Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Some News for Wed Jul 22

STARTERS

The US National Players Assoc talks to Oguchi Onyewu on the day he is introduced by his new club AC Milan.

LAMAR HUNT US OPEN CUP

It's going to be DC United defending their US Open Cup crown against Seattle in the final.

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Semifinals Matches:
-Tue Jul 21
DC United 2-1 Rochester Rhinos - DCU goals by Jaime Moreno(PK) & Boyzzz Khumalo. RR goals by Tai Atieno.
Venue: Maryland Soccerplex - Boyds MD
Match report from USOpenCup.com
Seattle Sounders 2-1 Houston Dynamo - SSFC goals by Nate Jaqua & Stephen King. HD goal by Ade Akinbiyi.
Venue: Starfire Sports Complex - Tukwila WA
Match report from USOpenCup.com

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EJECTIONS:
Jhon Kennedy Hurtado - Seattle - Two Yellow Cards

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Final Match:
-Wed Sep 2
DC United v Seattle Sounders FC
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC

TEAM USA GOLD CUP

Up Next - Semifinal Match:
-Thu Jul 23
USA v Honduras
Venue: Soldier Field - Chicago IL

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US Soccer gives us the best news & notes previewing the match against Honduras.
-Like this one: "Nine different players have scored the ten U.S. goals"

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US Soccer gives us audio of a short interview with manager Bob Bradley.

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Yanks Abroad previews USA v Honduras III.

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The Sports Network with an article on Heath Pearce, where he's been and where is he headed next.

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USMNT Official Blog

CONCACAF GOLD CUP

Official Gold Cup Website

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Semifinal Matches:
-Thu Jul 23
USA v Honduras - 6pm of FSC
Mexico v Costa Rica - 9pm Central on FSC
Venue: Soldier Field - Chicago IL

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Final
-Sun Jul 26
2pm Central
Venue: Giants Stadium - East Rutherford NJ

MLS

MLS Week 19 Matches & Scores:
-Fri Jul 24
Real Salt Lake v FC Dallas - 9pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT

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Soccer America lists the up to date average attendance per team. Before you hit the link can you guess which 2 teams average over 20,000 per-game, and which 2 teams average under 10,000 per-game.

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Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch sees the Crew trying to figure out exactly how to manage playing time with big games in both the league and the CONCACAF Champions League ahead of them.

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The Kansas City Star talks to some Wizards players and our FIF Jeff Szajnuk (Cauldron member extraordinaire) about the circus coming to town this weekend.

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Andrew Dixon of the US National Soccer Players Assoc looks at American players who have gone to Europe, then come back to MLS and had success.

THE BEX MELTDOWN

Mark Zeigler of the San Diego Union Tribune sees the Bex debacle as a huge positive for soccer in America.

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Home Depot Center has banned the fan who jumped out of the stands to accept David Beckman's challenge to fight, for life.

MLS EXPANSION

The Vancouver Sun reports that Montreal expansion is on the agenda for next weeks MLS Owners meetings in Salt Lake City.

MLS SUMMER EXHIBITIONS

The Washington Post blog Soccer Insider talks to both DC United President Kevin Payne and Real Madrid honcho Emilio Butragueno about their clubs match next month.

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Matches & Scores:
-Wed Jul 22
Toronto FC v River Plate (Argentina)
Venue: BMO Field

WORLD FOOTBALL CHALLENGE

Some of the worlds biggest clubs come to America for preseason training and exhibition matches.

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Matches & Scores
-Sun Jul 19
Club America 1-1 Inter Milan - CA win it 5-4 on Penalties. CA goal by Juan Carlos Silva. IM goal by Ivan Cordoba.
-Tue Jul 21
Chelsea 2-0 Inter Milan - Chel goals by Didier Drogba & Frank Lampard(PK).
Venue: Rose Bowl - Pasadena CA
-Wed Jul 22
AC Milan v Club America
Venue: Georgia Dome - Atlanta GA

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The Atlanta Constitution Journal previews tonight’s Italian v Mexican matchup.

USL FIRST DIVISION

David Hayes of Portland has been awarded the USL First Division Player of the Week.

