Some News for Tue Oct 13, 2009
TERRIBLE NEWS
USA forward Charlie Davies was a passenger in a car that was involved in a terrible accident in suburban DC. The car was torn in half and one of three passengers was killed. The other two (Davies and another) are in need of surgery. No word on the severity yet, but initial word is that they sustained serious injuries.
I am heading to DC in a little while now, and most likely will not update this today. But my friend Graham Fox will be posting on Wednesday and Thursday, so he will get us all the details.
Let's everyone have a good thought for Charlie and the others involved at this sad time.
STARTERS
Team USA will travel to Denmark for a friendly on Wed Nov 18. Seeing as Sat Nov 14 is also an international date, do we see our team playing on that day as well?
-Denmark's best known players are probably Daniel Agger, Dennis Rommedahl, Jon Dahl Tomasson & Nicklas Bendtner.
dN
Many of us have wondered what's come from this partnership MLS formed with the German Bundesliga a few years back? I discovered this note from Germany today and reading between the lines you find something going from MLS to Germany: "The Bundesliga's commercial arm, DFL Sports Enterprises, celebrated its first year of existence". Ah, their own version of MLS's marketing company SUM. And what did this marketing arm do for the Bundesliga in its first year? Only increased their TV rights fees from 18 Billion Euros to 36 Billion Euros. Incredible. And don't ever believe it when MLS owners tell you they are not making money. Sure the clubs might be in the red on paper, but the overall picture is very very healthy, mostly thanks to SUM.
TEAM USA
Nick Green of the Daily Breeze with post game analysis of USA at Honduras, and a look ahead to the real tournament.
dN
The team has been training in Washington DC, and young DC United goalkeeper Bill Hamid got to train with them on Sunday and Monday. How huge is that for a kid!
-US Soccer has a short Q & A with him.
dN
Video of USA players talking about the Costa Rica game, from US Soccer.
dN
Official Team Blog
CONCACAF WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Standings after 8 of 10 rounds:
IN - 19 USA
IN - 18 Mexico
15 Costa Rica
- - - - -
13 Honduras
- - - - -
OUT - 8 El Salvador
OUT - 5 Trinidad & Tobago
dN
Matchday 10
-Wed Oct 14
USA v Costa Rica
Trinidad & Tobago v Mexico
El Salvador v Honduras
MLS
Official Web Site
dN
Week 31
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Oct 14
Real Salt Lake v New York Red Bulls - 9pm Central on ESPN2 & ESPN Deportes
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
-Sat Oct 17
Toronto FC v Real Salt Lake - 3pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: BMO Field - Toronto ON
New England Revolution v Chicago Fire - 5pm Central on FSC & FSE
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
DC United v Columbus Crew - 7pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
FC Dallas v Colorado Rapids - 7:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frisco TX
Kansas City Wizards v Seattle Sounders FC - 7:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Community America Ballpark - Kansas City KS
Chivas USA v San Jose Earthquakes - 9:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
-Sun Oct 18
Houston Dynamo v Los Angeles Galaxy - 2pm Central on Telefutura
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
dN
Injured forward Taylor Twellman will make his debut on radio this weekend during the New England broadcast.
dN
It looks more and more likely that Beckman is headed back to Milan during the offseason. But then again, where this guy is concerned all bets are off.
dN
Don Ruiz of The Olympian says Seattle can clinch a playoff birth with a win this weekend, no matter what any other team does. That would be pretty huge for a 1st year team.
dN
Paul James of the Toronto Globe & Mail looks at TFC's nearly certain move for a new head coach. He comes up with a pretty sensible list of 10, knowing that some of them are out of the question.
dN
Frank Giase of the Newark Star Ledger tries to figure out just what it was that doomed the Red Bulls season.
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Yanks Abroad talks to Alexi Lalas about all things USA soccer related.
