HICKORY 1 HIBRITEN 0 Hickory remains undefeated in CVAC play. Drake Fisher put away a rebound late in the game to keep Hickory alone at the top of the CVAC standings. FRED T. FOARD 5 BANDYS 0 ST. STEPHENS 4 NEWTON-CONOVER 1 PATTON 3 MAIDEN 0 WEST CALDWELL 6 BUNKER HILL 2 Melvin Yang scored two goals for the Warriors to lead the way. Click to continue reading...

Landon Donovan had a hat trick and an assist to lead the Los Angeles Galaxy to a 5-2 victory over D.C. United on Saturday night. Donovan, who`s the Major League Soccer top scorer with 19 goals, recorded the second three-goal game of the season and his career.
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The Wizards returned to Arrowhead for the only time this season and came away with a big 2-0 win over the LA Galaxy. While last week seemed hopeless, this game, gives hope to the idea that the Wizards actually could make the playoffs this year. With 4 of the last 6 games at home, the Wizards can certainly put up a fight for a playoff spot, but will need help to get in. Click to continue reading...

Luis wrote a post-game article that included a Kyle Beckerman quote, but he left out the Nick Rimando cameo.

Luis and I were part of a group of reporters around Kyle in the locker room. Just as Kyle said his bit about Edson taking advantage of an inch of space, Nick walked by.

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JORDY BROUWER scored the only goal of the game as champions Liverpool Reserves opened the defence of their FA Premiership Reserve League Northern Section title with victory over Middlesbrough Reserves at the Riverside Stadium last night.

Liverpool also saw new boy Phillip Degen come through 45 minutes of the match as the Swiss international right-back works his way back to full fitness following injury. Click to continue reading...

Well that was much more fun than the last few days, wasn't it?

We secured our qualification for the group stages of the Champions League for the 11th successive season with a 4-0 win over FC Twente (goals here via 101 Great Goals). The boss mixed the team up a bit. Bendtner came in for Adebayor, Fabregas replaced Eboue and Djourou came in at the back (heh) in place of Kolo.

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MARKHAM - With the playoffs only 4 days away, the status of superstar keeper Mark C. is still up in the air, after suffering a cracked rib against Inter Selects last Saturday

In that game, Mark was called upon to stop a penalty kick, with the game still tied 0-0. He made a fantastic save and was quick to get up and grab the rebound from a charging striker. Click to continue reading...

A 3-0 scoreline is pretty good, eh? Some in the press box were calling it the most complete United game of the year and it's tough to disagree. Three goals scored, a shutout and players working for their teammates all over the pitch. Two absolute stunners from Joe Vide and Santino Quaranta and a opportunistic Quavas Kirk gets his first career regular season goal.

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I'm diggin' MLS QuickKicks! In order below: Vide's one-timer, Quaranta's blast and Kirk's rebound.

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MARKHAM - Two 'Magical Men of Mayhem' were pulling out the tricks last night, as Eddy M. and Mark C. led the Pistolas to their latest victory.

Eddy 'M.VP' didn't need many games to return to his All Star form as he netted a hat trick. With 5 goals in his last two games, you'd never know he was injured all these weeks. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards continue to have their trouble on the road as they put in a lackluster effort and fell in Colorado 2-1. Overall, the performance was another poor one, as a struggling Colorado side dominated the Wizards for long stretches of the game.

Colorado were pressuring from the beginning and were able to get the opening goal through Conor Casey. Click to continue reading...

So the season starts with a win, three points and a reasonable performance given the understrength nature of the side, particularly in midfield.

There's nothing like an early goal to settle the nerves and that's exactly what we got. It was a lovely goal too. Bendtner played it wide to Clichy, who fed it to Denilson whose run into the box was excellent, he cut it back for new boy Samir Nasri to sidefoot home and to make it 1-0.

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Arbeloa Carragher Hyypia Dossena
Kuyt Gerrard Plessis Benayoun
Torres Keane

Goals:
Torres 83'

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Torres gets one chance, after 83 minutes of play, and makes absolutely no mistake with it. Click to continue reading...

Last night was all about the result and on that basis nobody can have any complaints this morning.

Yes, we all know how light the squad is, we know how many players we had out injured, but there really is no need to cover all the old ground again. As expected we started with Ramsey and Denilson in the centre of midfield and I thought overall they did pretty well.

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I told you the Bulls would score three didnt I?

A magnificent performance was put in by the home team, as the Bulls ran right at DC United, scoring 4 unanswered goals in a complete team victory. Juan Pablo Angel was huge as his midseason resurgance continues. Gabriel Cichero played his first game in MLS, and turned in an excellent performance, alongside Jeff Parke and Kevin Goldthwaite.

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I've been watching from the start, but had some connection problems.
4 - DeRo from distance, off the post.
6 - Announcers discuss Igwe, correctly asses that Jay Heaps was unjustly suspended from the final in the Atlante scrum.
8 - Joseph with a scorcher from distance. High.
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MARKHAM - PFC has been blessed with great keepers. Last year they had Mark R. This year they have Mark C. And in an unofficial backup role this year at keeper, Ronaldo has played well every game he's played culminating with a man of the match performance this past Sunday.

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Image via Wikipediain terms of our season, the 1-1 draw against the san jose earthquakes last week was both surprising and repetitive.

1. our only goal came off the head of a san jose defender, serving as a quick metaphor about the state of our goal-scoring this year.
   
