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Friday, July 27, 2012
Olympic Soccer: Schedules for Saturday and Sunday
Saturday, July 28
7:00 AM ET Women's Group F - Japan vs. Sweden City of Coventry Stadium
9:30 AM ET Women's Group E - New Zealand vs. Brazil Millennium Stadium
9:45 AM ET Women's Group F - Canada vs. South Africa City of Coventry Stadium
12:00 PM ET Women's Group G - United States vs. Colombia Hampden Park
12:15 PM ET Women's Group E - Great Britain vs. Cameroon Millennium Stadium
2:45 PM ET Women's Group G - France vs. DPR Korea Hampden Park
Sunday, July 29
7:00 AM ET Men's Group C - Egypt vs. New Zealand Old Trafford
9:30 AM ET Men's Group B - Mexico vs. Gabon City of Coventry Stadium
10:00 AM ET Men's Group C - Brazil vs. Belarus Old Trafford
12:00 PM ET Men's Group A - Senegal vs. Uruguay Wembley Stadium
12:00 PM ET Men's Group D - Japan vs. Morocco St James' Park
12:15 PM ET Men's Group B - Korea vs. Switzerland City of Coventry Stadium
2:45 PM ET Men's Group A - Great Britain vs. UAE Wembley Stadium
2:45 PM ET Men's Group D - Spain vs. Honduras St James' Park
Men's Olympic Soccer: Thursday's Review, Reports, & Analyses
Great Britain 1 - 1 Senegal
Spain 0 - 1 Japan
Brazil 3 - 2 Egypt
UAE 1 - 2 Uruguay
Mexico 0 - 0 South Korea
Michael Cox: Five Conclusions
Grant Wahl: Three Thoughts
Friday MLS Forecast
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Olympic Men's Soccer: Thursday's Information
I got a bit behind this morning and matches are already underway. Currently, Japan are up 1-0 over Spain, Honduras and Morocco are tied at 2-2, and Mexico and South Korea are scoreless. Later today we've got the following:
UAE vs. Uruguay
Gabon vs. Switzerland
Belarus vs. New Zealand
Brazil vs. Egypt
Great Britain vs. Senegal
North Korea women’s soccer team refuses to take field over flag dispute
Olympic Football - Which men will star?
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| Abdelaziz Barrada, M, Morocco |
Brazil and Spain are regarded by many as the favourites to win the competition, which is hardly surprising given the depth of quality in both squads.
Uruguay, who like Brazil have the coach of their full senior team in charge, also look strong, while Team GB will be competing for the first time since 1960.
The tournament will showcase some of the best players in the world as well as numerous others on the cusp of a major breakthrough.
MLS All Stars 3-2 Chelsea
Manchester United 'temporarily postpone New York flotation plan'
Manchester United are thought to have postponed temporarily plans to launch their $300m (£193m) flotation in New York, after volatile US markets spooked the Premier League club into a rethink.The move is the latest setback in a long-running attempt to list the company's shares, a move that had previously been earmarked for the exchanges in Hong Kong and Singapore, and comes as the club had been looking to kick off their roadshow presentations to potential share buyers this week.
Women's Olympic Soccer: Alex Morgan fires USA's Olympic fightback against France
Twice, Hope Solo stretched to her left to stop the ball. Twice, she couldn't quite reach it.
Bang! Boom! Two quick shots, and the US women's soccer team had an early hole at the start of the quest for a third consecutive Olympic gold medal.
Fortunately for the Americans, they have firepower like no other squad in the world, enough to overcome such a deficit and take control, beating France 4-2 Wednesday as they opened their London Games far from London.
Grant Wahl: It wasn't pretty, but U.S. women get first win
Alyssa Roenigk: U.S. women focused, unfazed
Norman Hubbard: Athletes give way to aesthetes at United
Gabriele Marcotti: Pippo Inzaghi made his own luck
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Women's Olympic Soccer: Wednesday's Previews
Who: USA vs. France
When: 12pm EDT
Where: Hampton Park, Glasgow, Scotland
U.S. TV: NBCSN
Grant Wahl: Three Thoughts
Women's Olympic Soccer 2012: 10 Rising Stars Who Will Break out in London
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| Kelley O'Hara, D, USA |
Olympic soccer gets underway today and the continual growth of the women's game will shine.
Everyone knows about Hope Solo, Abby Wambach, Marta, Homare Sawa and others. But when the matches begin look out for some of the younger athletes to break out and make a statement.
The women's game is no longer a select few of supremely talented players on one or two teams. The talent gap is continually closing and parity is creeping in. That is an exciting development for the sport that will only keep growing the sport growing in popularity.
