Defender Morris staying with Kixx
The Kixx announced a deal to retain veteran defender Pat Morris, who won his second Defender of the Year award last season.
Judge kicks Ryan in title game
Nick Morris scored twice and Eric Goldbloom added another score as Father Judge earned the Catholic League boys' soccer championship with a 3-0 win at Archbishop Ryan last night.
Sports in Brief: Soccer star shot in head
Fernando Cáceres, a player from Argentina's 1994 World Cup team, is near death in Buenos Aires with a bullet in his head after resisting a carjacking.
Phila. Union plan 2 tryout sessions
By the Inquirer Staff
The Philadelphia Union, preparing for their inaugural season in 2010, will hold open tryouts this fall for players who believe they have the skills to make it in Major League Soccer.
Late Bornstein goal ties U.S. with Costa Rica
By Jonathan Tannenwald, For The Inquirer
WASHINGTON - U.S. soccer fans had expected last night's final World Cup qualifying match to be a celebration after their team clinched a spot in next year's World Cup with a 3-2 win at Honduras on Saturday.
U.S. ties Costa Rica in World Cup qualifier
By Jonathan Tannenwald, FOR THE INQUIRER
WASHINGTON - When the final whistle blew in the U.S. soccer team's 3-2 win at Honduras on Saturday that clinched a berth in the World Cup, their fans back home expected tonight's final World Cup qualifying match to be a celebration.
U.S. returning to World Cup after thrilling win over Honduras
Daily News Wire Services
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - One by one, U.S. soccer players exited their celebration and came into the dark, narrow hallway outside the locker room of Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano.
Rain, economy delayed new soccer stadium
By Jeff Gammage, Inquirer Staff Writer
A rainy June complicated workers' ability to pour cement. A shaken Wall Street meant it took longer to sell construction bonds.
Linc to host first Phila. Union soccer game
By Jeff Gammage, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The Philadelphia Union soccer team will play its first home game at Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Eagles, officials said today.
Philly soccer team eyeing alternative venues
New stadium in Chester may not be finished in time for opener
By KERITH GABRIEL, gabrielk@phillynews.com
The upstart Philadelphia Union may have to make its home debut next season at Lincoln Financial Field.
According to a report out of the Washington Post, Major League Soccer’s 16th team has explored this option as a preventive in the event the 18,500-seat soccer stadium currently under construction on Chester’s waterfront runs behind its completion date and/or an opening date schedule from the MLS doesn’t accommodate the team’s already tight construction deadline.
AT LEAST TEMPLE WON AT THE LINC
