Four Sonoma Valley Youth Soccer Association select Division 3 teams are primed and ready to compete in this weekend’s California Youth Soccer Association’s Northern California Association Cup tournaments taking place at various locations.

Monday’s high school soccer results:

Sophomore Linzi Martin scored two goals to help No. 2 Boca Raton beat No. 3 Wellington 4-0 in a girls soccer match Monday. Martin scored midway through the first half and scored again early in the second half. Allie Holly and Alex Major also added goals for the Bobcats (14-4-1).

On the soccer field, Karl Rumph has made a name for himself as a talented player with a bright future, but his maturity, dedication and focus have had as much to do with his success as his skills.

Hoping to battle antigay sentiment in the world’s most popular sport, the governing body of British soccer has agreed to fund a video featuring high-profile players blasting homophobia.

Australia is slowly closing the gap on the elite teams in women’s soccer and their players were in high demand at the Women’s Professional Soccer International Draft last fall.

ON SOCCER Australia is slowly closing the gap on the elite teams in women’s soccer and their players were in high demand at the Women’s Professional Soccer International Draft last fall. Two of those players will be playing in New…

Former Italy defender Antonio Cabrini is not the first retired soccer player to write a book and he will not be the last.

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to shed some of my soccer geekiness. No more whole Saturdays spent watching the English Premier League in the morning, Spain’s La Liga in the afternoon, MLS at night. No more work e-mails ignored in favor of reading the du Nord blog. No more surfing YouTube for videos of goals interred in my memory.

OTTAWA - Russell Teibert and Monica Lam-Feist have earned the Canadian Soccer Association’s under-17 player of the year awards for 2008.