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Dynamo News:

• " I'm willing to bet Ching will be a member of the Dynamo by March 11." Ortiz- (Houston Chronicle)
• An old interview with Kandji after he was traded to Colorado- (The Shin Guardian)
• Clark, Weaver want starts- (MLS Soccer)
• Ching played the game as a professional- (ESPN)
• As if you didn't see below, Dynamo interested in Johnson- (Fox Soccer)
• Dynamo think they have their man in Kandji- (MLS Soccer)
• Roberts here to succeed- (MLS Soccer)

Soccer News:

• Capello stuck by his beliefs- (Fox Soccer)
• USA to face Brazil- (Fox Soccer)

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Virginia Online Soccer News reached out to Dan Borislow, owner of the magicJack team that has been battling with the WPS since he purchased the former Washington Freedom club. Borislow is currently taking a lot of blame via social media outlets concerning his perceived role in today's announcement by the WPS that it will suspend the 2012 season.

It seems the Philadelphia Independence will once again take to the pitch at PPL Park for their upcoming season. Philly Soccer News reported yesterday that the Independence could play up to four home games in 2012 at PPL, including its home opener on April 15th. During the WPS playoffs last season, PPL Park hosted the Independence's semifinal match against disbanded squad magicJack, drawing 5,410 fans, the teams largest crowd in 2011.

Can-Am Connection - not Nut-Can ConnectionPYRAMID TOURNAMENT
A day after getting all kinds of pun-related gifts, one of our faves was pulled out from under us like a rug covered in health supplements. The Nutrilife Canadian Championship, or as we so lovingly called it - "The NutCan" - is no more.

The Indoor Soccer News Weekly MISL Power Rankings are sponsored by:
By Joel Greenwaldt
@JoelGreenwaldt (Twitter)
Each week during the season I'll post an updated MISL Power Ranking which will be based off the cumulative results and current strength of each team.

Photo: Nicolae Stoian

Philadelphia Union got the MLS All-Star game for PPL Park.

So why aren't you excited?

Why was there a collective yawn in response to Tuesday's announcement when there could have been rapturous joy?

Was it because word had leaked out early and killed the surprise factor?

The Indoor Soccer News Weekly MISL Power Rankings are sponsored by:
By Joel Greenwaldt
@JoelGreenwaldt (Twitter)
Each week during the season I'll post an updated MISL Power Ranking which will be based off the cumulative results and current strength of each team.

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.

Soccer By Ives is reporting that the Philadelphia Union are "preparing" to sell Sebastien Le Toux to a European club. The American soccer news site indicated that a full story will be released soon on Fox's soccer site.

Le Toux has been the star of the Union since debuting with the then brand new franchise during the the 2010 MLS season, accumulating 25 goals and 20 assists (70 points) over two seasons with the Union.

Gazzetta dello Sport Inter Shout Nerazzurri beat Milan with a Milito goal are back in the scudetto race Moratti: "Ranieri is a wise guy. Now we'll see about Tevez..." Juve are top on their own Udinese stop as Genoa celebrate Lazio re-start Fiorentina down Tuttosport Juve Benefit Draw with Cagliari but the Inter win sends them to the top alone.

Happy Thursday, everyone. Joe the Curmudgeon here, holding down the fort today as Dear Leader El Brucio is in Kansas City for the MLS SuperDraft and probably cleaning Oklahoma Joe's out of every last scrap of meat... Just a bit of news for today...
MLS SUPERDRAFT
...And with the First Pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft, Impact Montréal select Andrew Wenger D/F from Duke.

Recently Pat McStay of Virginia Online Soccer News was able to catch up with Christian Metzler of Woodbridge, VA. Metzler who is an All-State goalkeeper recently received the first annual Inspirium Soccer Award along with a $7,500 academic scholarship.
Woodbridge Goalkeeper wins Inspireum Soccer Award, Scholarship
Watch his inpirational video!

