(L to R): Boomer Esiason, Dr. Mark Emmert, Hope Solo, Abby Wambach, Mark Teixeira and Craig Carton

The United States Women's National Soccer Team was honored as Sportswomen of the Year by the March of Dimes New York Division at its 28th Annual Sports Luncheon on November 30, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

The United States Women's National Soccer Team will be honored as Sportswomen of the Year by the March of Dimes New York Division at its 28th Annual Sports Luncheon on Wednesday, November 30, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. World Cup stars Abby Wambach and Hope Solo will represent the U.S. team.
Mark Teixeira, the All-Star first baseman with the New York Yankees will be presented with the Sportsman of the Year Award.

The U-20 Seleção won the World Cup yesterday beating Portugal 3-2 during the overtime with a stellar performance by Oscar. The players of U-20 teams don't always carry through with the promises that they show at this stage but who knows if some of these will be future World Cup stars.

The Strikers proved their victory last week versus Edmonton was no fluke by taking out league leader Carolina Railhawks 2-1 with 10 men and a lot of heart! Over 3,000 fans showed up to a game threatened by rain and were delighted to see a hard fought Strikers dominated game. As an omen of good fortune the sky turned red and yellow, perhaps a sign of things to come (See picture).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The Boston Breakers welcomed back all eight of their World Cup competitors last night and one of them Kelly O'Hara stepped up with a two-goal effort in a 2-2 draw against the Western New York Flash before a record crowd of 6,222 at Harvard Stadium.

O'Hara scored in the 20th and 84th minutes, while the Flash countered with goals in the 38th and 87th minutes from World Cup stars Marta and Alex Morgan, respectively.

The thrilling ride that was the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup is over, but as we know you still want to see your favorite WNT players in action, Women's Professional Soccer has you covered with three matches this weekend...
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Sky Blue FC vs. Philadelphia Independence
Yurcak Field – Piscataway, N.

MADRID — Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo broke the La Liga goal-scoring record with his 39th and 40th league goals of the season as Real Madrid hammered relegated Almeria 8-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday. Ronaldo poked home from close range on four minutes for his record-breaking goal to overtake the previous best of 38 [.

Well, there are two games left for us in this season - one a pretty much insignificant one for us and another one which is worth dying for. The insignificant one takes place to morrow at Malaga with both teams having nothing to play for. Guardiola has taken this oppurtunity to rest a majority of his players ahead of the Champions League final clash at Wembley.

Continuing our series of the world's best footballers, languagecaster.com takes a look at a player who would be in most people's top five best players ever Hendrik Johannes Cruijff. Check out previous posts on great footballers here.

The 'Impossible Goal'

Recently, a debate has started as to whether or not Messi is the best player ever, better than Pele or Maradona, the traditional choices of most people for that accolade.

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This week's main report continues with our series of profiling football super stars. Earlier this week we saw the retirement of one of the greatest strikers of this generation, O Fenômeno, Ronaldo.

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This week's main report continues with our series of profiling football super stars. Earlier this week we saw the retirement of one of the greatest strikers of this generation, O Fenômeno, Ronaldo.

LAUSANNE/NYON The European Footballer of the Year award – betrayed, diluted and sold off by its original French creators – is to be revived by the European federation. UEFA president Michel Platini, a three-times winner of the original prize, will present the first of the new version at the organisation's annual eve-of-term event in [.