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With Thursday night's official announcement that the U.S. men's national team will be taking on Canada in a pre-World Cup qualifying friendly at BMO Field in Toronto on June 3, another piece to the team's 2012 puzzle is in place.

Keon Daniel is not at the Youth Sports Complex, in Wayne, PA, according to fans that are at the Philadelphia Union's open team practice. Despite seeing a player of Daniel's build with a dreadlocks style haircut, the midfielder is not at the camp today.

Fans tweeted that the 25-year-old was sighted at preseason training camp this morning, before retracting their observations.

The Colorado Rapids are shifting their philosophy after going through a front office and technical staff overhaul, and that change is spreading to the field as well after the club announced the signing of Colombian attacking midfielder Jaime Castrillon from Independiente Medellin.

Carli Lloyd scores a hat trick, Heather O' Reilly chips in with another as USA easily beat Mexico, 4-0, to secure a semi-final spot against Costa Rica in the Olympics qualifiers. This result reversed their shocking loss to Mexico in the World Cup qualifiers which forced them into a playoff match.

Last night I watched an interesting and rather entertaining friendly match between the USA and Venezuela. As this is not season for FIFA encounters, both teams largely played with their reserve side, but it was interesting nevertheless, as both nations are in a very good process of preparing for their World Cup qualifiers under two very good coaches, Cesar Farias from Venezuela and (the German)

Difficult as this might be to swallow, one of the next big stories coming out of U.S. Soccer won't anything to do with Jurgen Klinsmann.

I know, I know ... it's all about Klinsi right now. Heck, I've written as much.

But here's what's right around the bend in U.

U.S. Soccer announced this afternoon that the Men's National Team will play Italy on Feb. 29 in Genoa. The game will be carried on ESPN2 and is set for a 1:45 p.m. CT kickoff. The Italy match will be a stiff challenge for the U.S. as they prepare of CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers which this [...]

After losing a lot of their offensive firepower by parting ways with leading scorer and Designated Player Andres Mendoza, the Columbus Crew took a step in finding an attacking solution by signing Chilean midfielder Milovan Mirosevic on Wednesday.

Columbus had success with a Chilean signing a year ago, finding a stable right back in Sebastian Miranda.

A couple days after seemingly every news outlet in Sweden announced the signing, the Seattle Sounders made it official: Adam Johansson has joined the team on a multi-year deal. Johansson has played most of his professional career with Swedish power IFK Goteburg and has seen semi-regular time with the Swedish national team since making his international debut in 2009 against the United States and playing in three World Cup qualifiers that year.

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Mario Balotelli and Micah Richards were anything but all smiles in Thursday's training session.

The two Manchester City regulars were involved in a scuffle near the end of practice following a heated exchange of words. Richards had to be held back by fellow teammates when he attempted to continue the argument.

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Some national team news has come out today regarding two Sporting KC players. First, Teal Bunbury has been called up by Caleb Porter to the upcoming U-23 Olympic camp in Florida. The camp will take place December 15th through the 23rd. The camp is in preparation for the upcoming Olympic qualifying.

After years of concentrating on young players, a policy that led them to the Copa Indonesia semi finals in 2007 but no silverware, shades of Arsenal, Pelita Jaya ditched that policy when they surprised everyone by signing Malaysian striker Safee Sali who had topped scored at last year's ASEAN Cup, hosted by Indonesia.

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• S.League - Gombak Utd 0-3 Etoile FC (5/11/11)

The last match before another adjournment saw Etoile FC beat Gombak Utd 3-0 at the JBS.

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• Kop That: What are the odds both Manchester clubs end up in the Europa League?

Video: Tomaszewski the 'clown' and Shilton's heroics: England vs Poland World Cup qualifiers

England's 2014 World Cup qualifying matches have been announced today, with the Three Lions finishing their campaign with a home match against old foes Poland. England agree World Cup qualifiers England have faced Poland in seven qualifying campaigns for various World Cups and European Championships and on two occasions it has all come down to the final match.

England agree World Cup qualifiers

Three Lions will start with Moldova away, and finish with Poland at home in October 2013

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While their South East Asian neighbours were either being thrashed in the latest World Cup Qualifiers or were focused on the SEA Games in Indonesia, Malaysia were hard at work looking to sustain their recent run of success.
They played a couple of friendlies in India against the national team and drew their first game 1-1 (Safiq Rahim) before losing the second 3-2 when Pelita Jaya striker Safee Sali scored twice.

One year ago today, the Kansas City Wizards had an announcement at the Power and Light District in downtown KC to announce their identity change from the Wizards to Sporting Kansas City. Included with the new name was a new logo, new colors, and basically a new identity.
Overall the first year of "Sporting KC" would be classified as a success both on an off the field, on the field the team went from missing the playoffs two straight years to topping the Eastern Conference in the regular season and making the conference finals.

Well I must say I was a little surprised when Ben Buckley called last night to offer me the job of Socceroos' Head Coach, starting immediately.
Of course I know when the time for my national duty has come, and I accepted. But not before I had a long talk with Buckley in which I said I would be making a number of changes, some of them which will shock some people and many fans, and he guaranteed that I would have complete freedom and control over the roster.

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About 17 months ago, the United States and Slovenia played one of the most dramatic matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. They'll meet for the first time since that matchup in South Africa as part of a packed day of international soccer on Tuesday, one that includes friendlies, World Cup qualifiers and the final day of qualifying for Euro 2012.

