At the 2010 Nike International Friendlies, the U.S. Under-17 MNT took on Korea Republic, Brazil and Turkey in Phoenix, Ariz. With the 2011 edition set to kick off this afternoon, ussoccer.com looks back on last year's tournament.
Brazil and Turkey opened the competition last year, with both teams earning a point in the scoreless tie.

Socceroos won in Bangkok last night.
And wasn't it fantastic. Tense, tight and terrific football - from the Thai's at least. With a packed stadium in downtown flooded Bangkok the Aussies are no longer in Oceania.
And remember this is only the first group stage.
We needed a point - but if Robbie Kruse didnt know which of the Sutkee brothers at the end he played with in Melbourne - Michael Zullo had a fair idea by the end of the night.

The big game here at HTIOT is this afternoon's friendly between the United States Men's National Team and Belgium. Kick-off is at 1:30 PM CST. Both ESPN and ESPN3.com are advertised to be carrying the game. In addition to the USMNT, there is a whole slate of 2014 World Cup Qualifiers and 2012 Euro Qualifiers taking place today.

U.S. Soccer referee Mark Geiger and assistant referee Sean Hurd have been selected to officiate the final of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup between Brazil and Portugal in Bogota, Colombia.
The match will be broadcast live on ESPNU and ESPN3.com on Saturday, August 20, at 7 p.m. ET.
The American referees, along with Canada's Joe Fletcher, have also been on the referee crew for a Group E match between Brazil and Austria, a Group B match featuring Uruguay and Cameroon and a Round of 16 game between Spain and Korea Republic.

1º Spain 25.628,47 2º Netherlands 23.161,67 3º germany 20.936,54 4º Japan 12.061,19 5º Australia 11.023,82 6º Argentina 10.100,91 7º Korea Republic 9.586,72 8º England 9.538,95 9º Brazil 9.531,89 10º Uruguay 9.240,90 11º Italy 9.229,40 12º Panama 9.

U.S. Soccer referee Mark Geiger and and assistant referee Sean Hurd are currently representing the U.S. at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia.
Geiger served as the fourth official for the first two Group A games - Korea Republic vs. Mali and host Colombia vs. France.
Geiger and Hurd were assigned to the match between Brazil and Austria, working alongside Canadian assistant referee Joe Fletcher and England's Mark Clattenburg, who served as the fourth official.

Sangmu Phoenix, the South Korean military football club playing in the country's professional K-League, could be expelled or relegated to a proposed new second division because of the ongoing match-fixing scandal plaguing the the Korea Football Association. The team's coach was arrested this week for allegedly accepting money from the parents of a player to keep quiet about their son's role in

Scarred by its worst match-fixing scandal in its 28-year history, South Korea's 16-team, professional K-League will split into two divisions and move to a relegation and promotion system from 2013. Under the new system, the K-League will punish any club that has players found guilty of match rigging by deducting points earned from league games, by depriving clubs the right to compete in the AFC

South Korean prosecutors have arrested almost 50 more players in connection the match-fixing scandal that has rocked the K-League, one of Asia's leading professional national leagues. The Changwon District Prosecutors' Office has announced that 46 players, including nine from South Korea's military side Sangmu Phoenix, were charged on Thursday in relation to the fixing of 15 matches from June

The South Korean government appears to be running out of patience with the growing football match-fixing controvery and is threatening to shut down the country's professional competition, the K-League. Last week K-League administrators pro-actively banned 10 players for life for fixing matches, prior to the courts dealing with them on criminal charges.

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A former South Korea goal-keeper has now admitted involvement in K-League match-fixing. According to Ahn Gi-Heaon, the league's Secretary General, the player, now with Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, admitted he engaged in match-fixing schemes last season when he was playing for Chunnam Dragons. "The goal-keeper first informed his Jeonbuk head coach Choi Kang-Hee .

Sixteen teams will compete at the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany 26 June through to 17 July. Two-time defending world champions Germany are in Pool A with Canada, Nigeria and France. Japan, New Zealand, Mexico and England make up pool B while United States , North Korea, Colombia and Sweden are in pool C.

South Korean prosecutors have now charged 10 K-League players for allegedly fixing results in the country's top football league. According to BBC News, eight of the players play for the Daejeon Citizen club which lost a match to the Pohang Steelers on 6 April by a score of 0-3. Brokers and players from other teams have also been charged.

South Korean sports suspected of having been penetrated by match fixers will no longer receive proceeds from Sports Toto, the country's sole legal sports betting agency, and bookies will face tougher punishment for illegal activities. According to The Dong-A Ilbo, the Sports Ministry has announced stricter measures against match fixing including revising the National Sports Promotion Act to

"As suspended Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam departs Zurich fighting bribery allegations, soccer in his continent of Asia struggles to combat match-fixing, violence and money issues that threaten to tarnish the Qatari's belief that the future is Asia," a Reuters report has concluded.

