The Islanders used two late goals to advance Wednesday Night Tropical Storm Hanna has reaked havoc on Haiti and it also delayed the start of tonight's CONCACAF Champions League match between Puerto Rico and Alajuelense. For the first time ever a Costa Rican club has been eliminated from a CONCACAF tournament by an American club with [. Click to continue reading...

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Bayamón, Puerto Rico - El Sevilla Bayamón, se llevo un punto del Estadio Francisco Montaner, en un partido que termino con resultado final de 1 a 1 con Ponce River Plate.

De esta manera Sevilla continúa como líder del campeonato.

El partido comenzó con dominio de los locales quienes avisaron ya al minuto 2 con tiro efectuado por el lateral derecho ponceño Alexis Medina el cual va a las manos de Myers. Click to continue reading...

New England, the best team supposedly in MLS, got beat by a team called Joe Public F.C. (no joke!), a side from Trinidad and Tobago.

Hopefully they were playing reserves.

Chivas USA didn't do much better, losing 2-0 to Tauro F.C., the Panamanian champs. Puerto Rico got a point, but I'm not sure how much credit the U. Click to continue reading...

Without a doubt, USL fans should be gloating that their two sides in the CONCACAF Champions Cup, Montreal and Puerto Rico, managed a win and a road draw while MLS' Chivas and New England both lost their first matches. I am not about to read too much into this on a larger level except to say [...] Click to continue reading...

The time has come for North America's answer to their European counterpart. The Champions League begins tonight. In this space I will rank and give a brief preview of the eight preliminary matchups. Several of the teams come from leagues that have played internationally very little over the past few years, so those teams will be unranked. Click to continue reading...

Puerto Rico Islander Osei Telesford has become a key part of the Soca Warriors Andy Williams (Real Salt Lake) Scored a goal in Jamaica's 1-1 draw with Canada Omar Cummings (Colorado) Came on late and helped Jamaica secure a valuable road point. Dwayne DeRossario (Houston) Played the full 90 minutes for Canada and received a yellow card Adrian Serioux [. Click to continue reading...

The Atlanta Silverbacks continued their climb out of the middle of the table last night with a solid victory over league leading Vancouver Whitecaps. 1,941 brave fans faced the humid, 90+ degree temps to cheer on the Backs as the streaking home town boys did not disappoint.

The Silverbacks started the affair in the hole by giving up the first goal to Vancouver in the 31st minute on a Luca Bellisomo header, but perhaps that was the wake up call they needed as they equalized six minutes later with a Tony McManus strike. Click to continue reading...

Low missed a penalty kick and the RailHawks lost 1-0 in Puerto Rico.
For those keeping track, that's 3 straight losses and winless in the last 8 league games. Carolina has now earned 21 points from 21 league matches and stands last in the league in a table based on points earned per game played. Click to continue reading...

By halftime of the RailHawks Sunday afternoon friendly against the Mexican club Monterrey at WakeMed Soccer Park, it became evident that what happened this weekend is going to define Carolinas season.
In the meaningless match against Monterrey, the RailHawks played the opening 45 minutes with passion and purpose, two characteristics that were embarrassingly absent in a very meaningful visit from Puerto Rico on Friday. Click to continue reading...

La Selección Nacional Femenil Sub-17, consiguió avanzar a las semifinales del Campeonato  Femenino Concacaf 2008, en donde esta tarde goleó 4 – 0 al conjunto de Puerto Rico, en el torneo que se desarrolla en Trinidad y Tobago. Alina Garcíamendez fue la encargada de abrir la pizarra con anotación apenas al minuto 4 de juego; con [. Click to continue reading...

The Carolina RailHawks didn't help themselves by gifting Puerto Rico 2 goals with defensive lapses, but they didn't get any help from the referee either who denied three legitimate penalty shouts against the Islanders on Friday night at WakeMed Soccer Park.
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As usual, it rained just before the game, killing the walk up. Game time rain means many thousands of lost dollars to team management. Playing simply and intelligently in the back should mean more to the coaching staff. Both Puerto Rico goals were gifts: Carolinas Solle and Stokes contrived to put Hanna through in the tenth minute through a bungled clearance. Click to continue reading...

Good thing tonight's match is an 8 p.m. ET kick, because at the moment the heat and humidity is off the charts. Maybe it was because I had a long workout in the hotel "fitness center" (very loose description), but I wanted to stop and rest halfway from the locker room to the "press box" (also a very generous term to describe the broadcast location here at the Silverbacks' grounds). Click to continue reading...

