After a 5-0 win against SoccerPro Academy Lisboa from Portugal, the Arab-Jewish Israeli youth soccer team lost in the finals to the Arsenal Soccer School in Spain.

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Match Follows Games Against England and Spain in Europe; Argentina to be Last Friendly Match for U.S. Men at Giants Stadium; U.S. to Face Barbados on June 15 at The HDC in World Cup Qualifying Opener

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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- An American teenager is making a splash in Brazilian women’s soccer.

Leah Lynn Gabriela Fortune, a 17-year-old who speaks very little Portuguese and goes to school in the United States, is attracting a lot of attention as a member of Brazil’s Under-20 squad.

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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — Hannah Stohler sat beside the piano she could no longer play, in the living room that spun like a carousel, in the chair in which she tried to read but could not remember a word. Ten months after her third concussion while playing high school soccer knocked her into a winter-long haze of headaches and dizziness and depression that few around her could comprehend, Stohler recalled how she once viewed concussions.

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Having already helped lead her teams to a bevy of European championships, Arsenal Ladies Coach Emma Hayes is bringing her expertise Stateside and adding another title to her extensive résumé: inaugural head coach and director of soccer operations for Chicago Women's Professional Soccer (WPS).

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LOS ANGELES — The Phoenix Suns had just finished a practice earlier this season when Steve Nash, Boris Diaw, Leandro Barbosa and Grant Hill joined a man in jeans and a T-shirt who had arrived carrying a soccer ball. They formed a small circle and with their feet, thighs, chests and foreheads took turns juggling the ball. Each took more than a few touches, some to control the ball, others to show off tricks learned long ago. Then the ball was flicked to someone else in the circle. Rarely did it touch the court.

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BY THE TIME JANELLE PIERSON SPRINTED ONTO THE FIELD for the start of the Florida high-school soccer playoffs in January, she had competed in hundreds of games since joining her first team at 5. She played soccer year-round

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Having already helped lead her teams to a bevy of European championships, Arsenal Ladies Coach Emma Hayes is bringing her expertise Stateside and adding another title to her extensive résumé: inaugural head coach and director of soccer operations for Chicago Women's Professional Soccer (WPS).

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LOS ANGELES — The Phoenix Suns had just finished a practice earlier this season when Steve Nash, Boris Diaw, Leandro Barbosa and Grant Hill joined a man in jeans and a T-shirt who had arrived carrying a soccer ball. They formed a small circle and with their feet, thighs, chests and foreheads took turns juggling the ball. Each took more than a few touches, some to control the ball, others to show off tricks learned long ago. Then the ball was flicked to someone else in the circle. Rarely did it touch the court.

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