2. our defense, which has been a stalwart for a good part of the season, completely broke down.

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The Chicago Fire played rude hosts to Everton FC in an international friendly on Wednesday night, dismantling the Premier League club by a score of 2-0 at Toyota Park on goals from Chris Rolfe and Tomasz Frankowski. Newly-fined designated player Cuauhtemoc Blanco did not play in the match, but was not needed, as the MLS side largely controlled play from whistle to whistle. Click to continue reading...

The four-goal outburst was the most for FC Dallas since a 4-0 win over New England on May 20, 2006. After Los Angeles routed them 5-1 here back on May 18, Dallas returned the favor, snapping a four-game winless streak.The Galaxy (6-7-5), now winless in their last six (0-3-3), remain second in the West, missing an opportunity to move past idle Real Salt Lake into first. Click to continue reading...

Anyone can have a penalty saved. No shame in that. But if the rebound falls right at your feet, with the keeper still sprawled on the floor... you have to score. You just have to. But not if you're Sampaio striker Ivan. After seeing his spot kick saved in a Brazilian Série C game against [...] Click to continue reading...

Below is today's press release. Pizarro's goal was a serious rocket. I couldn't describe it as such in the release quite enough, and the own goal was created by Pizarro's great ball that would have been converted by Kraus even if the defender didn't touch it. At one point in the game, we kept the ball for over two minutes and completed at least 35 straight passes (they were counted) without New York touching the ball. Click to continue reading...

"I think Claude has this kind of gift - he's been the best player in the team for years but people just don't notice him, don't notice what he does. But you ask anyone at Real Madrid during the years we were talking about and they will tell you he was the best player at Real. We all knew, the players all knew he was the most important.

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The ASEAN Football Federation, organisers of the Under 16s and from here on in to be abbreviated to AFF, are running a referees assessors course at the moment here in Jakarta.

I wonder what the gathered attendees made of the incident on Thursday at Lebak Bulus during the game between Malaysia and Bahrain. Click to continue reading...

Where to begin?

I never thought I would ever hear myself saying I was looking forward to seeing Malaysia play Bahrain in an Under 16. But said it I did and I was not disappointed. The respective coaches may be, the referee may be and AFF maybe but I wasn't. I may never watch another Manchester United v Liverpool game as long as I live but this was a good old fashioned classic that knocks spots off any East Lancs clash I've seen. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards got a dramatic winner against their sister club Atlas last night out at Community America Ballpark. Michael Kraus put in a rebound from an almost impossible angle after Atlas' keeper, Pedro Hernandez, blocked a shot by Nelson Pizarro in the 91st minute to give the Wizards the win.

The Wizards started almost the same team from the Open Cup game against Seattle, the only change was Pizarro replacing Kraus. Click to continue reading...

So, the KC Media Blue team defeated KC Media White team 1-0 last night on a Bob Rusert goal. Props to Mr. Brisendine for predicting the correct final and goal-scorer. We'll give Dynamo the assist on the goal, since he somewhat illegally took the goalkick for 810's Jake Gutierrez directly to Rusert. Gutierrez recovered to make a great save, but the rebound went back to Rusert for an easy tap in (that 810's Nate Bukaty tried to steal with a late touch on the ball). Click to continue reading...

If I was making commemorative t-shirts for our match in BC they'd read, 'We went to Vancouver and all we came back with was a lousy draw.' While it was lousy result it was far from a lousy match. It would have been a satisfactory result if we were playing a team like New England but the Whitecaps are far from it.

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In the end, then, Turkey didn't have quite enough about them to be able to keep Germany at bay but, lord, they have given us some fabulous memories in this tournament and will be sadly missed in the final on Sunday evening. Germany, by contrast, are in the final of another major tournament without having played particularly well last night, and will face the winners of tonight's match between Spain and Russia. Click to continue reading...

Los Angeles Galaxy was hot early, as Landon Donovan scored within the first five minutes after Crew goalkeeper Will Hesmer dropped a cross. Despite struggling to establish a rhythm on the field, the Galaxy struck early in the second half too, when Edson Buddle charged into the box to put away a shot. Click to continue reading...

Out of sixteen very capable countries in the 2008 UEFA European Championship, we have gotten rid of half of the field, so we are down to eight. These next four days will see the field cut in half once more, with the semi finals, and finally the Holy Grail of European football, the Euro final, waiting in Vienna next Sunday.

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The U.S. got its biggest ever win in Carson today, hammering a largely helpless Barbados 8-0, with Brian Ching netting a hat trick.

The U.S. must still visit the island nation for the second leg of course, but that will be largely an obligatory exercise and not much more.

Landon Donovan got the fourth (and the 36th of his U.

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Finally, two steps forward. For weeks United would allow us to flirt with hope, only to step backwards with another game where you left wondering if anyone learned anything.

However, United came out of Chicago and managed to put together a win that helped consolidate the progress that they had been making recently.

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After watching Group C yesterday, any group would look like a boring affair. However, considering that the European Championships only come by every four year, I will be watching all matches possible with an incurable appetite.

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Luciano Emilio captured the Sierra Mist Goal of the Week for his game-winning strike last Saturday in Chicago. It is the second time in his short MLS career that Emilio has captured top goal honors. Previously, he won the award for his incredible rebound strike in Week 26 of last year against Toronto FC.

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