Six players on the roster have made Mexico their home for professional football, and tonight's
match represents a special opportunity. A snapshot of the Liga MX'ers:
DaMarcus Beasley: Beasley made the move to Mexico and Puebla FC in the summer
of 2011. Since then, the 30-year-old midfielder has scored seven goals in more than 30 league
appearances for La Franja.
The Chicago Fire have signed 25 year-old Uruguayan forward Federico Puppo. HTIOT first put this
rumor up over a week ago and it's interesting to see it finalized. It seems the Chicago Fire
technical staff should be fully familiar with Puppo.
"Federico Puppo is a player we've kept an eye for the past few seasons," said Fire head coach
Frank Klopas.
A last second shot by Jaime Alas which Sean Johnson could not hold onto trickled into goal for
the equalizer and the USA U23 needing a win, alas, failed to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics.
It will be El Salvador marching to the CONCACAF zone semi-finals from Group A, not the heavily
favoured US side.
CONCACAF Olympic qualifying continues on Friday evening as Group B kicks off at the Home Depot
Center. Â The action begins this evening at the Home Depot Center when Honduras faces Panama (9pm
EDT/CONCACAF.com) and ends when Mexico takes on Trinidad and Tobago (11:30pm EDT).
The 2011 Pan American Games (or Pan Am Games) are taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico from October
14th to the 30th. The tournament will feature approximately 6,000 athletes from 42 North, Central
and South America and Caribbean nations participating in 36 sports including soccer. The 2011 Pan
Am games men's and women's soccer tournaments will [.
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and South America and Caribbean nations participating in 36 sports including soccer. The 2011 Pan
Am games men's and women's soccer tournaments will [.
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After helping Canada win the gold medal at last month's Pan American Games in Mexico, Lauren
Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre Dame) will be back training with the national team on Saturday.
The Atlanta Beat defender was one of 21 players called in for a 12-day training camp in Phoenix
that includes a closed-door friendly against Sweden on Nov.
Just more than a month into her international career, Lauren Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre
Dame) already has won a gold medal.
Sesselmann started and played 77 minutes Thursday night as Canada won the gold at the Pan
American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, topping two-time defending champion Brazil 4-3 on penalty
kicks following a 1-1 draw in the final at Estadio Omnilife.
Lauren Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre Dame) started and played 62 minutes at left back as
Canada beat Costa Rica 3-1 in the opening match of the women's soccer competition at the Pan
American Games on Tuesday at Omnilife Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Sesselmann, making her third international appearance, conceded a penalty kick in the 27th
minute as she was called for a foul on Raquel RodrĂguez Cedeño during a breakaway.
Three players with state ties are headed to Mexico with the Canadian women's national team for
the Pan American Games next month.
Atlanta Beat defender Lauren Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre Dame), Marquette
sophomore Vanessa Legault-Cordisco and University of Wisconsin recruit
Diamond Simpson were among the 17 players selected by new coach John
Herdman.
In the end, you can't possibly have everything. The selecao feminina
painfully lost out on penalties to Canada a few hours ago, taking home the silver
medal at the Pan American games after the shootout ended 4-3. Sections of the
Brazilian media are calling this a "harsh punishment" but we don't think so.
Lauren Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre Dame) set up Robyn Gayle's 88th-minute winner
as the Canadian women's national team slipped past Colombia 2-1 on Tuesday night in Guadalajara,
Mexico, to advance to the championship game of the Pan American Games.
Sesselmann served a free kick into the box that Gayle chested down and finished to send the
Canadians to a rematch with Brazil in Thursday's final at Omnilife Stadium.
Maurine from Brazil Women's team will be facing off against Mexico in a crucial semi-final match
at the Pan American games today. But Maurine, a right winger, has a greater mission than her
teammates. After her dad passed away on Sunday, she wants to fulfill his last wish: "My father
asked me to take the gold medal home.
Lauren Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre Dame) played the full 90 minutes at left back Saturday
night as Canada tied Brazil 0-0 in the final match of Group B play at the Pan American Games in
Guadalajara, Mexico.
The teams shared the group title, as both teams went 2-0-1 with four goals scored and one
allowed in three games.
