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The fledgling Major League Soccer franchise Seattle Sounders FC announced the signing of its third player Friday, 19-year-old midfielder Sanna Nyassi of Gambia. Nyassi was a member of Gambia's under-20 national team that played in the 2007 FIFA championships.
USL-1 side Puerto Rico Islanders joined fellow USL-1 club Montreal Impact in advancing to the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League last night by scoring two goals in the final (very final) final minutes of the of its second leg match up with Costa Rican side Alajuelense ( a pre-tournament favorite ). Here is the description of the last two goals, the result of Alajuelense errors: A mistake...
DC United won their 12th club trophy last night in the 2008 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup with their 2-1 defeat of the USL-1 Charleston Battery at RFK Stadium. DC was lead by their two Brazilians Luciano Emilio and Fred in this one as Emilio got the Black-and-Red up early and after Charleston leveled things [...]
D.C. United took home the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup after barely besting The Charleston Battery 2-1. The Major League Soccer team played the Charleston team before some 8,212 in Washington, D.C.
The results are in: Joe Public 2-1 New England Tauro 2-0 Chivas USA Montreal Impact 1-0 Real Estell Alajuelense 1-1 Puerto Rico No, those score are not some kind of joke. After the first leg of the preliminary round of the inaugural CONCACAF Champions League, two USL 1 clubs got big results while their MLS older brothers just flat out stunk. I'm a big fan of this tournament and completely elated The...
According to SBI, Major League Soccer have blocked New York’s $200,000 bid for Atlanta Silverbacks striker Macoumba Kandji. The reason? MLS think $200,000 is too much for an MLS team to pay a USL team. The 23 year old Senegalese striker has been one of the top players in the USL First Division this year [...]
Two USL First Division teams hope to do a little better than their MLS counterparts last night as the Montreal Impact take on Real Esteli at home and the Puerto Rico Islanders travel to Costa Rica to counter Alajuelense in the nightcap. Stay with us all night, as we'll also be here for the Silverbacks-Whitecaps game. Innocent start to the Montreal - Esteli game, with another nice crowd at the Stade...
The Montreal Impact will play its first match in the inaugural CONCACAF Champions League when it hosts Nicaraguan club Real Esteli on Wednesday at Saputo Stadium (8 p.m. ET, CBC-Bold, CBCSports.ca).
Clips of Hamed Diallo's hattrick against the Seattle Sounders First goal Second goal Third goal These and other video clips courtesy of USL Live / PlayOn! Sports are also available through iTunes via the RailHawks Underground podcast .
On September 3rd at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup will crown their champion; this is the 95th consecutive year for the U.S. Open Cup, making it one of the longest-running competitions in any American sport… The qualifiers began early in the year; any amateur or professional men’s team at any level can attempt [...]
It's a really tough situation for the Atlanta Silverbacks. They've been playing host to Macoumba Kandji over the last 2 seasons, one of the most exciting young prospects in American soccer. He's raw, but he has been a force in the USL-D1 since he joined the first time late last season. It was only a matter of time before he started attracting attention from bigger clubs. A recent hot streak has coincided...
In their first-ever feet, the Charleston Battery have advanced to U.S. Open Cup final after winning in a 4-3 shootout against the Seattle Sounders. It's also the first time since 1999 that a non-MLS team has made it the finals.
Eight years after the Tampa Bay Mutiny folded and 16 years on from the final demise of the Tampa Bay Rowdies, professional soccer is expected to return to Tampa next spring with the arrival of a United Soccer Leagues First Division club. The Rowdies have been reborn! All hail the Rowdies! The new club is taking shape at this time and an announcement regarding a proposed stadium and concept should...