USA U17 TEAM
The U17 World Cup in Nigeria starts on Oct 24.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Freddy Adu started for the first time for his team Belenenses. Unfortunately he was subbed off at halftime with an ankle injury.
dN
Game Action: (only those that played are listed)
PORTUGAL -
Freddy Adu - Belenenses - started and went 45 minutes but they lost 0-1 at home to Nacional Madeira. The loss leaves them 3rd from the bottom.
ENGLAND
Salomon Kalou has signed a new 3 years contract extension at Chelsea.
EUROPE
The Guardian gives us an in-depth look at the high flying and very successful Denmark national teams of the mid-80's.
UEFA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Matches & Scores:
-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
ARGENTINA
Tim Vickery of the BBC looks at the wild qualifying ride Argentina is in.
CONMEBOL WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Top 4 advance to World Cup. #5 goes into a home and away playoff with #4 from CONCACAF.
Brazil, Paraguay and Chile have 3 of those spots, while Argentina, Uruguay and Ecuador have one match left to sort out the other 2 spots between them.
dN
Matchday 18
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Oct 14
Peru v Bolivia
Paraguay v Colombia
Brazil v Venezuela
Chile v Ecuador
Uruguay v Argentina
dN
Standings
U20 WORLD CUP EGYPT 2009
FIFA.com's tournament news feed.
dN
In the Semifinals, Ghana and Hungaria exchange 3 goals near the end of regulation as the Africans survive, and gloriously head to the championship game.
dN
Match schedule
dN
See all the games live on ESPN2, ESPN Classic or ESPN360.com.
dN
Semifinals
-Tue Oct 13
Ghana 3-2 Hungaria - Gha goals by Dominic Adiyiah(2) & Abeiku Quansah. Hun goals by Marco Futacs & Adam Balajti.
Brazil v Costa Rica
dN
Final
-Fri Oct 16
Ghana v ???
WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
The BBC looks at the big day of World Cup qualifiers on Wednesday.
ENDERS
I hope to see you in DC. Please come and say hi to me.
USA forward Charlie Davies was a passenger in a car that was involved in a terrible accident in suburban DC. The car was torn in half and one of three passengers was killed. The other two (Davies and another) are in need of surgery. No word on the severity yet, but initial word is that they sustained serious injuries.
I am heading to DC in a little while now, and most likely will not update this today. But my friend Graham Fox will be posting on Wednesday and Thursday, so he will get us all the details.
Let's everyone have a good thought for Charlie and the others involved at this sad time.
STARTERS
Team USA will travel to Denmark for a friendly on Wed Nov 18. Seeing as Sat Nov 14 is also an international date, do we see our team playing on that day as well?
-Denmark's best known players are probably Daniel Agger, Dennis Rommedahl, Jon Dahl Tomasson & Nicklas Bendtner.
dN
Many of us have wondered what's come from this partnership MLS formed with the German Bundesliga a few years back? I discovered this note from Germany today and reading between the lines you find something going from MLS to Germany: "The Bundesliga's commercial arm, DFL Sports Enterprises, celebrated its first year of existence". Ah, their own version of MLS's marketing company SUM. And what did this marketing arm do for the Bundesliga in its first year? Only increased their TV rights fees from 18 Billion Euros to 36 Billion Euros. Incredible. And don't ever believe it when MLS owners tell you they are not making money. Sure the clubs might be in the red on paper, but the overall picture is very very healthy, mostly thanks to SUM.
TEAM USA
Nick Green of the Daily Breeze with post game analysis of USA at Honduras, and a look ahead to the real tournament.
dN
The team has been training in Washington DC, and young DC United goalkeeper Bill Hamid got to train with them on Sunday and Monday. How huge is that for a kid!
