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CONCACAF Gold Cup: Final Preview

This is the match-up that everyone wanted and it should be a tight match-up. The US has improved from their loss to Panama, but their offense is thin with Jozy Altidore out. For Mexico, they have had a harder time

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2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup: Group A Preview

The Gold Cup starts this Sunday. Mexico will be looking to defend its 2009 title, but the United States is the last winner when both of the teams sent their best squads. Mexico and the US have dominated, but Costar

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Weekend Watch List: Mexico’s El Classico And Big Matches Throughout Europe

There were many good games this weekend and it was actually quite difficult to limit the list to five games. The top game is Mexico’s El Classico, but there are a lot of good games this weekend. Here are my

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What Can Chicarito Bring To Manchester United?

The MLS All-Star game provided the debut for Javier “Chicarito” Hernandez, the new signing for Manchester United from Chivas Guadalajara. It was a short run out and against an MLS side that did not seem that organized, but he looked

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Mexican Primera: 2010 Apertura Preview

The Mexican league gets started this weekend as Toluca look to defend their title. I won’t give a full preview of the Mexican league because I’m sure it won’t be that informative as I am fairly new to the league.

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North American Superliga Preview

The North American Superliga is around for its 2010 version. The tournament is still trying to find its place especially with the CONCACAF Champions League. The tournament feels like the UEFA Cup Europa League of North America to give anyone

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World Cup Day 17: Things We Learned

The second day of the knockout round saw the match-up of some teams with good footballing pedigrees. However, both games ended in fairly big blowouts. Germany defeated England 4-1 behind a brace from Thomas Muller. In the second game, Argentina

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World Cup Day 17: Argentina-Mexico Preview

This is a rematch from the Round of 16 in 2006 where Argentina defeated Mexico 2-1 in extra time after an incredible goal by Maxi Rodriguez. If you haven’t seen it or forgotten the goal, here it is. However, the

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World Cup Day 12: Group A Recap and Best XI

These posts are a bit late as the servers were down for quite a while yesterday. But they appear to be back up. Group A finished up today and it had a moment of intrigue as South Africa put pressure

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World Cup: Day 12 Preview

The next four days should be exciting as we enter the third and final group stage games where the games will be played simultaneously. The first day will decided the fates of Group A and Group B. Here is a

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