Jones is described as an owner, advisor and promoter in the company by Socal Soccer City Holdings President Kevin Gilmore, a partner in the proposed indoor Futsal facility on Maple Avenue that will occupy a former shipping facility.

Jones, now an assistant coach with the Galaxy after a glittering 12-season career with the MLS club, grew up in Westlake Village.

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There were some around the Sounders message boards and blogs that thought I underrated the USL players. At the end of the year though, none were starters. But one fell from being a starter (though likely just due to the health of other players) and another worked his way up from token nod to the past to becoming a key player on the club during the last third of the season.

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I spent sometime this season following the results of an upstart NPSL team that caused quite a buzz in the lower levels of American soccer, that team is Chattanooga FC. A quaint, modest Appalachian foothills city that straddles the banks of the Tennessee River, Chattanooga is one of the last places people would look if they were searching for a soccer hotbed, and they would be missing out on something very exciting.

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People living in poverty near Soccer City stadium outside Johannesburg battle police during anti-World Cup protests. Local residents demand houses rather than world-class stadiums.
Recommended reading: Ashwin Desai's The Poors and this article.

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I guess some would look at this as a continuation of the war of press releases between the United Soccer Leagues and the Team Owners Association, but nonetheless it's still news.

According to the press release the USL First Division will move forward next year without the member clubs of the TOA, though Tampa seems to be on-board with the USL despite flirting with TOA over the last few months.

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Well, it looks like the NuRock v TOA saga is continuing, but only a little bit, while the USL-1 meetings are being held in Beaverton, OR this week.

With the following teams certainly there - Rochester, Portland, Tampa Bay, Puerto Rico, FC New York, Cleveland and Austin.

The TOA clubs, may or may not be - Vancouver, Montreal, St Louis, Miami, Atlanta, Tampa, Carolina, Minnesota.

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The backers of Torrance's planned state of the art Futsal facility in a former warehouse on Maple Avenue have signed a lease for the 73,000-square-foot building and are projecting a December opening.

Dubbed South Coast Soccer City, the refurbished building will accommodate five Futsal fields with modular flooring and two artificial turf fields, a 4,000-square-foot training center, four party rooms, a homework room, cafe/lounge and store selling Futsal equipment.

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El Mundial Sudafrica 2010 está cada vez más cerca y ya se notan los claros avances en materias de Estadios. Especialmente "Soccer City" el Estadio ubicado en Johannesburgo.

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I already wrote about official world cup 2010 fixtures, but here are some more fixtures:
Bloemfontein (Mangaung)This is the match schedule at Bloemfontein's Free State Stadium.
14 Jun
17 Jun
20 Jun
22 Jun
25 Jun
27 Jun
E3 v E4
B4 v B2
F4 v F2
A4 v A1
H2 v H3
1D v 2C(4)
Cape TownThis is the fixture list at Cape Town Greenpoint stadium:
11 Jun
14 Jun
18 Jun
21 Jun
24 Jun
29 Jun
3 Jul
6 Jul
A3 v A4
F4 v F2
C1 v C3
G4 v G2
E4 v E1
1H v 2G(8)
2 v 4(B)
A v C(1)
DurbanThis is the fixture list at Durban Moses Mabhida Stadium:
13 Jun
16 Jun
19 Jun
22 Jun
25 Jun
28 Jun
7 Jul
D1 v D2
H1 v H2
E1 v E3
B2 v B3
G4 v G1
E1 v 2F(5)
B v D(1)
JohannesburgThis is the match schedule at Soccer City in Johannesburg:
11 Jun
14 Jun
17 Jun
20 Jun
23 Jun
27 Jun
2 Jul
11 Jul
A1 v A2
E1 v E2
B1 v B3
G1 v G3
D4 v D1
1B v 2A(2)
1 v 3(A)
WORLD CUP FINAL
This is the fixture list for World Cup matches at Ellis Park:
12 Jun
15 Jun
18 Jun
21 Jun
23 Jun
24 Jun
28 Jun
3 Jul
B1 v B2
G1 v G2
C4 v C2
H1 v H3
D4 v D1
F4 v F1
1G v 2H(7)
6 v 8(D)
NelspruitThis is the match schedule at Nelspruit's Mbombela Stadium. Click to continue reading...

Somehow it feels like that day that FIFA President Sepp Blatter opened the Envelope and said South Africa was just the other day. The image of Madiba holding the solid gold World Cup Trophy above his head was busying into our minds as we realised that the World Cup was truly coming to Africa, to South Africa in 2010.

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