JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA JUNE 11: Guillermo Franco of Mexico reacts during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group A match between South Africa and Mexico at Soccer City Stadium on June 11, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa.. (Photo by Mario Castillo/Jam Media/LatinContent/Getty Images)
No puedo creer que este escribiendo esto, antes de que inicies a leer el escrito debes de recordar los siguiente: ¿Cuantas veces algunos medios critican al aficionado porque no tiene memoria?

We are a great football club and we boast a good number of websites that honor that fact. The first season of MLS brought us an explosion in Timbers media in many forms for many tastes. We would like to list a few of the sites that you may or may not heard of in organized super random list.

We can all hope that we will see even more Timbers media in our second season of MLS.

Their Words One of the greatest strengths of the Timbers is the rich history of the club. With this third kit, we are paying homage to the teams and players that inspired our city to become Soccer City, USA. Portland Timbers president Merritt Paulson. Other Sources U.S. hopefuls get one last chance in January to impress Klinsmann - from SI.

You know you love football. You love watching the players racing across the field with the smell of cut grass setting fire to your team spirit. You sit at the edge of your seat when the players get the ball down the field, avoiding the opposing team as one good whack against the ball with a head or foot sends the ball past the goalie.

Undoubtedly, expansion is an exciting time for MLS fans, as it allows them to see and experience a "new" market, a new potential rival, and the possibility of the next great soccer city. With the success of recent expansion clubs ...
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By Shane Badger
Central New York prepares for an epic joust tonight between the Rochester Lancers and the Syracuse Silver Knights in what may prove to be the leagues greatest rivalry.
In tonight's opening battle of the MISL season in New York the storied Lancers will travel into the heart of Syracuse to defend Rochester's title of Soccer City.

Central New York prepares for an epic joust tonight between the Rochester Lancers and the Syracuse Silver Knights in what may prove to be the leagues greatest rivalry.
In tonight's opening battle of the MISL season in New York the storied Lancers will travel into the heart of Syracuse to defend Rochester's title of Soccer City.

En el mundial 2010
la selección estaba llena de pelones
aun así no salieron campeones

Primero vamos por partes
el capitan es Rafael Marquez

Alguno se creia artista
en realidad,era el Bofo Bautista
Por eso la flaca en esta ocasión
se lo llevo por estar pelón

Aguirre te habías tardado
en meter Andres Guardado
A Javier le dijo esperame tantito
el mejor de todos es Chicharito

jóvenes viajaron a la copa
casi los dejaron sin ropa
todo por ir Argentina
y a unas chicas en la tina

Después llego Fernando Tena
que solo fue a dar pena

la calaca se los quiere llevar
a todos por su mal andar
pero entonces llego un loro
y México se llevo el oro

La catrina se pudo triste
el tri le conto un chiste

La FMF grito en la torre
y contrato al Chepo De la Torre
por esta los voy a dejar pasar
porque el tri empezara a Ganar

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA JUNE 27: The Mexico team line up for a group photo prior to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Round of Sixteen match between Argentina and Mexico at Soccer City Stadium on June 27, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Photo: Paul Rudderow

You might have noticed, but there are three other playoff series going on besides Philadelphia Union's face-off with Houston. Normally, we might not watch them, but each series has high entertainment value, for different reasons in each case.

Here's a quick preview of the three.

*They know that after Morelia beat Alajuelense Tuesday. Here are the standings in the group. Their opponents Thursday haven't won a game in the competition.

*The Chivas USA reserves won today. Woo hoo!

*The U.S. Futsal National Team, which includes four players who play at Torrance's South Coast Soccer City, was "pulverized by Iran" after earlier losing 7-0 to Uruguay in a tourament in Brazil.

Players on the U.S. Futsal National Team scrimmage Thursday at South Coast Soccer City in Torrance (Photo by Staff Photographer Brad Graverson).

When it comes to U.S. national outdoor soccer teams, the South Bay is already home to all but the Under-17 boys national team program (that has its HQ in Bradenton, Fla.

There are in fact only three "newcomers" who haven't yet been in a Jurgen Klinsmann-led national team camp: veteran defender Oguchi Onyewu, Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando and German-born midfielder Danny Williams, 21, who just got his American citizenship.

"We would like to continue seeing our players develop through these initial couple of months," Klinsmann said.

The U.S. Futsal National Team is holding a camp this week at Soccer City in Torrance, Calif. The training camp is building on the success of the player identification camp held earlier this month and the team is now in the process of preparing for FIFA Futsal World Cup qualifying next year.
One goal of the player identification camp was to rebuilt the squad with an injection of youth, and three players who are 17 and under have joined the team in southern california.

Jamie Lieberman (Racine Prairie School/UW-Parkside) is taking some time off from his duties as goalkeeper coach for the UW-Parkside men's soccer team.

But he's still working.

Lieberman is training with the U.S. Futsal national team in Torrance, Calif., the first time the goalkeeper has been called into a national team camp.

Big congratulations to the U.S. Women's National Team for their thrilling 3-nil blow out against the Canadian side, not that anybody expected another result in Portland. I was, unfortunately, unable to attend in person, which is a huge shame because I really enjoy women's soccer and, on many occasions, believe it brings a better, more technical game than MLS does.

U.S. WNT and former Portland Pilot stars Stephanie Cox visited Town Hall on Wednesday to give a few gifts to local politicians and receive a proclamation (see below) from the Mayor and the city of Portland proclaiming a Day of Recognition for the U.S. WNT. That's one of many things we love about Portland.

