Soccer

Porto beats out Man U

In what sounds like a last minute thriller, Portugese club Porto scored in the 90th minute to advance past English giant Manchester United in yesterday’s Champions League game. Manchester was winning 1-0 until a free kick resulted in a goal in the last minute of the game. Until then, the 2-game aggregate score stood at

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MLS Trading Cards

Upper Deck and MLS Unveil 2004 Trading Cards. The 2004 set will feature the rookie card of D.C. United’s 14-year-old phenom Freddy Adu, the youngest player in the modern history of American professional team sports. Adu will also be one of several players who will have his game-worn jersey memorialized in a special series of

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US MNT Under-23 Analysis

Grahame Jones chimes in with his analysis of the under-23 team’s failure to qualify for the Summer Olympics. It’s a bit suprising that of all the excuses he points to, he doesn’t get to any related to the team’s pathetic on-field performance until half-way through his column. Coach Myernick’s complaints about some of his players

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MLS Stars going abroad

If you haven’t kept up with the unusual flurry of transfer activity in the MLS off-season, this piece summarizes and analyzes the how losing top players to European leagues impacts MLS. If you need a login don’t use bigsoccer@bigsoccer.com / bigsoccer. The reasons for these moves make sense – as in dollars and cents. Just

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Lalas to manage ‘quakes

In a bit of a surprise announcement, the San Jose Earthquakes announced Alexi Lalas as their new General Manager. Ordinarily, such an announcement wouldn’t be of interest to anyone outside of US Soccer, but this is Alexi Lalas. He’s just about the only American player that made himself known to the rest of the US

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More on a WUSA Comeback

Nothing firm yet on a WUSA comeback but it seems that the business minds are triumphing over the go-it-aloners. Payne suggested that MLS and WUSA teams should work together, saying, “It’s silly to replicate the cost structure, the operating and administrative structure that already exists.

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