The Indoor Soccer News Weekly MISL Power Rankings are sponsored by:
By Joel Greenwaldt
@JoelGreenwaldt (Twitter)
Each week during the season I'll post an updated MISL Power Ranking which will be based off the cumulative results and current strength of each team.

Toronto FC Might Be Looking To Trade No. 4 Pick; Would Sounders Be Interested?

It's tough to say how much stock to put in this kind of rumor, but Canadian Soccer News is apparently hearing that Toronto FC wants to trade out of the No. 4 spot. They have limited cap space and are looking mainly for allocation.

Photo: Earl Gardner

Philadelphia Union

MLS is scheduled to release the 2012 schedule today at 2pm. We'll post the Union schedule as soon as it is available.

Who will the Union play in their home opener? After using some logic based on what schedule details are already known (the Union open the season at Portland on March 12, play in Chicago on March 24, play in Toronto on May 26 and September 15 while playing host to Toronto on July 7), The Goalkeeper writes, "I would not be surprised if it is against the New York Red Bulls, the Houston Dynamo or David Beckham's Los Angeles Galaxy.

Major League Soccer will release the full schedule tomorrow at 1:00 PM CST but a couple of different outlets have combined to give us a picture of 10 of the 34 MLS Regular Season games. The bulk of this information comes from the Chicago Fire front office sending out a sneak peak E-mail this afternoon that included the 'Significant Six': six top games to amp up the excitement.

The Philadelphia Union will travel to Toronto in May and September and host Toronto FC in July, according to Canadian Soccer News, during the 2012 MLS regular season. The Canadian news outlet got a hold of TFC's 2012 MLS schedule ahead of the league's official release of each team's schedule and it shows that the Canadian club is one of the Union's standard three game Eastern Conference opponents this upcoming season.

It sounds like we won't have to wait much longer for the 2012 MLS schedule to come out. It seems that the league has the schedule finalized and will be putting it out hopefully later this week. KC is set to have their home opener on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, other than that, the schedule isn't really known.

You can never find FC Dallas on these damn Mayan calendars!Considering it's apparently our last year on the planet, people are surprisingly making plans for the next few months. According to the good and diligent folks over at the great Canadian Soccer News - this includes Toronto FC. With Major League Soccer preparing to officially release the schedules soon, a leaked version of SIXual Healing has found it's way online.

The ever diligent folks at Canadian Soccer News managed to get their hands on a leaked copy of Toronto FC's schedule. While that is all fine and good, there's a nice little nugget in there even if you only care about the Seattle Sounders' 2012 schedule: TFC will not be playing on First Kick weekend.

Voting is closed and Sporting Kansas City's remarkable re-brand is the big winner of the American soccer business story of the year according to your votes. Sporting's win speaks volumes about the power of social media, as the team effectively used Facebook and Twitter to get out the vote. As we said in our posts about Sporting's remarkable transformation, the team managed its re-brand with great skill both on and off the field.

Happy New Year everybody. It's a special day for us at SBI as well because today marks the fourth anniversary of our independent launch.

Yes, today is SBI's fourth birthday.

As we embark on our fifth year in business we will look to keep improving on bringing you soccer news and analysis from the United States and the world.

You know we had to go with this.
Preston Zimmerman opened a can of worms. Pandora's box. He let the cat out of the bag. Choose your overused cliche, but American soccer took a look at the elephant in the room yesterday.
The former U-20 National Team member set Twitter abuzz yesterday (and doubled his follower count) with comments about U.

If you were getting bored with American soccer news and the MLS off-season, then you certainly have something to catch your attention now. Today via twitter American soccer play Preston Zimmerman set a debate in motion that will likely be rolling around for a while. The young attacker wrote a diatribe that brings several issues to the forefront of conversation and there were two points that should be taken note of.

