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June 2009
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Recently in Soccer CategoryThe United States men's national soccer team may have gotten lucky when they made it through to the Confederations Cup semifinal on a tiebreaker, but they certainly made the most of the opportunity. The team knocked off Spain, the reigning European Champion 2-0 Wednesday. After the team's lethargic loss to Brazil last week, many fans and journalists were calling for the firing of Coach Bob Bradley. Now, after a 3-0 victory agai...
2-6-4.
That's FC Dallas' current record. In soccer terms, it translates to ten points through 12 games, which puts the team third from the bottom of Major League Soccer. They face the hated Houston Dynamo Saturday at Pizza Hut Park in the Battle for 'El Capitán', a cannon that serves as a rivalry trophy in the series between MLS' two Texas teams. FC Dallas enters the match unbeaten in their last four, b... Ron Washington, the guy who is about to be fired about every May, who has only been the Rangers manager for a little more than two and a half years and whose winning percentage is .490 is now the longest tenured coach of a pro sports team in Dallas-Fort Worth. Ron Washington. I know, I'm having a hard time believing it too. Nothing against Washington, I like him. But he still seems like the new guy and now he's the old pro. Was...
Timing is everything... With the state of today's economy and everyone looking for ways to stretch and save their dollars, should sports fans have reason for concern for their favorite team? Can the networks continue to shell out the mega bucks for broadcast rights when their bottom line is also being affected by the declining advertising dollar? Forbes.com reports that at the end of 2003, there was not one professional sports ...
We've just returned from the Kickoff Luncheon for FC Dallas and the new season of the MLS. After the turbulent week we just had with T.O., Jerry Jones, and the arrogance of both, it was truly refreshing to shake hands today with some real down-to-earth athletes...guys who really do play "for the love of the game." We shared a table today with Steve Purdy, a defender who spent the past two years playing for a team in Munich, Germany. It...
SPAIN VERSUS GERMANY
If you did not see the World Cup in 2006, you missed the world famous Zidane-Materazzi head butt incident. In my opinion, that was some of the best television I have ever witnessed. France and Italy put forth a world class effort in Berlin, Germany. Although the game certainly ended in controversy, there was no shortage of excitement all the way u...
From the Associated Press: BAGHDAD -- It was less than a year ago that Iraqis poured Celebratory gunfire roared across Baghdad and other cities. A Most Americans have no idea what Premier League is. We have enough sports to follow without adding new foreign sports into the mix, right? Wrong. Even Nascar has its share of foreign drivers entering the sport every season. Believe it or not there are a surprising number of American footballers playing in England's highest levels of competition in Football. The only way Americans will follow a sport like "soccer" is if Americans ca...
The Champions League tournament will resume the quarter finals and semi finals following Friday's drawing in Switzerland to decide the pairings for the eight remaining teams. Four of the eight are of English side. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United all hail from England, and two (Chelsea and Arsenal) are based in London, England. The other non-English teams are FC Barcelona(Spain), AS Roma(Italy), FC Schalke 04(Germany), and...
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