Who are those that are going to break out in London?
John Duerden on Asia's hopes of gold, silver or bronze at the Olympic Games
The Olympics may just be entering the psyche of football fans in the UK, but in Asia the five rings have been a big deal for years and, for some nations, the thought of gold around necks at the Olympics looms larger in dreams than the Asian Cup.
United Arab Emirates, South Korea and Japan are all getting very excited about the next few weeks.
Cahill acquisition makes Red Bulls the clear favorite in MLS Cup chase
We've all been waiting to see which MLS team would make a blockbuster move before the July 27 transfer deadline. The Red Bulls didn't disappoint. MLS reportedly has agreed on a transfer fee that allows New York to acquire midfielder Tim Cahill from Everton of the English Premier League. This comes a little more than a week after New York made a trade with Vancouver for forward Sebastien Le Toux, and those upgrades make the Red Bulls the team to beat in MLS.
Richard Jolly on Tim Cahill: An Everton Icon
Italy 3-2 Brazil, 1982: The day naivety, not football itself, died
Brazilians may like to claim that their defeat at the 1982 World Cup killed a great style of play but it was really the day that the system triumphed over an already declining method.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
London 2012: Team GB v Senegal - Patrick Vieira's academy pride
In 2003, I visited Senegal with Patrick Vieira who was returning to the country of his birth for the first time in almost 20 years. It was there and then that he laid the foundations for the Diambars football academy which has flourished and, nine years on, has produced several Olympic footballers as Senegal prepare to make their debut in the world's oldest international football tournament.
The Trawler: O'Driscoll move, Owls in for Barton
Gabriele Marcotti: Manchester United's Company Man
There are times when being the manager -- or, more accurately, The Boss in (almost) every sense -- of the biggest Premier League club in the world calls for a bit of creative license.
MLS: Five things we learned in week 20
• FC Dallas unleash frustrations on Portland Timbers
• Kenny Cooper brace takes New York Red Bulls top in East
• LA Galaxy win SuperClasico with yet more DP goals
• Houston Dynamo beat Montreal Impact to go third in East
MLS Week 20 Power Rankings: Henry, Beckham showing true grit
In the heart of transfer season, with big-name signings taking place all over the world, here is a Designated Player-heavy look back at Week 20 in MLS:
Tim Cahill: Everton agree terms for New York Red Bulls switch
The fee is believed to be in the region of £1m for the 32-year-old, who has spent eight years at Goodison Park. Cahill is also understood to have agreed outline personal terms with the MLS club.
Tim Vickery in South America
No one knew much about Uruguay as they sailed their way across the Atlantic to take part in the football tournament. But they strolled to the gold medal, and did it with a balletic, artistic style of play which captivated spectators and set off a fever for the game.
Four years later, to prove it was no fluke, Uruguay won the gold medal at the Amsterdam Olympics. Argentina came across as well, and they took the silver.
Monday, July 23, 2012
There is a darker side to German football – but how best to resolve it?
There are few places indeed where it is better to be a fan than in Germany. Hannover 96 fans, for example, can see their team play FC Bayern for a mere 13 Euros. That’s if they don’t buy themselves a beer, of course, which they’re allowed to do. Oh and they can vote for the chap who pours his money into the club – itself a far better “fit and proper person” test than anything cooked up by the organisers of English football.
Georgina Turner: Ferguson's indifference toward Berbatov could usher Spurs return
"I read the papers and I see they say £10 million is my price. I go and talk with Sir Alex, and he says to me £5 million. So who is telling the truth, what do you think?" asked Dimitar Berbatov of his million-plus Facebook fans earlier this week. "The truth is, I love this club, but I am not going to be useful to anyone if I am not playing." It is the latest in a string of posts on his timeline wondering what the future holds.
MLS halts partnership with Boy Scouts days after BSA reaffirmed ban on gays
MLS did not give a specific reason for the end of the partnership, which had lasted only since January. But on Wednesday, the Boy Scouts announced, after a near two-year review, that it had reaffirmed its policy to exclude “open or avowed homosexuals” from membership in the organization.
Sid Lowe: David de Gea dreams of more Spanish football success
It is also tempting to tell him to snap out of it and stop being so greedy; tempting, too, to demand that he and his compatriots leave something for the rest of us.
Spain are world and European Champions. Last summer they won the European Under-21 championship and it is barely a fortnight since they won this summer's European Under-19 championship.
And now they want the Olympics.
Luka Modric fined for failing to turn up for Tottenham's tour of US
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