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Brent Latham highlights five players -- and one notable exception -- who just missed out on making the list of the Top 25 under-21 U.S. prospects.

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Seven of 14 Major League Soccer clubs in action Tuesday night dropped their U.S. Open Cup openers, including the Galaxy, Real Salt Lake and Houston Dynamo. FC Dallas, Columbus Crew and Chicago Fire also were beaten, and the New England Revolution ...

Jose Erik Correa made the most of his first start, but Chivas USA couldn't hold onto to its advantage at the finish, settling for a draw in game they should have won even if they didn't really deserve to. Correa scored with a simple but tremendous...

Sporting Kansas City on Monday signed supplemental draft pick Shawn Singh, boosting UCLA's presence in Major League Soccer and adding to the 53 local players already on rosters. Singh, a left back from Bakersfield, is the fourth Bruin rookie in ML...

Chivas USA's Major League Soccer opener is just a week away, and the club enters its final preparations in turmoil. The Goats were battered in their final preseason match Sunday, a 5-0 disaster against the San Jose Earthquakes in Portland, Ore., and ...

The Earthquakes have a retooled offense, but could struggle unless Steven Lenhart is back to his early-season form of 2011, writes Jeff Carlisle.

When FC Dallas and the United States Under-23 team square off in a 10 AM scrimmage on Wednesday at the FC Dallas Stadium complex, that game could feature a match-up that the FCD players have regularly seen in practice over the last few years. That...

FC Dallas star midfielder Brek Shea is among 23 players U.S. Under-23 men's national team head coach Caleb Porter has named for a 10-day training camp in Frisco, Texas. The camp begins Feb. 19 and culminates with a match against Mexico's U-23 on Feb....

Major League Soccer and the Women's Professional Soccer league held their annual drafts this week, and there were six former Gatorade Soccer Players of the Year selected in each draft. Andrew Wenger, the 2008-09 Gatorade Pennsylvania Boys Soccer P...

CARSON -- Chandler Hoffman had heard the buzz, how his superb performance at Major League Soccer's pre-draft combine in Florida -- on top of his 18-goal, All-America showing for NCAA semifinalist UCLA -- had vaulted him into the top five, maybe the t...

Chivas USA got its man, the Galaxy bolstered its ailing backline, and UCLA's Kelyn Rowe was the No. 3 overall selection in Thursday's MLS SuperDraft. Chandler Hoffman surprisingly slipped into the teens and two UC Santa Barbara products were taken...

Chandler Hoffman and Kelyn Rowe aren't going to last very long once the MLS SuperDraft begins Thursday morning, and Luis Silva, Sam Garza, Miguel Ibarra and Andy Rose figure to be nabbed soon after. They're the big names, but hardly the only ones,...

Final mock drafts should start showing up online any minute now, and nearly all of them will continue to have Jamaican speedster Darren Mattocks, a University of Akron sophomore, going to Montreal with the first pick in Thursday's MLS SuperDraft in K...

Mexico's Clausura, the second-half championship, kicks off in the Primera Division on Friday night, with Club Tijuana visiting Morelia. The Xolos went unbeaten in their last eight games in the fall Clausura and hope that prods them up the table in t...

UCLA has lost a second underclassmen to Major League Soccer, but it wasn't like it was unexpected. Kelyn Rowe, who looked seriously at turning pro following his freshman season a year ago, is the league's fifth Generation adidas signing. Rowe, the...

Counting down the 11 biggest 2011 stories in Southern California soccer ... Fans of the Mexican Primera Division have always been in fairly decent shape around these parts. We get every single game on television, which ought to sate the throngs of...