Friday, August 03, 2007

Through The Kitchen News

The greatest minds from Germany & Greece battle it out on the pitch. From Monty Python's brilliance, posted by the Guardian from YouTube, nicked by my friend Nick, and then stolen by me for all of you here in the land of the The North. (video)


MLS
Matches & scores this week:
-Thu Aug 3
New England 2-0 Kansas City - Goals by Pat Noonan & Adam Cristman.
-Sat Aug 4
Chicago v Columbus - 7:30pm central on HDNet
Dallas v Colorado - 7:30pm central on FSC & FSE
Salt Lake v Houston - 8pm central on Direct Kick
-Sun Aug 5
New England v DC - 3pm central on Direct Kick
Toronto v LA - 6:30pm central on Direct Kick & CBC
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Andrea Canales at Soccernet says Beckman will travel with LA to Toronto. But I can't imagine him playing. So why is he traveling? To save some face for the team and league right now.
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A few months back the other owners in MLS prevented Dave Checketts from buying GolTV, because they felt it would be a conflict of interest, it looks like his company SCP will still be in the world football broadcasting business in some ways. They are teaming up with GolTV to bring us all the South American World Cup Qualifiers in a joint marketing set up. I am wondering if MLS will make him pull out of this deal too, and if so what Checketts might do then. I am sure he will not take it lying down.
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USL First Division
Matches & scores this week:
-Thu Aug 2
Vancouver 1-1 Puerto Rico
-Fri Aug 3
Carolina v California
-Sat Aug 4
Atlanta v Charleston
Minnesota v Portland
Seattle v Puerto Rico
-Sun Aug 5
Montreal v Rochester
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USL 1D Standings:
37 Portland
35 Seattle
31 Montreal
30 Puerto Rico
30 Rochester
29 Vancouver
27 Miami
26 Charleston
26 Atlanta
19 Carolina
19 California
15 Minnesota
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Brad Friedel's Premier Soccer Academies in Ohio this week welcomed the first full time residency student/players who will begin training and school immediately. Amazing looking place. I think you will be blown away.
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Yanks Abroad talks to American forward Charlie Davies about his first season at Hammarby in Stockholm Sweden.
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Word around town says USA U20 right full back Tony Beltran in on trial at Kaiserslautern in Germany.
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FMF Primera
The Mexican Apertura kicks off today. Here's this weekends games:
-Fri Aug 3
UAG v Pachuca
-Sat Aug 4
UANL v San Luis
Morelia v Veracruz
Atlas v Toluca
Chiapas v Atlante
-Sun Aug 5
UNAM v Guadalajara
Necaxa v Monterrey
Santos Laguna v Cruz Azul
Puebla v America
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While watching the SuperLiga on Wed night I noticed that Pachuca's giant centerback Mosquera was not playing. I assumed he must have gotten too many yellow cards. But Luis Bueno at Sideline Views informs us that he has signed with Sevilla in Spain. Great move for him, terrible for Pachuca. He is a monster.
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And the French Ligue 1 begins on Saturday. Here's those matches:
-Sat Aug 4
Strasbourg v Marseille
Bordeaux v Lens
Caen v Nice
Lille v Lorient
Monaco v Saint Etienne
Paris SG v Sochaux
Rennes v Nancy
Valenciennes v Toulouse
-Sun Aug 5
Le Mans v Metz
Lyon v Auxerre
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Again, here are the official start dates of the other 5 big leagues in Europe:
Bundesliga - Aug 10
Premiership - Aug 11
Eredivisie - Aug 17
La Liga - Aug 26
Serie A - Aug 26
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Milan just paid a ton of money to Internacional for their Brazilian kid Alexander Pato. A ton of money.
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The Gaffer at EPL Talk with a new podcast featuring news of Setanta being available soon to Dish Network users. There is also a big banner announcing it on the Setanta site, and a free preview from Aug 1 to Sep 9 on channels 284 & 406 for current users, like myself.

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