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Abby Wambach's penchant for coming up big in the FIFA Women's World Cup this past summer has
earned her more individual acclaim six months later.
Wambach was named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year Tuesday, becoming the first
soccer player -- male or female -- to win an individual year-end award from the AP.
With joy in the air and consumerism driving television right now, my dreams are of big purchases
for the Seattle Sounders. A little girl may want two front teeth, I'd rather two amazing fullbacks,
possibly one as a youth DP. I know enough that these are just dreams, the reality is more likely a
player like Heiner Mora and Ever Alvarado.
CONCACAF has announced the pairings for the quarterfinal stage of the Champions League. Seattle
will play Santos Laguna, Metapan plays UNAM Pumas, with the other two quarterfinals matching up
teams from the same league. Morelia plays Monterrey and Toronto draws the LA Galaxy. The dates and
times have yet to be released, with the home-and-away series set for March 2012.
The Denver Broncos are not the only recipients of the unbridled optimism of Colorado sports fans
and writers.
Trailing Kansas City 2-0 on aggregate when they take the field tonight at Livestrong Sporting
Park in Kansas, the Colorado Rapids have suddenly become the beneficiaries of miraculous hopes for
improbable outcomes.
BY ADAM SERRANO
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras. –- The Galaxy booked their ticket to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF
Champions League with a 1-0 victory over Club Motagua on Thursday night in Honduras.
Juninho put the Galaxy ahead in the 29th minute with a dipping ball from distance that was too
much for Motagua goalkeeper Kerpo De Leon.
STARTERS64,140 in attendance in Seattle for the Sounders final regular season home game.
dN
"His biorhythms are vibrating at a frequency that would deafen a bat."
-Ray Hudson of GolTV describing another amazing performance by Lionel Messi of Barcelona this
weekend.
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Its official - France v USA - Fri Nov 11 in Paris at Stade de France - 2pm CT on ESPN2.
-Alright, who out there in du Nord land has frequent flyer miles to get you & me to Paris for this
game. I will get us the game tix.
dN
Ticket sales in Seattle for the Sounders final regular season home game on Saturday have now topped
61,000!
By ADAM SERRANO
Hector Jimenez has been living life under the radar in his rookie season, but when the
midfielder from the University of California has had his chance to see action, he's grabbed a hold
of it.
Jimenez was instrumental in the Galaxy's 2-1 victory over Morelia in the CONCACAF Champions
League, helping to create the winning goal.
"No disrespect to the Eastern Conference, but tonight was the championship" -- Dallas defensive
midfielder Daniel Hernandez after winning the Western Conference Championship in 2010I just wanted to throw that in as a "friendly" reminder about our guests tomorrow. I expect him to
get the official Class VI welcome for 90 minutes!
So, yeah, about that whole post where I said the Rapids will be beat by Metapan and the roster
selection was not great. Well Colorado proved me an idiot with a 3-1 win last night. The reserve
squad, lead by Steve Guppy and augmented by Wells Thompson and Tyrone Marshall, pulled together in
a tough environment and dominated the scoreboard.
The Colorado Rapids unloaded a month of frustrations on Isidro Metapan, beating the Salvadoran
side 3-1 at home on Wednesday night.
In the process, the Rapids (2-2-1, 7 points) also threw a lifeline to a CONCACAF Champions
League campaign that appeared dead after losing two matches at home by a combined 6-2 margin.
It's a big night for Major League Soccer teams both domestically and regionally. The Los Angeles
Galaxy and Colorado Rapids fighting for their CONCACAF Champions League lives, while FC Dallas
looks to take a giant step further toward advancing to the knockout stage.
In league play, Sporting Kansas City and Columbus meet in a crucial Eastern Conference battle,
while Real Salt Lake is expected to welcome playmaker Javier Morales back to the field at some
point during its match against the Chicago Fire.
Photo by David Bernal/ISIphotos.com
The Colorado Rapids could advance to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League by
winning both of their last two group matches. Even so, it looks like club is throwing in the towel
on its tournament run.
Colorado sent a reserve-heavy squad to face Isidro Metapan in El Salvador for Wednesday's match,
and head coach Gary Smith didn't make the trip, either, instead leaving assistant coach Steve Guppy
to handle the team.
The Colorado Rapids season ended at about 10 p.m. on Wednesday.
The team will still play two more CONCACAF Champions League group stage games, four MLS regular
season matches and one probable playoff game, but the disappointing 2011 season ended with the
final whistle in Real Espana's 2-1 victory at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Serie A on Fox Soccer Plus: Roma - Siena at 3pm. La Liga on GolTV: Real Espanyol - Getafe at 2pm.
On ESPN Deportes: Real Betis - Real Zaragoza at 4pm. CONCACAF Champions League on Galavision:
Santos Laguna - Metapan at 8pm and Motagua - Morelia at 10pm. The USA Women play Canada at 11pm on
ESPN2. All Times Eastern
Tomorrow night Real Espana becomes the final CCL team to make the trip to Denver for the group
stage. In August we faced them in Honduras using mostly a team of reserves and drew 1-1. The only
members of our best XI that started that game were Kimura, Larentowicz, and Cummings with Moor
getting 20 and Nyassi getting 10 minutes late.
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Rumors are spreading like a sandstorm that Bob Bradley will be announced as the new head coach of
the Egyptian national team.
