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Soccer News for August 29, 2005


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World Soccer Headlines

Australia's new competition hailed an instant success (Reuters)
Australia's new elite national soccer competition was hailed as an instant success after the opening round of matches drew larger than expected crowds.

Attendance records set in two matches of new Australian league
Two matches on the opening weekend of Australia's new domestic soccer league set ground attendance records as more than 70,000 spectators overall had their first look at the A-League.

Newcastle agree Luque fee

Bolton agree deal for Tudor

Adriano scores three, Inter Milan wins 3-0
ITA: David Trezeguet's first-half goal gave defending champion Juventus a 1-0 victory over Chievo Verona to open the Serie A season on Sunday, keeping pace with Inter Milan, which thrashed Treviso 3-0 on three goals by Adriano. AC Milan struggled in its opener, held to a 1-1 draw at newcomer Ascoli.

Champions League round-up


MLS Soccer Headlines

Salt Lake Ends Scoreless Drought
Jamie Watson's first Major League Soccer goal ended a league-record scoring drought at 557 minutes for Real Salt Lake and lifted the expansion club to a 1-1 tie with the visiting Los Angeles Galaxy last night.

MLS Routed by Real; Moreno Injured
The visiting MLS All-Stars are no match for Real Madrid as the European soccer powerhouse thrashes the MLS squad, 5-0, Tuesday in Madrid.

Salt Lake Knocks Off Chivas
Andy Williams scoreds the 5,000th goal in Major League Soccer history to help Real Salt Lake beat Chivas USA, 2-1, Saturday night in Salt Lake City.

Galaxy-Earthquakes Preview (AP)
The rivalry between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the San Jose Earthquakes was heated before Landon Donovan switched teams. It's only gotten better since then. Donovan plays his second game in Spartan Stadium as a member of the Galaxy when the teams meet for the second time in four days. Donovan was a star player for the Earthquakes for four seasons, leading them to MLS championships in 2001 and 2003.

MLS Is 'Magnificent' Over Fulham
Jeff Cunningham scores twice in the final five minutes as the Major League Soccer All-Stars' beat England's Fulham FC, 4-1, Saturday.


Miscellaneous Soccer Commentary

World Soccer - Sunday Scoreboard : English Premiership - Man U 2 Good For Newcastle: Serie A - AC Milan Get A Fright- Juve Win: la Liga - Real Win : SPL Celtic Thrash Dunfermline:
Italy Serie A Sunday, 28 August 2005 The mighty AC Milan got a fright at newly promoted 'nobodies' Ascoli when they had to come back to snatch a draw. Andriy Shevchenko saved the Rossoneri's blushes with a goal in the...

Soccer Thoughts review: The Premiership Podcast
If you've been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you might've missed all the hoopla about podcasts. As countless news stories have told us, everyone's making and downloading podcasts. Except for the fact that the numbers for...

Everton 0-2 Man Utd
A good opening game. Lots of passion from the Goodison Park faithful, lots of boos for Rooney... ...to bad for them that Yobo went and gifted him a goal just after half-time. An idiotic blunder, one that he no doubt...

Spain Primera Division Preview - Season 2005-2006
Spanish Champions FC Barcelona look to be in for a bumpy ride this this time round as Real Madrid, Villarreal and Valencia line up to knock them off their pedestal. World Soccer Previews the 2005-2006 la Liga Season. The Primera...

Blogroll addition: OleOle
I can't believe it's taken this long for a football blog to be called OleOle. Thinking back, I should've used it and put Solskjaer in my blog's header. Oh well. I came across this blog in this month's WSC, where...


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