Notable:
*The final score was 2-2.
*Bryan Jordan, recalled earlier this week from the USL Portland Timbers, scored in his first MLS start playing in David Beckham's position.
*The Galaxy winless streak hit 11 games, a team record.
*The Galaxy slumped to dead last in MLS.

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What is it about Carlos Tevez that he loses his cool when he puts on the Argentina jersey? He was sent off today in the match against Paraguay for the second time in 3 matches as the match ended in a 1-1 draw. This is a great result for Paraguay as they continue to lead the South American qualifying group and got a vital result in Buenos Aires. Click to continue reading...

Bob Jordan, over Glendale Soccer, has a nice write up on yesterday's anniversary of the first official High School game played within the Springfield Public Schools between Glendale and the Central Bulldogs. He's got details from the Springfield Daily News report of the game that day, check it out.

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The draw for the second round of the DFB Pokal ( The German Cup) has been made, and we have some interesting matchups. FC Bayern play Nurenberg, while Borussia Dortmund are up against Hertha Berlin. The games will be played on September 23-24 2008. Second round fixtures ( Home side indicated first) Kickers Offenbach vs Karlsruhe FC Obernueland vs VFL [. Click to continue reading...

Joey Barton has been banned for 6 matches and fined £25,000 for his attack on former team-mate Ousmane Dabo. The Newcastle star been banned for a total of 12 games with six of those suspended until the end of the 2009-2010 season. Barton has already been charged by the police and received a four-month suspended prison sentence [. Click to continue reading...

Emmanuel Ekpo became the active MLS player to advance the furthest in a major international competition in this Summer's Beijing Games playing in every match of Nigeria's run to the finals. Ekpo has now returned to the Crew and is ready to refocus on helping his club win the Supporters Shield and MLS Cup. Click to continue reading...

Missouri Ozarks Futball Club will have soccer practice this Saturday September 6th at the Freeman Family YMCA in Neosho at 9:30am. All age groups will be practicing at this time.

If you have not registered for league play and would like to play competitive soccer in a US Youth Soccer Affiliated League, with USSF certified referees, we ask that you do so at this time for the games are starting rather quickly.

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TORONTO - The G"olden" boy of the team, captain Charles Eppich, along with Steve Ward and Matt Dookie all exercised their player options and will be part of the new look 2009 Pistolas FC.

Team Captain Charles has been a key player in dealing with league officials both on and off the field, and though age (or Guiness) may have caught up to him and slowed him down later in the season, he was still rather speedy and finished the year with 6 goals on the year. Click to continue reading...

Did anyone notice that I now have family in the U.S. U17 national team program? It's in the genes, I tell ya.

Seriously, I don't think we're related, but it was still fun to see the name on the list.

Back when I was covering games for TopDrawerSoccer, I watched a few of the guys on this list play, including one young Charles Renken. Click to continue reading...

Another Premiership manager bit the dust today as Kevin Keegan joined Alan Curbishley on the unemployment line. The "Geordie Messiah" was supposed to turn Newcastle's fortunes around and make them a top-four contender, if you believe most of the Toon Army, but didn't even last a full season's worth of games after returning to the [. Click to continue reading...

Home United v Gombak United 3-0 (Shi Jiayi, Kengne Ludovick 2)
Super Reds v Woodlands 2-1 (Seo Su Jong, Kim Jung Ho; Lucian Dronca )

Home are now top with 59 points from 25 games while Super Reds are second with 56 from 24 and SAF lie third with 55 from 24.

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My father supported Newcastle United all his life, and used to go to all the away games during the successful times of the early 1950s. A much prouder day in Newcastle United's History  - 1955 My Dad's the 4th from the right at the back - 6 rows down - see him? He attended the FA Cup Final [...] Click to continue reading...

Did you see what happened in the CONCACAF Champions League?

Embarrassing.

New England got beat 6-1 (!) aggregate to Joe Public, a team from Trinidad and Tobago. Chivas USA lost too.

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Graham Westley needs points and quickly after the mid-week defeat to Kettering left Boro hovering over the relegation zone with just 5 points from their opening 7 games. Boro were in a confident mood going into the game at Rockingham Road after an impressive 3-1 victory at Barrow, but that will feel like a long time ago [. Click to continue reading...

Two clubs looking to turn things around going into the final stretch of games this season. Colorado Rapids visit FC Dallas in a must-win for both clubs on MLS Primetime Thursday. The Hoops are in a better position to reach the playoffs, just one point out of third place in the west, despite two losses and [. Click to continue reading...

With the Scotland squad about to start a series of games that will hopefully qualify us for the World Cup in 2010, we continue our story of how Scotland recovered from the disappointment of Argentina '78 to reach the next world Cup in '82. We left off in Part I with Scotland in the middle of [...] Click to continue reading...

There has been some excellent analysis done by the likes of Paul Tomkins regarding rotation myths and their resultant effects etc. But perhaps another angle should be taken into consideration also.

Clean shaven Rafa managed to win 57% of his first 180 games for Liverpool, not to mention picking up a couple of nice trophies along the way. Click to continue reading...

Leyendary FC BARCELONA player & "The Great Captain" JOAN SEGARRA (pictured) has passed away at the age of 80 years. Segarra played 402 games with Barça until his retirement in... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...

I am now going to take the sonic laser out on MLS, but bear with me, it's not what you might think. I'm not going to criticize level of play, ownership structure, championship structure, Designated Players or even the insipid scheduling of games on FIFA dates without a postpone clause for teams that lose half their roster to international duties (John Carver already handled that last one just Click to continue reading...

Reports out of Denver today are saying that the Wizards have traded for Colorado forward, Herculez Gomez. The Denver Post is reporting that the Wizards have traded a fourth-round pick in the 2009 SuperDraft and first-round pick in the '09 supplimental draft and allocation money to the Rapids for the forward. Click to continue reading...

Much like the Open Cup, I wouldn't be surprised if the New England Revolution did NOT want to advance in the CONCACAF Champions League, so as to focus on the playoffs and MLS Cup. But its pathetic that the two teams who topped their respective divisions last year, were bounced by teams from Panama and T&T.

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As we head into the first of the league breaks while our national side start their World Cup qualification games, it's a good time to look back at the season so far. We've asked the Inside Left correspondents to give us their opinions on their team's performance so far. We begin though with a look at [. Click to continue reading...

I had the chance to talk to Sacha Kljestan after the match and asked him what he thought about Preki saying that Sacha's mind was already on the national team.

Here's the audio of our conversation.

Sacha leaves for US duty early Wednesday and will be with the team for the games against Cuba and Trinidad. Click to continue reading...

Crap. Working in post secondary education means that this is the craziest time of the year for me...and always the worst time to update a blog. There is so much happening ahead of the WCQ games next week, I've got no time to update the blog!!!! ARGHHHH.... Team Canada arrives in Montreal will have to suffice for [. Click to continue reading...

Both New England Revolution and CD Chivas USA have made their work harder with losses away to Tauro FC and Joe Public. Tonight, they get to return the favor or risk elimination. Both games will be shown on Fox Soccer Channel, and Galavision (check your local listings and check back here around 8pm Eastern as we may have a feed). Click to continue reading...