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Thursday afternoon, it was announced that Italian club AC Milan will face off against Brazilian powerhouse Cruziero as part of a special doubleheader being held at Gillette Stadium.

The match will take place on August 4th, with the clubs kicking off at 4:30 EST. Following this match will be the previously-scheduled game between the New England Revolution and Sporting KC.

It's official, the Dynamo have a true right side midfielder at last. Honduran international Oscar Boniek Garcia, a player the team has been pursuing for over a year, will join the club in July pending his visa approval and a transfer certificate when the window opens on June 27th.

Here's what we know.

Every soccer-crazy kid has the same dream – you're on holiday kicking the ball around and a scout from a big club scouts you. For for ten-year-old Aisha Saini of Scotland, that dream came true while she was in Spain on a summer vacation with her family.

Now it� isn't that rare to sign a very young player� on the chance they blossom into the next Messi, who was signed at the ripe age of 13 by Barcelona after years of playing in Argentina.

Following months of speculation surrounding� a potential� summertime friendly, the Revolution announced on Thursday that Italian powerhouse AC Milan and popular� Brazilian side Cruzeiro Esporte Clube will meet on Aug. 4 at Gillette Stadium.

Kick off for the friendly is set for 4:30pm and will precede the Revolution's conference clash with Sporting K.

Arsene Wenger has indicated that the nearly completed transfer of Alex Song to Barcelona will be followed by the arrival of a new midfielder at Arsenal and the replacement is likely to have creative qualities as well.

Song started off as a raw talent in the defensive midfield for the Gunners but turned into a complete box-to-box powerhouse by the end of last season.

One of the biggest transfer stories of the summer has been the potential move of FC Porto superstar Hulk. The Brazilian striker has been strongly linked with a blockbuster deal to Champions League winners Chelsea, and as the summer wears on the rumors are gaining more and more momentum.

Now, Chelsea midfielder Ramires has even publicly discussed the rumors, putting added pressure on Roman Abramovich to front the money needed to secure the signing of the attacking powerhouse.

Another Americans Abroad season debut, another goal.

Alejandro Bedoya added himself to the list of Americans who have scored for their respective clubs in their debut games of the current campaign, netting a bicycle kick in his first game with Helsingborgs IF. Bedoya got off to a dream start with the Swedish powerhouse by scoring the opener in the 37th minute, his first goal in the Allsvenskan since May 2011, but he and Helsingborg would relinquish the lead and lose, 2-1.

Photo courtesy of GEPA-pictures.com/Wien Energie

By FRANCO PANIZO

After the busiest summer of his brief professional career, Terrence Boyd joined Austrian club Rapid Vienna from German powerhouse Borussia Dortmund in July with the idea that he would find the necessary playing time to further his development.

Stop press. Spain finally beaten. In the pecking order of bragging rights, the Olympics may not be such a big deal compared to the World Cup or the Euro, but lets not forget it was not another European giant beating them, it was Japan. A perennial Asian powerhouse but not known for winning results against the big boys of world football.

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It was one of the stunning, exciting and enjoyable moments in American soccer history, the U.S. Men's national team's stunning 3-2 World Cup upset victory against Portugal on June 5th, 2002. That day in Suwon, South Korea marked a turnaround for the sport in the USA, and helped spark the best World Cup run by the USMNT in half a century.

Mark Ogden, Daily Telegraph Northern Football Correspondent, looks ahead to United's 2012-2013 season.

Scott the Red: United never implode at the end of the season. What do you think happened?

Mark Ogden: United have had a few wobbles during the run-in in the past, so it wasn't totally unusual that it happened last season.

If Real Salt Lake were planning to get out of the current funk that they are in versus the Columbus Crew, they failed.

The Crew picked up a comfortable 2-0 win over RSL on Saturday night at Crew Stadium thanks to first-half goals from Tony Tchani and Eddie Gaven.

Tchani knocked in his second in as many games with a low shot to the near post while Gaven hit a left-footed effort from six yards out that smacked off the underside of the crossbar before completely passing the goal line.

Photo: Courtesy of Harrisburg City Islanders

As the Philadelphia Union prepare to face Harrisburg City Islanders at PPL Park on Tuesday night in the quarterfinals of the US Open Cup, PSP is happy to welcome Derek Meluzio to provide some background information on the club. Derek is the man behind the City Islander's blog Upper 90, which will be familiar to readers of PSP's daily news roundups.

Nike was quick on the draw with a new LeBron James commercial after he won his first championship. This LeBron James commercial is called "The Ring Maker" and is actually really good. Scroll down and watch the video below.

In this LeBron James commercial, there is a ring maker who watches LeBron grow from a high school phenom into a powerhouse in the NBA.

With over 18,000 registered players, football has become the largest outdoor sport in the ACT and surrounding region. Combine those numbers with participation in Futsal, and you have a powerhouse of action and potential.