Support for FC Richmond soccer coach and former William and Mary player, Ian Stowe who is battling a tumor continues to come from all areas of the soccer community. Today the Richmond Kicker organization announced they will hold a benefit exhibition match to support #stowestrong.
From Kickers Press Release:
RICHMOND, VA – (Friday, February 10, 2012) – In support of Ian Stowe's battle with cancer, the Richmond Kickers and The College of William & Mary are pleased to team up for a benefit exhibition match on Friday, March 23.

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The U.S. men's national team's rumored friendly against Brazil has been confirmed, and FedExField will be the site for its location.

In preparation for World Cup qualifying, the United States will host Brazil on May 30 at the home of the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md.

In the wake of decision to suspend the 2012 WPS season, the Boston Breakers announced that they exploring "other options" for fielding a team this year.

On Monday, the team issued a statement on its home page that while the organization remains committed to restarting WPS, they would not rule out the possibility of entering the team into the Women's Premier Soccer League of the USL-sponsored W-League for 2012.

Photo: Paul Rudderow

Le Talk

Yesterday he's going, today he is staying. An article from sportinglife.com suggests that Le Toux "did not impress sufficiently" at Bolton. Owen Coyle is quoted in the article, "Sebastien came in for a couple of days, and to be fair to him he hadn't trained for four or five weeks.

By Chris Wright

To commemorate his jinky goal against Flamengo winning the 2011 Puskas Award for Goal of the Year recently, 19-year old Neymar has been immortalised with an exhibition in the Santos club museum a display which includes this rather handsome/hideously ugly <delete as applicable> tin statue of the Brazilian urchin himself, complete with a razor-sharp mohawk which is presumably fabricated from old Fanta cans.

So I saw this happening yesterday, but can't, for the life of me, find a credible source aside from an errant tweet from somebody named Guillermo Arango, an apparent radio host or writer for RCN Radio. How trustworthy is he? Entirely unknown. Still it got Twitter all in a flurry of activity yesterday so I guess we should report on it.

Villarreal's tiki-taka exhibition

15 passes in about 20 seconds? Barcelona may have mastered the art of tiki-taka, short one and two-touch passing (normally formed in shifting triangles created by three footballers), but Villarreal showed us this past weekend against Valencia that the likes of Borja Valero are on to you, Xavi.

It's obvious that Ben Arfa was simply delighted with his sub appearance yesterday at the Reebok Stadium. Ben Arfa - getting towards being fully fit The Frenchman came on after 61 minutes and changed the game for Newcastle, and he got the very important first goal on 69 minutes with an exhibition of his great skill.

Well we've all been wondering what the Portland Timbers pre-season plans were and today they've been given a serious spotlight. Per the title of this article, the Timbers will host Chivas USA, San Jose Earthquakes and AIK (from Sweden's first division Allsvenskan) from February 27th-March 4th, about 1 week prior to First Kick 2012).

Once again the College Cup is upon us. While this game has little to do with MLS as a whole, it's nice to see the current top crop of NCAA soccer prospects, especially since many of them are probably looking at MLS as an entry to playing professionally. A few are probably already signed up for Generation Adidas as well.

Melbourne Victory and LA Galaxy have played out a 2-2 draw in an exhibition match at Etihad Stadium tonight in front of 34,608 fans, but an unexpected penalty shootout was scheduled which Los Angeles won 4-3. Harry Kewell was left out of the squad in order to keep him well rested and injury free but the main

It was a process that took around six years from top to tail in total, and it came in three very distinct phases. I had been a supporter of the England national team, reasoning that, with no foreign blood in the family tree and a knowledge that we weren't all as bad as we were painted, I had to have someone to follow for international tournaments.

It was a process that took around six years from top to tail in total, and it came in three very distinct phases. I had been a supporter of the England national team, reasoning that, with no foreign blood in the family tree and a knowledge that we weren't all as bad as we were painted, I had to have someone to follow for international tournaments.

Tukwila, Wash.-- Seattle Sounders FC U18 Academy team (2-0-1) and U16 Academy team (1-1-1) played Victoria Highlanders today in exhibition play, in preparation for USSDA Northwest Division play next weekend.

The U18 team won by a score of 3-2.

Goal Scorers: Dominique Dismuke (2), Jordan Schweitzer

The U16 team won by a score of 6-0.

Fernando Torres believes that the reason behind his disappointing goal return since moving to Chelsea in January is playing in a city as busy as London.

As the Spaniard prepares for his nation's exhibition match in the English capital Saturday evening, he has expressed a belief that London's reputation as one of the most happening cities in the world comes with a price: a lower comfort level.

Manchester United defender Phil Jones and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart are astonished to find two of their club teammates nowhere within the sight of England's squad ahead of Spain's highly anticipated visit to Wembley on Saturday evening.

Jones, who has been tipped as the future leader of United's defense, is still coming to terms with the exclusion of current leader Rio Ferdinand while Hart fully expected to see in-form right-back Micah Richards picked for the exhibition against the reigning World and European Champions.

Puma has unveiled new kits for its ten partnered African national teams at the opening of a month-long exhibition, Interpretations of Africa: Football, Art and Design, at the Design Museum in London.

LONDON, UK (November, 7 2011) – Global sportlifestyle brand PUMA® today unveiled the new South African national team football kit at the opening of a month-long exhibition, Interpretations of Africa: Football, Art and Design, at the Design Museum in London. Star footballers including Bafana Bafana captain Steven Pienaar, Samuel Eto'o of Cameroon, John Mensah of [.

Bob Bradley on being an American in charge of the Egyptian national team-
"As an American I saw on TV and read about the January revolution and I respect what the Egyptians have done for what they believe. And when you are a coach of a national team your team must be connected to the people," he said.

