Some News for Fri Oct 9, 2009
STARTERS
The last time the USA was in Honduras was late March of 2001. And while many things in American soccer have changed in just 8 years, others have stayed remarkably the same. The game that night was only shown in America via Pay Per View. (Sound familiar?) So, via the glory of Big Soccer, 8 of us lost souls met up in a basement in St Paul. None of us knew each other, but 1 person turned out to be none other than Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated (who wrote about that evening). For me the greatness of that night is today I am still in contact with all but 1 of those people, and 3 of them are regular travel partners of mine all around the world. In retrospect it was the best soccer night of my life. Let's hope that this weekends game on Closed Circuit from Honduras will create even more of those same type of great friendships!
TEAM USA
Damn I wish Clint Dempsey was healthy. I don't know what it is about that guy. My feelings for him are so love/hate its incredible. He can look miserable for 87 minutes and then pull something out of thin air like no one else. Pure ugly magic.
dN
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America brings us up to date on Honduras.
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Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated on the crazy notion that such a huge game for the USA will be seen by so few of even the die hards.
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Wahl previews the huge match.
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Kristian Dyer at ESPN Soccernet takes us back to 2001 qualifying in Honduras and talks to Clint Mathis and others about that magical moment. Plus a Q & A with Landon Donovan, and other notes.
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Noah Davis from Goal.com is in Honduras and gives us the mood of the people.
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US Soccer gives us a scenario generator to track every possibility in CONCACAF qualifying.
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Official Team Blog
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The AP talks to US Soccer pres Sunil Gulati who says that the USA can win the World Cup. Gulati and Dave Denholm seeing eye-to-eye, now that is scary. Via USA Today.
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ESPN Soccernet also gives us an article by Dutchman Leander Schaerlaeckens, who says that what the USA really needs is Jermaine Jones, the Schalke midfielder with an American father who once played a couple of time for Germany and now wants to switch allegiances. I am baffled by this theory from Schaerlaeckens though. This article says Jones is a big answer for a hole on this team. How can you answer that without Jones ever even training with the team. Not to mention the fact that Jones has been out for over 6 months now with a badly broken leg that is requiring a 2nd surgery. And just last month Schaerlaeckens wrote an article saying American fans are too giddy about qualifying and thinking our team is a lot better than it is. What planet does he live on? Almost every USA fan I know has been fairly pissed off by our teams performances, not overjoyed. Where is he getting his info? And how can a journalist make these big proclamations on such a questionable player like Jones? What are the qualification of this guy doing the writing anyway? (Yes I know he used to write about the Dutch league for the Guardian.)
CONCACAF WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Standings after 8 of 10 rounds:
16 USA
15 Mexico
13 Honduras
12 Costa Rica
8 El Salvador
5 Trinidad & Tobago
dN
Matchday 9
-Sat Oct 10
Costa Rica v Trinidad & Tobago
Mexico v El Salvador
Honduras v USA
Matchday 10
-Wed Oct 14
USA v Costa Rica
Trinidad & Tobago v Mexico
El Salvador v Honduras
USL FIRST DIVISION PLAYOFFS
Final
1st Leg
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Vancouver v Montreal
2nd Leg
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 17
Montreal v Vancouver
MLS
Official Web Site
dN
Week 30
Matches & Scores
-Wed Oct 7
San Jose Earthquakes 1-2 FC Dallas - SJE goal by Quincy Amarikwa. FCD goals by David Ferreria & Jeff Cunningham.
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
Attendance: 9,023
-Sat Oct 10
Toronto FC v San Jose Earthquakes - 3pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: BMO Field - Toronto ON
New England Revolution v Columbus Crew - 6:30pm Central on FSC & FSE
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Chivas USA v Kansas City Wizards - 9:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
dN
Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports talks to Landon Donovan about his private life and how it affects him on the field.
dN
DC United has acquired Portland Timbers goalkeeper Steve Cronin on loan.
