Happy Memorial Day - Mon May 31, 2010
Take the day off from reading about soccer. I'm going to.
posted by brucio at 07:15
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Some News for Fri May 28, 2010
STARTERS
Just announced friendly: USA v Brazil - Tue Aug 10 - New Meadowlands Stadium - East Rutherford NJ - 7:00pm Central on ESPN2. Nice!
-I wonder who will be the USA coach that day?!?!?
dN
Soccer 365 is reporting that American Marco Vidal is being loaned out by his club Juarez Indios to Pachuca. That makes it 3 Americans at Pachuca. Can we call them the Mexican Fulham?!
dN
France has been granted the right to stage the 2016 European Championship. Turkey was the dark horse favorite, but lost out to a more traditional choice.
dN
Today's rumor mill has Inter Milan going after England coach Fabio Capello.
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - 1PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - 7:30am Central on ESPN2
Venue: Ruimsig Stadium - Roodepoort, South Africa
dN
Turkiye roster:
G:
Sinan Bolat - Standard Liege
Volkan Demirel - Fenerbahce
Onur Recep Kivrak - Trabzonspor
D:
Emre Asik - Galatasaray
Caglar Birinci - Denizlispor
Servet Cetin - Galatasaray
Caner Erkin - Galatasaray
Ceyhun Gulselam - Trabzonspor
Emre Gungor - Galatasaray
Ismail Koybasi - Besiktas
Sabri Sarioglu - Galatasaray
Mehmet Topuz - Fenerbahce
Ibrahim Toraman - Besiktas
Gokhan Zan - Galatasaray
M:
Hamit Altintop - Bayern Munich
Emre Belozoglu - Fenerbahce
Okan Buruk - Istanbul BB
Kazim Kazim - Toulouse
Selcuk Inan - Trabzonspor
Ozan Ipek - Bursaspor
Sezer Ozturk - Eskisehirspor
Nuri Sahin - Dortmund
Selcuk Sahin - Fenerbahce
Volkan Sen - Bursaspor
Mehmet Topal - Galatasaray
Arda Turan - Galatasaray
Necip Uysal - Besiktas
F:
Turgay Bahadir - Bursaspor
Tuncay Sanli - Stoke City
Semih Senturk - Fenerbahce
Halil Altintop - Eintracht Frankfurt
Sercan Yildirim - Bursaspor
Nihat Kahveci - Besiktas
dN
Ives Galarcep of Soccer By Ives checks in after USA training today. Good stuff.
dN
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated previews USA v Turkey.
dN
Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com with more from USA training today.
dN
FIFA.com talks to Landon Donovan.
dN
Kevin Garside of The Telegraph of London sizes up the USA team yesterday at the White House and in training.
dN
The Independent of London looks at the USA.
-Includes their look at Slovenia and Algeria too.
dN
- - - - -
Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
dN
USA OPPONENTS
England
-Gabriele Marcotti of Sports Illustrated gives us 5 things they must address for USA game.
-FIFA.com on who the midfielders will be.
-Dominic Fifeld of the Guardian ponders who the 23 will be.
-The Times puts a 4 man brain trust - Patrick Barclay, Matt Dickinson, Oliver Kay, Tony Cascarino - on the task of sorting through the England roster.
-The Telegraph on some niggling injuries.
Algeria
-The Telegraph reports on Ireland's 3-0 thrashing of Algeria today.
-FIFA.com on the health of important midfielder Madjid Bougherra.
HONDURAS WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
FIFA.com with an article on the draw with Belarus yesterday.
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
With Michael Ballack out of the World Cup Germany has named fullback Philipp Lahm as they team's captain.
dN
Lionel Messi says the favorites to win it all are Spain, England and Brazil.
dN
The Toronto Globe & Mail lands in South Africa and paints us an early picture.
dN
FIFA.com with an article on Nevin Subotic the young talented centerback who was raised in America, and his chances of making the Serbian 23.
dN
Denmark has announced their final 23:
G:
Stephan Andersen - Brondby
Jesper Christiansen - Copenhagen
Thomas Sorensen - Stoke
D:
Daniel Agger - Liverpool
Lars Jacobsen - Blackburn
William Kvist Jorgensen - Copenhagen
Simon Kjaer - Palermo
Per Kroldrup - Fiorentina
Patrick Mtiliga - Malaga
Simon Busk Poulsen - AZ Alkmaar
M:
Mikkel Beckmann - Randers
Thomas Enevoldsen - Groningen
Christian D. Eriksen - Ajax
Jesper Gronkjaer - Copenhagen
Daniel Jensen - Werder Bremen
Martin Jorgensen - Aarhus
Thomas Kahlenberg - Wolfsburg
Christian Poulsen - Juventus
Jakob Poulsen - Aarhus
Dennis Rommedahl - Ajax
F:
Nicklas Bendtner - Arsenal
Jon Dahl Tomasson - Feyenoord
Soren Larsen - Duisburg
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Fri May 28
Ireland 3-0 Algeria - Ire goals by Paul Green & Robbie Keane(2).
-Sat May 29
Cameroon v Slovakia
Germany v Hungary
New Zealand v Serbia
North Korea v Congo DR
Spain v Saudi Arabia
USA v Turkey
-Sun May 30
Chile v N Ireland
Chile v Israel
Cote d'Ivoire v Paraguay
England v Japan
France v Tunisia
Mexico v Gambia
Nigeria v Colombia - canceled
South Korea v Belarus
STORY OF THE DAY
Jose de Jesus Ortiz of the Houston Chronicle talks to Brian Ching about not making the USA World Cup team.
-Ching has a great person to talk to about the situation as his head coach Dominic Kinnear was cut on the last day from the '94 team.
MLS WEEK 10
-Thu May 27
Chicago Fire 1-1 FC Dallas - CF goal by Brian McBride. FCD goal by David Ferreira.
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
Attendance: 12,522
Match report by Orrin Schwarz of the Daily Herald.
Match report by Len Zeihm of the Chicago Sun Times.
Match report by Jack McCarthy of the Chicago Tribune.
-Sat May 29
DC United v Chivas USA - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Crew Stadium - Columbus OH
New England Revolution v New York Red Bulls - 7PM Central on Galavision
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Houston Dynamo v Philadelphia Union - 7:30PM Central on FSC
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
Colorado Rapids v Seattle Sounders FC - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park - Commerce City CO
Real Salt Lake v Kansas City Wizards - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
San Jose Earthquakes v Toronto FC - 9PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
The Denver Post has Colorado forward Conor Casey sit down and answer some viewer mail.
dN
Tom Reed of the Columbus Dispatch checks out the emerging Crew forward Emilio Renteria.
-Last week he was the league's Player of the Week.
dN
Dan Lee of ONN with his thoughts on Crew players Chad Marshall and Robbie Rogers not making the USA World Cup team.
MLS/SUM BUSINESS
The MLS All Star game in Houston against Manchester United in late July has already sold over 25,000 tickets.
dN
The Kansas City Wizards are moving into new offices, and they look really sharp. Here are some pictures so you can judge.
MLS RUMORS
Soccer 365 with todays list of rumors featuring Jozy Altidore, David Yelldell, Sebastian Bataglia, Edgar Castillo and Marco Vidal.
-And a separate article on Frank Lampard.
dN
Kerith Gabriel of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes about Juve and Italy great Fabio Cannavarro being connected to the Union for a summer move.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
Matches & Scores:
-Sun May 30
Chicago Fire v AC Milan (Italy)
Venue: Toyota Park
USSF DIVISION 2
My team laid an egg on Thursday night. Not a goose egg, cuz they got a goal, but it was an egg. Most likely rotten smelling for them.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Thu May 27
Tampa Bay Rowdies 3-1 NSC Minnesota Stars
-Sat May 29
Rochester Rhinos v Vancouver Whitecaps
Crystal Palace Baltimore v Austin Aztex
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Puerto Rico Islanders
NSC Minnesota Stars v AC St Louis
-Sun May 30
Montreal Impact v Carolina RailHawks
dN
Standings (As of Sun May 23):
17 Austin - 8 played
12 Vancouver - 7 played
15 Tampa Bay - 8 played
11 Montreal - 6 played
11 Rochester - 8 played
11 Portland - 8 played
10 Baltimore - 8 played
8 Miami - 7 played
7 Minnesota - 10 played
6 Puerto Rico - 4 played
8 Carolina - 6 played
4 St Louis - 8 played
dN
Standings base on Points Per Game:
2.13 Austin
1.88 Tampa Bay
1.83 Montreal
1.71 Vancouver
1.50 Puerto Rico
1.38 Portland
1.38 Rochester
1.33 Carolina
1.25 Baltimore
1.14 Miami
0.70 Minnesota
0.50 St Louis
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com looks at Saturday's USA v Turkey game in Philadelphia to be a test to see if potential future World Cup qualifiers could be played in that city.
USA U18 TEAM
Lisbon International Tournament
Matches & Scores:
-Thu May 27
USA v Norway
-Fri May 28
USA v Romania
-Sun May 30
USA v Portugal
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Soccer 365 today is reporting that "a pair of Americans playing in Mexico have been loaned, with Club America left-sider Edgar Castillo heading to San Luis and midfielder Marco Vidal of relegated Indios is moving to Pachuca for the season..."
-That makes it 3 Americans at Pachuca. The Mexican Fulham!