Remember when, in the wake of a guy who posted a video himself screaming "nigger" at a Revs player who had scored on a penalty kick in the dying minutes of a game at Columbus Crew Stadium, MLS Rumors claimed Columbus Crew supporters chanted things like "Sieg Heil," "White Power" and branded their groups with fascist symbols?

The Generation Adidas Tour featured young players from across the MLS. They toured Holland and played some of its best reserve teams including Ajax, FC Volendam, and Almere City FC. Upon arriving home from the tour, Pat McStay of Virginia Online Soccer News was able to catch up with Conor Shanosky, current D.

Time for a bit of the armchair psychoanalysis. Take a depressed crowd and lay them on Dr. Freud's couch. These mobs are suffering from a condition known to shrinks as SimonandGarfunkelitis – symptom – the sound of silence.

December 2011 presented us with an excellent case study in this horrible affliction that curses certain teams.

On the latest edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast : This Week in US Soccer, your hosts Chris Webb and Chris Riordan get you up to date on the latest North American soccer news. The show starts off ...
Visit http://www.majorleaguesoccertalk.com for the rest of the story.

While the economy in Italy lurches from one crisis to another, there is an export market which shows no signs of a slump. Across Europe, it seems, there is a prized product of the peninsula which never sees demand dry up. An unerring rule of the football market appears to have been established: if you seek success and tactical acumen go out and hire a Italian coach.

Photo: Nicolae Stoian

There's only one piece of soccer news that really matters to American soccer fans today, and no, Eli, it's not that Philadelphia Union signed a deal with Rosenberg's Peanut Chews, which apparently are a source of some great conflict among the PSP staff.

Yep, it's Landon Donovan going to Everton.

This week's round of Serie A games wasn't exactly full of outstanding team performances. Napoli scored four but still managed to concede twice to relegation-threatened Lecce, Juventus and Milan recorded routine victories against struggling opposition and Bologna took three valuable points from Siena.

Socrates, the great Brazilian soccer maverick, has died at age 57. Those who saw him play were moved by his style. He glided over the grass, his intelligence working the angles, carving space, inspirational and beautiful. He was unlike the other midfield maestro of his era Maradona. The Argentine was a short squat explosive; Socrates embodied elegance and poise, something special, the man with the golden heel.

The newest professional soccer team in Virginia, SharX struggling for first win
Park City, Kansas – The Norfolk SharX went up 4-0 on the Wichita Wings early in the game Saturday night, on back to back goals from Cecil Lewis assisted by Gersen Dos Santos and Matt Clare's unassisted strike, and had a 4-2 lead at the end of the first quarter.

The Philadelphia Union are negotiating with Deportivo Saprissa over a transfer for Josue Martinez, Saprissa President Juan Carlos Rojas confirmed on 103.9 FM program Primer Tiempo. Costa Rican soccer news outlet everardoherrera.com picked up on reports from the United States about Martinez and is reporting that Rojas said on the radio show that the Union have had contact with Saprissa over the 21-year-old.

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It is that time again. Time to discuss all things soccer in the latest SBI Live Q&A.

Join me at 1pm as we spend a few hours dicussing everything from Major League Soccer news to the U.S. men's national team, to international soccer.

Get your questions ready and join me at 1pm.

The Baltimore Blast are leading the way not only on the field but also in regards to average attendance for the 2011-2012 Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) season.
Though the Blast have only one official home game to count the attendance for that game was a strong 8,078.

The Baltimore Blast are leading the way not only on the field but also in regards to average attendance for the 2011-2012 Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) season.
Though the Blast have only one official home game to count the attendance for that game was a strong 8,078. Compare this with the one official home game for the new Norfolk SharX franchise which had a disappointing home crowd of only 2,347.

Novara started off behind the eight-ball, as Matteo Centurioni at full stretch attempting to intercept Jonathan Biabiany's cross for Pelle accidentally prodded it past his own goalkeeper for an own goal. Goalscorers: Centurioni og 29 (P), Rubino 70 (N), Rigoni 78 (N) Stadio Silvio Piola...
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