MLS NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
1 Fredy Montero - Seattle
2 Kasey Keller - Seattle
3 Donovan Ricketts - Los Angeles
4 David Ferriera - Dallas
5 Freddie Ljungberg - Seattle
6 Eric Brunner - Columbus
7 Jhon Kennedy Hurtado - Seattle
8 Emmanuel Osei - New England
UEFA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Jonathan Wilson of the Guardian on Guus Hiddink, his team from Russia and how they plan to beat Germany.
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The Guardian on Ireland and their Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni.
dN
Soccer America previews 4 of the biggest games in Europe.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Finland V Wales
Luxembourg v Switzerland
Belarus v Kazakhstan
Russia v Germany
Estonia v Bosnia-Herzegovina
Montenegro v Georgia
Ukraine v England
Denmark v Sweden
Liechtenstein v Azerbaijan
Ireland v Italy
Cyprus v Bulgaria
Czech Republic v Poland
Slovakia v Slovenia
Serbia v Romania
Austria v Lithuania
Portugal v Hungary
Belgium v Turkey
Israel v Moldova
Armenia v Spain
France v Faroe Islands
Greece v Latvia
-Wed Oct 14
Andorra v Ukraine
Germany v Finland
Ireland v Montenegro
Portugal v Malta
Switzerland v Israel
Liechtenstein v Wales
Bosnia-Herzegovina v Spain
England v Belarus
France v Austria
Italy v Cyprus
Czech Republic v Northern Ireland
Poland v Slovakia
Slovakia v Slovenia
Denmark v Hungary
Sweden v Albania
Latvia v Moldova
Greece v Luxembourg
Azerbaijan v Russia
Turkey v Armenia
Lithuania v Serbia
Romania v Faroe Islands
Bulgaria v Georgia
Estonia v Belgium
Kazakhstan v Croatia
dN
Standings
CONMEBOL WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
The Guardian on Diego Maradona's misery as top man for Argentina.
dN
Top 4 advance to World Cup. #5 in a playoff with #4 from CONCACAF.
dN
Matchday 17
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Colombia v Chile
Ecuador v Uruguay
Venezuela v Paraguay
Argentina v Peru
Bolivia v Brazil
Matchday 18
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Oct 14
Peru v Bolivia
Paraguay v Colombia
Brazil v Venezuela
Chile v Ecuador
Uruguay v Argentina
dN
Standings
ASIA/OCEANIA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
The winner of this two legged affair goes to the big dance.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Bahrain v New Zealand
-Sat Nov 14
New Zealand v Bahrain
AFRICA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Zambia v Egypt
Malawi v Cote d'Ivoire
Cameroon v Togo
Gabon v Morocco
-Sun Oct 11
Benin v Ghana
Nigeria v Mozambique
Tunisia v Kenya
Guinea v Burkina Faso
Mali v Sudan
Algeria v Rwanda
dN
Standings
U20 WORLD CUP EGYPT 2009
FIFA.com's tournament news feed.
dN
In the Quarterfinals, Ghana is the first team to advance.
dN
Match schedule
dN
See all the games live on ESPN2, ESPN Classic or ESPN360.com.
dN
Quarterfinals
-Fri Oct 9
South Korea 2-3 Ghana - SK goals by Park Hee Seong & Kim Dong Sub. Gha goals by Dominic Adiyiah & Ransford Osei.
Italy v Hungaria
-Sat Oct 10
Brazil v Germany
Costa Rica v UAE
Semifinals
-Tue Oct 13
Ghana v Italy/Hungaria winner
Brazil/Germany winner v Costa Rica/UAE winner
Final
-Fri Oct 16
Semifinal winners
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
The business of running football all over the world has taken center stage in London this week at the Leaders In Football conference. Read all about it here.
ENDERS
Video of one of the worlds great dribblers doing his thing - John Farnworth. I am not the hugest fan of this stuff, but I know some of you love it, so here you go. Thanks to mpwasek for sending it our way.