CONCACAF
International Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial Field
Venezuela v Canada - in Merida, Venezuela
-Sun May 30
Gambia v Mexico - in Bayreuth, Germany
-Tue Jun 1
Switzerland v Costa Rica - in Sion, Switzerland
-Wed Jun 2
Honduras v Azerbaijan in Zell Am See, Austria
-Thu Jun 3
Italy v Mexico - in Brussels, Belgium
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - in Roodepoort, South Africa at Ruimsig Stadium
Honduras v Romania in St. Veit An Der Glan, Austria
Slovakia v Costa Rica in Bratislava, Slovakia
dN
Canada's roster for Venezuela match on Saturday:
G:
Haidar Al Shaibani - Nimes
Josh Wagenaar - Falkirk
D:
Richard Hastings - Hamilton Acadaemy
Mike Klukowski - Club Brugges
Nik Ledgerwood - Frankfurt
Pedro Pacheco - Nacional (Portugal)
Eddy Sidra - Energie Cottbus II
Paul Stalteri - Monchengladbach
Adam Straith - Energie Cottbus
M:
Terry Dunfield - Shrewsbury
Gavin McCallum - Hereford united
Issey Nakajima-Farran - Horsens
Gianluca Zavarise - Bochum
F:
Stephen Ademolu - Ekranas
Rob Friend - Monchengladbach
Simeon Jackson - Gillingham
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Here are the latest Caribbean Football Union national team ratings:
1. Jamaica
2. Haiti
3. Trinidad & Tobago
4. Antigua
5. Guyana - (I know its not an island, but Jack Warner thinks it is.)
6. Grenada
7. Cuba
8. Bermuda
9. Barbados
10. Suriname
ENGLAND
The Manchester United owners finally speak, but only to tell the world that the team is NOT for sale. Via Soccernet.
Just announced friendly: USA v Brazil - Tue Aug 10 - New Meadowlands Stadium - East Rutherford NJ - 7:00pm Central on ESPN2. Nice!
-I wonder who will be the USA coach that day?!?!?
dN
Soccer 365 is reporting that American Marco Vidal is being loaned out by his club Juarez Indios to Pachuca. That makes it 3 Americans at Pachuca. Can we call them the Mexican Fulham?!
dN
France has been granted the right to stage the 2016 European Championship. Turkey was the dark horse favorite, but lost out to a more traditional choice.
dN
Today's rumor mill has Inter Milan going after England coach Fabio Capello.
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - 1PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - 7:30am Central on ESPN2
Venue: Ruimsig Stadium - Roodepoort, South Africa
dN
Turkiye roster:
G:
Sinan Bolat - Standard Liege
Volkan Demirel - Fenerbahce
Onur Recep Kivrak - Trabzonspor
D:
Emre Asik - Galatasaray
Caglar Birinci - Denizlispor
Servet Cetin - Galatasaray
Caner Erkin - Galatasaray
Ceyhun Gulselam - Trabzonspor
Emre Gungor - Galatasaray
Ismail Koybasi - Besiktas
Sabri Sarioglu - Galatasaray
Mehmet Topuz - Fenerbahce
Ibrahim Toraman - Besiktas
Gokhan Zan - Galatasaray
M:
Hamit Altintop - Bayern Munich
Emre Belozoglu - Fenerbahce
Okan Buruk - Istanbul BB
Kazim Kazim - Toulouse
Selcuk Inan - Trabzonspor
Ozan Ipek - Bursaspor
Sezer Ozturk - Eskisehirspor
Nuri Sahin - Dortmund
Selcuk Sahin - Fenerbahce
Volkan Sen - Bursaspor
Mehmet Topal - Galatasaray
Arda Turan - Galatasaray
Necip Uysal - Besiktas
F:
Turgay Bahadir - Bursaspor
Tuncay Sanli - Stoke City
Semih Senturk - Fenerbahce
Halil Altintop - Eintracht Frankfurt
Sercan Yildirim - Bursaspor
Nihat Kahveci - Besiktas
dN
Ives Galarcep of Soccer By Ives checks in after USA training today. Good stuff.
dN
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated previews USA v Turkey.
dN
Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com with more from USA training today.
dN
FIFA.com talks to Landon Donovan.
dN
Kevin Garside of The Telegraph of London sizes up the USA team yesterday at the White House and in training.
dN
The Independent of London looks at the USA.
-Includes their look at Slovenia and Algeria too.
dN
- - - - -
Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
dN
USA OPPONENTS
England
-Gabriele Marcotti of Sports Illustrated gives us 5 things they must address for USA game.
-FIFA.com on who the midfielders will be.
-Dominic Fifeld of the Guardian ponders who the 23 will be.
-The Times puts a 4 man brain trust - Patrick Barclay, Matt Dickinson, Oliver Kay, Tony Cascarino - on the task of sorting through the England roster.
-The Telegraph on some niggling injuries.
Algeria
-The Telegraph reports on Ireland's 3-0 thrashing of Algeria today.
-FIFA.com on the health of important midfielder Madjid Bougherra.
HONDURAS WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
FIFA.com with an article on the draw with Belarus yesterday.
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
With Michael Ballack out of the World Cup Germany has named fullback Philipp Lahm as they team's captain.
dN
Lionel Messi says the favorites to win it all are Spain, England and Brazil.
dN
The Toronto Globe & Mail lands in South Africa and paints us an early picture.
dN
FIFA.com with an article on Nevin Subotic the young talented centerback who was raised in America, and his chances of making the Serbian 23.
dN
Denmark has announced their final 23:
G:
Stephan Andersen - Brondby
Jesper Christiansen - Copenhagen
Thomas Sorensen - Stoke
D:
Daniel Agger - Liverpool
Lars Jacobsen - Blackburn
William Kvist Jorgensen - Copenhagen
Simon Kjaer - Palermo
Per Kroldrup - Fiorentina
Patrick Mtiliga - Malaga
Simon Busk Poulsen - AZ Alkmaar
M:
Mikkel Beckmann - Randers
Thomas Enevoldsen - Groningen
Christian D. Eriksen - Ajax
Jesper Gronkjaer - Copenhagen
Daniel Jensen - Werder Bremen
Martin Jorgensen - Aarhus
Thomas Kahlenberg - Wolfsburg
Christian Poulsen - Juventus
Jakob Poulsen - Aarhus
Dennis Rommedahl - Ajax
F:
Nicklas Bendtner - Arsenal
Jon Dahl Tomasson - Feyenoord
Soren Larsen - Duisburg
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Fri May 28
Ireland 3-0 Algeria - Ire goals by Paul Green & Robbie Keane(2).
-Sat May 29
Cameroon v Slovakia
Germany v Hungary
New Zealand v Serbia
North Korea v Congo DR
Spain v Saudi Arabia
USA v Turkey
-Sun May 30
Chile v N Ireland
Chile v Israel
Cote d'Ivoire v Paraguay
England v Japan
France v Tunisia
Mexico v Gambia
Nigeria v Colombia - canceled
South Korea v Belarus
STORY OF THE DAY
Jose de Jesus Ortiz of the Houston Chronicle talks to Brian Ching about not making the USA World Cup team.
-Ching has a great person to talk to about the situation as his head coach Dominic Kinnear was cut on the last day from the '94 team.
MLS WEEK 10
-Thu May 27
Chicago Fire 1-1 FC Dallas - CF goal by Brian McBride. FCD goal by David Ferreira.
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
Attendance: 12,522
Match report by Orrin Schwarz of the Daily Herald.
Match report by Len Zeihm of the Chicago Sun Times.
Match report by Jack McCarthy of the Chicago Tribune.
-Sat May 29
DC United v Chivas USA - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Crew Stadium - Columbus OH
New England Revolution v New York Red Bulls - 7PM Central on Galavision
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Houston Dynamo v Philadelphia Union - 7:30PM Central on FSC
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
Colorado Rapids v Seattle Sounders FC - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park - Commerce City CO
Real Salt Lake v Kansas City Wizards - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
San Jose Earthquakes v Toronto FC - 9PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
The Denver Post has Colorado forward Conor Casey sit down and answer some viewer mail.
dN
Tom Reed of the Columbus Dispatch checks out the emerging Crew forward Emilio Renteria.
-Last week he was the league's Player of the Week.
dN
Dan Lee of ONN with his thoughts on Crew players Chad Marshall and Robbie Rogers not making the USA World Cup team.
MLS/SUM BUSINESS
The MLS All Star game in Houston against Manchester United in late July has already sold over 25,000 tickets.
dN
The Kansas City Wizards are moving into new offices, and they look really sharp. Here are some pictures so you can judge.
MLS RUMORS
Soccer 365 with todays list of rumors featuring Jozy Altidore, David Yelldell, Sebastian Bataglia, Edgar Castillo and Marco Vidal.
-And a separate article on Frank Lampard.
dN
Kerith Gabriel of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes about Juve and Italy great Fabio Cannavarro being connected to the Union for a summer move.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
Matches & Scores:
-Sun May 30
Chicago Fire v AC Milan (Italy)
Venue: Toyota Park
USSF DIVISION 2
My team laid an egg on Thursday night. Not a goose egg, cuz they got a goal, but it was an egg. Most likely rotten smelling for them.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Thu May 27
Tampa Bay Rowdies 3-1 NSC Minnesota Stars
-Sat May 29
Rochester Rhinos v Vancouver Whitecaps
Crystal Palace Baltimore v Austin Aztex
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Puerto Rico Islanders
NSC Minnesota Stars v AC St Louis
-Sun May 30
Montreal Impact v Carolina RailHawks
dN
Standings (As of Sun May 23):
17 Austin - 8 played
12 Vancouver - 7 played
15 Tampa Bay - 8 played
11 Montreal - 6 played
11 Rochester - 8 played
11 Portland - 8 played
10 Baltimore - 8 played
8 Miami - 7 played
7 Minnesota - 10 played
6 Puerto Rico - 4 played
8 Carolina - 6 played
4 St Louis - 8 played
dN
Standings base on Points Per Game:
2.13 Austin
1.88 Tampa Bay
1.83 Montreal
1.71 Vancouver
1.50 Puerto Rico
1.38 Portland
1.38 Rochester
1.33 Carolina
1.25 Baltimore
1.14 Miami
0.70 Minnesota
0.50 St Louis
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com looks at Saturday's USA v Turkey game in Philadelphia to be a test to see if potential future World Cup qualifiers could be played in that city.
