If Alejandro Bedoya and Helsingborg are to reach the UEFA Champions League group stage, they'll
need to pull off an inspired road performance.
The Swedish champions conceded a second-minute goal to Kris Commons that set the tone for
Celtic's 2-0 victory in the first leg of their final qualifying round tie, one that happened on
Helsingborg's home ground.
European clubs and UEFA have come to an agreement that would alter the international calendar
significantly.
Under the new agreement, which has yet to be approved by FIFA, the number of international
matches would be reduced from 12 a year to an average of nine per year over the course of a
two-year period.
American striker Mike Grella has joined Scottish club Motherwell on loan, the club announced on
Thursday.
Grella joins Motherwell from English side Leeds United, where he has struggled for playing time.
Grella most recently went on loan to Carlisle United, where he scored three goals in 11
appearances.
Tribe Women's Soccer Ties N.C. State, 1-1, in Exhibition Courtesy TribeAthletics.com Sat, August
11, 2012 RALEIGH, N.C. - The William and Mary women's soccer team and N.C. State
played to a, 1-1 draw Saturday evening in the College's lone exhibition match before opening the
2012 season Friday, Aug.
Courtesy TribeAthletics.com Tue, July 24, 2012 WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - William and
Mary women's soccer head coach John Daly announced the hiring of Lorraine Quinn to the position of
assistant coach on Tuesday. Quinn comes to the College from Durham University in the United Kingdom
where she served as an assistant women's soccer coach.
Andrew Wenger finally got his first start this past weekend, now that he's graduated Duke
University and joined the Montreal Impact full time.
All he did was score a goal and score the 5th highest of all MLS players in the league's weekly
Castrol Index rankings. We think that makes him our Philadelphia Player of the Week.
When Revolution head coach Jay Heaps signed his squad up for the FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup
tournament, many assumed that the team's defense was primed for a pounding against the
competition.
The competition? Only the defending champions (Los Angeles), a CONCACAF Champions League
finalist (Real Salt Lake), and a team with one of the biggest budgets in the league (New York).
The expansion Montreal Impact used their first pick in franchise history to select the versatile
Andrew Wenger with the top pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft on Thursday afternoon in Kansas
City.
Wenger, considered to be the most talented and complete player in the draft, enjoyed a
successful career at Duke University.
The day has finally arrived. Coaches, General Managers, Owners, and PR battalions all across
Major League Soccer have descended upon Kansas City in hopes of landing the next big name in
American soccer. This year's draft has a particularly heightened importance and buzz around New
England, given the Revolution's #3 overall pick in this afternoon's draft, and with several holes
to fill, it's clear that the 2012 MLS Super Draft has huge implications on the birth of the new
Revs regime.
The team agreed to deals with trialists Michael Videira and Orr Barouch on Thursday, adding two
more names to the fold in a season full of acquisitions. The Fire now has 25 players on its senior
roster.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" is the famous Ralph Waldo Emerson
quote, but it also could be the life credo for 'the Head Ball Coach', Steve Spurrier.
Spurrier's success on the college football field speaks for itself, and is second only to Bear
Bryant in SEC victories.
Pennsylvania native Andrew Wenger won the Hermann Trophy Friday as the best player in men's
college soccer. The former Reading United and Duke University star is expected to be a top-3 pick
in this month's MLS college draft. Stanford's Teresa Noyola won the women's award.
I had the chance to visit with a high school basketball team yesterday, and in their pre-practice
meeting, they were referring to an article that I had also once written about a couple of years
back. The article had to do with toughness, which ESPN's Jay Bilas has a
pretty good reference point about.
Graham Hays of ESPN writes of the great rivalry in women's soccer between Duke University and the
University of North Carolina, which is led by two of the finest coaches in the United States in
Anson Dorrance of UNC and Robbie Church at Duke.
If you don't know what you're looking for, the soccer practice field is easy to miss as you
drive along the far edge of Duke's campus.
Arsene Wenger might consider his namesake Andrew Wenger in his search for a full back. Wenger, a
Duke University standout shows why he is the top pick in this year's MLS SuperDraft. He is listed
as a defender/forward and you can see why. He has impressive ball skills, attacks down the flanks
with speed, and finishes impressively.
The annual NSCAA convention just got a lot more fun with the announcement that two MISL teams, The
Comets and Wings, will play a match during the weekend long soccer convention taking place this
year in Kansas City, MS.
