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Stories To Watch For In 2012
U.S. National Soccer Players The senior side starts their road to Brazil with World Cup Qualifying. This is an Olympic summer, with the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament hosted in the United States in March. Major League Soccer gets an early start with multiple teams in the … Soccer Watch SOCCER: Goals to shoot for in 2012 |
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SOCCER: Goals to shoot for in 2012
Press-Enterprise Soccer can sometimes boil down to two types of years — World Cup years and those years in between. Sadly, 2012 is not the former. Still, there is plenty in the 12 months ahead to keep the local soccer fan interested, even if the World Cup is still … |
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15 Dramatic Game-Winning Goals in the Past 7 Years of World Football
Bleacher Report In the past seven years, two World Cups, two European championships and numerous cup competitions have been held. From the Champions League to the Carling Cup and from the World Cup to the FA Cup, here are 15 memorable game-winners produced by the … |
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World Cup – Suarez scores four, Argentina held
Yahoo! Eurosport UK South American champions Uruguay crushed Chile 4-0 with all four goals coming from Luis Suarez, while Lionel Messi's Argentina were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Bolivia in World Cup qualifiers. Copa America winners Uruguay lead the nine-nation South … CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying wrap: Uruguay stay top as Argentina falter Uruguay Vs. Chile, CONMEBOL World Cup 2014 Qualifying: Full Time In The Luis … |
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This is going to be the first of two or three “mini-articles” I will try to get up this week. I will be on vacation next week so don’t expect anything from me; in the meantime, life’s been insane of late so I apologize for not providing something a bit more substantial. 19 goals in 14 matches. Those are the scoring stats for Mano Menezes’ team to date. Considering his tenure began with such promise, with an offensive extravaganza against the US (that still, ominously, only yielded two goals) the number is a disappointing one. Mano’s appointment was supposed to herald a glorious return to dynamic, attacking football, but when comparing his first fourteen matches to Dunga’s, the results are…surprising. Dunga’s much-demonized philosophy yielded twenty-eight goals in fourteen matches, and no one would have called his early squads particularly offensive, considering Fabiano wasn’t in the picture yet, and Vagner Love was a mainstay. On the other hand, Dunga had Kaka and Robinho at their absolute primes, while Mano has mostly had to rely on a 19 year-old Neymar and a 21 year-old Pato. Then too, much of Brazil’s scoring woes can be attributed to ghastly finishing, a flaw that can’t be laid on the manager’s door, but on the players. (Though one might ask why Mano hasn’t taken steps to correct this finishing problem by calling up more reliable finishers.) Still, no matter which way you look at it, Brazil has a scoring problem.
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Tracking the Brazil Offense
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Young Socceroos bow out of FIFA U-20 World Cup
SportsAustralia.com The Young Socceroos are out of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Colombia 2011 after they were defeated by Spain 5-1 at the Estadio Palogrande in Manizales. Spain were four goals up in the opening 18 minutes of the match with three of the goals coming from … Australia's loss to Spain in youth World Cup turns up heat on coach Jan Versleijen Spain routs Australia 5-1 at Under-20 World Cup Young Socceroos thrashed by Spain |
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