USA U18 TEAM
Lisbon International Tournament
Matches & Scores:
-Thu May 27
USA v Norway
-Fri May 28
USA v Romania
-Sun May 30
USA v Portugal
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Soccer 365 today is reporting that "a pair of Americans playing in Mexico have been loaned, with Club America left-sider Edgar Castillo heading to San Luis and midfielder Marco Vidal of relegated Indios is moving to Pachuca for the season..."
-That makes it 3 Americans at Pachuca. The Mexican Fulham!
CONCACAF
International Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial Field
Venezuela v Canada - in Merida, Venezuela
-Sun May 30
Gambia v Mexico - in Bayreuth, Germany
-Tue Jun 1
Switzerland v Costa Rica - in Sion, Switzerland
-Wed Jun 2
Honduras v Azerbaijan in Zell Am See, Austria
-Thu Jun 3
Italy v Mexico - in Brussels, Belgium
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - in Roodepoort, South Africa at Ruimsig Stadium
Honduras v Romania in St. Veit An Der Glan, Austria
Slovakia v Costa Rica in Bratislava, Slovakia
dN
Canada's roster for Venezuela match on Saturday:
G:
Haidar Al Shaibani - Nimes
Josh Wagenaar - Falkirk
D:
Richard Hastings - Hamilton Acadaemy
Mike Klukowski - Club Brugges
Nik Ledgerwood - Frankfurt
Pedro Pacheco - Nacional (Portugal)
Eddy Sidra - Energie Cottbus II
Paul Stalteri - Monchengladbach
Adam Straith - Energie Cottbus
M:
Terry Dunfield - Shrewsbury
Gavin McCallum - Hereford united
Issey Nakajima-Farran - Horsens
Gianluca Zavarise - Bochum
F:
Stephen Ademolu - Ekranas
Rob Friend - Monchengladbach
Simeon Jackson - Gillingham
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Here are the latest Caribbean Football Union national team ratings:
1. Jamaica
2. Haiti
3. Trinidad & Tobago
4. Antigua
5. Guyana - (I know its not an island, but Jack Warner thinks it is.)
6. Grenada
7. Cuba
8. Bermuda
9. Barbados
10. Suriname
ENGLAND
The Manchester United owners finally speak, but only to tell the world that the team is NOT for sale. Via Soccernet.
posted by brucio at 17:03
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Some News for Thu May 27, 2010
STARTERS
Toronto FC won the Canadian Championship last night, and will play in the CONCACAF Champions League starting in late July.
dN
Is Guus Hiddink about to snub Turkey, who he is supposed to start coaching after the World Cup, to become the new manager of Inter Milan?
dN
Ronaldinho is going to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Chicago Cubs game on Friday!
TWITTER
Blast off with us on Twitter: @dunord
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Closing in on 50,000 tickets sold for Saturday.
Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - 1PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - 7:30am Central on ESPN2
Venue: Ruimsig Stadium - Roodepoort, South Africa
dN
Reuters with video of the USA visiting the White House and meeting the president today. Via News Distribution Network. Thanks to Tomas for the link.
dN
George Vecsey of the New York Times can write as good as anyone in sports, and so he tells us a great version of the USA players being told who did and did not make the team.
dN
The Washington Post with a feature story on Jozy Altidore.
dN
Grant Wahl at Sports Illustrated tells us of love for the beautiful game inside the White House (where the USA team visited today.)
-"Obama’s aides are also big fans of soccer. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, Obama’s chief “fixer,” is a regular at D.C. United games and a huge U.S. supporter who was transfixed during last summer’s run to the Confederations Cup final. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs played goalkeeper at North Carolina State. Pete Rouse, the Senior Adviser to the President, is a Tottenham Hotspur fan."
dN
Mike Woitalla of Soccer America with some fun and interesting stats on our team.
dN
The New Haven Register with an article on the impact the World Cup has on the game in our country every 4 years.
dN
The Huffington Post calls this team the deepest USA team ever. Really? I guess it probably is in some ways.
dN
Greg Seltzer of Soccer 365 with the latest rumors on the European futures of DaMarcus Beasley and Steve Cherundolo.
dN
- - - - -
Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
dN
USA OPPONENTS
Slovenia
-FIFA.com does a Q & A with head coach Matjaz Kek.
Algeria
-FIFA.com with an article on striker Abdelkader Ghezzal.
PODCASTS
The new episode of Inside the Six podcast is on line now, and features an interview with SI's Grant Wahl, and then yours truly. I was fun talking USA with Kevin. Check it out right here.
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
It's official - Michael Essien will miss the World Cup for Ghana. He suffered a knee injury in January and is not recovered from it. Damn.
dN
Brazil has arrived in South Africa. Let the party begin.
dN
Jonathan Wilson of Sports Illustrated wonders if Maradona can take some of that on-field magic and inject it into his Argentina players as their coach.
dN
FIFA.com has an article on the 6 Argentines on the roster who play in the countries domestic league: Juan Sebastian Veron (Estudiantes), Martin Palermo (Boca Juniors), Diego Pozo (Colon), Ariel Garce (Colon), Clemente Rodriguez (Estudiantes) and Nicolas Otamendi (Velez Sarsfield).
dN
FIFA.com talks to Italy goalkeeper and team leader Gigi Buffon.
dN
Fernando Torres is healthy and trained with Spain today. That is huge for them.
dN
Netherlands announced their 23 player squad today:
G:
Sander Boschker - Twente
Maarten Stekelenburg - Ajax
Michel Vorm - Utrecht)
D:
Khalid Boulahrouz - Stuttgart
Edson Braafheid - Celtic
John Heitinga - Everton
Joris Mathijsen - Hamburg
Andre Ooijer - PSV
Giovanni van Bronckhorst - Feyenoord
Gregory van der Wiel - Ajax
M:
Ibrahim Afellay - PSV
Nigel de Jong - Manchester City
Demy de Zeeuw - Ajax
Stijn Schaars - AZ Alkmaar
Wesley Sneijder - Inter Milan
Mark van Bommel - Bayern Munich
Rafael van der Vaart - Real Madrid
F:
Ryan Babel - Liverpool
Eljero Elia - Hamburg
Klaas Jan Huntelaar - AC Milan
Dirk Kuyt - Liverpool
Arjen Robben - Bayern Munich
Robin van Persie - Arsenal
dN
South Africa beat Colombia today and all 3 goals were from the Penalty spot.
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
Chile 3-0 Zambia - Chi goals by Alexi Sanchez(2) & Jorge Valdiva.
Uruguay 4-1 Israel - Uru goals by Diego Forlan, Alvaro Pereira & Sebastian Abreu(2). Isr goal by Lior Rafaelov.
-Thu May 27
Denmark 2-0 Senegal - Den goals by Christian Poulsen & Tomas Enevoldsen.
Belarus 2-2 Honduras - Bel goals both by Anton Putsilo. Hon goals by Julio Leon & Georgie Welcome.
South Africa 2-1 Colombia - SA goals by Tsholofelo Modise(PK) & Katlego Mphela(PK). Col goal by Giovanni Moreno(PK).
-Fri May 28
Algeria v Ireland
-Sat May 29
Cameroon v Slovakia
Germany v Hungary
New Zealand v Serbia
North Korea v Congo DR
Spain v Saudi Arabia
USA v Turkey
-Sun May 30
Chile v N Ireland
Chile v Israel
Cote d'Ivoire v Paraguay
England v Japan
France v Tunisia
Mexico v Gambia
Nigeria v Colombia - canceled
South Korea v Belarus
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
I remember back not many years ago when the event of a big name international club team coming to America to take on a MLS team was not only a rarity, but also a very big deal with fans from coast to coast. My how things have rapidly changed. Now it's barely news outside of the city where the game is being held (although the size of the crowd is still huge), and even bigger news, the MLS teams are more than likely winning. And who says our league is not progressing.
MLS WEEK 10
-Thu May 27
Chicago Fire v FC Dallas - 7PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
-Sat May 29
DC United v Chivas USA - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Crew Stadium - Columbus OH
New England Revolution v New York Red Bulls - 7PM Central on Galavision
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Houston Dynamo v Philadelphia Union - 7:30PM Central on FSC
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
Colorado Rapids v Seattle Sounders FC - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park - Commerce City CO
Real Salt Lake v Kansas City Wizards - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
San Jose Earthquakes v Toronto FC - 9PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Frank Giase of the Newark Star Ledger sees an instant impact being made on the Red Bulls by players who have just come out of college.
dN
Justin Rodriguez of Soccernet talks to Dallas midfielder Daniel Hernandez about being back in hometown playing in MLS after a trip to Mexico.
dN
Andrew Winner of Soccer 365 talks to San Jose's Bobby Convey who is finally getting back to top quality after two long poor seasons.
MLS INJURY REPORT
Don Ruiz of the Tacoma News Tribune reports on Seattle's Oswaldo Alonso reinjuring his quad muscle. He could be out a few more weeks now.
dN
New York will be without midfielder Carl Robinson for 6 weeks after surgery to repair a torn meniscus.
MLS/SUM BUSINESS
NorthJersey.com has an article on fabled coach Rick Jacobs of St Benedict prep school, home of Claudio Reyna among many others, who is leaving the school after 25 years in charge to go work for MLS. Presumably in player development.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star talks to Manchester United & Ireland legend Denis Irwin who was in KC pre-promoting Man U's game in KC later this summer. Irwin gives his thoughts on soccer in America.
dN
DC & Seattle both won against big name international opponents, and drew 30,000 & 40,000 respectively.
Milan heads to Chicago next.
-Wed May 26
DC United 3-2 AC Milan (Italy) - DCU goals by Luciano Emilio, Chris Pontius & Danny Allsop. ACM goals both by Massimo Oddo.
Venue: RFK Stadium
Attendance: 30,367
Match report from the Washington Post.
Seattle Sounders v Boca Juniors (Argentina) - SS goals by Roger Levesque, Pat Noonan & Michael Seamon.
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
Attendance: 40,122
Match report by Joshua Mayers of the Seattle Times.
