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I found an interesting article in the New York Post that detailed David Beckham's amazing impact on the MLS, despite being injured most of his first year. For starters, the article says L.A. cleared an extra $13 mill before he ever played, paying his $5.5 mill salary twice over. Not bad.

But this year, now that he's healthy, Beckham drives up ESPN ratings 150 percent and attracts a huge amount of fans to every venue. The average attendance of LA's road games rose from 16,360 to 27,094 and with… Continue

Allow me to apologize for not blogging more frequently, but to say that the past three months have been an absolute blur would be an enormous understatement.

You may be aware the Ziga-Zoga gang was instrumental in the first Texas Pro Soccer Festival, bringing two-time MLS champion Houston Dynamo, D.C. United, Chivas USA and Toronto FC to San Antonio, Texas for practice and three great doubleheaders in early March (watch the great action on ZZTV).

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Pia Sundhage was hired today to coach the U.S. Women's National Team through the 2008 Olympics.

This is an interesting choice. Sundhage, 47, was a star for Sweden (country's all-time leading scorer) and recently was an assistant with the Chinese national team. She assumes her role immediately and will start getting the U.S. team ready for the Four Nations tournament in China in January.

Sundhage has coached in the WUSA and is said to be familiar with many of the U.S. players. It

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You could almost feel that the Hope Solo-Briana Scurry goalie controversy was going to cost Greg Ryan his job ... and today it did. Less than a month after the top-ranked U.S. Women's team got hammered in the World Cup semifinal vs. Brazil, U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati pulled the trigger today.

Ryan was 45-1-9 since taking over the team in early '05, but the controversy continued to hang over Ryan and U.S. team. Ryan was second-guessed by almost everybody at the time when he pull

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The men's D-I soccer season has almost mirrored the roller coaster ride in D-I football, meaning Top 5 rankings change every week and on any given day anybody can beat you. If you saw Friday night's Big East thriller on the FOX Soccer Channel between No. 1 Connecticut and No. 20 West Virginia (depending on the poll) you witnessed a snapshot of what the season has been like so far. A hard fought battle ended in a 1-0 West Virginia victory, a wild celebration in Morgantown and another shuffle i

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