On the 11th of October of this calends, two teams full of what Juventini call Great Champions will convene in the once beautiful seaside city of Pescara to give an exhibition of football of the highest quality. Yes, contain your excitement, Italy will play against the famed galacticos of Northern Ireland in conditions that usually bring out the finest in Italian national teams, a game that doesn't matter to anyone, as not only have Italy qualified, but Northern Ireland have failed to.

'It's got Zidane, Gerrard and more'

Former Liverpool defender John Scales is spearheading an exciting Champions League exhibition currently wowing crowds flocking to the New Wembley stadium.

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You Don't Know What You've Got Until It's Gone

Liverpool's summer signings have seen the squad strengthened to levels unprecedented in recent times. The depth is such that some sections of the Anfield faithful have even gone as far as to suggest that a even a certain Steven Gerrard is not guaranteed a free passage back to first team football, following a six-month lay-off.

With current matters on the pitch not exactly thrilling, an opportunity to bask in the reflected glory of the past might be more pleasurable if so, you might want to check out this exhibition of Champions League (including when it was the European Cup) which features our own contribution to the competition [.

Liverpool, along with Standard Chartered Bank, have launched a program for nurturing football talent in over 2000 children from around 80 schools run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
There are over 650,000 students from the financially challenged section of the society in over a 1000 schools run by the BMC.

Juventus, one of Italian football's most glamorous sides, unveiled their new state-of-the-art stadium last Thursday with a special exhibition match.

RADFORD, Va. – Ramzi Dridi (Falls Church, Va. / JEB Stuart)' s golden-goal in the 95th minute lifted Radford to a 2-1 exhibition win over Lees McRae in men's soccer action Saturday afternoon at Cupp...
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By Chris Wright

This right here is the art of Leo Fitzmaurice, a chap that specialises in taking soggy tab packets and turning them into miniature football kits and we bloody well love it...

Apparently, the idea first came to Leo (who is neither a smoker or a football fan!

Sophomore Kate Reigle (Brookfield East) had a goal and an assist as No. 12 Marquette blanked the University of Wisconsin 2-0 Saturday night at the McClimon Complex in the lone exhibition match for both women's teams.

Junior Lisa Philbin scored the opener, heading a cross from Reigle past Badgers senior goalkeeper Michele Dalton in the 26th minute.

By Jon Levy USA–Mexico: TYAC Preview There is no such thing as a "friendly" soccer match when the USA and Mexico meet, so you won't see that term appear a second time in this preview. The Yanks and El Tri will meet in an exhibition match on Wednesday night; a match sure to be filled [...]

By Jon Levy USA–Mexico: TYAC Preview There is no such thing as a "friendly" soccer match when the USA and Mexico meet, so you won't see that term appear a second time in this preview. The Yanks and El Tri will meet in an exhibition match on Wednesday night; a match sure to be filled [...]

Tick, tick, BOOM (birthplace of Romelu Kukaku) Season Preview: Ruud Awakening by Off The Post on Mixcloud Greetings! The Off The Post Podcast is back, by no popular demand whatsoever. We've completed our money-spinning tour of the Far East and raised the Pod's profile in the USA through a series of exhibition recordings across its [.

Its a celebration of the long but ultimately successful battle to rid Liverpool of Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
‘Spirit of Shankly: The noise that refused to be dealt with' is an exhibition of 16 photographs taken by group member and photographer John Johnson.
They are on display at Unit 28 on the first floor of Liverpool's Met Quarter shopping centre until September 2.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. And while the Union offense isn't necessarily broken, but it only coalesces for the briefest of moments before returning to an unfocused state.

In front of 10,557 Saturday night at Toyota Park just west of downtown Chicago, the Philadelphia Union found fleeting success and are no closer to re-discovering their identity.

With the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup now in the history books, the first FIFA Women's World Rankings since the completion of the tournament are out. Despite Japan's penalty kick triumph over the USA in the Final, there were no moves in the top five, with finalists the USA continuing to lead the pack, followed by Germany, Brazil, Japan and Sweden.

Admittedly, there was little for the Madison 56ers to play for Saturday night.

And it showed in the opening 45 minutes of their season finale against the Croatian Eagles Under-23 team at Breese Stevens Field.

"In the first half, I think we were there for an exhibition and they were there to play hard," 56ers coach Jim Launder said.

Ok, it's an exhibition, but whatever, let's check out the game.

• Exhibition match about evaluation [Houston Chronicle]
• Team proud of fight in Sporting draw [MLS Soccer]
• Davis free kick up for Goal of the Week [Houston Dynamo]
• Kansas City's Aurelien Collin on Dynamo Fan Hit List [Houston Press]
• Dynamo players add spark to Berry kids' drive to recover from tragic accident [Jewish Herald-Voice]

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• After World Cup, a League's Smaller Stage [NY Times]

Alexi Lalas MLS blog: Exhibition matches against Prem sides taking precedence over league games? Sod that!

Welcome to MirrorFootball's new MLS blog, brought to you in conjunction with ESPN. Every Wednesday USA legend Alexi Lalas will be on hand to bring you the latest news from the 'States, and you'll also be able to watch the week's best goals and highlights.

Short, sweet here.

"Two practices you said....ha!"

Hans Backe acknowledged this week that his All-Star selections were strategic in nature so his MLS squad could compete against might Manchester United July 27th at Red Bull Arena.

...but this is just the pre-season for United.

szólj hozzá: Japan 3-1 Sweden

Josefine Oqvist's early goal flattered to deceive as Japan tightened the screws around Sweden and ran out 3-1 victors in an exhibition of Barca style touch football. Nahomi Kawasumi scored a brace and Homare Sawa added another for Japan. The Nadeshiko play their first World Cup final in one of the fastest ascents in world football.