-Sun May 30
Chicago Fire v AC Milan (Italy)
Venue: Toyota Park
dN
Newly added:
Recently demoted English team Portsmouth heads over to our country for some preseason action.
-Wed Jul 14
Portsmouth (England) v Club America (Mexico)
City: San Diego
-Sat Jul 24
DC United v
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
US OPEN CUP
New York has qualified for the Open Cup. One MLS spot open, to be filled next week.
MLS - Play-In Rounds with the 2 winners advancing to the Round of 16:
-Wed May 26
New York Red Bulls 3-0 Colorado Rapids - NYRB goals by John Wolyniec(2) & Conor Chinn.
Venue: Red Bull Arena - Harrison NJ
-Wed Jun 2
DC United v Real Salt Lake
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
dN
All the best Open Cup info can be found right here at The Cup.
Superliga 2010
The 2 groups were announced today for the tournament which begins on Wed Jul 14. I will post schedule when we get closer to the dates.
Group A
Chicago Fire
Morelia
New England Revolution
UNAM Pumas
Group B
Chivas USA
Houston Dynamo
Pachuca
Puebla
USSF DIVISION 2
Both road teams won on Wed night. My boys are on the road for a Thu night game.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
Miami FC Blues 1-3 Austin Aztex
Puerto Rico Islanders 1-2 Carolina RailHawks
-Thu May 27
Tampa Bay Rowdies v NSC Minnesota Stars
-Sat May 29
Rochester Rhinos v Vancouver Whitecaps
Crystal Palace Baltimore v Austin Aztex
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Puerto Rico Islanders
NSC Minnesota Stars v AC St Louis
-Sun May 30
Montreal Impact v Carolina RailHawks
dN
Standings (As of Sun May 23):
17 Austin - 8 played
12 Vancouver - 7 played
12 Tampa Bay - 7 played
11 Montreal - 6 played
11 Rochester - 8 played
11 Portland - 8 played
10 Baltimore - 8 played
8 Miami - 7 played
7 Minnesota - 9 played
6 Puerto Rico - 4 played
8 Carolina - 6 played
4 St Louis - 8 played
dN
Standings base on Points Per Game:
2.13 Austin
1.83 Montreal
1.71 Tampa Bay
1.71 Vancouver
1.50 Puerto Rico
1.38 Portland
1.38 Rochester
1.33 Carolina
1.25 Baltimore
1.14 Miami
0.78 Minnesota
0.50 St Louis
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Univision has won the contract to televise the Mexican national team in the USA up to the 2014 World Cup. Telemundo had been the rights holder.
USA U18 TEAM
Lisbon International Tournament
Matches & Scores:
-Thu May 27
USA v Norway
-Fri May 28
USA v Romania
-Sun May 30
USA v Portugal
CONCACAF
FIFA has rescinded their international ban on El Salvador after the countries government cleared up their problems with the national football federation.
-Now, as a joke, we might say that the ban was lifted cuz Jack Warner got the call from his Cayman Island bank that the transfer had gone through.
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
Netherlands 2-1 Mexico in Freiburg, Germany
-Thu May 27
Honduras 2-2 Belarus in Villach, Austria
VOYAGEURS CUP - CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
The 3 professional teams in Canada play each other home and away for the annual title.
Toronto won the Canadian Championship last night by virtue of Vancouver & Montreal playing to a tie last night.
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Apr 28
Toronto FC 2-0 Montreal Impact
-May 5
Vancouver Whitecaps 1-1 Montreal Impact
-May 12
Montreal Impact 0-1 Toronto FC
-May 19
Vancouver Whitecaps 0-0 Toronto FC
-May 26
Montreal Impact 1-1 Vancouver Whitecaps
-Jun 2
Toronto FC v Vancouver Whitecaps
dN
STANDINGS (4 rounds total):
7 Toronto (3 played)
4 Vancouver (3 played)
OUT-2 Montreal (4 played)
The winner, Toronto, now represents Canada in the CONCACAF Champions League.
EUROPE
UEFA's test of 5 referees per game in the Europa League last year will be extended to also include the Champions League for the 2010/11 season.
Toronto FC won the Canadian Championship last night, and will play in the CONCACAF Champions League starting in late July.
dN
Is Guus Hiddink about to snub Turkey, who he is supposed to start coaching after the World Cup, to become the new manager of Inter Milan?
dN
Ronaldinho is going to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Chicago Cubs game on Friday!
Blast off with us on Twitter: @dunord
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Closing in on 50,000 tickets sold for Saturday.
Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - 1PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - 7:30am Central on ESPN2
Venue: Ruimsig Stadium - Roodepoort, South Africa
dN
Reuters with video of the USA visiting the White House and meeting the president today. Via News Distribution Network. Thanks to Tomas for the link.
dN
George Vecsey of the New York Times can write as good as anyone in sports, and so he tells us a great version of the USA players being told who did and did not make the team.
dN
The Washington Post with a feature story on Jozy Altidore.
dN
Grant Wahl at Sports Illustrated tells us of love for the beautiful game inside the White House (where the USA team visited today.)
-"Obama’s aides are also big fans of soccer. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, Obama’s chief “fixer,” is a regular at D.C. United games and a huge U.S. supporter who was transfixed during last summer’s run to the Confederations Cup final. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs played goalkeeper at North Carolina State. Pete Rouse, the Senior Adviser to the President, is a Tottenham Hotspur fan."
dN
Mike Woitalla of Soccer America with some fun and interesting stats on our team.
dN
The New Haven Register with an article on the impact the World Cup has on the game in our country every 4 years.
dN
The Huffington Post calls this team the deepest USA team ever. Really? I guess it probably is in some ways.
dN
Greg Seltzer of Soccer 365 with the latest rumors on the European futures of DaMarcus Beasley and Steve Cherundolo.
dN
- - - - -
Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
dN
USA OPPONENTS
Slovenia
-FIFA.com does a Q & A with head coach Matjaz Kek.
Algeria
-FIFA.com with an article on striker Abdelkader Ghezzal.
PODCASTS
The new episode of Inside the Six podcast is on line now, and features an interview with SI's Grant Wahl, and then yours truly. I was fun talking USA with Kevin. Check it out right here.
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
It's official - Michael Essien will miss the World Cup for Ghana. He suffered a knee injury in January and is not recovered from it. Damn.
dN
Brazil has arrived in South Africa. Let the party begin.
dN
Jonathan Wilson of Sports Illustrated wonders if Maradona can take some of that on-field magic and inject it into his Argentina players as their coach.
dN
FIFA.com has an article on the 6 Argentines on the roster who play in the countries domestic league: Juan Sebastian Veron (Estudiantes), Martin Palermo (Boca Juniors), Diego Pozo (Colon), Ariel Garce (Colon), Clemente Rodriguez (Estudiantes) and Nicolas Otamendi (Velez Sarsfield).
dN
FIFA.com talks to Italy goalkeeper and team leader Gigi Buffon.
dN
Fernando Torres is healthy and trained with Spain today. That is huge for them.
dN
Netherlands announced their 23 player squad today:
G:
Sander Boschker - Twente
Maarten Stekelenburg - Ajax
Michel Vorm - Utrecht)
D:
Khalid Boulahrouz - Stuttgart
Edson Braafheid - Celtic
John Heitinga - Everton
Joris Mathijsen - Hamburg
Andre Ooijer - PSV
Giovanni van Bronckhorst - Feyenoord
Gregory van der Wiel - Ajax
M:
Ibrahim Afellay - PSV
Nigel de Jong - Manchester City
Demy de Zeeuw - Ajax
Stijn Schaars - AZ Alkmaar
Wesley Sneijder - Inter Milan
Mark van Bommel - Bayern Munich
Rafael van der Vaart - Real Madrid
F:
Ryan Babel - Liverpool
Eljero Elia - Hamburg
Klaas Jan Huntelaar - AC Milan
Dirk Kuyt - Liverpool
Arjen Robben - Bayern Munich
Robin van Persie - Arsenal
dN
South Africa beat Colombia today and all 3 goals were from the Penalty spot.
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
Chile 3-0 Zambia - Chi goals by Alexi Sanchez(2) & Jorge Valdiva.
Uruguay 4-1 Israel - Uru goals by Diego Forlan, Alvaro Pereira & Sebastian Abreu(2). Isr goal by Lior Rafaelov.
-Thu May 27
Denmark 2-0 Senegal - Den goals by Christian Poulsen & Tomas Enevoldsen.
Belarus 2-2 Honduras - Bel goals both by Anton Putsilo. Hon goals by Julio Leon & Georgie Welcome.
South Africa 2-1 Colombia - SA goals by Tsholofelo Modise(PK) & Katlego Mphela(PK). Col goal by Giovanni Moreno(PK).
-Fri May 28
Algeria v Ireland
-Sat May 29
Cameroon v Slovakia
Germany v Hungary
New Zealand v Serbia
North Korea v Congo DR
Spain v Saudi Arabia
USA v Turkey
-Sun May 30
Chile v N Ireland
Chile v Israel
Cote d'Ivoire v Paraguay
England v Japan
France v Tunisia
Mexico v Gambia
Nigeria v Colombia - canceled
South Korea v Belarus
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
I remember back not many years ago when the event of a big name international club team coming to America to take on a MLS team was not only a rarity, but also a very big deal with fans from coast to coast. My how things have rapidly changed. Now it's barely news outside of the city where the game is being held (although the size of the crowd is still huge), and even bigger news, the MLS teams are more than likely winning. And who says our league is not progressing.
MLS WEEK 10
-Thu May 27
Chicago Fire v FC Dallas - 7PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
-Sat May 29
DC United v Chivas USA - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Crew Stadium - Columbus OH
New England Revolution v New York Red Bulls - 7PM Central on Galavision
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Houston Dynamo v Philadelphia Union - 7:30PM Central on FSC
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
Colorado Rapids v Seattle Sounders FC - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park - Commerce City CO
Real Salt Lake v Kansas City Wizards - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
San Jose Earthquakes v Toronto FC - 9PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Frank Giase of the Newark Star Ledger sees an instant impact being made on the Red Bulls by players who have just come out of college.
dN
Justin Rodriguez of Soccernet talks to Dallas midfielder Daniel Hernandez about being back in hometown playing in MLS after a trip to Mexico.
dN
Andrew Winner of Soccer 365 talks to San Jose's Bobby Convey who is finally getting back to top quality after two long poor seasons.
