer window: Late additions of Lloris and Dempsey bolster AVB's contingent -
originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Tottenham were one of the busier sides in the transfer window this summer, with Andre
Villas-Boas eager to add his own touch to the squad he inherited earlier in the off-season.
By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Aug 17, 2012) US Soccer Players – For those of you who aren't
fans of the regular revolving contenders in England's Premier League, there's some good news for
2012-13. Though the dueling Manchesters will almost assuredly be competing for the title, the
London contingent might not have done enough.
Oscar has completed a medical and been granted a work permit as he closes in on a £25million
move to Chelsea.
The 20-year-old midfielder will join the European champions after the Olympics from Brazilian
side Internacional.
Oscar, is a rising star of South American football, and has established himself at international
level with six full caps and is expected to play a key role at the 2014 World Cup in his home
country.
Spurs Gareth Bale Bale was widely anticipated to be included in team GB for next month's Olympic
tournament but reports today say that the Wales international has suffered a recurrence of an old
back and hip injury.
Bale is said to be reluctant to risk aggravating the injury further, with Tottenham's Barclays
Premier League opener at Newcastle just seven weeks away and is believed to have already informed
Pearce of his decision to make himself unavailable for selection after taking medical advice.
Liverpool now have five players in Roy Hodgson's England squad for the Euro 2012 tournament.
Following the late withdrawal of Chelsea's Frank Lampard due to a thigh injury, young Jordan
Henderson has been called up the England Squad for the Championships.
This brings the Liverpool contingent to five:
Captain Steve Gerrard, Glen Johnson, Stuart Downing, Andy Carroll and Henderson.
That's what Gooners will be chanting come August 2012. Arsenal yesterday announced the signing
of Lukas Podolski from Cologne. Let's be honest, we knew this was coming for weeks but it is still
good to hear about it officially. One of the reasons muted online for the delayed announcement was
that Cologne didn't want the news to affect their relegation scrap.
Hopefully a good metaphor for the Timbers after the game The Rapids head for the
Rose City on Friday night to face the Timbers, a team they have never lost to. Portland, of course,
is where long-time Rapids fan favorite Kosuke Kimura was traded to and I'm sure he's going to want
to show Colorado what they're missing.
Colorado left this afternoon for the short flight to Kansas City for tomorrow's U.S. Open Cup 4th
Round game. Game time is 6:30pm and there will supposedly be a stream of the game available on the
Rapids website though exact details have not been announced. They also have not announced the
travelling roster yet, but they did post a picture of Kimura and Freeman boarding the bus.
The "who jumps bitches" is in reference to what we thought the capos were singing.
Not you Timber Army.
Tonight at BMO, the all-star teams of Toronto A, B and C against a relatively full-Portland side
that's struggling.
21' - GOAL - After a block off of the line from Avila, Sal Zizzo puts home the
rebound.
We all knew it was going to happen since this morning, but the 2:30 press conference made it
official: the Portland Timbers have fired John Spencer, the team's first coach of the MLS era.
Gavin Wilkinson will serve as interim coach until the end of the season. Club owner Merritt Paulson
and General Manager, Technical Director and Interim Head Coach Gavin Wilkinson made the
announcement jointly at Jeld Wen Field today.
The Sounders draw at Chivas on Friday wasn't the result we all hoped for, but it definitely
wasn't a bad outcome either. Earning a 1-1 draw on the road, especially when they had to come back
from a deficit, against an improving Chivas team that has always played Seattle tough at the end of
a grueling stretch of games - in the long run, I think that's a fine result.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has penned a letter of thanks to the club's travelling fans who
watched them beat FC Gomel in the Europa League on Thursday.
A small contingent of Reds fans made the 1,500 mile journey to Belarus to support their team in
Rodgers' first competitive game as manager of the Merseysiders.
Of course not all Indonesian football fans are thugs. The vast majority are decent folk who just
wanna support their team without being teargassed by police, get caught up in a brawl or have
ambitious politicians use them for their own nefarious purposes.
Couple of weeks back I saw PSS fans putting on a far better show than their team did against
Persipasi.
Neil W. Blackmon For the first fifteen minutes of the group stages, the few questions that
surrounded the USWNT's quest to defend its gold medal at the London Olympics seemed legitimate
ones. Before most of the sizeable (and global) press contingent that follows the USWNT had settled
into their seats at Hampden Park, the Americans [.
Paddy has jumped on the Kiwi bandwagon for the Olympics, predicting the A-League contingent will
guide them to the knock-out stages. Nick Cumpston and Nick Amies are less optimistic about their
chances, but everyone is looking forward to the Matildas clash with world champions Japan tomorrow
night. All this and more on the Nearpost!
Paddy has jumped on the Kiwi bandwagon for the Olympics, predicting the A-League contingent will
guide them to the knock-out stages. Nick Cumpston and Nick Amies are less optimistic about their
chances, but everyone is looking forward to the Matildas clash with world champions Japan tomorrow
night. All this and more on the Nearpost!