The last time the USA was in Honduras was late March of 2001. And while many things in American soccer have changed in just 8 years, others have stayed remarkably the same. The game that night was only shown in America via Pay Per View. (Sound familiar?) So, via the glory of Big Soccer, 8 of us lost souls met up in a basement in St Paul. None of us knew each other, but 1 person turned out to be none other than Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated (who wrote about that evening). For me the greatness of that night is today I am still in contact with all but 1 of those people, and 3 of them are regular travel partners of mine all around the world. In retrospect it was the best soccer night of my life. Let's hope that this weekends game on Closed Circuit from Honduras will create even more of those same type of great friendships!
TEAM USA
Damn I wish Clint Dempsey was healthy. I don't know what it is about that guy. My feelings for him are so love/hate its incredible. He can look miserable for 87 minutes and then pull something out of thin air like no one else. Pure ugly magic.
dN
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America brings us up to date on Honduras.
dN
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated on the crazy notion that such a huge game for the USA will be seen by so few of even the die hards.
dN
Wahl previews the huge match.
dN
Kristian Dyer at ESPN Soccernet takes us back to 2001 qualifying in Honduras and talks to Clint Mathis and others about that magical moment. Plus a Q & A with Landon Donovan, and other notes.
dN
Noah Davis from Goal.com is in Honduras and gives us the mood of the people.
dN
US Soccer gives us a scenario generator to track every possibility in CONCACAF qualifying.
dN
Official Team Blog
dN
The AP talks to US Soccer pres Sunil Gulati who says that the USA can win the World Cup. Gulati and Dave Denholm seeing eye-to-eye, now that is scary. Via USA Today.
dN
ESPN Soccernet also gives us an article by Dutchman Leander Schaerlaeckens, who says that what the USA really needs is Jermaine Jones, the Schalke midfielder with an American father who once played a couple of time for Germany and now wants to switch allegiances. I am baffled by this theory from Schaerlaeckens though. This article says Jones is a big answer for a hole on this team. How can you answer that without Jones ever even training with the team. Not to mention the fact that Jones has been out for over 6 months now with a badly broken leg that is requiring a 2nd surgery. And just last month Schaerlaeckens wrote an article saying American fans are too giddy about qualifying and thinking our team is a lot better than it is. What planet does he live on? Almost every USA fan I know has been fairly pissed off by our teams performances, not overjoyed. Where is he getting his info? And how can a journalist make these big proclamations on such a questionable player like Jones? What are the qualification of this guy doing the writing anyway? (Yes I know he used to write about the Dutch league for the Guardian.)
CONCACAF WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Standings after 8 of 10 rounds:
16 USA
15 Mexico
13 Honduras
12 Costa Rica
8 El Salvador
5 Trinidad & Tobago
dN
Matchday 9
-Sat Oct 10
Costa Rica v Trinidad & Tobago
Mexico v El Salvador
Honduras v USA
Matchday 10
-Wed Oct 14
USA v Costa Rica
Trinidad & Tobago v Mexico
El Salvador v Honduras
USL FIRST DIVISION PLAYOFFS
Final
1st Leg
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Vancouver v Montreal
2nd Leg
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 17
Montreal v Vancouver
MLS
Official Web Site
dN
Week 30
Matches & Scores
-Wed Oct 7
San Jose Earthquakes 1-2 FC Dallas - SJE goal by Quincy Amarikwa. FCD goals by David Ferreria & Jeff Cunningham.
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
Attendance: 9,023
-Sat Oct 10
Toronto FC v San Jose Earthquakes - 3pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: BMO Field - Toronto ON
New England Revolution v Columbus Crew - 6:30pm Central on FSC & FSE
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Chivas USA v Kansas City Wizards - 9:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
dN
Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports talks to Landon Donovan about his private life and how it affects him on the field.
dN
DC United has acquired Portland Timbers goalkeeper Steve Cronin on loan.
