The Endline

And let every Sounders supporter breath a sigh of relief.

Alvaro Negredo scores 2 to put Sevilla back in a Champions League place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWplJ9Y4m3M

Rooney nets his 100th Premiership goal of his career. Nani summons the spirit of Cristiano Ronaldo. It never fails, United always seem to hit their stride right about this time of year. Loving this season’s title race.

Assist from debutant Freddy Adu, goal by Eddie Johnson. Nice to see the Yanks connecting, hopefully we see more of this with a win.

Week one of the pre-season is in the books for MLS and a few teams have posted videos of their camp ,while others are using the time to advertise. Defending MLS Cup champions, Real Salt Lake have dropped this video to spur season tickets sales:

Meanwhile, the Western Conference champions, LA Galaxy have been hard at work.

To avoid the cold of the Northeast, the New York Red Bulls have headed to Spain.

Chivas USA experienced their first week under new coach Martin Vasquez.

Plus, they held tryouts for the ChivaGirls.

The US Open Cup …

Luis Garcia with the game winner and the needed victory.

Real Madrid keeping pace with Barcelona. Karim Benzema pulls a double, one of which was a great back heel from Guti.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv6slpNtYT4

Pedro Rodgriguez scored the lone goal to extend Barcelona’s unbeaten streak to 20 games. Barcelona sit 5pts clear at the top of La Liga standings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxfzu0HdSnE

Via BBC Sport
Togo have been banned from the next two Africa Cup of Nations following their withdrawal from this year’s tournament.
The Confederation of African football (Caf) also fined the Hawks $50,000 for quitting the competition in the wake of a gun attack on the team bus in Angola.
Two members of their delegation and a coach driver were killed in the ambush, which occurred two days before the start of the tournament.
World football governing body Fifa declined to comment on the ban.
However, a statement from CAF read: “The executive …

Bayern go top of the Bundesliga