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With Fox Soccer Channel broadcasting live from Sahlen's Stadium on Saturday and Sunday and the US taking on Panama in the Gold Cup tomorrow evening, it's a busy soccer weekend. Here are some notes from all over the soccer world to get things going: - Devo has an article in today's D&C about Marta an...

USMNT over Canada 2-0 Grant Wahl - 3 Thoughts The Fullback Files Soccer America SBI.net The Original Winger - Altidore's goal The Original Winger - Dempsey's goal The Original Winger - Highlights Soccer America - US Player Ratings Soccer America - Here is what we learned Dirty Tackle - De...

Devo's Direct Kicks - Four Point Friday USL Blog - Hoxie goals lead Rhinos to win Devo's Direct Kicks - Kitson goal secures a point for the Rhinos USL Blog All White Kit - 6 things that happened in Week 9 of WPS The Flash had an off game and almost defeated Sky Blue FC before a late wonderstrik...

Devo's Direct Kicks D&C.com - Flash game day article D&C.com - Time out with Ali Riley The Rhinos are in Antigua trying to get to .500 and the Flash host Sky Blue FC in a bid to remaining unbeaten on the season. The two teams are in different spots, but they both want 3 points badly.  The Flash wa...

WNY Flash 2:1 Philadelphia Equalizer Soccer All White Kit Devo's Direct Kicks Now we know that the Flash can come from behind on the road to win. The Philadephia Independence jumped out to an early lead when Megan Rapinoe's shot from just outside the corner of the box froze Flash GK Ashlyn Harris...

Devo's Direct Kicks Bob Lilley and the Rhinos were not thrilled with how Friday night's 1-1 draw with the Wilmington Hammerheads went. First, you had the Rhinos losing Connor Tobin, Troy Roberts, and Michael Tanke to injury in the first half. Then you had the Rhinos going down 1-0 even though they w...

Caroline Seger makes it 4 weeks in a row that a WNY Flash player is named the WPS Player of the Week. The Flash trade away some of the their depth for 1st & 2nd round picks in the 2012 Draft. I wonder if Atlanta is betting against their being a 2012 Draft? Caroline Seger checks in to send some l...

Devo's Direct Kicks Bob Matthews @ D&C.com Equalizer Soccer Soccer America All White Kit - Six Things That Happened in WPS Week Eight Equalizer Soccer - The Weekly (from Sahlen's Stadium) Equalizer Soccer - WPS Overtime The Flash drew the second largest stand alone crowd in WPS when over...

Devo's Direct Kicks D&C.com With the WNY Flash slated to play in front of the largest home crowd so far this season, the players need to focus on remaining unbeaten. But even more important may be the rest of the organization trying to figure out how to get the fans that are showing up for the firs...

I need to dump a whole lot of links in a short amount of time, so here goes: - The WNY Flash are doing something I've talked about for a while with their Adopt A Player program. If you are a youth coach, get your team in the hopper today. - ESPNW has a Q&A with Abby Wambach. - The USWNT blog has a...

USL Soccer.com Devo's Direct Kicks D&C.com Inside Minnesota Soccer.com USL Blog With yesterday's announcement that the MISL has joined the USL and there are now 7 teams in the league that the Rochester Lancers will be playing in this winter, there are no more questions about the league and fans...

The Rhinos fell in Harrisburg 1-0 on Tuesday night. But, they didn't fall out of first place in the National Division of the USL PRO League until yesterday when the LA Blues were moved to their division. You can see the revamped Rhinos schedule at USL Soccer.com. WNY Flash updates - Devo has a ma...

Inside Minnesota Soccer.com Everyone that predicted the downfall of the International Division of the USL PRO League guessed correctly. The USL will re-work the remainder of the 2011 USL PRO League schedule with the three Puerto Rico clubs being removed.  It will be interesting to see what they do w...

Equalizer Soccer US Soccer.com Pia Sundhage named the 2011 Women's World Cup roster for Team USA today and Alex Morgan is the lone member of the WPS leading WNY Flash that was named to the squad today. magicJack had seven players named to the squad, including Abby Wambach. One magicJack player that...

Devo's Direct Kicks D&C.com - Match Report Equalizer Soccer The WNY Flash had another impressive and very entertaining 3-1 win over Sky Blue FC last evening at Sahlen's Stadium. Marta had a goal, 2 assists, and countless breathtaking moves. US Women's National Team Forward Alex Morgan added a goal...