MLS NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
1 Fredy Montero - Seattle
2 Kasey Keller - Seattle
3 Donovan Ricketts - Los Angeles
4 David Ferriera - Dallas
5 Freddie Ljungberg - Seattle
6 Eric Brunner - Columbus
7 Jhon Kennedy Hurtado - Seattle
8 Emmanuel Osei - New England
UEFA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Jonathan Wilson of the Guardian on Guus Hiddink, his team from Russia and how they plan to beat Germany.
dN
The Guardian on Ireland and their Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni.
dN
Soccer America previews 4 of the biggest games in Europe.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Finland V Wales
Luxembourg v Switzerland
Belarus v Kazakhstan
Russia v Germany
Estonia v Bosnia-Herzegovina
Montenegro v Georgia
Ukraine v England
Denmark v Sweden
Liechtenstein v Azerbaijan
Ireland v Italy
Cyprus v Bulgaria
Czech Republic v Poland
Slovakia v Slovenia
Serbia v Romania
Austria v Lithuania
Portugal v Hungary
Belgium v Turkey
Israel v Moldova
Armenia v Spain
France v Faroe Islands
Greece v Latvia
-Wed Oct 14
Andorra v Ukraine
Germany v Finland
Ireland v Montenegro
Portugal v Malta
Switzerland v Israel
Liechtenstein v Wales
Bosnia-Herzegovina v Spain
England v Belarus
France v Austria
Italy v Cyprus
Czech Republic v Northern Ireland
Poland v Slovakia
Slovakia v Slovenia
Denmark v Hungary
Sweden v Albania
Latvia v Moldova
Greece v Luxembourg
Azerbaijan v Russia
Turkey v Armenia
Lithuania v Serbia
Romania v Faroe Islands
Bulgaria v Georgia
Estonia v Belgium
Kazakhstan v Croatia
dN
Standings
CONMEBOL WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
The Guardian on Diego Maradona's misery as top man for Argentina.
dN
Top 4 advance to World Cup. #5 in a playoff with #4 from CONCACAF.
dN
Matchday 17
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Colombia v Chile
Ecuador v Uruguay
Venezuela v Paraguay
Argentina v Peru
Bolivia v Brazil
Matchday 18
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Oct 14
Peru v Bolivia
Paraguay v Colombia
Brazil v Venezuela
Chile v Ecuador
Uruguay v Argentina
dN
Standings
ASIA/OCEANIA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
The winner of this two legged affair goes to the big dance.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Bahrain v New Zealand
-Sat Nov 14
New Zealand v Bahrain
AFRICA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 10
Zambia v Egypt
Malawi v Cote d'Ivoire
Cameroon v Togo
Gabon v Morocco
-Sun Oct 11
Benin v Ghana
Nigeria v Mozambique
Tunisia v Kenya
Guinea v Burkina Faso
Mali v Sudan
Algeria v Rwanda
dN
Standings
U20 WORLD CUP EGYPT 2009
FIFA.com's tournament news feed.
dN
In the Quarterfinals, Ghana is the first team to advance.
dN
Match schedule
dN
See all the games live on ESPN2, ESPN Classic or ESPN360.com.
dN
Quarterfinals
-Fri Oct 9
South Korea 2-3 Ghana - SK goals by Park Hee Seong & Kim Dong Sub. Gha goals by Dominic Adiyiah & Ransford Osei.
Italy v Hungaria
-Sat Oct 10
Brazil v Germany
Costa Rica v UAE
Semifinals
-Tue Oct 13
Ghana v Italy/Hungaria winner
Brazil/Germany winner v Costa Rica/UAE winner
Final
-Fri Oct 16
Semifinal winners
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
The business of running football all over the world has taken center stage in London this week at the Leaders In Football conference. Read all about it here.
ENDERS
Video of one of the worlds great dribblers doing his thing - John Farnworth. I am not the hugest fan of this stuff, but I know some of you love it, so here you go. Thanks to mpwasek for sending it our way.
posted by brucio at 15:40
3 Comments:
That article by Wahl is fantastic. I would venture that 80-90% of the people I know in soccer could relate to that night, and how the game brings people together.
Kevin A.--
I would love to be able to watch the game tonight. I also wouldn't want to be Grant Wahl right now.
http://theoriginalwinger.com/2009-10-10-sis-grant-wahl-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-honduras#more-21545
all canadian final? woo!
go impact! 3-2 yea woo!
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