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With
a berth in the 2010 FIFA Under-20 World Cup already in hand after
a 2-1 semifinal win over Costa Rica, the U.S. women were playing
for gold in the CONCACAF U-20 Women’s championship game.

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The
U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team earned a berth at the
FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup with a 2-1 win over Costa Rica
in the semifinals of the CONCACAF championships.

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The U.S. Under-20 Women’s National
Team defeated Mexico 2-1 at Estadio Cementos Progreso claim first
place in Group B at the 2010 CONCACAF U-20 Women’s Championship.
As the group winner, the U.S. will face Costa Rica, the second
place finisher in Group A, in the first semifinal at 2:30 p.m.
ET on Thursday, Jan. 28.

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The
U.S. Under-20 women opened CONCACAF qualifying for the 2010 FIFA
Under-20 Women’s World Cup with a 6-0 shutout of Jamaica.
Sydney Leroux and Christine Nairn scored two goals each to lead
the USA victory in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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Clint
Dempsey has told US Soccer to keep him in their plans for the
World Cup this summer, despite recently suffering knee ligament
damage in the 2-0 English Premier League defeat of his Everton
FC club by the Rovers.

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It has been reported by the Associated
Press that at least 30 members of Haiti’s soccer federation,
died in the country’s earthquake. That included an undetermined
number of players and at least one coach.

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Former
University of South Florida men’s soccer standout Zak Boggs
was recently named the recipient of the 2010 Coach Wooden Citizenship
Cup Award. The award was presented by the Athletes for a Better
World (ABW) at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga.

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Seven
University of North Carolina women’s soccer players were
chosen in the second annual Women’s Professional Soccer
Draft held in Philadelphia, Pa.

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Six
ACC student-athletes were selected in the first round of the 2010
Major League Soccer SuperDraft, on January 14 at the Pennsylvania
Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. All totaled, 11 ACC standouts
drafted, including three among the first five picks, were drafted.

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U.S.
hopes for the 2010 World Cup may have taken a bit hit over the
weekend when U.S. MNT veteran midfielder Clint Dempsey went down
with a knee injury in his club team’s 2-0 loss to Blackburn.

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Preki
Radosavljevic, Major League Soccer’s only two-time MVP,
and Thomas Dooley, the 1993 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year, have
been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2010
on the Player ballot.

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The
U.S. Soccer Federation, United Soccer Leagues (USL) and the North
American Soccer League (NASL) have come to an agreement on the
formation and operation of a Division 2 professional soccer league
for the 2010 season. Under the agreement, U.S. Soccer will oversee
the league for the 2010 season, working with both the USL and
NASL on the day-to-day league activities.

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Jack
Huckel, the Director of Museum & Archives at the National
Soccer Hall of Fame, in Oneonta, NY, has left the organization.
In an email sent out to friends and colleagues, Huckel broke the
news.

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McInerney
has wanted to be a professional soccer player ever since he joined
Coach Steve Gummer’s Under-12 boys team at Cobb FC in suburban
Atlanta.

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CHICAGO
(Dec. 30, 2009) – The U.S. Soccer Board of Directors voted
unanimously on Tuesday to not sanction either the USL or the NASL
to operate a Division II professional league in 2010.

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The # 2 Virginia men’s soccer
team captured its sixth NCAA Championship, and first since 1994,
with a 3-2 penalty kick shootout win over #1 Akron following a
0-0 draw in the NCAA Championship final at WakeMed Soccer Park.
The Cavaliers (19-3-3) ended the season on a 16-game unbeaten
streak.

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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – It
never gets old. That was the feeling of North Carolina head coach
Anson Dorrance and his senior-laden team after the third-ranked
Tar Heels pitched a shutout at top-ranked Stanford Sunday afternoon,
prevailing 1-0 in the 2009 NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament
championship game at Aggie Soccer Stadium before a stadium record
crowd of 8,536

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The
U.S. caught a break for the first time at the final draw for the
2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The U.S. will open on June
12 against England in Group C, which is the lowest ranked seeded
team, other than host South Africa.

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NEW
YORK (Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009) – Major League Soccer held
its 2009 Expansion Draft today for the League’s 16th team,
Philadelphia Union, with the team selecting 10 players from among
nearly 200 left unprotected by all Major League Soccer clubs.

