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...million offer from Real Madrid for fleet-footed winger Cristiano Ronaldo. The deal, which United expects to tie up before the end of the month, would smash a world transfer record set earlier this week when the same Spanish club lavished $92 million on AC Milan's midfield megastar...
...competition and giving it your all, and I think we did that this season.” Over the course of the 2008 campaign, the Crimson had its share of triumphs. Harvard won its opening game, 1-0, against Holy Cross on a second-half goal from sophomore midfielder Chloe Keating. The Crimson dropped its next three games, including a heartbreaker against UMass. Trailing the Minutewomen, 2-1, in the closing minutes, sophomore forward Leigh McCoy stole the ball and blasted a shot into the goal to force overtime. Although Harvard survived the first overtime, it fell in the second...
...country in goals per game (13.86) and has junior attack Ryan Hurley, the nation’s leading scorer with 3.67 goals per game. While Harvard will have to watch out for the offensive prowess of Hurley, who scored five goals against Penn last week, and senior midfielder Max Seibald, the Big Red will have their hands full with the Crimson’s defense. Considered one of the best defenses in the country, the team of Gottschall, junior Ben Smith, senior Eric Posner, and senior goalie Joe Pike has yet to give up more than eight goals...
...statistics present a telling tale of the tape, as Harvard went 10-21 on clears and was outshot by the hosts, 19-35. “We didn’t take quality opportunities on offense, and we weren’t able to get the ball through the midfield to have that many opportunities on offense,” Martin said. The Crimson returns to action 4 p.m. Wednesday at Connecticut in a nonleague matchup. —Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu...
...Florida will have better conditions for us to play the way we want to play,” Akpan said.Akpan and co-captain Michael Fucito lead the attack and have scored 19 goals between the two of them this season. With senior John Stamatis playing the creative midfield role in the hole behind them, and with sophomore Alex Chi and junior Adam Rousmaniere on the flanks, Harvard likes to move quickly up the field off the counter-attack. The warmer temperature in Tampa should allow the Crimson to play the ball to feet and use their skill to do what...