UConn Soccer Players Honored
by No Author Listed (Article | Hartford Courant - December 15)
Five UConn men's soccer players were named to the Northeast Regional teams, including first-team members Kwame Watson-Siriboe and Toni Stahl. Josh Ford and Tony Cascio are on the second team; Carlos Alvarez was named to the third team. more details | go to article

City To Host Soccer Semifinal
by Monica Polanco (Preview | Hartford Courant - August 18)
The New England Revolution professional soccer team will be showing off its skills at Veteran's Stadium next month, when it plays the Carolina RailHawks in the semifinals of the U.S. Open Cup. more details | go to article

Some Bad Spots, But Two Big Shots
by Mark Pukalo (Result | Hartford Courant - June 17)
Donovan, Bocanegra Help U.S. Advance more details | go to article

Pre-Flight Checklist
by Mark Pukalo (Preview | Hartford Courant - May 28)
EAST HARTFORD -- The first two stops on the three-game World Cup sendoff series presented different challenges for the U.S. national team. more details | go to article

U.S. Soccer Team To Play At Rentschler
by No Author Listed (Preview | Hartford Courant - March 14)
The U.S. soccer team will play its final World Cup tuneup match at Rentschler Field on May 28. more details | go to article

Jamaican Room: Beasley Exploits The Defense In Easy U.S. Victory
by Mark Pukalo (Result | Hartford Courant - July 17)
Even though the scores didn't always reflect it, the U.S. men's national soccer team was often bottled up by ultra-defensive game plans in the first round of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Jamaica rarely has that mind-set. more details | go to article

U.S. Still Out Of Its Depth
by Jerry Trecker (Analysis | Hartford Courant - May 29)
England, with six of its top players not within 5,000 miles of Soldier Field, fired a warning shot across the bow of U.S. soccer Saturday, especially to those who have bought into the notion that the American game has reached elite status. more details | go to article

Round Starts With Road Trip
by Jerry Trecker (Preview | Hartford Courant - December 1)
The United States will open the final round of World Cup 2006 qualifying with two road games, including a daunting trip to Mexico. The schedule for the CONCACAF hexagonal was confirmed Tuesday at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. more details | go to article

Soccer A Study In Cultures
by Woody Anderson (Profile/Interview | Hartford Courant - September 3)
Mpho Moloi is an anthropology major. The midfielder for the UConn men's soccer team is from Soweto, South Africa, and is interested in cultures and how other people live. He wouldn't need a library to write a paper on diversity. He could just talk to his teammates, who come from Trinidad, Israel, Liberia, Sweden, Jamaica and the United States. more details | go to article

Cup Berth Not A Given
by Jerry Trecker (Analysis | Hartford Courant - August 15)
Greece is the current European champion, Brazil did not qualify for the Olympic Games, and no European men's Olympic team won its opening match while Iraq was able to defeat Portugal. Thanks to more world youth development programs, better scouting by the world's big clubs and injections of cash from FIFA, the global playing field is level. Also: FIFA Factor in Olympics. more details | go to article

It's All Greece To Her
by Jeff Jacobs (Profile/Interview | Hartford Courant - August 2)
A small bank of televisions inside the Rentschler Field press box were tuned in to ESPN late Sunday afternoon. And sure enough, up popped that familiar face, that familiar nose and - what's this? - that unfamiliar smile. more details | go to article

Team May Be Saving Its Best For Last
by Jeff Goldberg (Result | Hartford Courant - August 2)
If Sunday was the last time the veterans of U.S. women's soccer played together with home-country advantage, they went out on a happy note. In their final tuneup before heading to Athens, Greece, for the Olympics, the U.S. national team defeated China 3-1 in front of 15,093 at Rentschler Field, and they collected a wealth of positives to take with them overseas. more details | go to article

Friendly Means Of Revenge
by Jeff Goldberg (Result | Hartford Courant - July 27)
As an athletic competition, Liverpool's 5-1 victory over Celtic Monday wasn't much of a show. But for the 24,271 fans at Rentschler Field, just getting a glimpse of the two legendary European soccer teams was all the show they required. more details | go to article

Ticos Move On Without Sampson
by Jerry Trecker (Profile/Interview | Hartford Courant - June 27)
A noble experiment, perhaps doomed to failure from the start, came to an end Tuesday. Steve Sampson, the first American to accept a high-profile national team coaching job outside of the United States, was fired by Costa Rica after the Ticos barely got past Cuba in CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. more details | go to article

The Real Game (Almost) Begins
by Jerry Trecker (Preview | Hartford Courant - May 30)
It may not be Bruce Arena's starting lineup when World Cup qualifying kicks off June 13 in Columbus against Grenada, but what New England fans will see Wednesday night at Gillette Stadium in a friendly against Honduras should come pretty close. more details | go to article