With the official release of the 2011-2012 MISL Season Schedule, Indoor Soccer News selected a few match-ups that are "Can't Miss Games" for any true Indoor Soccer Fan.

1. November 3 - Comets vs. Wings: First game of the MISL season as Missouri Comets travel to the Hartman Arena to take on the new Wichita Wings.

U.S. Soccer and the U.S. Futsal National Team will stage a player identification camp from Sept. 12-15 at Torrance's South Coast Soccer City (Daily Breeze file photo).

In a coup for Torrance's South Coast Soccer City the state-of-the-art 73,000-square-foot futsal facility that includes an international size field will host the U.

It's only a friendly but Wednesday's match between Italy and Spain is a huge match for both clubs as he head towards the 2012 Euro's next summer.

Italy suffered a nightmare defence of their crown at the last World Cup, finishing below New Zealand at the bottom of Group F.

They have shown signs of improvement under Cesare Prandelli, and lead their Euro 2012 qualifying group by five points.

Por snedecor
Supongo que no es fácil ganar un Mundial, sobre todo si no sabes cómo se hace una cosa parecida. Por fortuna para nosotros, hace años que en España se vienen haciendo bastante bien las cosas con las selecciones inferiores, y por eso no debe ser casualidad que el año pasado en el podio del Soccer City de Johannesburgo se juntaran unos cuantos medallistas olímpicos, muchos campeones de Europa en distintas categorías y un subcampeón y 3 campeones del mundo sub'20.

Soccer City U.S.A. - A Day With The Timbers Army

"Although my favorite MLS team has always been the Metros (Red Bulls), the team closest to my heart was the California Victory, a USL team that played in San Francisco in the second division of soccer for one season in 2007. I was part of the 1906 Supporters, the Victory's fan group and I always remembered the Portland Timber's fans that came down that year to support their team for a league game.

Joey Saputo, president of the Montreal Impact announced on Tuesday the Canadian banking financial group, Bank of Montreal (BMO), as the primary partner and shirt sponsor for their inaugural season in Major League Soccer for 2012. He made the announcement as he sat in front of a BMO banner overlooking Saputo Stadium decorated with BMO dasher boards as he The sponsorship is a 5-year deal but other terms of the contract were not announced.

Soccer City indeed; the Timbers Army.

The head explosion heard around the world.

Yeah, that was me. If you heard a loud bang coming from the top left corner of the United States Saturday night, that was the sound of my head exploding as I watched Colorado score a goal in stoppage time to seal a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers as a sold out, shocked JELD-WEN crowed watched in disbelief.

La copa America esta a la vuelta de la esquina , y todos ustedes están esperando que su selección salte por la copa y la gane en el torneo mas antiguo del mundo hecho para selecciones nacionales, aun mas viejo que la propia copa del mundo. Realizado desde 1916, el torneo completará 95 años de disputa en 2011.

Photo Credit: Free Beer MovementOn April 14, 2011 the Portland Timbers made their smashing Major League Soccer debut. The American soccer world was blown away at the sights and sounds of the league's newest members. A renovated stadium, a supporters-fueled National Anthem, and a team that brought home a victory for the home fans.

Photo by Jose M. Romero

By JOSE M. ROMERO

PORTLAND, Ore. -- It rained and rained and rained some more, but 18,627 fans packed into compact Jeld-Wen Field for the Portland Timbers' MLS home opener couldn't have cared less.

Following up on their dominating display at the President's Cup two months ago, Chichitas reclaimed another title with authority.

The Madison-area team was hardly tested in winning its second National Indoor Soccer Championship in three years, thumping Illinois side Schwaben AC 5-1 in the Women's Open final Sunday at Soccer City in Palatine, Ill.

We have to admit. We are humbled that after 3+ years of writing about the beautiful game, people continue to search us out. Sadly, we have slowed to a snail's pace here over the last three months -- of course not counting the top-notch posting of Tom Mallows -- but overall our posts are down.
Now re-energized we will be breaking posts into four categories moving forward: Soccer World, Soccer USA, Soccer Games and Soccer Player.

Sulley Muntari will happily shake hands with the man who shattered his World Cup dreams when Sunderland host Liverpool this Sunday.
Muntari and his Ghana team-mates looked to be heading into the semi-finals in South Africa last summer when, with the score at 1-1 in the final seconds of extra-time, Uruguay striker Luis Suarez handled on the line to deny Dominic Adiyiah a dramatic winner.

The fourth version of the Portland Timbers takes the field as one of 2 MLS expansion sides for 2011. Along with Pacific Northwest neighbors Vancouver Whitecaps will be looking to mimic the extraordinary success of arch-rivals Seattle Sounders, whose 30,000+ average crowds have set a very high bar.

Soccer City was built specifically for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. ussoccer.com was lucky enough to be given a tour and check out this fantastic stadium. Author: broadbandsports Tags: fifa world cup 2010 fifa world cup soccer city soccer 2010 us mens national team Posted: 11 February 2011 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

in 2010, photos change, words not so much.

MLS Superdraft breakdown - you know you're not getting that here. But every year the draft marks the beginning of a new soccer season. Beyond the MLS hot stove, it means the first USMNT game of the new year is around the corner, with the Gold Cup just down the road.

Muchos aficionados azulgranas y de todo el globo terraqueo saben que un gran porcentaje del titulo en Sudafrica se lo deben al mejor equipo del ultimo lustro , si, el Barcelona de Pep Guardiola, pues el sueño de estos fanáticos se hará realidad , el trofeo se expondrá en el Museu Olímpic de l'Esport del 12 al 15 de enero.