SOCCER: GALAXY BEGIN WITHOUT 'PANDO'.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The Galaxy opened its preseason training camp this week without Guillermo ``Pando'' Ramirez, the hero of its MLS Cup The MLS Cup is the final game of the Major League Soccer postseason, officially recognized as the championship of the league. The trophy is called the Alan I. Rothenberg Trophy, after the founding chairman of MLS. 2005 triumph last November. The Guatemalan midfielder, who played for the Galaxy last season on loan from Municipal, scored in overtime to give L.A. a 1-0 triumph over New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. and its second Major League Soccer championship. The Galaxy chose not to retain Ramirez after a disappointing season, in which he scored once with one assist in 24 games. ``The bottom line is as thankful as we are that he scored the goal in the final, we have to take a look at the entire season,'' Galaxy coach Steve Sampson Steve Sampson (born January 19, 1957 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a soccer coach and the former head coach of the United States men's national team and the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. said following the team's first on-field workout Wednesday. ``We just did not get the goal-scoring production we anticipated and expected from him.'' Costa Rican defender Michael Umana also was released. --Mexico tops Norway: Luis Perez's 88th-minute goal lifted Mexico to a 2-1 victory over Norway at Monster Park San Francisco 49ers • • in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The Tricolores, beginning preparations for the World Cup, rallied from an early deficit. --U.S., Canada qualify: USC's Amy Rodriguez scored for the third successive game and Brittany Bock added two goals as the U.S. dominated host Mexico 3-0 to qualify for next summer's FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship The FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship is a world championship football tournament, organized by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), for national teams of women under age 20. The tournament is held in even-numbered years. in Russia. --Elsewhere: Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o scored his fourth goal in two games as Cameroon topped Togo 2-0 in Cairo, Egypt, to advance to the African Nations Cup quarterfinals. Angola and Congo tied 0-0 in the other Group B game. ... Omar Bravo scored two goals as Guadalajara beat host Colo Colo of Chile 3-1 in the first leg of a Copa Libertadores first-round series. |
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