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Soccer:
Chelsea and perhaps Barcelona to Visit
Seattle.
Chelsea FC are to play
Sounders FC in a big glamour friendly at Qwest on
July 18th, depending on Champions League
qualification.. This represents a great coup for
Adrian Hanauer, Joe Roth & co.
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Soccer:
EPL: The South Gate Opening for Boro Boss?
Following Tottenham’s 1-1 draw with Portsmouth on Sunday, the bottom of the EPL resembles a Tokyo subway train in rush hour, with the difference being nobody is looking for the exit.
Plus MLS: Good News for
Vancouver Whitecaps MLS Bid
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Soccer:
SHOW DE COLOGNE:
Sounders Take a "Hans On" Approach
With the official appointment of
T鮧en born Sigi Schmid as Sounders head coach,
the Sounders FC management team is beginning to take
shape, and there is a strong German influence
already at the helm of the new franchise.
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Soccer:
From Boy to Man, from Fan to Ultra
My passion for soccer began in 1988. I was a
6-year-old American boy living in
Naples,
Italy.
The 1990 World Cup was coming up and sure to light
up Italy and the world. But for now I was focused on
what was going on locally: Diego Maradona- the best
player to have ever played the modern version of
football.
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Soccer:
Bundesliga 2008-09: a look back at the Hinrunde
As winter falls upon us, the German Bundesliga has
concluded its first half of the season and has
entered into a six week break in action.
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Soccer:
The EPL – Ince not Keane to Follow Roy’s Example
As we approach the busy festive season, it’s time to
take a look at the current situation in the English
Premier League.
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Soccer:
England
v Germany – A One Way Rivalry? (Part II)
Finally, I got some sensible comment
from Englishmen. Russ Coleman, a Chelsea fan living
in Seattle explained that “In the past the German
rivalry was pretty intense with all the war stuff.
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Soccer:
England
v Germany – A One Way Rivalry?
On Wednesday,
England
and Germany met in a friendly in Berlin with England
emerging victors in a match more notable for the
quality of the players not selected than those that
did play.
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Soccer:
Real America or Real
Madrid - Does President Obama Make us a Soccer
Nation at last?
Sure as I am that
none of your attention ever deviates from football,
some of you may have noticed another event
monopolizing the world's attention last week.
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Soccer:
MLS – A
Glimpse into the Future?
As every
human being on the planet knows, Major League Soccer
is coming to Seattle. Whereas the talk around the
water cooler as I write may still be more about
national defence than San Jose’s defence, many people in Seattle are
beginning to wonder what MLS game day in
Seattle
will look like.
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Soccer:
Freddie
Ljungberg Signs for Sounders FC
Firstly, I
apologise for being late with this article. The press
conference and big announcement was Tuesday and we thought
it wise to delay the article rather than write a piece about
some other matter when the rest of the footballing world has
been talking about this.
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Soccer:
Six Months to Take Stock as Qualification Ends for
2008
The World Cup takes a break until next year and this
affords us a welcome chance to look back on how
everybody is faring. All the European big guns are
still chasing hard but notable among the early
strugglers are
Portugal
and
France.
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Soccer:
Everywhere I Turn
There’s Thierry Henry and Bizarrely Enough –
Icelanders
It’s Hats off to the Caps – as Vancouver are Crowned
Champions
Hallo again readers. It’s been a busy weekend of
World Cup action and the results are beginning to
have consequences for qualification.
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Soccer:
EPL – The Story so Far
Five of Seattle’s top and completely self-appointed
experts in English football, including myself, were
brave and perhaps foolish enough to predict the
entire finishing league table before the season
began.
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Soccer:
Soccer in Seattle – End of an Era or Just a Chapter?
Last Sunday, Seattle Sounders played a 2nd
leg match in Montreal and a 3-1 defeat meant they
were eliminated from the 2008 USL play-offs.
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Soccer:
All
Roads Lead to
Rome as
Champions League Gets Underway
The journey to Rome and that prestigious Champions’
League final began in earnest this week with a
variety of outcomes for the likely favorites.
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Soccer:
European Giants Start on Road to
Johannesburg
So
the Word Cup qualifiers are underway, and
France made
the headlines for all the wrong reasons. A few
eyebrows were raised when coach Raymond Domenech
retained his job after a dismal Euro 2008.
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Soccer:
Inter Milan
go for 4th title in a row under new
management
Defending Serie A champions Inter Milan start
off the season looking to win four in a row for the
first time in their history.
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Soccer:
Bye Bye Bayern or
More of the Same?
With the 2008-2009 Bundesliga
campaign already in full force, Bayern Munich remain
the favorite to repeat as champions of Germany.
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Soccer:
USA
Start out on the Right Path to South Africa as
Europeans play Friendlies
The football leagues in
Europe are either underway or getting there, but for Team USA something
far bigger begun this week, their 2010 World Cup
Qualification campaign. Off the mark, it has to be
said that the
USA
hasn’t failed to qualify since 1986.
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Soccer:
Seattle
United FC?
Something unusual happened this week in Seattle. 90
people gathered in a pub to watch soccer. That’s not
unusual in itself. A scattering of ex patriot pubs
will be able to claim this feat many Saturday
mornings between September and May. When the USA
national side play in the World Cup numbers soar
into the hundreds.
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Soccer:
A New Challenger for Sir Alex but Little New
Challenge for the Big Two
Another EPL season is upon us, and yet another in
the long list of challengers to Sir Alex Ferguson
has arrived. Luiz Felipe Scolari is known
universally in the media as Big Phil. As manager of
Brazil in 2002, he won the World Cup.
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Canada
Holds Their Own Against the Best
Seattle played home to some of the greatest soccer
players in the world last Saturday night.
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Spaniard Sergio
Garcia Takes Players Championship Title
Spain’s Sergio Garcia won his first major at The
Players Championship on Sunday by defeating Paul
Goydos of the US in a sudden death playoff.
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All Nations Cup 2007
Two teams from the All Nations Cup remained at the
top on July 29. Brazil and Russia met at Memorial
Stadium with their cleats laced up and their shin
guards secured; they were ready to play.
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Mexico
v USA, Bosnia v Russia in the All
Nations Cup Semifinals
All Nations Cup Quarterfinals ended Wednesday, July
26 with a tense Peru Bosnia overtime showdown. Although
Peru pushed Bosnia to the limit they could not prevent
Bosnia from scoring five minutes before the second
overtime whistle, resulting in a 3-2 Bosnia victory
bringing Bosnian fans to elation.
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All
Nations Cup: Eight teams move
on
With the All Nations Cup Championship in their sight,
eight teams have moved past the Round of 16 and are
now preparing for this week’s Quarterfinals
and Semifinal games, which will be held at Tukwila’s
Starfire Sports Complex.
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16
teams move on to the next round of All Nations Cup
2006
At
Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, 37 of Seattle’s
international communities faced off this weekend
for their chance to represent their home countries
in the Round of 16, the next step on their way to
the All Nations Cup Championship.
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Muckleshoot
tribe welcomes the globe to All Nations Cup grounds
The wait for Seattle area soccer fans is almost
over, in a short time the 4th annual All Nations Cup
will begin with an Opening Ceremony hosted by the
Muckleshoot Tribe.
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All
Nations Cup 2006 kicks off in July
With
the FIFA World Cup going on in Germany, Sister Communities
has announced the Qualifiers Fixture Schedule for
Seattle based, All Nations Cup 2006.
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