Emerson Boyce scored the goal of the game with a back-heel flick however it was only to be a consolation goal as Swansea held on for a 2-1 win against Wigan, incidently it was Swansea's first win since August.
The start of the Premier League season might be the easy headline, but for Americans Abroad Jozy
Alitdore's second double-goal game was the story. Altidore opened the scoring in AZ's 3-1 win over
Heracles in the 16th minute. Maarten Martens doubled the lead ten minutes later. Heracles would get
a goal back three minutes from time, but it would be Altidore again with a stoppage time goal.
Huff, puff and ho! This was how Manchester United started off their Champions league campaign against Turkish giants Galatasaray. United won 1-0 in a very unconvincing game against the Turks yesterday. Here are five things we learnt from that game at Old Trafford.
Shinji Kagawa- Not a shirt-seller In his short stint as a United player, Shinji Kagawa has proven that he is not your guy who was purchased to sell merchandise across Asia.
Manchester United won their opening group H Champions League game against Galatasaray thanks to an excellent Michael Carrick goal on 7 minutes. The only goal of the game, was a thing of real beauty, but what followed left a lot to be desired. Carrick's name hasn't featured enough in the goal tally column in recent seasons, but his effort last night was one to remember - the former Spurs player
Juventus look like they are returning to the dominating side that seemed destined for the title
earlier in the season, but is it too little, too late?
Juventus were impressive in the second half of their 3-0 victory over Napoli on Sunday.Â
Leonardo Bonucci, Arturo Vidal and Fabio Quagliarella scored and Napoli finished the game with 10
men after Juan Zuniga was shown a red card.
Just two weeks ago the scouting report on Chivas was that they were a miserly team that didn't
score much but didn't allow many goals either. So naturally their following game versus the Seattle
Sounders featured 8 goals, including Fredy Montero's first hat trick and some pretty unimpressive
defending from Seattle that meant a 10 goal game wouldn't have been unthinkable.
Milwaukee Bavarians striker James Weber (Hartford) once again is the leading goal scorer
in the National Premier Soccer League Midwest Region Central Conference.
Weber's four-goal game Sunday, his second hat trick of the young season, sent him back into the
top spot after three weeks of action.
If The Red Bulls Win and Nobody's There to See It...?The New York Red Bulls put in a real
Jekyll & Hyde performance on Saturday, at home to the expansion Montreal Impact. After a listless
first half that found them lucky to be 2-2 at the break, they scored three unanswered goals and won
going away, 5-2.
Under cool grey skies, the first group of players were on the field this morning at the training
site for the Cruz Azul academy. Nestled in a quiet corner of a neighborhood in the city, a plush
green pitch awaited the 10 players who put in an hour's worth of work to get the travel out of
their legs. After a long warm-up, they played 7 v.
One of the areas of focus during the tactical work this camp has been on shifting and moving as a
unit, particularly on the defensive side of the ball. One exercise designed to train these
movements is what Jurgen Klinsmann calls the 'six goal game'.
Using a field of 70 yards long by 72 yards wide, the coaches set up the big goals in the center of
each endline and then placed two smaller goals on each side seven yards from the sideline.
The United States women's soccer team continues their push for a third straight Olympic Gold
Medal with Saturday's match against Colombia. Kickoff is at 9 a.m. Pacific and the game is on NBC
Sports Network.
The U.S. is coming off an impressive win over France in their first group stage game, scoring a
4-2 win after falling behind 2-0.
You would have expected some nervous jitters from U.S. Women's National Team
Head Coach Pia Sundhage. She was coaching against her former team, Sweden, where she played at
both
the professional and national levels. The game was being played in Holmestad, Sweden, which is
only
about an hour and half away from where she grew up in Ulricehamn.
You would have expected some nervous jitters from U.S. Women's National Team
Head Coach Pia Sundhage. She was coaching against her former team, Sweden, where she played at
both
the professional and national levels. The game was being played in Holmestad, Sweden, which is
only
about an hour and half away from where she grew up in Ulricehamn.
Through the first four games of Olympic qualifying, the United States silenced each of its
powerless opponents. On Sunday, it was Canada's time.
The U.S. defense pitched its fifth shutout of the tournament while Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach
each netted a pair of goals to give the Americans a comprehensive 4-0 victory over Canada at BC
Place in Vancouver.
The dust finally settled for Group B with Germany and Portugal progressing to the next phase of
European Championship 2012. Favourites, Germany went through by virtue of winning all 3 of their
group matches while their victim in that very first match, Portugal joined them after picking up 2
consecutive wins.
The dust finally settled for Group B with Germany and Portugal progressing to the next phase of
European Championship 2012. Favourites, Germany went through by virtue of winning all 3 of their
group matches while their victim in that very first match, Portugal joined them after picking up 2
consecutive wins.