Este mes se llevará a cabo el Campeonato Femenino Sub-17 Concacaf 2008 en Trindidad y Tobago en donde participarán las Selecciones Nacionales de Trinidad & Tobago, Estados Unidos, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Canadá, Jamaica y México.  Este Pre Mundial otorga tres plazas para el Campeonato Mundial Femenino Sub-17 de la FIFA que se [. Click to continue reading...

Este mes se llevará a cabo el Campeonato Femenino Sub-17 Concacaf 2008 en Trindidad y Tobago en donde participarán las Selecciones Nacionales de Trinidad & Tobago, Estados Unidos, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Canadá, Jamaica y México.  Este Pre Mundial otorga tres plazas para el Campeonato Mundial Femenino Sub-17 de la FIFA que se [. Click to continue reading...

Este mes se llevará a cabo el Campeonato Femenino Sub-17 Concacaf 2008 en Trindidad y Tobago en donde participarán las Selecciones Nacionales de Trinidad & Tobago, Estados Unidos, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Canadá, Jamaica y México.  Este Pre Mundial otorga tres plazas para el Campeonato Mundial Femenino Sub-17 de la FIFA que se [. Click to continue reading...

It has started.

In late May I wrote about how the CONCACAF Champions League would raise the level of play throughout the region. Proving me right, HexagonalBlog has passed along the news that a domestic league has been formed on Puerto Rico -- the Puerto Rico Soccer League (PRSL).

The teams involved will play just 14 matches (with playoffs to follow), and the resources available are limited, of course, but it is a start. Click to continue reading...

OneLink Communications will Launch GolTV on July 1 to its  Digital Basic Customers MIAMI, FL – June 30, 2008 – GolTV, the only live bilingual channel delivering 24/7 soccer, will launch on July 1 on OneLink Communications, the largest cable operator in Puerto Rico, as part of its Digital Basic channel lineup. Click to continue reading...

Puerto Rico has created an 8 team football league to include the following teams: Carolina Giants, Academia Quintana, Guaynabo Fluminense, Caguas Huracan, Sevilla Puerto Rico and Humacao Tornados, affiliated with the Pachuca. Good luck fellas! Here's a link to the league website: PRSL Click to continue reading...

Here's what a day of baby-sitting will do to a man: I just spent 17 good minutes of my life watching highlights (?) of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying matches, including Jamaica's 7-0 win over Bahamas and Guatemala's 6-0 win over Saint Lucia. I'm all for the minnows having their God-given World Cup chance, but doesn't it seem sort of cruel and unusual? Click to continue reading...

As much fun as it is to only focus on the great show the US put on yesterday, there were ten other Concacaf Qualifiers over the weekend. So how did they turn out? Most of them went as expected, but there were a couple shocks.

Trinidad and Tobago 1-2 Bermuda - T&T get shocked at home by Bermuda. Click to continue reading...

Some quick thoughts on what I have seen, read, and heard during the second round of qualifying: Everyone is happy at the end of Puerto Rico-Honduras. Honduras is happy that they're in the semifinal group stage, and Puerto Rico is happy because they've shown how far they've progressed in the last four years. Click to continue reading...

This comes to us from what if fastly becoming our favorite MLS/US Soccer site, American Soccer Reader.

Apparently, RBNY manager, Juan Carlos Osorio does not want to release Red Bull forward, Chris Megaloudis to play for Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican FA is livid. 
Our take: Release the player Osorio, you know the rules, no club likes having to release players for international duty but they do it anyway. Click to continue reading...

I'm not sure which was worse, the USL Live commentary team from Puerto Rico, or the performance of the RailHawks against the last place Islanders...
Carolina was manhandled by a Puerto Rico side that had only managed 1 previous win and 7 points in 7 games. Led by former RailHawk Jonny Steele who had two assists on the night, the Islanders managed to put half as many goals past Chris McClellan as he had given up in the 8 previous league matches. Click to continue reading...

When the RailHawks take to Estadio Juan Roman Loubriel on Thursday in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, theyll be in an unfamiliar position.
Theyre entering the match against the Islanders coming off a USL-1 loss.
Carolina (3-1-4) fell 1-0 at Atlanta on May 31, ending its seven-match unbeaten streak to start the season. Click to continue reading...