Since I was slacking earlier this week, here are some random news & notes from around the soccer world: - Grant Wahl has a piece on Marta and the Flash in the latest issue of SI. - Ali Riley and the Flash have some Royal Wedding fun. - Is Orlando now in the lead to land MLS club #20? Steve Donne...

Devo's Direct Kicks Equalizer Soccer ESPNW Youtube - WNY Flash post game reactions The WNY Flash had a great debut on the field. The dominating 3-0 win over the Atlanta Beat was a performance that many expected from a roster that looks to be the best in the WPS. Marta was magical on the ball. Ch...

Devo's Direct Kicks USL Blog The Rhinos won't be headed to Harrisburg this weekend as City Island, where the City Islanders home stadium is located, has been shut down for the weekend due to flooding and power outages. The match is now scheduled to take place on Tuesday May 10th. That means the Rh...

MLS Insider SBI.net Dirty Tackle Soccer America It was sad to read this morning that RSL fell 1-0 to Monterrey in the 2nd leg of the CCL final and lost the tie by a 3-2 score. Now it will be interesting to see if MLS can build on RSL's success or not. Or, was this just a fluke? Clint Dempsey ent...

Rhinos 3:2 Dayton Devo's Direct Kicks The good news is that JC Banks' run to Rhinos Rookie of the Year gains more momentum with his first pro goal, Alfonso Motagalvan gets his first goal as a Rhino, and Anthony Hamilton is back and netted the winner. So, after getting blanked in the first two games...

Ali Riley , Caroline Seger , and Christine Sinclair are on ESPNW. Alex Morgan and Ashlyn Harris are rocking new training gear over at the USWNT blog. All White Kit has their WPS preview up that includes the Atlanta Beat-WNY Flash Sunday FSC Game of the Week. Equalizer Soccer has their Opening W...

The latest WNY Flash video has head coach Aaran "Kiwi" Lines and Flash D Ali Riley talking about their international careers with New Zealand. Although, with Ali being a California native, she doesn't have the same accept as Aaran. U.S. Soccer unveils new coaching curriculum  US Soccer.com...

The Rhinos had a bad weekend after a pair of 1-0 losses while the WNY Flash had a great debut in Boston in a 2-1 win. With the Rhinos not scoring a goal and not getting a point, it's hard to pick out a player that looked really good. But, it sounds like maybe JC Banks and Andrew Hoxie might be gett...

Devo's Direct Kicks Richmond Times Dispatch Stop me if you've heard this one before: Former Rhinos forward comes back to haunt the Rhinos. Well, it happened again last night with Matthew Delicate getting his 3rd goal in three games for the Richmond Kickers. And Deli's goal in the 24th minute would...

In case you missed it, the Rhinos tied the Harrisburg City Islanders 0-0 in a friendly on Saturday in Lancaster, PA. This report sounds like former Rhino GK Chase Harrison had to make a couple of good saves on Tony Donatelli to keep the sheet clean. Also, the WNY Flash tied the Greece Cobras U18 b...

Last week the USL PRO started the 2011 season and this week WPS and the NASL get their seasons under way. Although, we have to wait a week for the Rhinos and Flash to kick off their 2011 seasons. USL PRO: - Inside Minnesota Soccer.com has a week 1 wrap up. - USL Live.com is back in 2011. - The U...

The Original Winger Toronto FC & the NY Red Bulls picked the wrong day pull off a blockbuster trade. Especially when there were reports that the deal was on hold due to a player involved not being able to cross the border. But, Dwayne DeRosario is now a Red Bull and midfielder Tony Tchani, d...

Rhinos Soccer.com The Rhinos announced yesterday that they have signed midfielder Tony Donatelli. Donatelli had been in camp with the San Jose Earthquakes before being released a month ago. Donatelli has won a pair of USL 1st Division titles with Vancouver in 2006 and Montreal in 2009. Bob Lilley wa...

It's mind blowing, but here goes: - Devo has the Rhino's training camp roster. Chris Gbandi and Guy-Roland Kpene are the two non-roster invitees with some solid MLS experience that pique my interest. Although, knowing Bob Lilley's eye for young talent, it's likely that one or two of the rookie invi...

Here is the best of the best for the last 9 days or so... - The Rhinos signed three more players, including a backup keeper. - Devo has the news that Danny Earls is a free agent. - WPS has announced the format of the 2011 playoffs. - Grant Wahl has an article on Charlie Davies' return to the p...