The Dynamo are set to take on UNAM Pumas today in CONCACAF Champions League play beginning at 9 p.m. at Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City. Watch the match live on Fox Soccer Channel and/or TeleFutura (Spanish). Listen to... Click to continue reading...

The Dynamo are in the huge, smoggy-yet-awesome metropolis that is Mexico City ahead of tonight's CONCACAF Champions League duel with UNAM Pumas at Estadio Olimpico Universitario. If this were the tournament final the stadium likely would look like this, but... Click to continue reading...

My apologies for taking so long to post them. The Dynamo are on their way to Mexico City today ahead of Tuesday's big CONCACAF Champions League match against UNAM Pumas. If Saturday's 1-1 tie at Toronto left you thinking the... Click to continue reading...

CONCACAF Champions League News

Official CCL website
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Matchday 2 Matches & Scores:
-Tue Sep 23
San Francisco 0-0 Houston Dynamo
Puerto Rico Islanders 3-1 Santos Laguna - PRI goals by Osei Telesford, Noah Delgado & Edwin Miranda. Click to continue reading...

This week should prove to be another great derby week, with inter-city rivalry matches taking place in Milan, Liverpool and Barcelona, among others. The only match between two current WCR Top 25 Clubs takes place on Sunday afternoon, where AC Milan and Inter Milan will battle for dominance of the city. Click to continue reading...

After this week, the WCR Top 25 will go through its most radical change of the season.  The reason for this is that until each club in a given domestic league has played five matches, the prior season's results are factored in to preserve some sense of continuity and to give the new season time to mature.

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It's been a tough stretch for Manchester United. After going to Liverpool (and losing) and going to Spain (and tying), the past WCR Top 25 Number One Club has to go to London to face the current WCR Top 25 Number One Club, Chelsea. Their challenge is our pleasure, however, as we get to watch the match on Sunday morning. Click to continue reading...

Virtually unknown CFR Cluj beat Roma 1-2 on the road in the UEFA Champions League yesterday! Wow!


CONCACAF Champions League News

Official CONCACAF website
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All televised games shown on FSC.
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Matches & Scores:
-Tue Sep 16
DC United 0-2 Saprissa - Sap goals by Walter Centeno & Jairo Arrieta. Click to continue reading...

NEWS: The CONCACAF Champions League got underway Tuesday with Saprissa (Costa Rica) and the Islanders (Puerto Rico) recording big wins and UNAM Pumas (Mexico) escaping Panama City with a 1-1 tie against San Francisco despite playing much of the second... Click to continue reading...

Well as I sit here watching both Chelsea and Liverpool beating on their French opponents in the UEFA Champions League, I must point out that over here in North America the group stage of our own Champions League is starting tonight. After both the New England Revolution and Chivas USA were eliminated in qualifying the only MLS teams left are DC United and the Houston Dynamo. Click to continue reading...

Ricardo Ferretti's UNAM Pumas Squad should win Group B/photo from Goal.com Earlier today we previewed Group A, likely the toughest group in the Champions league. This group could quite possibly be the softest. Pumas currently sits atop the table in the Mexican Apertura, and Dante Lopez, one of the few non Mexicans in the side has [. Click to continue reading...

Courtesy of Bernardo Fallas' blog on the Chron site, check out this schedule from now until Halloween for Dynamo, playing CONCACAF Champions League and MLS (not to mention WCQ games for some of them):

Sunday: vs. K.C. at Robertson, 2 p.m. MLS
Sept. 13: at San Jose, 9 p.m. MLS
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NEWS: The 16-team field for the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League is set, and it pits the Dynamo against rather interesting foes, including Mexico City's UNAM Pumas. Pumas earned passage after beating Jamaica's Harbour View 3-0 on Thursday... Click to continue reading...

Congrats to DC United - 2008 US Open Cup Champions!


US Open Cup

Final
Match & Score:
-Wed Sep 3
DC United 2-1 Charleston Battery - DCU goals by Luciano Emilio & Fred. CG goal by Ian Fuller.
Attendance: 8,212
Venue: RFK Stadium, Washington DC
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A terribly embarrassing night for MLS in the CONCACAF Champions League. New England was assaulted 0-4 at home by Joe Public, and Chivas USA was held 1-1 at home by Tauro. It was really ugly, especially at Foxborough. There will be a lot of excuses flying today. And they all fall short of those scorelines. Click to continue reading...

You need to go check out FC Football Blog - the best in Football Highlights. With Match Stories and Video Clips galore from all over Europe's top leagues.

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A big du Nord welcome to ShalrieJoseph.com

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And Presto-Chango just like that, Kevin Keegan is shown the door at Newcastle. Click to continue reading...

Personal note: Can someone out there - anyone out there - hook me up with a ticket to see Rage Against The Machine on Wed Sep 3 here in Minneapolis, at the Target Center. I very much want to see this. Anyone. Please. Thank you.



Total heartbreak for Oguchi Onyewu yesterday as this team Standard Liege lost 1-0 in the Champions League at Liverpool, giving up the winning goal in the 118th minute. Click to continue reading...

To start today off all wrong - Some bad news for us Dish Network users:

Dear GolTV Fan,
With the recent Bundesliga kick off and upcoming launch of La Liga action on Aug. 31, we want to you to know that we don't forsee reaching any compromise with Dish Network in the near future. Click to continue reading...

653 days to till the World Cup

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Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated looks back at the Olympics: "(Kobe) Bryant has been following soccer closely in Beijing, attending at least three different games. When he went to the Brazil-Argentina men's semifinal he even sat in the common-man seats instead of the VIP section. Click to continue reading...

Argentina win Men's Olympic gold beating Nigeria 1-0

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Cleveland City Stars win their 2nd consecutive USL Second Division championship.

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Porto has a Brazilian forward named Hulk! Yes, Hulk! Don't you have to be a fairly big jackass to go by that name? Click to continue reading...

Sign me up for this. This sounds FREAKING AWESOME.

I mean, you get 4 MLS teams, 4 Mexican teams, 1 (maybe TWO) USL First Division teams and a handful from the Caribbean and Central America and what you get is WIN.

The preliminary round draw is now set, with the 8 winners moving through to play the 8 teams who already qualify for the group stage. Click to continue reading...

Atlante won the Mexican Apertura championships thanks to a 2-1 win tonight against UNAM Pumas in the final leg of the home-and-away final series. The Cancun side clinched the game in the 86th minute on a Golazo from Clemente Ovalle. The 25 year old defender struck the ball from about 20 meters, sending it off the underside of the bar. Click to continue reading...

The first leg of the Apertura gran final between Mexico City's UNAM Pumas and Cancun's Atlante ended in a scoreless draw at Estadio Olimpico last night. The underdog home side dominated most of the run of play and had more--and better--chances but were unable to capitalize. Atlante's goalkeeper Federico Vilar was probably the man of the match, stepping in with several key saves, especially in the second half when Pumas seemed to be cutting off all of Atlante's escape routes. Click to continue reading...

I tasted a little off-season methadone over the weekend and, in spite of pulling the equivalent of walking in at the middle of a movie, enjoyed it well enough. It wasn't all sunshine, however, as I'll explain below, but it's going to work...I just know it. And while I'm watching 'em, I may as well [. Click to continue reading...