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| Tasha Kai and Amy Rodriguez scored for the Philadelphia Independence, who advanced to the Women's Professional Soccer championship game with a 2-0 victory over magicJack on Saturday. Philadelphia (12-4-3) will face Western New York next Saturday in Rochester, N.Y., for the league title. The Independence were beaten in last year's championship game by FC Gold Pride. |
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| From Germany to Letterman and now Rochester, Abby Wambach finds herself running on fumes. "I'm exhausted," Wambach said Wednesday, before conducting yet another TV interview prior to her Women's Professional Soccer league match for magicJack against the Western New York Flash. "I'm just exhausted." Her body's sore, as she is nursing tendinitis in her right... |
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| Abby Wambach is coming home to an anticipated full house in Rochester in the U.S. women's soccer star's first game since a World Cup final loss to Japan last weekend. The Sahlen's Stadium ticket office reported Tuesday morning that there are about 100 tickets left for the Women's Professional Soccer league game Wednesday night between Wambach's magicJack and the Western New York... |
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| The Colorado Rapids announced today the signings of defender/midfielder Danny Earls and defender Oscar Murillo. Earls joins from the USL-1 Rochester Rhinos, while Murillo recently spent two seasons with Colombia's Deportes Quindio. |
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| Having qualified for their second World Cup, North Korean soccer players now want to take full advantage of their first trip to Europe in 43 years to learn about the sport. The North Korean delegation has moved into its training camp on the outskirts of the western French city of Nantes and will play two friendlies, against second-division team Nantes on Friday at La Roche-sur-Yon before taking on... |
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| D.C. United booked a place in the U.S. Open Cup final with a gritty win over a tenacious Rochester Rhinos side on Tuesday night, yet the capital club's celebrations were decidedly muted after two grisly injuries draped a pall over the Maryland SoccerPlex. |
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| D.C. United reached the U.S. Open Cup final for the second time in two years after a 2-1 win over the Rochester Rhinos. |
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| In the last two rounds of U.S. Open Cup play, D.C. United have produced quality soccer for long periods only to let lower-tier opponents linger in contention until the very end due to poor finishing. That pattern continued at the Maryland SoccerPlex on Tuesday night as the Black-and-Red failed to put away the Rochester Rhinos after outplaying the USL-1 side for most of the match. But despite that flirtation with disaster, United did enough to win 2-1 |
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| Thabiso Khumalo scored in the 82nd minute to send defending champion D.C. United to the U.S. Open Cup final with a 2-1 win over the second-tier Rochester Rhinos on Tuesday night. In the final, United will meet another MLS team, either the Houston Dynamo or Seattle Sounders. Jaime Moreno put United ahead 1-0 in the 41st minute on a penalty. |
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| Open Cup finalists in the inaugural season of MLS and off a third-round meeting a year ago, D.C. United and the Rochester Rhinos will meet for a place in this year's Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final. |