The MISL put out the following press release regarding the NSCAA match:
The MISL's Missouri Comets will play their annual "Retro Game" honoring the area's rich indoor
soccer history against the Wichita Wings at Sprint Center on January 14, 2012, during the National
Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Annual Convention in Kansas City.
The annual NSCAA convention just got a lot more fun with the announcement that two MISL teams, The
Comets and Wings, will play a match during the weekend long soccer convention taking place this
year in Kansas City, MS.
The MISL put out the following press release regarding the NSCAA match:
The MISL's Missouri Comets will play their annual "Retro Game" honoring the area's rich indoor
soccer history against the Wichita Wings at Sprint Center on January 14, 2012, during the National
Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Annual Convention in Kansas City.
DURHAM, N.C.-Former Duke University men's soccer head coach John Rennie will be
honored for his success in and service to the game of soccer when he is inducted into the North
Carolina Hall of Fame on Jan. 22. The longtime coach led Duke to the school's first NCAA title in
any sport when the Blue Devils captured the 1986 NCAA Championship.
Stanford and Duke advanced to Sunday's national championship game of the NCAA Women's College Cup
with three-goal victories in both semifinals on Friday night. Stanford defeated Florida State 3-0
in the first match, and Duke ran out 4-1 victors over Wake Forest. This year's College Cup was
located at Kennesaw State University's new soccer-specific stadium, about 30 minutes northwest of
downtown Atlanta.
From the Evansville Courier Press, September 11, 2011
Why Evansville?
That was the question I was asked by some friends at a Purple Aces Club gathering, and I think my
answer pleasantly surprised those I was sitting with.
Having been born and raised in the New York metropolitan area and despite growing up with a sports
orientation through professional sports teams like the Cosmos, Yankees and Knickerbockers, I was
always a college soccer fan.
Box-to-box midfielders who are the targets of top colleges and the US National Team are rare.
The Seattle Sounders had one of those players in their U-18 Academy up until a couple months ago.
He put up two goals in 12 appearances (10 starts) on a team that is dominating its league. Then
college spring soccer started, and Nick Palodichuck enrolled early at Duke University.
At some point today, we'll have a complete list of Seattle Sounders Academy players who signed
National Letters of Intent, but we can confirm at least three players who did, as well as one who
has not yet signed. Defender DeAndre Yedlin has officially committed to the University of Akron;
defender Nick Palodichuk has already enrolled at Duke University; and goalkeeper Ryan Herman has
committed to Santa Clara University.
Thomas Rongen has selected the 20 players for the United States Under-20 World Cup qualifying
campaign that gets underway later this month.
Eight MLS players and 16 professionals in total highlight the roster, which includes the likes
of Sebastian Lletget, Joseph Gyau, Conor Doyle and Omar Salgado but does not include Bayern Munich
youth product Fabian Huerzeler.
For the second straight match, the U.S. Under-20 men's national team earned a tie in the Torneo
de las Americas, and for the second match the Americans fell in penalty kicks.
Gale Agbossoumonde converted a rebound of his own saved header in the 70th minute to give the
U.
Lots of kids dream of one day making it in pro sports. Seth Stammler did. And now he's leaving
it all behind, "retiring" before he even turns 30, to do something he figures offers a better
future:
Work on his MBA in analytical finance at the University of Chicago.
For one thing, the money's better in business, says Stammler, a 28-year-old Ohio native who's
making $123,900 this year playing midfield for the New York Red Bulls, according to the Major
League Soccer Players Union.
It's always a good sign about the your club's future when three players, well three and a
potential fourth future Dynamo star, get called in to a US Men's National Team U-23 training camp.
Danny Cruz, Kofi Sarkodie and Will Bruin head to Florida starting next week for a week long camp
with new U-23 head coach Caleb Porter.
I had the honor of working with Robbie Church for four years at Duke University, and not only is he
one of the top coaches in the women's game, but is also one of the true gentlemen in the sport.
Although his Duke Blue Devils fell short in the national title game to Paul Ratcliffe and Stanford,
it was clear that Church has firmly placed his Duke side among the nation's elite.
The only piece of business done so far is Gael Clichy and the only signing yet is Carl
Jenkinson. The Arsenal transfer rumours are driven by a couple of different subtexts.
The club has not won silverware for six years: The fact that our winning tradition died quite
some time ago leads to lots of angst.
That was the quote most commonly uttered by former Duke University head soccer coach John Rennie
after a Blue Devils loss - his feelings were that you are never doing as well as you think you are
when you win...and never doing as poorly as you think when you lose. He believed in really trying
to stay at an even keel so as not to let your emotions get the best out of your focus on your next
opponent.