I think it is fair to say that Welsh football is on a high right now. True they are set to spend yet another summer watching a Live Football tournament from afar, but four wins from their past five games suggests manager Gary Speed's work is bearing fruit and with the side an average age of 24, pointing to a successful long-term future.

For the first time in months, there we have concluded a weekend without a soccer match on United States' soil. Major League Soccer is counting down to the 2011 MLS Cup at the Home Depot Center and ceded the weekend to International Soccer as FIFA claimed this weekend for World Cup Qualifiers, Euro 2012 Qualifiers and a spate of International Friendlies.

This weekend, of course, sees no regularly scheduled matches in the Primera División in Argentina, due to the international break for the World Cup qualifiers. We have, however, had the delayed match from the thirteenth round played between San Lorenzo ... Continue reading →

Results don't matter – well, until they do. Let me explain.

We keep hearing that results don't matter when it comes to friendlies. U.S. manager Jurgen Klinsmann keeps saying it. He doesn't give a German lick about results, he told us again last week.

Heck, I've written the same thing time and again.

Argentina is still not likely to go to the World Cup. At home, they did not manage to go beyond a 1-1 against the weakest side in South America, Bolivia, and the Argentines now only have 4 points for three matches. It was a well-deserved trashing that the local fans gave Messi and Company, a group of stars who should be in a circus rather than on a football pitch.

Luis Suarez became the first South American since Brazilian striker Romario in 2000 to grab four goals in a game as Uruguay beat Chile in the World Cup Qualifiers last night.

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Argentina's qualifying campaign for the 2014 World Cup hit another bump in the road on Friday afternoon where, in the glorious Monumental sunshine, Bolivia took the lead and eventually held the hosts to a 1-1 draw in the third round ... Continue reading →

With the decisive series of World Cup qualifiers over the next five days, it's time to look around the region and find out how preparations are going. GROUP A El Salvador left for Suriname yesterday, needing just a point to win passage to the third round of the qualifiers and a win to set a new record for consecutive victories in World Cup qualifiers.

In under two hours, Argentina and Bolivia will be contesting their third 2014 World Cup qualifying match in the Estadio Monumental, and these are the teams that will be doing it. A late injury in training yesterday to Sergio Agüero ... Continue reading →

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The United States-France friendly is sure to capture the attention of American soccer viewers, but it's a big day around the soccer world as a whole, with 2012 European championship playoffs, World Cup qualifiers and other friendlies taking center stage.

With the World Cup qualifiers approaching, it's time to take a look at how Alejandro Sabella's boys and those he's not called up did in the weekend just gone for their clubs. Alejandro Faurlín impressed in defeat in ... Continue reading →

This coming March and April, the US U23 team will attempt to qualify for the 2012 summer Olympics in London. And if Caleb Porter, the team's coach is to be believed, the semifinals and finals would seem to be in KC. On The Best Soccer Show, Porter said that the tournament would start in Tennessee before moving to KC, with the semifinals being on April 2nd.

Chris Herd's performances have rightly earned him quite a few headlines in the last couple of weeks. Initially for the wrong reason, but lately for the right ones.

Alex McLeish has said that he's "a manager's dream; the best trainer at the club".

He will train the way he plays on Saturday by giving it absolutely everything.

The air conditioned stadiums that are supposed to combat the heat during the 2022 World Cup might have been a major selling point of Qatar's World Cup bid, but they might never come to fruition.

The architects in charge of designing Qatar's World Cup stadiums are reportedly against having air conditioning in the arenas.

Editor's Note: Whether it flew entirely under your radar or you were one of the wonderful souls that helped The Classical reach its goal on Kickstarter, the new publication, hoping to provide a smart, fun community for talking about sports, is here to stay. And all of us here at A Football Report are absolutely thrilled to see how it grows.

Several Spanish media outlets have released the first images of the the Spain adidas EURO 2012 home jersey. The new shirt will be used by the talent-rich La Roja as it looks to defend its EURO 2008 title and for its 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers during the 2012/13 international season. The Spain adidas EURO [.

Unwatchable? Don't look now, but Thierry Henry and the Red Bulls are one game away from reaching the Western Conference final - if they can become the first MLS team to beat the Galaxy at home this year (AP Photo).

I haven't yet heard whether those extra 5,000 tickets the Galaxy put on sale for tonight's Western Conference semifinal against New York have sold out, but a capacity crowd must be all but certain because after stirring the pot earlier in the week, players and coaches on both sides Wednesday downplayed the sniping that occurred earlier in the week.

Harry Kewell and Carlos Hernandez have been called up for Australia and Costa Rica respectively, for matches in November. Australia face Oman on the 11th and Thailand on the 15th in crucial World Cup Qualifiers. Australia coach Holger Osieck says he knows what Kewell can bring to the team but that he will need to

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• 2011 Sultan of Selangor Cup - (Match Day and Balik Kampong)

Malay rock legend Amy Search (pictured above) wowed the 65,000 at the Shah Alam Stadium in this annual event initiated by the Sultan of Selangor with motive in fostering relationship between Singapore and Selangor whom both shared an unique rivalry in the Malayan football history.

Former Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr has stepped down as the Faroe Island's manager despite a relatively successful Euro 2012 campaign which included a win against the Republic's euro 2012 play-off opponents Estonia. The Faroe's were hoping Kerr would lead them through another qualifying campaign but the loveable Irish manager decided the time was right to step down.