JOHANNESBURG Landon Donovan remembers the first time he played the Brazilians, when his under-23 team trudged off the field, victims of a 7-0 thrashing.

Several youth soccer players from central Arkansas participated Monday and Tuesday in instruction as part of the American Youth Soccer Association's Soccer Kicks Tour.

LOS ANGELES -- The three-week joy ride to the World Cup title isn't over for the U.S. women's team. The celebrations have just begun.

... least, there were no takers. "We caught lightning in a bottle," Hank Steinbrecher, general secretary of the U.S. Soccer Federation, said Sunday. Steinbrecher spoke just minutes before Chastain and her teammates swept past during a parade ...

First the Victory Tour, now the Great Soccer Exhibition Tour for the U.S. women's World Cup champions.

In a year marked by superstar retirements, courageous comebacks, tragedies and triumphs, a team of 20 women in a sport that doesn't get much attention in America stole the spotlight.

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton is seeking $27 million to help close the earnings gap between men and women and beef up enforcement of equal-pay laws.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The young autograph seeker stood at the edge of the practice field, pen in one hand, soccer ball in the other.

Julius Erving pleaded for help in finding his 19-year-old son, who has a history of drug problems and has been missing since May 28.

SUWON, South Korea -- Wake up, America! The U.S. soccer team can beat the big boys at the World Cup.