MLS INJURY REPORT
Don Ruiz of the Tacoma News Tribune reports on Seattle's Oswaldo Alonso reinjuring his quad muscle. He could be out a few more weeks now.
dN
New York will be without midfielder Carl Robinson for 6 weeks after surgery to repair a torn meniscus.
MLS/SUM BUSINESS
NorthJersey.com has an article on fabled coach Rick Jacobs of St Benedict prep school, home of Claudio Reyna among many others, who is leaving the school after 25 years in charge to go work for MLS. Presumably in player development.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star talks to Manchester United & Ireland legend Denis Irwin who was in KC pre-promoting Man U's game in KC later this summer. Irwin gives his thoughts on soccer in America.
dN
DC & Seattle both won against big name international opponents, and drew 30,000 & 40,000 respectively.
Milan heads to Chicago next.
-Wed May 26
DC United 3-2 AC Milan (Italy) - DCU goals by Luciano Emilio, Chris Pontius & Danny Allsop. ACM goals both by Massimo Oddo.
Venue: RFK Stadium
Attendance: 30,367
Match report from the Washington Post.
Seattle Sounders v Boca Juniors (Argentina) - SS goals by Roger Levesque, Pat Noonan & Michael Seamon.
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
Attendance: 40,122
Match report by Joshua Mayers of the Seattle Times.
-Sun May 30
Chicago Fire v AC Milan (Italy)
Venue: Toyota Park
dN
Newly added:
Recently demoted English team Portsmouth heads over to our country for some preseason action.
-Wed Jul 14
Portsmouth (England) v Club America (Mexico)
City: San Diego
-Sat Jul 24
DC United v
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
US OPEN CUP
New York has qualified for the Open Cup. One MLS spot open, to be filled next week.
MLS - Play-In Rounds with the 2 winners advancing to the Round of 16:
-Wed May 26
New York Red Bulls 3-0 Colorado Rapids - NYRB goals by John Wolyniec(2) & Conor Chinn.
Venue: Red Bull Arena - Harrison NJ
-Wed Jun 2
DC United v Real Salt Lake
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
dN
All the best Open Cup info can be found right here at The Cup.
Superliga 2010
The 2 groups were announced today for the tournament which begins on Wed Jul 14. I will post schedule when we get closer to the dates.
Group A
Chicago Fire
Morelia
New England Revolution
UNAM Pumas
Group B
Chivas USA
Houston Dynamo
Pachuca
Puebla
USSF DIVISION 2
Both road teams won on Wed night. My boys are on the road for a Thu night game.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
Miami FC Blues 1-3 Austin Aztex
Puerto Rico Islanders 1-2 Carolina RailHawks
-Thu May 27
Tampa Bay Rowdies v NSC Minnesota Stars
-Sat May 29
Rochester Rhinos v Vancouver Whitecaps
Crystal Palace Baltimore v Austin Aztex
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Puerto Rico Islanders
NSC Minnesota Stars v AC St Louis
-Sun May 30
Montreal Impact v Carolina RailHawks
dN
Standings (As of Sun May 23):
17 Austin - 8 played
12 Vancouver - 7 played
12 Tampa Bay - 7 played
11 Montreal - 6 played
11 Rochester - 8 played
11 Portland - 8 played
10 Baltimore - 8 played
8 Miami - 7 played
7 Minnesota - 9 played
6 Puerto Rico - 4 played
8 Carolina - 6 played
4 St Louis - 8 played
dN
Standings base on Points Per Game:
2.13 Austin
1.83 Montreal
1.71 Tampa Bay
1.71 Vancouver
1.50 Puerto Rico
1.38 Portland
1.38 Rochester
1.33 Carolina
1.25 Baltimore
1.14 Miami
0.78 Minnesota
0.50 St Louis
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Univision has won the contract to televise the Mexican national team in the USA up to the 2014 World Cup. Telemundo had been the rights holder.
USA U18 TEAM
Lisbon International Tournament
Matches & Scores:
-Thu May 27
USA v Norway
-Fri May 28
USA v Romania
-Sun May 30
USA v Portugal
CONCACAF
FIFA has rescinded their international ban on El Salvador after the countries government cleared up their problems with the national football federation.
-Now, as a joke, we might say that the ban was lifted cuz Jack Warner got the call from his Cayman Island bank that the transfer had gone through.
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
Netherlands 2-1 Mexico in Freiburg, Germany
-Thu May 27
Honduras 2-2 Belarus in Villach, Austria
VOYAGEURS CUP - CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
The 3 professional teams in Canada play each other home and away for the annual title.
Toronto won the Canadian Championship last night by virtue of Vancouver & Montreal playing to a tie last night.
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Apr 28
Toronto FC 2-0 Montreal Impact
-May 5
Vancouver Whitecaps 1-1 Montreal Impact
-May 12
Montreal Impact 0-1 Toronto FC
-May 19
Vancouver Whitecaps 0-0 Toronto FC
-May 26
Montreal Impact 1-1 Vancouver Whitecaps
-Jun 2
Toronto FC v Vancouver Whitecaps
dN
STANDINGS (4 rounds total):
7 Toronto (3 played)
4 Vancouver (3 played)
OUT-2 Montreal (4 played)
The winner, Toronto, now represents Canada in the CONCACAF Champions League.
EUROPE
UEFA's test of 5 referees per game in the Europa League last year will be extended to also include the Champions League for the 2010/11 season.
posted by brucio at 16:52
5 Comments From Mental Giants Like Me & You (Click to add yours here Muchacho!)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Boots for Aba’fana
BOOTS for ABA’FANA
Football Supporters Kick Up Awareness and Fundraising Effort for South Africa
Chicago, Illinois USA (May 5, 2010): Two advertising executives united by their love for the “beautiful game” set out to experience the first-ever World Cup staged in South Africa together, but along the way found a greater adventure was ahead of them.
During the planning of their journey, they were introduced to the fastest growing township in South Africa, Khayelitsha, on the outskirts of Cape Town, via their local tour guide. They were introduced a local coach, with the football-appropriate name of Manchester, who struggles to find the simplest of gear for his team.
Within the shadows of the magnificent stadiums and world-class facilities built specifically to showcase and change perceptions of Africa and reposition the continent in a positive light with South Africa as the theater and Africa the stage, these young boys, literally don’t have shoes to kick about on rocky, pebble-covered pitches.
Like many townships in South Africa, it is economically challenged and although it attracts funding from international aid agencies, the outreach to those in these communities is sparse.
“There aren't many opportunities for developing countries to take on the world's super powers, but the World Cup provides that chance every four years. The energy and pride of those supporting their countries is a spectacle in and of itself. We’ve made a commitment after the last World Cup to make the trek every four years for as long as we’re able to, to share our love of the game with those less fortunate than us, ”says Alex Grant, an Account Executive at The Wall Street Journal, “I believe football (soccer) to be the world’s great equalizer.“
Alongside David Herman, Prime Minister of Public Relations of One United USA, they founded "Boots for Aba'fana" (Aba'fana means "the boys" in Zulu: http://facebook.com/bootsforabafana) with the goal of raising five thousand dollars before the jettison to Johannesburg on June 4, 2010.
Alex and David are looking to leverage their friends and colleagues in the digital space and their “friends in football” to help raise awareness, provide equipment and fund the purchase of a wheelchair to assist one of the mobility disabled boys while hopefully instilling hope for possibly the next generation of world class footballers to possibly come from this impoverished township. Or, if anything, bring a smile from those who love the game as much as we do.
The official slogan for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is “Ke Nako. Celebrate Africa's Humanity.”
(Ke Nako means simply, it’s time).
For more information or to make a donation, visit the Boots for Aba’fana Facebook page (http://facebook.com/bootsforabafana) or contact us directly:
Boots for Aba’fana
Attention: Alex Grant
449 W. Aldine Avenue, Apartment 3
Chicago, Illinois 60657
alexdgrant@hotmail.com
David Herman
One United USA
Prime Minister of Public Relations
Partner, Chief Marketing and Digital Brand Strategy Officer dherman@oneunitedusa.com
About Boots for Aba’fana:
A non-profit organization working to supply basic gear to young footballers in Khayelitsha, South Africa and is a 501(c)(3) organization that exists to secure private philanthropic support for football-related endeavors. The foundation hopes to raise funds from individuals, companies, foundations and organizations and invests and manages gifts in accordance with donors’ wishes.
About One United USA:
One United USA is the officially recognized branch for supporters of Manchester United in the United States of America.
For More Information:
http://www.facebook.com/bootsforabafana
http://www.nomvuyos-tours.co.za/township_info.shtml
Football Supporters Kick Up Awareness and Fundraising Effort for South Africa
Chicago, Illinois USA (May 5, 2010): Two advertising executives united by their love for the “beautiful game” set out to experience the first-ever World Cup staged in South Africa together, but along the way found a greater adventure was ahead of them.
During the planning of their journey, they were introduced to the fastest growing township in South Africa, Khayelitsha, on the outskirts of Cape Town, via their local tour guide. They were introduced a local coach, with the football-appropriate name of Manchester, who struggles to find the simplest of gear for his team.
Within the shadows of the magnificent stadiums and world-class facilities built specifically to showcase and change perceptions of Africa and reposition the continent in a positive light with South Africa as the theater and Africa the stage, these young boys, literally don’t have shoes to kick about on rocky, pebble-covered pitches.
Like many townships in South Africa, it is economically challenged and although it attracts funding from international aid agencies, the outreach to those in these communities is sparse.
