Author Randall Barfield sends us 10 questions from his Little Soccer Quiz Book.

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1. Sir Alex Ferguson is boss of which UK team?
2. In what city is the Santiago Bernabeu stadium located?

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Los Angeles Galaxy vs. Real Salt Lake
Sunday, November 22nd at 7:30 CT on ESPN

How many high pressure wins does it take to erase the title of underdog? After entering the tournament as the lowest seed, Real Salt Lake might need one more as they try to complete their Cinderella Story toward Sunday's David vs.

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Major League Soccer announced its all-star team today and a certain England midfielder was missing from the lineup.

The MLS all-stars (Best XI) are chosen by the media, MLS players, MLS coaches and general managers.

Chivas USA goalkeeper Zach Thornton earned his second career Best XI nod.

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It's time for a little overdue wrap up post with the correct answers to the recent quizzes.

One of These Players is not Like the Others

Answer: Didi Hamann. All other players were transfers from Karlsruhe to Bayern, while Hamann came through Bayern's youth system for a change.

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Press release from the Rapids today. Good to see further recognition of Casey's talents. Does anybody else think that having only three defenders nominated is a bit weird?
MLS Commissioner Don Garber today announced that Colorado Rapids forward Conor Casey has been named to the 2009 MLS Best XI during his annual State of the League address. Click to continue reading...

This fairy tale story had to come to and end at some point and it did on Sunday night when Nigeria's golden eaglets were humbled 1-0 by Switzerland in Abuja.

Nigeria who were looking to emulate their west African counterparts Ghana who won the U-20 World Cup in Egypt in October however had to taste the bitter pill of defeat in their own home stadium.

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Life without Epl really Sucks!!!!!!.... Can't help it though.... Its like you are stuck in a big time Machine .... I hope time passes quickly.... But hope is all I can do .
Anywayz there's no significant news regarding Arsenal . However Cesc has been choose EA sports player of the month . Click to continue reading...

The Houston Dynamo announced their 2009 team awards Monday night at Dynamo Charities' Dynamo Awards 09, presented by Audi, held at the House of Blues.

Newcomer of the Year: Cam Weaver
Goal of the Year: Brad Davis, September 19 vs. Real Salt Lake
Dynamo Academy Player of the Year: Sebastien Ibeagha
Dynamo Academy Players' Player of the Year: Reagan Haisler
Game of the Year: May 30, Dynamo 3, Toronto FC 0
Defender of the Year: Geoff Cameron
Fan of the Year: Jason "Sarge" Milner
Save of the Year: Pat Onstad, April 19 vs.

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Add another award for Zach Thornton on the season. Today the league named Thornton it's Comeback Player of the Year. At the same time the league also announced Fredy Montero as the Newcomer of the Year.

Montero was one of the league leaders in goals scored this year. His 12 goals on the season blew away any other newcomer in that category.

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Lost in the shuffle of the Fire's thrilling Eastern Conference Semifinals victory was the fact that the team announced the 2009 awards on Friday night.

Wilman Conde, Brian McBride and Logan Pause were the recipients of the honors, which included Team MVP, Team Golden Boot Winner, Team Defender of the Year and U.

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The United States has already qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals in South Africa. They will be playing two friendly matches in Europe in the upcoming international break. The first will be at Slovakia on Saturday, November 14, 2009 and on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 against Denmark. Manager Bob Bradley has called up 22 players for the Slovakia match.

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Remarkable Recovery

Euro 2008 was a hugely enjoyable tournament on a number of levels. Viewers across the globe were spoilt with a month of delightful, positive football. Spain were indisputably the best team on show, and deserved winner of their first major championship in 34 years. However, a personal highlight was the re-emergence of Croatian striker Ivan Klasnic, after he had spent most of 2007 recovering from 2 kidney transplants.

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Jeff Cunningham ... the recent MLS Golden Boot winner gets his first chance under U.S. manager Bob Bradley

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Sometimes in life, when you lose, you win.

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FC Dallas Defender Dax McCarty has received his first US call up and has been named for the November 14th US match. Jeff Cunningham after winning the MLS Golden Boot has been recalled, as has Defender Heath Pearce after his strong play down FCD the stretch run. Of note to FCD fans will be the continued call up of ex-blue liner Clarence Goodson and one time golden boy Eddie Johnson. Click to continue reading...

FCD striker on the heals of his remarkable second half of 2099 that landed him the MLS Golden Boot has been named a finalist for MLS MVP. Landon Donovan of LA Galaxy and Shalrie Joseph of the New England Revolution are the other two finalists. Cunningham scored 13 goals in his final 12 games of 2009 and led MLS with 17 goals. Click to continue reading...

Yeah I'm almost a week behind on this, but was thinking the team may actually announce more winners than just MVP, Golden Boot and Humanitarian of the Year. Anyways, this year, the award winners consisted of 2 players, Josh Wolff and Jimmy Conrad.
Wolff won both the MVP award and the Golden Boot. Click to continue reading...

Swedish legend Henrik Larsson had an emotional farewell from professional football on Wednesday night as he played his last ever professional game for Swedish side Helsingborg. Larsson had announced his intent to retire at the end of this season but decided to bow out one game early in order to play his last match in front of the Helsinborg supporters.

