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VfL Wolfsburg striker Edin Dzeko linked with moves to AC Milan, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City over the summer is now a target for Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, according to the Manchester Evening News.

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Argentina have released the new home shirt they will wear at the 2010 World Cup finals after assuring their qualification with a 1-0 win on their final group game against Uraguay. Â The new Argentina football kit is manufactured by Adidas and follows the traditional light blue and white stripes that you . Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benitez insists he does not fear for his job even though Liverpool now need a miracle to reach the last 16 of the Champions League.
The Liverpool boss had seen victory snatched from his team by Lyon, who equalised through Lisandro Lopez in the dying seconds of their Group E clash at the Stade Gerland on Wednesday night. Click to continue reading...

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The U.S. Under-17 men's national team finally put together a strong performance in its final group match, and its reward for beating the United Arab Emirates is a Round of 16 date to face Italy.

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The U.S. Under-17 men's national team finally put together a strong performance in its final group match, and its reward for beating the United Arab Emirates is a Round of 16 date with Italy.

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Following Thursday's narrow victory over Malawi, midfielder Luis Gil and his teammates find themselves poised to break into the knockout round with a win on Sunday in their final group stage game. Click to continue reading...

The U.S. Under-17 men's national team takes the field today looking to rebound from its Under-20 World Cup opening loss to Spain. The Americans take on Malawi (11am, ESPNU) knowing that a loss would cripple their chances to progress.

The U.S. team didn't play terribly against Spain, but its 2-1 loss was still extremely disappointing considering the fact that it held a man advantage for 88 minutes and squandered a handful of clear chances.

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D.C. United gained in improbable 1-1 draw in Toluca tonight to temporarily put the Black and Red into second place in their CONCACAF Champions League final group stage match. Now they must wait until Thursday where Marathon now needs a win to advance to the knockout phase next winter. Click to continue reading...

After not winning any Champions League games last year, United has won three in a row to give itself a chance to advance to the quarterfinal round of the tournament. It will be a difficult task though - United must try to get a win in Mexico, a feat never accomplished by an MLS team.

And Toluca will not make it easy.

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Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres have both been ruled out of Liverpool's trip to Sunderland on Saturday because of injuries picked up on international duty.
Gerrard, Liverpool's captain, suffered a groin injury in England's World Cup defeat to Ukraine last weekend and limped out of training two days later, subsequently missing the home win against Belarus. Click to continue reading...

The UEFA (Europe) region has finished its group stage of qualification on Wednesday with nine teams earning automatic qualification. The teams that have already qualifed from this region are England, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Germany, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Denmark.

Here are the final Group Stage standings for the UEFA region along with the top 8 second place teams that have qualified for the play-off round where there are four additional spots available.

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England vs Belarus- October 14th Saturday, at Wembley ( 20.00 UK Time)- Football returns to television this Wednesday ( after the internet only stream of the weekend qualifier against Ukraine) as England host Belarus in their final Group 6 qualifier. Fabio Capello's men have already booked thier spot at the 2010 World Cup finals, but will [. Click to continue reading...

In its final group match, the U.S. U-20 national team played just as they had in a previous match at this World Cup in Egypt. Unfortunately for coach Thomas Rongen, the match the U-20s replicated was not their convincing win over Cameroon, but rather the comprehensive opening loss to Germany. A clinical and hard-working South Korean side was everything the Americans weren't, winning battles in every sector of the field and taking away a convincing 3-0 victory, to leave the Americans' chances of advancing at the FIFA U-20 World Cup dangling by a thread. Click to continue reading...

The U.S. Under-20 Men's National Team was eliminated from the FIFA U-20 World Cup this afternoon after the final group matches were completed in Egypt. The U.S. finished as the 17th place team in the tournament, one place shy of the Round of 16.
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The United Stats exited the Under-20 World Cup on Saturday, the day after losing their final group stage game to Korea. Costa Rica advanced to the next round in the final third-place wild card position. Click to continue reading...

The World Cup of 1950 in Brazil was the only one ever that was played without a final. Instead, all four teams in the final round (Brazil, Uruguay, Spain and Sweden) played in a final group, where the winner would become world champion. In spite of this, the group went into what was practically a final when Brazil faced Uruguay in Maracana in the last group match on the largest football stadium Click to continue reading...

The United States Under-20 National Team had a tough time in their final group stage game, falling to Korea 30. Korea opened the scoring in the 23rd through Kim Young-Gwon. Kim Bo-Kyung made it 2-0 in the 42nd. Koo Ja-Cheol finished off the scoring from the penalty spot in the 75th minute. The United States finished with ten men after Ike Opara was sent off in the 74th. Click to continue reading...

The Houston Dynamo no longer control their own destiny in the CONCACAF Champions League after losing 1-0 to Mexico's Pachuca Wednesday night at Robertson Stadium. A Brian Mullan shot off the post was as close as the home side came to breaking through against their Mexican opponents. Houston must now win on the road in their final group stage match--something the team has never done in 10 attempts in CCL play. Click to continue reading...

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What happens when Sepp Blatter and his cronies see millions of dollars and plenty of prestige in danger of disappearing? They change the system.

