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| Substitutes Carlos Edwards, Cornell Glen and Dennis Lawrence scored in the second half Wednesday, giving Trinidad and Tobago a 3-0 victory over Guyana in an exhibition game. Edwards scored in the 59th minute and Glen in the 61st. Lawrence converted a penalty kick in the 89th minute after Glen was fouled in the penalty area by Shurmayne Morris. |
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Zenit St. Petersburg won the European Super Cup for the first time, upsetting Manchester United 2-1 Friday night on goals by Pavel Pogrebnyak and Danny. Pogrebnyak scored in the 44th minute from close range after Igor Denisov flicked on a corner kick from Alejandro Dominguez. Danny made it 2-0 in the 59th when he drifted past two defenders and beat goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar with a low shot.
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| The coach who led Brazil's women's national team to a silver medal in the Olympics was hired to lead the St. Louis team in the new Women's Professional Soccer league. Coach Jorge Barcellos was hired by the WPS on Wednesday. At the Beijing Olympics, the U.S. beat Brazil 1-0 in overtime for the gold. Barcellos also led Brazil to second place at the Women's World Cup in 2007. |
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| The U.S. women's national team will take on Ireland in a three-match tour following the Olympics, hitting stops on the East Coast and Midwest. The matches start on Saturday, Sept. 13 in Philadelphia at 8 p.m. EDT at Lincoln Financial Field, and continue on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Giants Stadium. |
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| Michael Bradley, Brad Guzan, Maurice Edu and Sacha Kljestan won't be getting much rest. A day after the U.S. Olympic team was eliminated from the Beijing Games, the quartet was among 17 players picked Thursday for the American roster for next week's World Cup qualifier at Guatemala. Just six players were selected from Major League Soccer, including forwards Landon Donovan and Brian Ching. |
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| Women's Professional Soccer, a league planning to debut next year, has added Atlanta to its expansion list for 2010. The league, based in San Francisco, is set to open in April with seven teams -- Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. On Monday, the league said Atlanta would be the ninth team after previously announcing Philadelphia as a 2010 addition. |
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| This SuperLiga final wasn't like the two MLS Cup Finals that the Houston Dynamo won against the New England Revolution. There wasn't much rest. There wasn't a neutral site. |
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| In the first 12 games of his MLS career, FC Dallas midfielder Andre Rocha had six assists. But that pace has slowed considerably as the 23-year-old Brazilian has now gone six matches without an assist. His last one came in a 1-0 win against Chicago on June 15. |
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| UEFA Cup champion Zenit St. Petersburg was fined $58,000 by UEFA on Thursday for racist behavior by its fans. The fine was for racist chants directed at players from Marseille during a UEFA Cup match in Russia in March. Zenit fans also broke UEFA rules by unveiling a political banner and setting off fireworks. |
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| UEFA on Thursday fined Russian club FC Zenit St. Petersburg 60,000 Swiss francs (36,880 euros) after its Control and Disciplinary Body ruled some of the club's fans had racially abused players from French side Marseille in last season's UEFA Cup clash. |