Terrence Boyd Scored the Tying Goal for the U-23s This Morning
This morning the U-23 U.S. Men's National Team headed 30 km due east from Duisburg to Bochum to
face VfL Bochum in a scrimmage today. The Bochum team was a combination of first team players and
youth players. It's an international break in Germany so no sign of the People's Rooney, but
nonetheless it was a spirited match played in front of an appreciative crowd of about 200 people.
Finally! It may have only been a handful of games since the Portland Timbers last scored (which
is still bad mind you) but it really started to feel like forever since we had a reason to cheer at
a game. On Sunday, however, the Timbers and the Fire, I guess, gave us two very solid reasons to
cheer.
Minnesota's Eric Miller and Brent Kallman will be making a trip the NCAA Men's D1 College Cup next
weekend. The Bluejays shutout their opponent for the 18th time this season with a 1-0 overtime win
over South Florida Sunday afternoon at Morrison Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska. The golden goal game in
the 97th minute of [.
It was a debut to remember for the Boston Breakers, who claimed a 3-0 win over the ASA
Chesapeake Charge in their first WPSL Elite contest on Thursday.
The Breakers, who played in WPS for three seasons before the league suspended operations in
January, overwhelmed the Charge with a fast and furious display of firepower as Veronica Napoli,
Jessica Luscinski and Katie Schoepfer all scoring inside of 20 minutes.
It was a Sunday of firsts at the Home Depot Center for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Robbie Keane had his first two-goal game in MLS, fittingly perhaps coming the day after St.
Patrick's day, midfielder Marcelo Sarvas scored his first career MLS goal and the Galaxy breathed a
collective sigh of relief with its first win of the season, defeating DC United 3-1 at the Home
Depot Center.
Byrd's dramatic goal capped off a career night. Byrd got his second seven-point game of the season
and the first five goal game of his career. The 30-year old has become Detroit's hottest scorer
with 21 points in his last four games.
PASL-Player of the WeekCesar Romero, Revolucion Tijuana and Kraig Chiles, San Diego
Sockers
PASL Press Release Romero followed up his record setting nine goal game with a five goal, one
assist night against the Anaheim Bolts. Romero helped rally Tijuana from a 7-2 deficit to pull out
a 14-13 win in what was surely the most important game of the season to date.
The Comets new signing Bato Radoncic made an immediate impact for the Comets in his first game, as
he scored two goals as the Comets continued their push towards a playoff spot with a 14-6 win.
Bato got his Comets career started fairly quickly, as he scored just over 4 minutes into the game
to give Missouri the early lead.
Sunday was a day to forget for the Revolution Youth Academy as the U-16s and U-18s were each
handed 3-0 losses by the Chicago Fire during New England's second match of the Winter Showcase.
The 18s fell into a hole two minutes into their match when Andrew Conner's goal put the Fire in
front early.
After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of
the United States National Team players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5
average, 10 perfection). This week Sean Donahue and Julian Cardillo contributed ratings for the
USA's 1-0 loss to France.
Article by Pedro Gomes Week 30 saw more pure moments of brilliance across the league. Thierry Henry put in an MLS Player of the Week performance for New York. San Jose provided more late game heroics, and we saw some fantastic strikes from Ryan Johnson and Marcelo Sargas to name a few.
Freshman Jessica Bednarcik scored her seventh goal of the season in the 79th minute to lift the University of Mary Washington women's soccer team into a 1-1 tie with Frostburg State University in a battle of Capital Athletic Conference unbeatens on Saturday at the Battleground. Both teams move to 5-0-1 on the season.
FALL RIVER, Mass. Jimmy Hernandez and Armando Gomes each scored to steer East Providence to a
2-0 win over Lindo's ST in the first leg of LUSA Cup competition on Sunday at Billy Gonsalves
Field.
Hernandez gave E.P. the early lead with an 8th minute strike while Gomes added an insurance
goal in the 65th minute to cap the scoring.
While U.S. international forwards Clint Dempsey and Herculez Gomez continue their goal-scoring
ways, Jozy Altidore maintains his.
Altidore scored both of AZ Alkmaar's goals in a 2-2 draw with FC Twente on Wednesday. He tallied
in the third minute, heading home a corner kick (and getting away with a pushoff, to be fair) to
give AZ the early lead.
Rocky Visconte was the man of this match. Not because he was the best player, but because he played
so much better than he has before. Ange starting him over Issy added new Broich like movement to
the Roar on attack. For the first time in 5 games, Brisbane had a midfield that was always
searching forward, looking to beat the first defender and so drawing the second across and creating
space elsewhere.
Like parents sitting around a table looking at pictures of their young children Missouri Comets
fans are looking at their team and saying, "Boy, what a difference a year makes." A year ago today
ended the five plus years that indoor soccer fans in the Kansas City area had endured without an
MISL franchise as the Comets were rechristened before a packed house at the Independence Events
Center.
