Sporting KC’s Saad and Kamara headed for national team duty
Soony Saad will play in a friendly with Lebanon, and Kei Kamara will join Sierra Leone for World Cup qualifiers.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Soony Saad will play in a friendly with Lebanon, and Kei Kamara will join Sierra Leone for World Cup qualifiers.




Sporting KC loses last-minute Seattle heartbreaker, 1-0
Portland Timbers FC 3, Sporting Kansas City 2
FC Kansas City versus Seattle Reign FC
Inaugural game | FC Kansas City 1, Portland Thorns 1
Sporting KC 2, Montreal Impact 0
Community Faces | Opening night at Livestrong Sporting Park
Sporting KC | Looking back, looking ahead

The Seattle Sounders have only left Kansas City as the losing team once -- when Sporting Kansas City lifted the U.S. Open Cup trophy after a penalty shootout last season. Tonight, KC will get a chance to earn its first regular season win over Seattle.

Sporting Kansas City vs. Chivas USA on paper looks like it could be a wide-open match with a little bit of an edge to it.
FC Kansas City takes on Boston on Saturday night after losing to Western New York last Saturday.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist got her team on the scoreboard early and put the Blues into a hole for the first time this season. Her second goal put the match out of reach.
The Copa del Rey trophy could have been coach Jose Mourinho's parting gift for Real Madrid, or at least a consolation prize after a disappointing season filled with locker-room turmoil and failure in La Liga and the Champions League.

After David Beckham's long and distinguished soccer career ends on an artificial turf field in northwestern France, his life promises to be perhaps even more glamorous than it already has been.

Football without Alex Ferguson? Like Britain without the queen or gin without tonic, it seems almost unthinkable.

Alex Ferguson is looking forward to a retired life of luxury vacations, watching thoroughbreds, enjoying good wines and perhaps studying languages.

Paris Saint-Germain hopes to strike a deal with David Beckham in the next two weeks in which the former England captain will work with the French club after retirement, possibly in an ambassadorial role.
End it like Beckham.
Jurgen Klinsmann has named his roster for the U.S. national team's training camp ahead of the nation's upcoming five-game stretch.

David Beckham won league titles with four clubs in four countries in a long career that included a record 115 appearances for England. The soccer superstar who also became a fashion icon and a global celebrity announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of the season.
Like his former Manchester United boss, Alex Ferguson, David Beckham picked the right time and best way to retire - as a winner and before the worst ravages of age became painfully apparent.

Ten things to know about David Beckham, the soccer superstar who announced his retirement Thursday.

Ask someone in Asia or Europe a decade ago what they knew about the Galaxy, and odds are the answer would have been limited to planets or stars. Nowadays, it's likely to include a reference to "Beckham's team," the Major League Soccer franchise in Los Angeles.

Landon Donovan was left off the 29-man U.S. roster for a training camp ahead of a trio of World Cup qualifiers next month. But American coach Jurgen Klinsmann anticipates he will rejoin the team at some unspecified point.
Branislav Ivanovic scored on a looping header from Juan Mata's corner kick in the third minute of stoppage time, and Chelsea beat Benfica 2-1 Wednesday night to win the Europa League following its Champions League title last year.
Chelsea added another European trophy to its cabinet on Wednesday as Branislav Ivanovic scored in stoppage time to hand the Blues a dramatic 2-1 win over Benfica in the Europa League final.

A celebration of Paris Saint-Germain's first league title since 1994 was canceled Tuesday, a day after rioting during festivities in the French capital led to 21 arrests and injuries to more than 30 people.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter says he will protest to Italian soccer authorities over a decision to only fine Roma the equivalent of $65,000 after their fans racially abused AC Milan players.

Wigan is going down to the League Championship, and Arsenal is in position to reach the Champions League for the 16th straight season.
A brace from Ignacio Scocco led Newell's to a 3-1 win over Godoy Cruz on Saturday, moving the club to the top of Argentina's Clausura.

Lionel Messi's Barcelona season may be over because of a reoccurrence of a hamstring injury that has slowed him for more than a month.

Frank Lampard earned the top spot in the weekly Associated Press global soccer poll for the first time after setting Chelsea's career goals record.