“There aren't many opportunities for developing countries to take on the world's super powers, but the World Cup provides that chance every four years. The energy and pride of those supporting their countries is a spectacle in and of itself. We’ve made a commitment after the last World Cup to make the trek every four years for as long as we’re able to, to share our love of the game with those less fortunate than us, ”says Alex Grant, an Account Executive at The Wall Street Journal, “I believe football (soccer) to be the world’s great equalizer.“
Alongside David Herman, Prime Minister of Public Relations of One United USA, they founded "Boots for Aba'fana" (Aba'fana means "the boys" in Zulu: http://facebook.com/bootsforabafana) with the goal of raising five thousand dollars before the jettison to Johannesburg on June 4, 2010.
Alex and David are looking to leverage their friends and colleagues in the digital space and their “friends in football” to help raise awareness, provide equipment and fund the purchase of a wheelchair to assist one of the mobility disabled boys while hopefully instilling hope for possibly the next generation of world class footballers to possibly come from this impoverished township. Or, if anything, bring a smile from those who love the game as much as we do.
The official slogan for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is “Ke Nako. Celebrate Africa's Humanity.”
(Ke Nako means simply, it’s time).
For more information or to make a donation, visit the Boots for Aba’fana Facebook page (http://facebook.com/bootsforabafana) or contact us directly:
Boots for Aba’fana
Attention: Alex Grant
449 W. Aldine Avenue, Apartment 3
Chicago, Illinois 60657
alexdgrant@hotmail.com
David Herman
One United USA
Prime Minister of Public Relations
Partner, Chief Marketing and Digital Brand Strategy Officer dherman@oneunitedusa.com
About Boots for Aba’fana:
A non-profit organization working to supply basic gear to young footballers in Khayelitsha, South Africa and is a 501(c)(3) organization that exists to secure private philanthropic support for football-related endeavors. The foundation hopes to raise funds from individuals, companies, foundations and organizations and invests and manages gifts in accordance with donors’ wishes.
About One United USA:
One United USA is the officially recognized branch for supporters of Manchester United in the United States of America.
For More Information:
http://www.facebook.com/bootsforabafana
http://www.nomvuyos-tours.co.za/township_info.shtml
posted by brucio at 13:23
Some News for Wed May 26, 2010
STARTERS
See the USA 2010 World Cup rosterr published here at du Nord earlier today. Lots more on Team USA below.
dN
It's official: Pellegrini out at Real Madrid, and Mourinho in!
dN
USL has announced that the island nation of Antigua (out past Puerto Rico) will join First Division next year - Welcome Barracuda FC (seriously). And who exactly is going to pay for those airplane tickets?
dN
Lots of good games going on around North America tonight as a couple MLS teams as playing international friendlies, 2 Canadian teams are facing off in their national title tournament, and there is a US Open Cup game on the docket.
TWITTER
Get with our Sloop Twitter B: @dunord
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
US Soccer gives us the official 23 player USA World Cup 2010 roster, in detail.
-Quotes on the roster from coach and players.
dN
Wayne Drehs of ESPN Soccernet tell us how some guys found out that they made the team.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
USA 2-4 Czech Republic - USA goals by Maurice Edu & Herculez Gomez. CR goals by Tomas Sivok, Jan Polak, Martin Fenin & Tomas Necid.
Venue: Rentschler Field - East Hartford CT
Attendance: 36,218
Match report from US Soccer.
Match report from the Hartford Courant.
Post game analysis by Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America.
Player ratings by Mahoney.
Match report by Jeff Carlisle of Soccernet.
Player ratings by Carlisle.
Player ratings by Steve Davis of Sports Illustrated
Match report by Ives Galarcep of Fox Soccer.
Match report by Jere Longman of the New York Times.
Player ratings by Greg Seltzer of Soccer 365.
dN
NEXT:
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - 1PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA
dN
My thoughts on last nights game:
I think the game was a sellout. It sure looked full to me.
In a very flawed game the USA took a 1-0 lead, then surrendered 2 goals, then tied it up, and promptly surrendered 2 more goals. Not good.
The better part of the USA regular rotation watched the game from a private suite, while several backups got a chance to show what they had.
-Sitting out: Jozy Altidore, Carlos Bocanegra, Michael Bradley, Jay DeMerit, Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan, Benny Feilhaber, Tim Howard
-3 other players who are virtual locks for the WC roster were on the game day roster but did not see the field - Ricardo Clark, Marcus Hahnemann & Jonathan Spector.
Oguchi Onyewu was on display last night too, and the rust is very apparent. If the tournament started this weekend I don't see how he could play.
Robbie Findley and Chad Marshall did not play at all.
The left fullback scene was a nightmare for the entire 90 minutes with Jonathan Bornstein stinking up the first 45 minutes and Heath Pearce possibly even worse in the second half.
Edson Buddle took a real shot to the mouth early in the game and ended up getting stitches in his upper lip at half time.
dN
du Nord Three Stars Of The Game
3. Stuart Holden - lots of movement, lots of good positive passing, and even more aggresive late when the moved him into the middle of the field. Give him some more time in there and he will pick some locks.
2. Clarence Goodson - had a good night overall and a great goal, but if you are part of a back 4 that gives up 4 then you are not the top player of the game.
1. Libor Sionko/Jan Polak - both terrorized the USA defence ever time they got near or in the box. Both also scored goals, and then made teammates look really good several times each.
NOTE: I also thought that Beasley, Torres, Gomez, Rogers, Ching & Cherundolo had good games.
dN
You know that pissed off look that Clint Dempsey has a lot of times? Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated finds out where some of that is coming from. Dempsey does not mince words.
-I too have been critical of Deuce, but I love the guy, and he has ALWAYS proved me wrong. I have to imagine that this rage is partially what fuels his great performances too.
dN
Ronald Blum of the Associated Press on why Juergen Klinsmann turned down the chance to become the USA coach 3 1/2 years ago, and other USA related topics. Via Yahoo.
dN
FIFA.com talks to Stuart Holden.
dN
The Bolton News reports that Bolton has offered a new contract to Stuart Holden.
dN
ESPN Soccernet has a short video interview with Bob Bradley talking about his roster.
dN
Noah Davis of the USA 10 Kit with an article on Herculez Gomez.
dN
Vital Football in the UK with a solid preview of Team USA from their point of view.
dN
Wayne Drehs of ESPN Soccernet reports on former USA El Capitan Claudio Reyna taking in the game in Hartford on Tuesday night.
dN
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Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
dN
USA OPPONENTS
England
-FIFA.com talks to centerback Jamie Carragher.
MEXICO WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Forward Guillermo Franco as announced that he is leaving his club team West Ham this summer.
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
Australia today became the first team to officially arrive in South Africa.
dN
Brazil have finally lined up 2 tuneup games, Jun 7 v Tanzania, and against Zimbabwe on an unknown date.
dN
I like the gray that has come into Maradona's beard. Mine is only the occasional straggley gray hairs still.
dN
FIFA.com talks to South Africa winger Steven Pienaar.
dN
FIFA.com also talks to Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac about Michael Essien and his team.
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
France 2-1 Costa Rica - Fra goals by Douglas Sequeira(OG) & Mathieu Valbuena. CR goal by Carlos Hernandez.
Mexico 1-2 Netherlands - Mex goal by Javier Hernandez. Net goals both by Robin Van Prsie.
Chile v Zambia
Uruguay v Israel
-Thu May 27
Denmark v Senegal
Honduras v Belarus
South Africa v Colombia
-Fri May 28
Algeria v Ireland
TWITTERVERSE
AleBedoya17
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!! it was a great experience and congrats to those who made it..Good Luck USA in SA! God Bless
robbierogers
Obviously gutted but thanks for all the support and I will be rooting for the US no matter what!!! Life is awesome!
jonnyb_13
Just landed in D.C. after the W.C. announcement. Get a chance to meet President Obama and former President Clinton tomorrow.
JozyAltidore17
So excited!!!! Thanks for all the messags people
DaMarcusBeasley
Respect for all the messages my friends!! On our way to DC.. Speak to u guys soon..
StuHolden22
Thanks for all the messages! It will be an honor to represent the USA in the world cup! Dream come true.. http://tweetphoto.com/24060459
EdsonBuddle
It is a great honor & dream come true to play for my country. Thx for all the congrats.
WHY NOT!
If something as small as not having enough MLS players available for the Gold Cup and Copa America 3 years ago was even close to a major sticking point that drove Juergen Klinsmann away from coaching the USA, then I say good riddance. That event is small potatoes in the long run, and the way US Soccer handled it was exactly how I would have done it.
WHY?
The latest FIFA rankings came out today, and I don't care. But.... if you take a look at the whole thing, I think you can break it down like this - the top 9 teams are in one group - Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England and France, with the next 10-50 could all be thrown into a pot and drawn out at random, they are all that close to each other.
MLS WEEK 10
One before the full weekend slate.
-Thu May 27
Chicago Fire v FC Dallas - 7PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Kansas City has made a surprise signing with DaMarcus Beasley's older brother Jamar. He was a hotter prospect then the younger DaMarcus at the time, but several things have sidetracked Jamar along the way. Lets see what hes got!
MLS GOAL SCORING LEADERS
9 Edson Buddle
6 Dwayne De Rosario
5 Chris Wondolowski
5 Kei Kamara
4 Guillermo Barros Schelotto
MLS RUMORS
Rumor has 3 teams fighting over Italian centerback Fab Cannavarro - LA, NY & Philly. Do you see this happening? Nah, me neither. Although he would sell some tickets, not tons, but enough.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
-Wed May 26
DC United v AC Milan (Italy)
Venue: RFK Stadium
Seattle Sounders v Boca Juniors (Argentina)
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
US OPEN CUP
MLS - Play-In Rounds with the 2 winners advancing to the Round of 16:
-Wed May 26
New York Red Bulls v Colorado Rapids
Venue: Red Bull Arena - Harrison NJ
dN
All the best Open Cup info can be found right here at The Cup.