-US Soccer has a short Q & A with him.
dN
Video of USA players talking about the Costa Rica game, from US Soccer.
dN
Official Team Blog
CONCACAF WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Standings after 8 of 10 rounds:
IN - 19 USA
IN - 18 Mexico
15 Costa Rica
- - - - -
13 Honduras
- - - - -
OUT - 8 El Salvador
OUT - 5 Trinidad & Tobago
dN
Matchday 10
-Wed Oct 14
USA v Costa Rica
Trinidad & Tobago v Mexico
El Salvador v Honduras
MLS
Official Web Site
dN
Week 31
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Oct 14
Real Salt Lake v New York Red Bulls - 9pm Central on ESPN2 & ESPN Deportes
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
-Sat Oct 17
Toronto FC v Real Salt Lake - 3pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: BMO Field - Toronto ON
New England Revolution v Chicago Fire - 5pm Central on FSC & FSE
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
DC United v Columbus Crew - 7pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
FC Dallas v Colorado Rapids - 7:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frisco TX
Kansas City Wizards v Seattle Sounders FC - 7:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Community America Ballpark - Kansas City KS
Chivas USA v San Jose Earthquakes - 9:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
-Sun Oct 18
Houston Dynamo v Los Angeles Galaxy - 2pm Central on Telefutura
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
dN
Injured forward Taylor Twellman will make his debut on radio this weekend during the New England broadcast.
dN
It looks more and more likely that Beckman is headed back to Milan during the offseason. But then again, where this guy is concerned all bets are off.
dN
Don Ruiz of The Olympian says Seattle can clinch a playoff birth with a win this weekend, no matter what any other team does. That would be pretty huge for a 1st year team.
dN
Paul James of the Toronto Globe & Mail looks at TFC's nearly certain move for a new head coach. He comes up with a pretty sensible list of 10, knowing that some of them are out of the question.
dN
Frank Giase of the Newark Star Ledger tries to figure out just what it was that doomed the Red Bulls season.
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Yanks Abroad talks to Alexi Lalas about all things USA soccer related.
USA U17 TEAM
The U17 World Cup in Nigeria starts on Oct 24.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Freddy Adu started for the first time for his team Belenenses. Unfortunately he was subbed off at halftime with an ankle injury.
dN
Game Action: (only those that played are listed)
PORTUGAL -
Freddy Adu - Belenenses - started and went 45 minutes but they lost 0-1 at home to Nacional Madeira. The loss leaves them 3rd from the bottom.
ENGLAND
Salomon Kalou has signed a new 3 years contract extension at Chelsea.
EUROPE
The Guardian gives us an in-depth look at the high flying and very successful Denmark national teams of the mid-80's.
UEFA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Matches & Scores:
-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
ARGENTINA
Tim Vickery of the BBC looks at the wild qualifying ride Argentina is in.
CONMEBOL WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
Top 4 advance to World Cup. #5 goes into a home and away playoff with #4 from CONCACAF.
Brazil, Paraguay and Chile have 3 of those spots, while Argentina, Uruguay and Ecuador have one match left to sort out the other 2 spots between them.
dN
Matchday 18
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Oct 14
Peru v Bolivia
Paraguay v Colombia
Brazil v Venezuela
Chile v Ecuador
Uruguay v Argentina
dN
Standings
U20 WORLD CUP EGYPT 2009
FIFA.com's tournament news feed.
dN
In the Semifinals, Ghana and Hungaria exchange 3 goals near the end of regulation as the Africans survive, and gloriously head to the championship game.
dN
Match schedule
dN
See all the games live on ESPN2, ESPN Classic or ESPN360.com.
dN
Semifinals
-Tue Oct 13
Ghana 3-2 Hungaria - Gha goals by Dominic Adiyiah(2) & Abeiku Quansah. Hun goals by Marco Futacs & Adam Balajti.
Brazil v Costa Rica
dN
Final
-Fri Oct 16
Ghana v ???
WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
The BBC looks at the big day of World Cup qualifiers on Wednesday.
ENDERS
I hope to see you in DC. Please come and say hi to me.
posted by brucio at 09:08
2 Comments:
Get well fast Charlie!
Glad to see your mention of MLS ownership and profits, courtesy of SUM. I have been writing about it this season(one of several posts). Especially interesting with upcoming CBA negotiations.
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