WEEKEND WRAP: Sunday 7/31 : Features Goals in Sweden, Bosnia

Today was one of those busy, but unremarkable day's. We saw a couple of players starting with new clubs, loanee Caleb Stanko, Robbie Kristo, AJ Soares all made debut's. Ken Gipson started for RB Leipzig II, Connor O'Brien continues to start, and 2 Americans in Bosnia, Danijal Brkovic and Nermin Crnkic both played the first 2 games of the season (Brkovic has scored in both games) To the list; GK Daniel Schmidt and Yamaga visited Tokushima in...

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WEEKEND WRAP: Long Weekend - Friday/Saturday - Features Goals and Opening Day's

A pretty busy weekend, that started yesterday. Leagues around the world are starting their fall seasons as most that are playing are now starting to clear-up the pro/rel situations (yes, there is plenty of time still) So far this weekend we have Goals, including a Hat-Trick and a 2 goal performance, in Australia, Finland, Israel and Scotland. We have Shut Outs by our goalkeeper core, in France and Scotland  and just for good measure 2 players...

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MID_WEEK WRAP: Small Mid-Week Wrap 7/26-27 - Features Iceland and Friendlies

So enough has been going on to warrant a small update during the week. (This will be normal when the seasons all start again) Iceland was very busy yesterday 7/26. With US players participating and scoring goals. Friendlies are all over the place, and of course Christian Pulisic made the headlines with a very late goal, and a PK, in Dortmund's 1 - 2 loss to Man City OK to the list; WEDNESDAY In Iceland Division 2, Hottur and Jordan Tyler (90)...

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WEEKEND WRAP: Sunday 7/24/2016 - Features 2 x 2 goal games Plus more goals

Well today's game's took on an unexpected vibe. Way fewer games than yesterday involving US Players and way more goals!  First, congratulations to GK Daniel Schmidt who now has 11 shut-outs in Japan. Denmark and Moldova (yes) opened their season's for real this weekend, with many more starting this coming week or so. OK Goals!!! there were goals (7), including 2 brace's in Finland and in Germany (Friendlies), Congrats to Jakeem Johnson and...

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WEEKEND WRAP: Saturday 7-23-2016 - Features a Mix of Meaningful Games and Friendlies

Interesting day filled with games that had consequence and a lot more that didn't. We had debut's by 2 players in Bosnia, 1 in Serbia  and a few more in Germany's lower leagues. Goals ? yup we had some of those as well. In Iceland, Germany, Bosnia and 1 goal in a friendly match. We had over 30 US Players on display with some good and some bad results. The seasons are starting up again across Europe and each week we are adding games in countries...

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WEEKEND WRAP: 7/17/2016 Sunday Features Goals by Boyd and Gall

A day off returns from injury, a full plate of Finland football and friendlies. Reported late last week that USMNT Terrence Boyd was back in training, well today he hit the fiels and a goal to announce his return. There are a few weeks to go till the start of the season and RB Leipzig will be happy to have Terrence back, I'm sure. Conor O'Brien is back in action for Horsens in Denmark's Superliga, he went 90 today, lets hope he stay's healthy. 3...

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WEEKEND WRAP: Saturday 7/16/2016 Features Goals and Friendlies

So it looks like we are almost back to normal. In Germany 2 of the lower divisions, Regionalliga (Bayern) and Oberliga (Bayern Nord) have now started. Friendlies fill the match schedule's as teams new acquisitions get to strut their stuff and hope to make the 1st eleven.  We had 3 club debut's all in Germany, Alasane Kane with Bayern Hoff, Mario Rodrigues with Chemnitzer and Oscar Ortiz with SC Feucht. Congrats guys. We have 6 goals (2 in...

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WEEKEND WRAP: 7/10/2016 Sunday - Features Goals and a Shut-out in Finland

So not a particularly busy day today, but we did get some action from our guys. 2 goals, an assist and a shut-out. The goals in Finland, as was the shut-out, the assist came in Norway. We have identified a couple of players in Australia's lower leagues that we will be following, today we give mention to Kene Eze who has been on fire scoring goals at will it seems. Anyway, To the List;   GK Daniel Schmidt and Yamaga move in to 2nd place...

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WEEKEND UPDATE: 7/9/2016 PLUS Europa Quals - GOALS GALORE (7) This Saturday

Catching up a bit with the Europa League Qualifiers, only 3 of our teams  made it through to the next round. A little bit of action on Friday and Today, which has seen 7 goals. Will Daniels back from injury and now back in form hits 2, as did Justin Kinjo in a friendly in Germany..Marc Heider in his first game for his new club hit one to. I added in Daniel Kuczynski's brace in Iceland although there is some question on whether the Cal State...

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MID-WEEK WRAP: 7/5/2016 Features Goals in Iceland, Europa League Action

Small post today but as we had a couple of goals I think its worth a few words. Martin Ontiveros making just his 2nd start (both in Europa League) for his new team features, along with 2 goals from Iceland, both in Division 2. To the list; Just one game of interest yesterday as Dion Acoff  (72) and Throttur were ousted from the Icelandic cup, with a 0 - 3 home loss by Pepsideild League leaders Hafnarfjordur, a bit of a mismatch for the team...

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WEEKEND WRAP: 1/2/3/July - Features Iceland, Finland and Sweden and Goalkeepers

Strange weekend, a few games, but no goals, instead we have 3 Shut-Outs. Goalkeepers weekend this. Scott Angevine gets his 2nd straight shut-out, Nathan Stokie and Craig Hill round out the three - Congrats to the American goalkeeper corp across the pond this week. Other than that we are really seeing the leagues shape up, with the bulk of teams/players we watch either vying for promotion or trying to avoid relegation. Still its still early in the...

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TRANSFERS: Americans on the Move - Silly Season - Updated Daily - The Comprehensive List - So Far

So its that time of year, silly season, when as a researcher I get headaches and itchy eyes. Today I went though about 7,000 soccer players (all nationalities) looking for Americans - of course being day one of the transfer window, all the players that had been declared as moving became official, so I have added everyone to the list. More than half we new about, these are the recognizable names (for most). There are no dual's on the list who have...

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