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In case you missed the announcements on Twitter last night, here are the winners from the 6th Annual United Awards Reception:

• Volkswagen Most Valuable Player: Clyde Simms
• Defender of the Year: Bryan Namoff
• Fans' Choice Award: Chris Pontius
• Goal of the Year: Bryan Namoff's diving header vs.

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Though Saturday's playoff exit still stings, tonight the team, front office and fans will gather to reflect on the positives from 2009 season at the 6th Annual United Awards Reception. The yearly event takes place at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St. NE) and a great evening of mixing and mingling is in store.

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FC Dallas forward Jeff Cunningham capped off a remarkable late season surge with his second Bundweiser Golden Boot award as the League's top scorer. Cunningham had 17 goals in 2009, one better than the last time he won the Golden Boot in 2006. His '09 run included scoring in six straight games. MLS Golden Boot Winners 2009: 17 goals – Jeff Cunningham (FC Dallas) 2008: 20 goals – Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy) 2007: 20. Click to continue reading...

SAFFC's 1-0 victory last night against Sengkang Punggol meant they became SLeague champions for a record 4th time - something not even Manchester United have achieved as Aleksander Duric told me last week. The bean pole striker made his own personal tally 28 for the season as he looks to sew up the golden boot award. Click to continue reading...

With two games remaining in the MLS regular season, the Colorado Rapids and FC Dallas are on the cusp of qualifying for the playoffs. If the Rapids prevail with a victory over Dallas at Pizza Hut Park on Saturday night (6:30 p.m. kickoff, MT), FC Dallas fans and players will want to know the outcome of Chicago's road match against the New England Revolution. Click to continue reading...

It can't get any better than this. The Fifa U-20 World Championships will come to an end today at the Cairo International stadium.Today either Ghana or Brazil will be crowned champions. Prolific striker Dominic Adiyiah (who is top scorer) and outstanding center-forward Alan Kardec will face off.

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Imagine a world cup without Lionel Messi. Impossible!. Well this was almost becoming a reality on Wednesday when Argentina took on bitter rivals Uruguay in the sentenario stadium in Montevideo.

Argentina emerged victorious but only just. They needed an 84th minute goal from substitute Mario Bolatti to send them through as one of the automatic qualifiers in the South American region.

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Player's agent tries hard to convince Wenger to sign his client.

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is keeping an eye on Bayer Levekusen striker Stefan Kiessling and is keen to sign the hitman in January.
The German striker has grabbed six goals in eight matches in the current campaign and is current on course for the Golden Boot award in the Bundesliga scoring charts.

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In a week where several Major League Soccer clubs were idle and players were missing for international duty, it was once again Jeff Cunningham winning Player of the Week honors. Cunningham set the standard early, with an assist and the game-winner in Dallas's 2-1 win over San Jose on Wednesday. Cunningham has been the difference with the winning goal in seven games this season. Click to continue reading...

So FourFourTwo have released their list for the top 100 players in the world today. We all know who the top two will be but in which order? And how many spanish players will make the top 20 following their Euro 2008 triumph and 100% World Cup qualification record?

I cant be bothered to put the full list on here because personally I couldn't give a toss if Darijno Srna is the 66th best player in the world.

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Der Mannschaft has done it again. Miroslav Klose found the back of the net in the 35th minute to give Germany the 1-0 win over Russia on their plastic pitch. Credit has to go to Adler and his defense to hold off the Russian offense lead by Arsenal midfielder, Arshavin. This was definitely match to watch over the weekend.

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The FIFA U-20 world cup has been taking place in Egypt for the past 2 weeks and tonight we will know two semi-finalists. Korea face off with Ghana while Italy play hungary.

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Ghana is the sole remaining African team and they will have a lot of pressure on their shoulders when they play the Koreans.

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A great piece of Argentine football history was published by Clarin today.

Even though there have been countless numbers of Argentine players that have been goal scorers in Europe, only one Argentine player has actually won the European Golden Boot.

So, who is the only Argentine player to win the European Golden Boot as top goal scorer in all of Europe?

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With Paulo Guerrero and Mladen Petric sustaining long term injuries, Hamburg are facing a forward crisis of epic proportion. The weight of a team that is tied on points for the league falls on the shoulders on young Swede Marcus Berg. No matter who Labbadia might sign, bring up from the reserves or shift, Berg is still the only proven striker the Dinosaurs have.

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Jeff Cunningham is on fire like few others have ever been in MLS. After a slow start to the 2009 season, the 33-year-old striker has taken off ever since the departure of Kenny Cooper to 1860 Munich. Since Cooper left, Cunningham has scored 16 goals in 13 games, including last night's game winning goal against San Jose.

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Jeff Cunningham is on fire like few others have ever been in MLS. After a slow start to the 2009 season, the 33-year-old striker has taken off ever since the departure of Kenny Cooper to 1860 Munich. Since Cooper left, Cunningham has scored 16 goals in 13 games, including last night's game winning goal against San Jose.

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FC Dallas defeated the SJ Quakes 2-1 at Buck Shaw Stadium in the Quakes last home match of the season, a thriller that accelerated until the final whistle. FCD's Jeff Cunningham added a goal and assist to his tally atop the MLS Golden Boot leader board, and Quakes rookie Quincy Amarikwa netted his first regular season goal. Click to continue reading...