At the start of the season, it looked like Becky Patton might be poised for a breakout year at Collegiate. A school-record 35 goals later, it’s no speculation. Patton dominated against all competition, public and private, and is the Times-Dispatch girls soccer player of the year.

Next week's first-leg match in the finals of the Copa Libertadores will go ahead in Argentina despite a swine flu outbreak that is blamed in the deaths of at least 44 people in the country. CONMEBOL, the governing body of South American soccer, said on Friday the match between Argentine club Estudiantes and Brazilian club Cruzeiro would be played in La Plata on Wednesday.

Former Blackburn Rovers manager Paul Ince has rejoined Milton Keynes Dons, the English League One (third division) side said on Friday.

Cost remains an obstacle to fuller participation in soccer by young Hispanics and African-Americans, but support is beginning to grow in some communities.

Texas Woman’s University soccer team announced its 2009 schedule, which will feature six non-conference games, including three against Division I opponents, and 10 Lone Star Conference games.

Soccer Donovan criticizes Beckham in book: David Beckham has become a bad teammate on the Los Angeles Galaxy, according to Landon Donovan…