-Any Egyptian readers care to give us their thoughts?
dN
Stumbling Columbus hosts bumbling Houston in MLS action tonight.
Colorado hosts Santos Laguna of the Mexican League tomorrow. This is the biggest CCL match the
Rapids will play, as Santos is by far the best team in the group but a win tomorrow would put
Colorado in the driver's seat for advancing into the knockout rounds. Game time tomorrow at the
Dick is 8pm and the game will be on FOX Soccer Channel.
Landon Donovan makes the most of his play against the Rapids, and he did it again on Friday
night, delivering the lone goal in the LA Galaxy's home win over Colorado.
This time, the goal came in the 36th minute as Donovan was unmarked when receiving a pass from
Sean Franklin. Unlike his miss against Costa Rico on the same field in a USA friendly a week early,
Donovan was clinical.
UEFA Champions League on Fox Soccer: Udinese - Arsenal at 2pm and Rubin Kazan - Lyon at 5pm (noon
on Fox Soccer Plus). On Fox Soccer Plus: Benfica - Twente at 8pm. Carling Cup on Fox Soccer Plus:
Exeter City - Liverpool at 2:30pm. CONCACAF Champions League on Fox Soccer: Toronto - Dallas at 8pm
(also on Galavision).
Apologies for the delay, a summer flu has knocked me out for the last 24 hours. Preview of
tomorrow's Chivas game will be up later tonight.
After the worst first half the
Rapids have played in years they straightened things out and halftime and dominated the second half
en route to a win.
By ADAM SERRANO
Robbie Keane appears ready to go for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Los Angeles received the Ireland international's P-1 visa on Wednesday, which will make him
eligible to play in the club's match against the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday.
Well, it took a number of years, and a couple dozen tries, but an MLS team has finally scored a
victory south of the border in CONCACAF Champions League group play as FC Dallas defeated Pumas
UNAM 1-0 in Mexico City. It shouldn't have taken this long, but sincere congratulations to Schellas
Hyndman's side for finally breaking the ice.
The Colorado Rapids couldn't have gotten off to a worse start in their CONCACAF Champions League
match on Wednesday night, surrendering an early penalty to go down 1-0 to visiting Salvadoran side
Metapan.
The defending MLS Cup champions didn't buckle though, not even after a Matt Pickens blunder gave
Metapan a 2-1 lead.
Isidro Metapan and the Colorado Rapids combined for five goals on Wednesday night, but it was a
brace from Macoumba Kandji that made the difference in the home side's first CONCACAF Champions
League match.
Kandji's goals, in the 16th minute and first-half stoppage time, rescued a discombobulated
Rapids side and paved the way for Andre Akpan's second half winner at Dick's Sporting Goods
Park.
The other two teams in Group D of the CONCACAF Champions League are kicking off now. If we're
gunning for second place in the group (as we probably should be), we'll want a Monterrey win here
to reduce the competition. On the other hand, a stumble by the Mexican team would open a crack in
the door to a group win and possibly an easier route through the bracket.
UEFA Champions League on Fox Soccer: Bayern Munich - Zurich at 2pm and Odense - Villarreal at 5pm.
Fox Soccer Plus has Dinamo Zagreb - Malmo at 2pm and Wisla Krakow - Apoel at 9pm. Spanish Super Cup
2nd-leg on GolTV and ESPN Deportes: Barcelona - Real Madrid at 5pm. CONCACAF Champions League on
Fox Soccer: Colorado - Metapan at 10pm and UNAM Pumas - Dallas at 12:30am (11pm on Galavision).
The Colorado Rapids learned the final dates and hosting opportunities for the team's inaugural
run in the CONCACAF Champions League on Tuesday.
Colorado, which hosts its opening match in CCL play on Aug. 17 against Metapan, will also host
matches against Santos Laguna on Sept. 13 and Real Espana on Sept.
Brian Mullan made the most of a Friday night game, launching a goal of the week nominee, and
Sanna Nyassi turned provider as the Colorado Rapids downed the Columbus Crew 2-0 at Dick's Sporting
Goods Park in Commerce City.
Colorado improved to 9-6-10 (37 points) and dispatched the third Eastern Conference leading team
in the past four games.
By JOHN BOSCHINI
As most NASL teams enter their final 10 games of the season, here's a taste of how dominant
Carolina has been since the beginning of April.
The Railhawks have racked up an incredible +25 goal differential over their opening 18 games.
That's followed by the NSC Minnesota Stars.
Aaron King
Wednesday evening at Al Lang Stadium, FC Tampa Bay ended its season series with FC Edmonton,
topping the Canadian side 3-1. The win gave FC Tampa Bay the advantage in the 2011 season with
the expansion upstarts, with FC Tampa Bay winning twice, losing once and drawing once.
Aaron King
Wednesday evening at Al Lang Stadium, FC Tampa Bay ended its season series with FC Edmonton,
topping the Canadian side 3-1. The win gave FC Tampa Bay the advantage in the 2011 season with
the expansion upstarts, with FC Tampa Bay winning twice, losing once and drawing once.
Most Seattle Sounders fans should be reasonably familiar with CONCACAF Champions League, but
because it's a bit different than anything else in American sports, it can't hurt to do a bit of a
refresher course. But even if you are well aware of CCL and how it works, this story should still
be interesting as we'll go over some of the teams the Sounders are likely to face and what kind of
chance they have at improving on last year's disappointing Group Stage performance.