FIFA announced the Match Schedule for the 2014 World Cup in Zurich last night and we know you'd
rather take out your neighbour's trash than see images of Yoda Blatter at the
ceremony! So here you go instead, it's the Selecao feminina celebrating
their goal against Costa Rica at the Pan American Games yesterday.
The 2011 Sudamerico Sub-20 championship was played between 16 January and 12 february 2011. The top
two finishers (Brazil and Uruguay) qualify to play in the 2012 Olympic football tournament. The top
four finishers qualified to play in the FIFA under-20 World Cup (Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina &
Ecuador) and will be joined by the hosts Colombia.
The U20 Tournament in South America has reached the final group stage, meaning six teams who will
now play against the other five teams. Those games began on Monday and continue Sunday on
ESPN3.com. The top four finishing teams earn trips to both the U-20 World Cup and the Pan American
Games, and the top two teams also get spots in the 2012 Olympics.
The 2014 World Cup is 5 years ahead of us. Long time? Not for the politics going on in the
background. Before I even go ahead, bare in mind a few things:
Brazil hosted the 2007 Pan-american games in Rio. The proposed budget for the hosting the games:
R$ 400 million ( at a rate of US$ 1 = R$ 2.
The new year is here, and it's tempting to think of 2011 as a bit of a let-down in terms of
international football. After all, 2010 was the big one, the World Cup year, and now we enter the
long three year hiatus of World Cup football before Brazil 2014. But there is, of course, far more
to the international game than just the World Cup.
Months ago, I mentioned the danger of the 2014 World Cup turn into drain for public money. The
final destination: the pockets of corrupt Brazilian politicians. It seems the party just got
started.
Blog do Jose Cruz, which investigates the politics of sports, showed yesterday that the city of
Cuiaba, capital of Mato Grosso and one of the 12 hosts, already broke the rules to avoid the waste
of tax payers' money.
Put that in your Tony Pulis and smoke it!
Regular Yorkies readers will know that the word "Panama" has appeared far too often over the last
few days here. So no more - not even parts of the word! On to a different topic!
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In 2015, The Golden Horseshoe area will host the Pan-American Games (wait.
Milwaukee's Bob Gansler will be inducted into the National Soccer Coaches
Association of America Hall of Fame on Jan. 15 at the organization's annual convention in
Philadelphia.
Gansler, a native of Hungary who moved to Milwaukee in 1952, played with the Chicago Mustangs in
the North American Soccer League in 1968 and made 25 appearances for the U.
While players are now reporting to their European clubs' preseason training camps, we're all still
following the movement of American players between various clubs. This got me thinking that after
20 years of following the fortunes of US players in Europe (9 of them as a reporter), its hard not
to notice the evolution of the American presence in the European game.
The first fruits of Ben Olsen's South American trip may have just arrived, as multiple reports out of Brazil quote EC Bahia's coach Paulo Angioni as saying that 20 year old striker Rafael Souza will go on a season long loan to D.C. United. Rafael has played in 46 games for EC Bahia, who finished 14th in the Brazilian Serie A last season, and he has scored 10 goals.
China, Why Costa Rica? -Â Costa Rica have recently unveiled the
state-of-the-art Estadio Nacional. But why was it funded exclusively by the Chinese
government?
On Saturday, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid kick off at the Camp Nou and the Mestalla,
respectively.
Jerome Amione, currently with Atlante, scored the lone goal as Mexico's youth again shows it's
international dominance in the Pan American Games as they win the gold medal 1-0 on home soil.
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SĂŁo Paulo forward, Henrique, who was voted the U-20 World Cup's best player in Colombia
Ney Franco has called up 18 players for the Pan-American games in Mexico. Brazil are in Group B
and will kick off their campaign versus Argentina on 19th October. They then face Cuba on 21st and
Costa Rica two days later.
Kirstina Kiss has announced today that she will be retiring from the Canadian Women's National
Soccer Team today. Kiss began her soccer career in Ottawa, Ontario after being a star player at the
Holy Trinity High School. She was the team captain for Canada and helped her team win silver at the
2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo and bronze in 2007 at the Pan American games in Rio de
Janairo.
