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Claudio Suarez plans on joining Chivas USA (AP)
Longtime Mexican national team defender Claudio Suarez will soon join Chivas USA. "In the next few days, I'll be able to finally sign a contract," Suarez said Wednesday through an interpreter after the team's first practice this year. General manager Whit Haskel said later in the day he expects Suarez will be signed within two weeks after the player's agent and league officials finalize details.
PREVIEW-Soccer-Nations-Guinea start as underdogs, says Leveu (Reuters)
By Mark Gleeson
Italian minister calls for matches to be suspended
English Premier League Roundup, Feb. 1
EPL Wrap: David Bentley scored three goals and Blackburn edged Manchester United 4-3 on Wednesday, a night when runaway English league leader Chelsea was held 1-1 by Aston Villa.
MLS Soccer Headlines
MLS team renamed Houston 1836 (AP)
The city's new Major League Soccer franchise is called Houston 1836, commemorating the year the city was founded. The unusual moniker for the former San Jose Earthquakes echoes the practice of some German clubs, which include the year of their founding in their names: TSV 1860 Munich, Hannover 96, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Schalke 04 and TSV Mainz 05.
United States 0, Canada 0
Yahoo: Freddy Adu became the youngest player in the history of the U.S. national team when the 16-year-old entered late in Sunday night's 0-0 tie against Canada.
Wizards Drop Sixth Straight
Marcelo Saragosa scores the first goal of his Major League Soccer career to give the L.A. Galaxy a 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Wizards, Sunday night.
Houston MLS franchise to be called 1836 (SportsTicker)
HOUSTON (Ticker) - Texas' new Major League Soccer team will be called Houston 1836.
Crew Will Hit The Road, Stay Busy In Preseason
Columbus Dispatch: Slow starts have dogged the Crew, which was a combined 7-12-6 in the first five games of the past five seasons.
Miscellaneous Soccer Commentary
World Soccer Midweek ScoreboardEPL - Chelsea Held But Benefit As Chasing Pack Stumble : Scotland - Celtic In League Cup Final
Two first half defensive mistakes by Arsenal's Sol Campbell resulted in West Ham going two goals up against the run of play at Highbury after the Gunners had dominated the opening twenty minutes of the game. Campbell - immobile...
World Soccer Sunday Scoreboard :FA Cup - Man U and Liverpool Through :Italy - Juve Top : Spain - Barca Impose : Real WinSPL - Rangers Win : Nations - Togo and Angola Out
Italy Serie A Sunday 29 January 2006 Three goals in 11 minutes by David Trezeguet (7', 12' and 18') were enough to take Serie A leaders Juventus past Ascoli while fourth ranked Fiorentina dropped missed the opportunity of closing...
English Premier LeagueLast Gasp Fulham Down Spurs
English Premier League Tuesday 31 January 2006 Bottom club Sunderland's Premiership woes continued as they slumped to yet another defeat at home - while Middlesbrough's first league win since last November lifted some pressure off manager Steve McLaren. Charlton...
George Best Tribute
George Best Tribute Originally uploaded by CENtral 1179. I found this picture to be very touching--a Man City shirt laid as a tribute to George Best. The photographer also has some other great photos of the tribute to Best...
Shocking news
WInston Bogarde has retired....
World Soccer Week-End Wrap and League Standings
The FA Cup Bolton dumped holders Arsenal out of the competition while League One Brentford disposed of Premiership strugglers Sunderland.Manchester United, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Charlton, Manchester City and Aston Villa all progressed to the fifth round while Everton and...
1836
So, it's official: the TFKATSJE (Team Formerly Known as the San Jose Earthquakes) are now Houston 1836. The obvious thing is that they've gone Euro-style on us, but this isn't ridiculous, like Real Salt Lake. This name, to me at...
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