USSF DIVISION 2
USLsoccer.com has a Q & A with Portland honcho Gavin Wilkinson about the teams last in the minor league, and next year headed to the major league.
-I had never met a New Zealander who wasn't a fantastic person until I met this arrogant prick. I do know some great people who think highly of him though, so maybe its me.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
Miami FC Blues v Austin Aztex
Puerto Rico Islanders v Carolina RailHawks
-Thu May 27
Tampa Bay Rowdies v NSC Minnesota Stars
-Sat May 29
Rochester Rhinos v Vancouver Whitecaps
Crystal Palace Baltimore v Austin Aztex
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Puerto Rico Islanders
NSC Minnesota Stars v AC St Louis
-Sun May 30
Montreal Impact v Carolina RailHawks
dN
Standings (As of Sun May 23):
14 Austin - 7 played
12 Vancouver - 7 played
12 Tampa Bay - 7 played
11 Montreal - 6 played
11 Rochester - 8 played
11 Portland - 8 played
10 Baltimore - 8 played
8 Miami - 6 played
7 Minnesota - 9 played
6 Puerto Rico - 3 played
5 Carolina - 5 played
4 St Louis - 8 played
NSC MINNESOTA STARS
The Stars go to Tampa Bay today for a Thu game, then head back home on Fri for a game against St Louis on Sat night.
US SOCCER NEWS
The Associate Press talks to Claudio Reyna who was recently put in charge of US Soccer youth development.
USA U18 TEAM
Lisbon International Tournament
Matches & Scores:
-Thu May 27
USA v Norway
-Fri May 28
USA v Romania
-Sun May 30
USA v Portugal
Roster:
G:
Earl Edwards - UCLA
Andrew Wolverton - Concorde Fire
D:
Michael Ambrose - FC Dallas
Bryan Gallego - New York Red Bulls
Andrew Jean-Baptiste - Albertson
Jordan McCrary - Concorde Fire
Boyd Okwuonu - FC Dallas
Eriq Zavaleta - FC Pride
M:
Sean Davis - New York Red Bulls
Amadou Dia - Real Colorado
Daniel Garcia - FC Dallas
Luis Gil - Real Salt Lake
Perry Kitchen - Akron
Miguel Lopez - Lonestar SC
Daniel Metzger - PDA
Jared Watts - Wake Forest
Riley Wolfe - LA Galaxy
F:
Victor Chavez - Real So Cal
Stefan Jerome - West Pines United FC
Sean Okoli - Washington Premier
CONCACAF
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
USA 2-4 Czech Republic - in East Hartford CT at Rentschler Field
-Wed May 26
Netherlands v Mexico in Freiburg, Germany
-Thu May 27
Honduras v Belarus in Villach, Austria
CANADA
Paul James of the Toronto Globe & Mail looks at the beating Canada took Monday at the hands of Argentina and finds some silver.
-As much as it sucks as a fan to see your team go down hard, its certainly not embarrassing to go to Buenos Aires and get pounded, cuz almost everyone else does too.
VOYAGEURS CUP - CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
The 3 professional teams in Canada play each other home and away for the annual title.
Vancouver must win in Montreal tonight or the title goes to Toronto.
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Apr 28
Toronto FC 2-0 Montreal Impact
-May 5
Vancouver Whitecaps 1-1 Montreal Impact
-May 12
Montreal Impact 0-1 Toronto FC
-May 19
Vancouver Whitecaps 0-0 Toronto FC
-May 26
Montreal Impact v Vancouver Whitecaps
-Jun 2
Toronto FC v Vancouver Whitecaps
dN
STANDINGS (4 rounds total):
7 Toronto (3 played)
2 Vancouver (2 played)
OUT-1 Montreal (3 played)
The winner represents Canada in the CONCACAF Champions League.
See the USA 2010 World Cup rosterr published here at du Nord earlier today. Lots more on Team USA below.
dN
It's official: Pellegrini out at Real Madrid, and Mourinho in!
dN
USL has announced that the island nation of Antigua (out past Puerto Rico) will join First Division next year - Welcome Barracuda FC (seriously). And who exactly is going to pay for those airplane tickets?
dN
Lots of good games going on around North America tonight as a couple MLS teams as playing international friendlies, 2 Canadian teams are facing off in their national title tournament, and there is a US Open Cup game on the docket.
Get with our Sloop Twitter B: @dunord
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
US Soccer gives us the official 23 player USA World Cup 2010 roster, in detail.
-Quotes on the roster from coach and players.
dN
Wayne Drehs of ESPN Soccernet tell us how some guys found out that they made the team.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
USA 2-4 Czech Republic - USA goals by Maurice Edu & Herculez Gomez. CR goals by Tomas Sivok, Jan Polak, Martin Fenin & Tomas Necid.
Venue: Rentschler Field - East Hartford CT
Attendance: 36,218
Match report from US Soccer.
Match report from the Hartford Courant.
Post game analysis by Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America.
Player ratings by Mahoney.
Match report by Jeff Carlisle of Soccernet.
Player ratings by Carlisle.
Player ratings by Steve Davis of Sports Illustrated
Match report by Ives Galarcep of Fox Soccer.
Match report by Jere Longman of the New York Times.
Player ratings by Greg Seltzer of Soccer 365.
dN
NEXT:
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - 1PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia PA
dN
My thoughts on last nights game:
I think the game was a sellout. It sure looked full to me.
In a very flawed game the USA took a 1-0 lead, then surrendered 2 goals, then tied it up, and promptly surrendered 2 more goals. Not good.
The better part of the USA regular rotation watched the game from a private suite, while several backups got a chance to show what they had.
-Sitting out: Jozy Altidore, Carlos Bocanegra, Michael Bradley, Jay DeMerit, Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan, Benny Feilhaber, Tim Howard
-3 other players who are virtual locks for the WC roster were on the game day roster but did not see the field - Ricardo Clark, Marcus Hahnemann & Jonathan Spector.
Oguchi Onyewu was on display last night too, and the rust is very apparent. If the tournament started this weekend I don't see how he could play.
Robbie Findley and Chad Marshall did not play at all.
The left fullback scene was a nightmare for the entire 90 minutes with Jonathan Bornstein stinking up the first 45 minutes and Heath Pearce possibly even worse in the second half.
Edson Buddle took a real shot to the mouth early in the game and ended up getting stitches in his upper lip at half time.
dN
du Nord Three Stars Of The Game
3. Stuart Holden - lots of movement, lots of good positive passing, and even more aggresive late when the moved him into the middle of the field. Give him some more time in there and he will pick some locks.
2. Clarence Goodson - had a good night overall and a great goal, but if you are part of a back 4 that gives up 4 then you are not the top player of the game.
1. Libor Sionko/Jan Polak - both terrorized the USA defence ever time they got near or in the box. Both also scored goals, and then made teammates look really good several times each.
NOTE: I also thought that Beasley, Torres, Gomez, Rogers, Ching & Cherundolo had good games.
dN
You know that pissed off look that Clint Dempsey has a lot of times? Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated finds out where some of that is coming from. Dempsey does not mince words.
-I too have been critical of Deuce, but I love the guy, and he has ALWAYS proved me wrong. I have to imagine that this rage is partially what fuels his great performances too.
dN
Ronald Blum of the Associated Press on why Juergen Klinsmann turned down the chance to become the USA coach 3 1/2 years ago, and other USA related topics. Via Yahoo.
dN
FIFA.com talks to Stuart Holden.
dN
The Bolton News reports that Bolton has offered a new contract to Stuart Holden.
dN
ESPN Soccernet has a short video interview with Bob Bradley talking about his roster.
dN
Noah Davis of the USA 10 Kit with an article on Herculez Gomez.
dN
Vital Football in the UK with a solid preview of Team USA from their point of view.
dN
Wayne Drehs of ESPN Soccernet reports on former USA El Capitan Claudio Reyna taking in the game in Hartford on Tuesday night.
dN
- - - - -
Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
dN
USA OPPONENTS
England
-FIFA.com talks to centerback Jamie Carragher.
MEXICO WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Forward Guillermo Franco as announced that he is leaving his club team West Ham this summer.
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
Australia today became the first team to officially arrive in South Africa.
dN
Brazil have finally lined up 2 tuneup games, Jun 7 v Tanzania, and against Zimbabwe on an unknown date.
dN
I like the gray that has come into Maradona's beard. Mine is only the occasional straggley gray hairs still.
dN
FIFA.com talks to South Africa winger Steven Pienaar.
dN
FIFA.com also talks to Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac about Michael Essien and his team.
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
France 2-1 Costa Rica - Fra goals by Douglas Sequeira(OG) & Mathieu Valbuena. CR goal by Carlos Hernandez.
Mexico 1-2 Netherlands - Mex goal by Javier Hernandez. Net goals both by Robin Van Prsie.
Chile v Zambia
Uruguay v Israel
-Thu May 27
Denmark v Senegal
Honduras v Belarus
South Africa v Colombia
-Fri May 28
Algeria v Ireland
TWITTERVERSE
AleBedoya17
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!! it was a great experience and congrats to those who made it..Good Luck USA in SA! God Bless
robbierogers
Obviously gutted but thanks for all the support and I will be rooting for the US no matter what!!! Life is awesome!
jonnyb_13
Just landed in D.C. after the W.C. announcement. Get a chance to meet President Obama and former President Clinton tomorrow.
JozyAltidore17
So excited!!!! Thanks for all the messags people
DaMarcusBeasley
Respect for all the messages my friends!! On our way to DC.. Speak to u guys soon..
StuHolden22
Thanks for all the messages! It will be an honor to represent the USA in the world cup! Dream come true.. http://tweetphoto.com/24060459
EdsonBuddle
It is a great honor & dream come true to play for my country. Thx for all the congrats.
WHY NOT!
If something as small as not having enough MLS players available for the Gold Cup and Copa America 3 years ago was even close to a major sticking point that drove Juergen Klinsmann away from coaching the USA, then I say good riddance. That event is small potatoes in the long run, and the way US Soccer handled it was exactly how I would have done it.