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The
team that was absent in recent announcements about the USL First
Division and the new Second Division professional team has been
the Charleston Battery.

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TAMPA, FL -- United Soccer Leagues
officially closed the door on the 2009 awards Friday night at
the USL Hall of Fame and Awards Dinner as they recognized outstanding
performances by its member teams and executives for the season
along with the 2009 USL Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the
Hyatt Regency Tampa.
The evening opened with speeches from Gary Mellor
of Beswicks Sports and Richard Nightingale of Umbro as well as
USL Chairman Rob Hoskins and USL founder Francisco Marcos. It
continued with the induction of the 10+ Clubs into the USL Hall
of Fame, honoring the Charlotte Lady Eagles, Ottawa Fury and Thunder
Bay Chill.

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AARHUS,
Denmark — The United States finished its 2009 schedule with
a 3-1 loss to Denmark, losing its second straight match on a quick
tour that was the last time Europe-based players will gather before
March.

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Six
former USL-1 teams, the Atlanta Silverbacks, Carolina Railhawks,
Miami FC, Minnesota Thunder, Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps,
along with St. Louis Soccer United have joined forces to create
a new soccer league set to begin play in 2010.

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Greensboro Day School won its third boys NCISAA
3-A state soccer championship with a 3-1 win over #1 ranked Charlotte
Latin at North Raleigh Christian Academy.

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For
the first time since 2007, the U.S. WNT squared off on October
29 against Germany in a meeting between the #1 and #2 ranked teams
in the world, respectively.

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The
U.S. men’s national team has added a second game to their
November trip to Europe where they will play, Slovakia and Denmark.
Both have also qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South
Africa.

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KANO,
Nigeria (Oct. 26, 2009) - The U.S. U-17 Men’s National Team
took advantage of an early red card to Spain to get on the scoreboard
in the fourth minute of their opening game of the 2009 FIFA U-17
World Cup, but the seven-time European champions soon showed their
class in clawing back two goals of their own to take a 2-1 victory
at Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano.

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After
the way the game ended in Honduras, a 3-2 road victory that earned
a berth in the 2010 FIFA World Cup next summer in South Africa,
everyone expected the final CONCACAF qualifying game at RFK Stadium
to be rather routine.

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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (Oct. 10, 2009) —
The U.S. Men’s National Team qualified for the 2010 FIFA
World Cup in South Africa in dramatic fashion with a 3-2 win against
Honduras with five goals scored and a penalty missed by Honduras
in a heart-stopping second half.

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U.S.
Men’s National Team forward Charlie Davies underwent six-hours
of surgery at Washington Hospital Center Medstar after suffering
several broken bones and a lacerated bladder in a one-car accident
early Tuesday morning. One person was killed in the accident.

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The U.S. Under-20 Men’s National
Team was eliminated from the FIFA U-20 World Cup after the final
group matches were completed in Egypt. The U.S. finished as the
17th place team in the tournament, one place shy of the Round
of 16.

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SUEZ,
Egypt -- The United States lost to South Korea 3-0 Friday night
in its final first-round match at the Under-20 World Cup, but
still can advance.

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CHICAGO
(Oct. 1, 2009) — U.S. Men's National Team head coach Bob
Bradley has named a roster of 22 players that will train in advance
of the crucial FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Honduras and
Costa Rica that will determine if the United States automatically
qualifies for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

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The
U.S. responded to their 3-0 opening game loss to Germany with
an explosion of goals against Cameroon, defeating the African
nation 4-1 in their second match of the 2009 FIFA Under-20 World
Cup in Egypt.

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Before this week, the United Soccer
Leagues' Team Owners' Association was a relatively-unknown entity.

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The
expansion Seattle Sounders knocked off defending champion D.C.
United 2-1 to claim the 2009 U.S. Open Cup championship before
a crowd of 17,329 at RFK Stadium in Washington,DC.

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Before this week, the United Soccer
Leagues' Team Owners' Association was a relatively-unknown entity.

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Do you know what Zachary Tran, Gabriel Mendoza
and Hayden Ellias have in common?

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