Following the uncovering of a match fixing scandal, South Korea's K-League has announced measures to prevent a recurrence and to punish those implicated in corruption. Based on an agreement reached among players, coaches and officials from the league`s 16 teams, those directly and indirectly involved in match fixing have until 13 June to voluntarily confess their involvement to the league.

BBC Sport FIFA World Cup 2022 : Mohamed Bin Hammam's Troubles Multiply with Latest Evidence Bleacher Report When the rights to host the FIFA World Cup 2022 were awarded to Qatar, the tiny, oil-rich nation became the first Middle Eastern country to be given the right to host the world's biggest sporting event.

When the rights to host the FIFA World Cup 2022 were awarded to Qatar, the tiny, oil-rich nation became the first Middle Eastern country to be given the right to host the world's biggest sporting event. But, according to recent revelations by FIFA ...

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London, May 20 (ANI): FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who is standing for re-election for a fourth term, has admitted that there is a ground swell of popular support to re-hold the 2022 vote won by Qatar. Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup finals ...

1º Spain 30.456,51 2º Netherlands 27.695,28 3º Germany 25.636,53 4º Argentina 19.980,68 5º Japan 19.390,17 6º Egypt 17.440,30 7º Uruguay 16.907,82 8º Brazil 16.681,12 9º Portugal 16.519,55 10º Ghana 16.081,90 11º Korea Republic 15.923,49 12º England 15.268,87 13º Mexico 15.

Group C and D winners Costa Rica and Mexico both cruised to quarterfinal victories on Tuesday night to earn a place in the CONCACAF U-20 semifinals and a ticket to the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Mexico.
Two more teams will join that pair tonight with the final two quarterfinal matches set - Honduras vs.

Asia will begin the race to the FIFA World Cup 2014™. Ahead of the Preliminary Draw in Brazil on 30 July 2011, teams from the Asian continent will contest a preliminary round of matches. The draw for this first round takes place on 30 March 2011 at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.

The first round will consist of seven home-and-away series, featuring the 14 lowest ranked teams in Asia.

Manchester United and Bolton Wanderers are heading to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-finals after defeating Arsenal and Birmingham City respectively.

Sir Alex Ferguson selected seven defenders in his starting XI at Old Trafford and one of them, Fabio, broke the deadlock after a superb counterattack in the 28th minute.

Manchester United and Bolton Wanderers are heading to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-finals after defeating Arsenal and Birmingham City respectively.

Sir Alex Ferguson selected seven defenders in his starting XI at Old Trafford and one of them, Fabio, broke the deadlock after a superb counterattack in the 28th minute.

Turkey's National Football Team will take on South Korea in a friendly game on Wednesday.
The game will take place at Avni Aker Stadium in Trabzon.
The match will start at 20:00 local time(13:00,ET)
Kanal D,will broadcast the match in Turkey..

The European transfer season comes to a close today, making today one of the craziest days of the year.

Leading the transfer news is Spanish striker Fernando Torres, who has a move to Chelsea looming. It looks as if Liverpool has already found a replacement in Newcastle striker Andy Carroll.

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24 de enero de 2011, 00:05 Moscow, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) Russian PM Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Joseph Blatter signed an official statement in which his country is committed to host FIFA World Cup 2018 in a ceremony in San Petersburg. After signing ...

DOHA, Qatar — Australia and South Korea shared the spoils 1-1 in the battle of the big guns at the Asian Cup on Friday as both sides inched closer to the quarter-finals. The two Asian heavyweights are both seen as potential champions but neither could find the winner at the three-quarters full Al-Gharafa Stadium.

Regional heavyweights Australia and the Korea Republic battled to a 1-1 draw in their group stage AFC Asian Cup 2011 meeting in Doha, Qatar on Friday. South Korea's Koo Ja-cheol scored his third goal of the tournament in the 24th minute on a pass in the area from striker Ji Dong Won. Australia equalized in the [.

Well wouldn't you just know it!
When efm, the only English speaking radio station in Seoul, Korea (pop 20 million) through it's Current Affairs program The Evening Show wanted someone to talk to from Australia next week ahead of the Australia v Korea Republic game....
they could have chose Denis Commetti, Peter Fitzsimons, Rebecca Wilson, Andrew Demitriou, Greg Inglis, Ricky Ponting and co.

The Asian Football Confederation has confirmed to us the following television broadcasters for the Asian Cup 2011 in Qatar: Japan ====== TV Asahi NHK China ====== Beijing TV CCTV Guangdong TV SMG Shangdong TV Jiangsu Tianjin Sohu Korea Republic =============== KBS SBS Sports MBC Sports (TBC) MBC (TBC) Australia ========== Fox Sports 1 Indonesia ========== RCTI and Indovision