That's the conclusion drawn by many after FIFA last night announced they were altering their planned World Cup 2010 qualification play-offs system to seed teams based on their FIFA world rankings, a decision which clearly favours the traditionally strong nations.

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The Columbus Crew had a chance to become the first MLS team to reach the knockout rounds of the CONCACAF Champions League, but fell short with just seconds remaining as a late equalizer forced the Crew to settle for a 1-1 tie vs. Deportivo Saprissa at Crew Stadium on Tuesday night.

The Crew looked on its way to clinching a top-two spot in its group before Alexander Robinson headed home an equalizer in the second minute of stoppage time to negate a first-half penalty kick from Robbie Rogers.

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The Columbus Crew had a chance to become the first MLS team to reach the knockout rounds of the CONCACAF Champions League, but fell short with just seconds remaining as a late equalizer forced the Crew to settle for a 1-1 tie vs. Deportivo Saprissa at Crew Stadium on Tuesday night.

The Crew looked on its way to clinching a top-two spot in its group before Alexander Robinson headed home an equalizer in the second minute of stoppage time to negate a first-half penalty kick from Robbie Rogers.

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Zakumi awaits
We have a month before world cup qualifying concludes its final group stages, so I thought it would be fun for the next few weeks to look at each continental zone that is still in play.
November will have playoffs in Europe for their four remaining spots, the CONCACAF/CONMEBOL showdown (which can be either a dullard like Costa Rica- Venezuela, or a blockbuster like Argentina-USA – stay tuned), and the world-stopping Bahrain-New Zealand tilt. Click to continue reading...

The home continent of the 2010 World Cup is close to having its 5 qualifying sides defined for The Great Tournament. The 1st team to officially qualify is Ghana. The Black Stars defeated Sudan 2-0 at home to secure top spot in Group D. Goals by Inter midfielder Sulley Muntari & Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien sealed the victory.

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The home continent of the 2010 World Cup is close to having its 5 qualifying sides defined for The Great Tournament. The 1st team to officially qualify is Ghana. The Black Stars defeated Sudan 2-0 at home to secure top spot in Group D. Goals by Inter midfielder Sulley Muntari & Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien sealed the victory. Click to continue reading...

Scotland go into their final Group 9 game against The Netherlands who, contrary to anything you might have read, actually do need a win. Click to continue reading...

Chicago Red Stars midfielder Karen Carney is playing for the England Women's National Team in the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 Championship.
At the 2:20 mark of the above video, Carney nets a goal against Russia during Friday's match at Helsinki Stadium. Carney's 24th-minute goal was the start of an England rally. Click to continue reading...

USSoccerPlayers.com preview the US matchup with Honduras tonight in the CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals.
What has changed since our Group Stage scouting report on Honduras? Well, the 'beat the United States' prediction took a bit of a hit. The United States turned a questionable first-half into a game winning second, beating Honduras 2-0 on July 8th on their way to winning Group B. Click to continue reading...

What has changed since our Group Stage scouting report on Honduras? Well, the 'beat the United States' prediction took a bit of a hit. The United States turned a questionable first-half into a game winning second, beating Honduras 2-0 on July 8th on their way to winning Group B. Honduras got a 4-0 win in their final Group B game against Grenada, but the United States and Haiti had already shown that Grenada was over-matched. Click to continue reading...

Today in Nyon the Third Qualifying draw took place which should identify the teams most likely to enter the play off round of the competition and therefore have the chance to meet Arsenal. The new format of the Champions league is I argue just a pointless exercise in revenue generation by UEFA.

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Jimmy Conrad made his return for the United States in Saturday's 2-2 draw with Haiti. Conrad had been left out of the previous 27 US match squads, a remarkable statistic for such a gifted player with unique leadership skills.

Conrad's solid organization and play helped to save a result for the United States against a superior Haitian side, Saturday.

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A well organized week of group stage matches have ended and now the real drama begins as 8 teams remain alive in their quest to be CONCACAF's best. The Gold Cup is down to the quarterfinals.
On Saturday, in Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field, Canada will face Honduras:
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The U.S. men's national team is in Foxborough, Mass. tonight to take on Haiti at Gillette Stadium in the final Group B match for both teams. a win or draw clinches first place in the group for the USA, which has already secured a place in the quarterfinals.

The Americans will look to field a different looking squad as midfielders Freddy Adu and Benny Feilhaber have left the team.

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The U.S. men's national team is in Foxborough, Mass. tonight to take on Haiti at Gillette Stadium in the final Group B match for both teams. a win or draw clinches first place in the group for the USA, which has already secured a place in the quarterfinals.

The Americans will look to field a different looking squad as midfielders Freddy Adu and Benny Feilhaber have left the team.

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By Graig Carbino - ALBANY, NY (Jul 10, 2009) USSoccerPlayers -- The United States National Team takes on Haiti at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA on Saturday evening in each squad's final Group B match of Gold Cup 2009. With the US already qualified for the Quarterfinals, they will look to clinch first place against a Haitian team that still has it all to play for. Click to continue reading...

Below is a preview of the US-Haiti match tomorrow in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, which comes from Graig Carbino of USSoccerPlayers Newsletter.
The United States National Team takes on Haiti at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA on Saturday evening in each squad's final Group B match of Gold Cup 2009. Click to continue reading...