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And here is the USL First Division Team of the Week:
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Sdrjan Djekanovic - Montreal - One PK allowed in two games
D
David Hayes - Portland - Goal in 1-1 draw at Miami
Christian Arrieta - Puerto Rico - Goal in 1-0 win at Montreal
Troy Roberts - Cleveland - Led team in 0-0 draw against Charleston
John Ball - Rochester - Led team in 0-0 draw against Montreal
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Tony McManus - Portland - Led team in 3-0 win at Miami
Gregory Richardson - Carolina - Goal in 2-1 win over Vancouver
Johnny Menyongar - Rochester - Goal in 1-1 draw against Charleston
Keith Savage - Portland - Goal in 3-0 win at Miami
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Rod Dyachenko - Minnesota - Goal in 1-0 win over Austin
Randi Patterson - Charleston - Goal in 1-1 draw at Rochester

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Matches & Scores:
-Wed Jul 22
Montreal Impact v Cleveland City Stars
-Thu, July 23, 2009
Portland Timbers v Puerto Rico Islanders

PDL

The 4th level of soccer in America moves into their playoff season, and here are the matchups.

SOCCER IN AMERICA

Jo-Ann Barnas of the Detroit Free Press looks at the deal that brought England's Derby County into business with a club in Livonia Michigan. They won US Development Academy U16 championship last week, and they only see bigger and better things ahead. The article is a bit thin, so hopefully others in the blogosphere will pick this up and give us the full scoop.

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From an article in Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal on falling newspaper sports coverage: "The (Chicago) Tribune’s soccer writer left the sports department recently. (The editor) opted to cut the MLS beat and rely on the (sister paper) Los Angeles Times for coverage of both the U.S. and Mexico national teams,"

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Fred Robledo of the LA Daily News with an article on the man behind a Los Angeles club team that has joined forces with Chelsea of London and is seeing instant dividends.

USA U17 TEAM

The USA U17 team is in Brazil for the Copa Macae.

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Group Stage Matches:
-Sat Jul 18
USA 2-1 Flamengo - USA goals by Jack McInerney & Luis Gil.
-Sun Jul 19
USA 1-0 Artsul - USA goal by Jack McInerney.
-Tue Jul 21
USA 4-0 Cidade do Sol - details tba

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Quarterfinal Match:
-Thu Jul 23
USA v Caxias

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Semifinals on Jul 25 and Finals on Jul 26.

AMERICANS IN EUROPE

Long time reader HDP gives us some insight on the Landon Donovan to Livorno situation - it appears as though Donovan's agent is making the rounds "offering" his player, and Livorno were a club that were contacted.

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And Greg Seltzer at Soccer 365 gives us more info on Donovan, plus word that Livorno might be interested in Houston's Ricardo Clark too.

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Then Seltzer talks to Benny Feilhaber about getting off to a good start with his Danish club AGF Aarhus.

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DENMARK - Superliga season kicked off last weekend.
-Dan Califf - Midtjylland - started as always and played the full match in a scoreless home draw against Esbjerg.
-Benny Feilhaber - AGF - played the entire match, and set up the games only goal as they won 1-0 at home over AaB.
-Michael Parkhurst - Nordsjaelland - went the full 90 as they won 2-0 at home over Kobenhavn.
-Marcus Tracy - AaB - came on as a sub in the 79th minute of a 1-0 road loss at AGF.
-Jeremiah White - AGF - went the distance, picking up a Yellow Card, in a 1-0 home win over AaB.

ENGLAND

The Telegraph with an article on Sven Goren Eriksson becoming coach of the 86th best team in England.

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The Guardian with the story of four League Two (4th division) players who were found to be betting on a game in 2008 in which they played. Was the fix in?

ALL AROUND THE WORLD

The Wall Street Journal with an article on Pele and what his day to day life is like. Despite the world wide popularity he has never become rich. Why is that? (Thanks to WP for the heads up)
-They also give us a slideshow of some of his past business ventures.

ENDERS

KG loves the Chelsea! He & Drogba are pals! Here he is rockin' the blue at the Rose Bowl last night!

5 Comments:

Blogger Collin said...

I feel like KC being at 9K and change is misleading: there are only 10K+ seats available every game while we are stuck in the baseball stadium. And we've sold out several games this year. I'm not trying to completely excuse us, but the numbers don't tell the whole story in our situation.

4:46 PM  
Anonymous Doug said...

Pele was born too soon. He has 10 times the talent of Beckman and a terrific personality. Today Pele would be making so much money he would never be able to spend it all. On another topic, I loved the Traveling Fan's Guide to Mexico City.

8:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Before you hit the link can you guess which 2 teams average over 20,000 per-game, and which 2 teams average under 10,000 per-game."

Hey, I got it right, but then again it wasn't really a very hard question was it.

11:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I totally thought the second team along with Dallas was gonna be San Jose.

smatthew

8:59 AM  
Blogger digchros said...

Beyond all of the bad, one of the good notes that jumped out at me with attendance is Chivas USA. Are they finally starting to take a little more hold in LA?

And while many of those are pretty bad numbers, I think Chicago's 12,000 with a top team and two superstars might be the worst.

3:21 PM  

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