The second home match of the season is the fourth in 8 days for the Sounders Women and the last
in a while for the contingent of national team players, who will be traveling to Sweden for a
two-week camp involving matches against Sweden and Japan as they warm up for the Olympics this
summer.
Facing them will be the onetime Colorado Force, who changed their name this season as they
partnered with the Colorado Rapids.
Visiting the White House with his Los Angeles Galaxy teammates was just the beginning of David
Beckham's whirlwind week.
Assuming his role as one of London's ambassadors for this summer's Olympic games, Beckham will
be part of the contingent bringing the Olympic torch from Athens to London on Friday, one of the
traditional ceremonies in the build-up to an Olympics.
A tired good morning to you. I had a terrible night's sleep. One of those where it takes ages
and ages to drop off and you have a snippet of a song going around and around in your head. I
suspect it was the lack of the visual sleeping pill that is a Euro 2012 quarter-final, so instead
of counting sheep I counted England penalties but only got to two each time.
Amidst all of this Euro 2012, the Supplemental draft, and the Open Cup, the Sounders Women game
tonight could easily be overlooked. Please, don't succumb to the temptation to stay in the warm
climes of home. Venture out to Starfire and cheer on the Women to their second victory over the
Vancouver Whitecaps.
Euro 2012 is only a week away and when the continental tournament kicks off in Poland and Ukraine
next Friday, United fans will have a very small contingent of players to look at, the smallest in a
big tournament in recent years. England face a tough task in a group including one the host nations
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If the official release on the game is any indication, it looks like the FC Dallas contingent at
Dirk Nowitzki's 2012 Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game on June 30 at Dr Pepper Ballpark in Frisco will
now consist of Kevin Hartman and Brek Shea.
Tonight the Sounders Women play their first competitive match of the season at Starfire after
picking up a road win against Vancouver in their opener. With the team is the full contingent of
national team players, who've rushed back from a friendly with China to take part in the home
opener.
This is the middle match in great stretch for Starfire, with the senior Sounders winning the US
Open Cup match last night, the Sounders Women kicking off tonight, and the Reserves kick off
tomorrow with the potential of a Steve Zakuani sighting.
The starting lineup that the Seattle Sounders Women sent out onto the wet Starfire pitch this
evening was the one that we all dreamed about when the preseason flurry of world class signings
came to an end. In goal, Hope Solo. At forward, Alex Morgan and Sydney Leroux. In the midfield
Keelin Winter, Megan Rapinoe, and Veronica Perez.
It appears that Maurice Edu and Alejandro Bedoya's days at Rangers are coming to a close.
With the embattled club set for a League Cup battle against East Fife Tuesday, Edu and Bedoya
won't be part of the festivities, with Rangers manager Ally McCoist leaving both players out of
the squad for the match, claiming that they both are leaving the club.
Don't look now, but here come the MLS Cup finalists.
After spending much of the season in the middle of the SBI MLS Power Rankings pack, the Houston
Dynamo and Los Angeles Galaxy have ridden unbeaten runs to the fifth and sixth positions,
respectively, in this week's poll.
Houston, undefeated in six and on a three-game winning streak, now sits third in the Eastern
Conference.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. The New England Revolution will be on the road in Kansas City on July 21st,
but that won't stop a large contingent of some of the soccer club's most vocal supporters from
making the trek to Gillette Stadium. Instead of heading to Foxboro for a Revs match, the Midnight
Riders and the Rebellion – two of the team's most prominent supporters groups – will be playing
a match of their own and raising money for charity in the process.
Yesterday we were treated to the first pictures of pre-season training and, leaving aside the
the fact that the training kit looks like it was designed by Prince and Helen Keller, everything
seemed pretty rosy. Andre Santos was there, looking like he'd spent most of the summer eating
delicious pies of all kinds.
With fan balloting recently starting for the 2012 MLS All-Star Game, that means the FC Dallas
contingent of five players who are on that ballot were also released. Here's a breakdown of who's
on the ballot and whether or not they deserve to head to the Midseason Classic.
PPL Park - USWNT vs China 05/27/2012Chester, PA - Sunday evening VA Soccer News was
at PPL Park in Chester, PA along with Southwestern Youth Association (SYA) who took a contingent of
the youth clubs girls players up to Philadelphia to watch the U.S. Women's National Team compete
against China in a pre-olympic international friendly.
On Thursday, Part 1 of Mark's blog looked at off-the field factors that influenced Town's
10th year in the second tier of English Football League.
Today, Mark looks in detail at the man in charge of the on-field action, the man who currently
holds the key to the future of Ipswich Town, the man I've been trying so hard to have faith in this
season: Paul Jewell.
It wasn't long ago when a young Charlie Davies became a hero in Sweden with Hammarby and now in
2012, Baggio Husidic is part of an American contingent aiming to bring the club back to glory.
Eintracht (red/black shirts) plays FC Bayern in an U-19 game
Hi everybody, I'm back! Yes, it has been a while since I've written anything new for the blog
and I won't bore you with the reasons for my prolonged absence. It's also been a while since I went
on an Away Day to Frankfurt am Main and wanted to share with you the joys of celebrating promotion
with my favourite German club Eintracht Frankfurt.