WHY?
The latest FIFA rankings came out today, and I don't care. But.... if you take a look at the whole thing, I think you can break it down like this - the top 9 teams are in one group - Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England and France, with the next 10-50 could all be thrown into a pot and drawn out at random, they are all that close to each other.
MLS WEEK 10
One before the full weekend slate.
-Thu May 27
Chicago Fire v FC Dallas - 7PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Kansas City has made a surprise signing with DaMarcus Beasley's older brother Jamar. He was a hotter prospect then the younger DaMarcus at the time, but several things have sidetracked Jamar along the way. Lets see what hes got!
MLS GOAL SCORING LEADERS
9 Edson Buddle
6 Dwayne De Rosario
5 Chris Wondolowski
5 Kei Kamara
4 Guillermo Barros Schelotto
MLS RUMORS
Rumor has 3 teams fighting over Italian centerback Fab Cannavarro - LA, NY & Philly. Do you see this happening? Nah, me neither. Although he would sell some tickets, not tons, but enough.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
-Wed May 26
DC United v AC Milan (Italy)
Venue: RFK Stadium
Seattle Sounders v Boca Juniors (Argentina)
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
US OPEN CUP
MLS - Play-In Rounds with the 2 winners advancing to the Round of 16:
-Wed May 26
New York Red Bulls v Colorado Rapids
Venue: Red Bull Arena - Harrison NJ
dN
All the best Open Cup info can be found right here at The Cup.
USSF DIVISION 2
USLsoccer.com has a Q & A with Portland honcho Gavin Wilkinson about the teams last in the minor league, and next year headed to the major league.
-I had never met a New Zealander who wasn't a fantastic person until I met this arrogant prick. I do know some great people who think highly of him though, so maybe its me.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Wed May 26
Miami FC Blues v Austin Aztex
Puerto Rico Islanders v Carolina RailHawks
-Thu May 27
Tampa Bay Rowdies v NSC Minnesota Stars
-Sat May 29
Rochester Rhinos v Vancouver Whitecaps
Crystal Palace Baltimore v Austin Aztex
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Puerto Rico Islanders
NSC Minnesota Stars v AC St Louis
-Sun May 30
Montreal Impact v Carolina RailHawks
dN
Standings (As of Sun May 23):
14 Austin - 7 played
12 Vancouver - 7 played
12 Tampa Bay - 7 played
11 Montreal - 6 played
11 Rochester - 8 played
11 Portland - 8 played
10 Baltimore - 8 played
8 Miami - 6 played
7 Minnesota - 9 played
6 Puerto Rico - 3 played
5 Carolina - 5 played
4 St Louis - 8 played
NSC MINNESOTA STARS
The Stars go to Tampa Bay today for a Thu game, then head back home on Fri for a game against St Louis on Sat night.
US SOCCER NEWS
The Associate Press talks to Claudio Reyna who was recently put in charge of US Soccer youth development.
USA U18 TEAM
Lisbon International Tournament
Matches & Scores:
-Thu May 27
USA v Norway
-Fri May 28
USA v Romania
-Sun May 30
USA v Portugal
Roster:
G:
Earl Edwards - UCLA
Andrew Wolverton - Concorde Fire
D:
Michael Ambrose - FC Dallas
Bryan Gallego - New York Red Bulls
Andrew Jean-Baptiste - Albertson
Jordan McCrary - Concorde Fire
Boyd Okwuonu - FC Dallas
Eriq Zavaleta - FC Pride
M:
Sean Davis - New York Red Bulls
Amadou Dia - Real Colorado
Daniel Garcia - FC Dallas
Luis Gil - Real Salt Lake
Perry Kitchen - Akron
Miguel Lopez - Lonestar SC
Daniel Metzger - PDA
Jared Watts - Wake Forest
Riley Wolfe - LA Galaxy
F:
Victor Chavez - Real So Cal
Stefan Jerome - West Pines United FC
Sean Okoli - Washington Premier
CONCACAF
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
USA 2-4 Czech Republic - in East Hartford CT at Rentschler Field
-Wed May 26
Netherlands v Mexico in Freiburg, Germany
-Thu May 27
Honduras v Belarus in Villach, Austria
CANADA
Paul James of the Toronto Globe & Mail looks at the beating Canada took Monday at the hands of Argentina and finds some silver.
-As much as it sucks as a fan to see your team go down hard, its certainly not embarrassing to go to Buenos Aires and get pounded, cuz almost everyone else does too.
VOYAGEURS CUP - CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
The 3 professional teams in Canada play each other home and away for the annual title.
Vancouver must win in Montreal tonight or the title goes to Toronto.
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Apr 28
Toronto FC 2-0 Montreal Impact
-May 5
Vancouver Whitecaps 1-1 Montreal Impact
-May 12
Montreal Impact 0-1 Toronto FC
-May 19
Vancouver Whitecaps 0-0 Toronto FC
-May 26
Montreal Impact v Vancouver Whitecaps
-Jun 2
Toronto FC v Vancouver Whitecaps
dN
STANDINGS (4 rounds total):
7 Toronto (3 played)
2 Vancouver (2 played)
OUT-1 Montreal (3 played)
The winner represents Canada in the CONCACAF Champions League.
posted by brucio at 12:51
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USA World Cup 2010 Roster
Here is the complete USA 23 player roster for the World Cup that starts on June 11 from South Africa:
(3) - G
-Brad Guzan - Aston Villa
-Marcus Hahnemann - Wolverhampton
-Tim Howard - Everton
(7) - D
-Carlos Bocanegra - Rennes
-Jonathan Bornstein - Chivas USA
-Steve Cherundolo - Hannover
-Jay DeMerit - Watford
-Clarence Goodson - Start
-Oguchi Onyewu - Milan
-Jonathan Spector - West Ham
(9) - M
-DaMarcus Beasley - Rangers
-Michael Bradley - Monchengladbach
-Ricardo Clark - Eintract Frankfurt
-Clint Dempsey - Fulham
-Landon Donovan - Los Angeles
-Maurice Edu - Rangers
-Benny Feilhaber - Aarhus
-Stuart Holden - Bolton
-Jose Torres - Pachuca
(4) - F
-Jozy Altidore - Villarreal
-Edson Buddle - Los Angeles
-Robbie Findley - Salt Lake
-Herculez Gomez - Puebla
OUT:
Chad Marshall - Columbus
Heath Pearce - Dallas
Alejandro Bedoya - Orebro
Sacha Kljestan - Chivas USA
Robbie Rogers - Columbus
Brian Ching - Houston
Eddie Johnson - Aris
(3) - G
-Brad Guzan - Aston Villa
-Marcus Hahnemann - Wolverhampton
-Tim Howard - Everton
(7) - D
-Carlos Bocanegra - Rennes
-Jonathan Bornstein - Chivas USA
-Steve Cherundolo - Hannover
-Jay DeMerit - Watford
-Clarence Goodson - Start
-Oguchi Onyewu - Milan
-Jonathan Spector - West Ham
(9) - M
-DaMarcus Beasley - Rangers
-Michael Bradley - Monchengladbach
-Ricardo Clark - Eintract Frankfurt
-Clint Dempsey - Fulham
-Landon Donovan - Los Angeles
-Maurice Edu - Rangers
-Benny Feilhaber - Aarhus
-Stuart Holden - Bolton
-Jose Torres - Pachuca
(4) - F
-Jozy Altidore - Villarreal
-Edson Buddle - Los Angeles
-Robbie Findley - Salt Lake
-Herculez Gomez - Puebla
OUT:
Chad Marshall - Columbus
Heath Pearce - Dallas
Alejandro Bedoya - Orebro
Sacha Kljestan - Chivas USA
Robbie Rogers - Columbus
Brian Ching - Houston
Eddie Johnson - Aris
posted by brucio at 12:00
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Some News for Tue May 25, 2010
STARTERS
USA coach Bob Bradley will introduce his final 23 player World Cup roster live on ESPN Sports Center at 12 noon Central tomorrow - Wed May 26.
TWITTER
Get on board our Twitter train: @dunord
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Today's Match & Score:
-Tue May 25
USA V Czech Republic - 7pm Central on ESPN
Venue: Rentschler Field - East Hartford CT
Czechia roster:
G:
Petr Cech - Chelsea
Jaroslav Drobny - Hertha Berlin
Jan Lastuvka - Dnipro
D:
Tomas Hubschman - Shakhtar Donetsk
David Limbersky - Plzen
Ondrej Kusnir - Sparta Prague
Ondrej Mazuch - Anderlecht
Jan Rajnoch - Ankaragucu
Tomas Sivok - Besiktas
M:
Jaroslav Cerny - Slavia Prague
Milan Cerny - Slavia Prague
Mario Holek - Dnipro
Jan Moravek - Schalke
Jaroslav Plasil - Bordeaux
Jan Polak - Anderlecht
Daniel Pudil - Genk
Libor Sionko - Sparta Prague
Rudolf Skacel - Larissa
F:
Martin Fenin - Eintracht Frankfurt
David Lafata - Liberec
Tomas Necid - CSKA Moscow
Tomas Pekhart - Jablonec
dN
Tons of pre-game notes from US Soccer.
dN
Kieran’s Pub in Minneapolis has become an official US Soccer Bar! Great job!
-But that still leaves them years behind the Sweetwater when it comes to supporting US Soccer!!!
dN
How cool is it that the man I call the greatest basketball player of all time shows up at Team USA training! Bill Russell. 13 years in the NBA and 11 Championships. He even won 2 NBA titles as a coach. Before that 2 years in a row as NCAA Champ at San Francisco. And even an Olympic gold medal winner. He is a pure through and through winner! Not to mention his amazing stand on civil rights!
At 6'9" he regularly shut down the famous Wilt Chamberlin who stood 7'1" (and won only 2 NBA titles).
dN
Adam Spangler of This Is American Soccer with a 5 Part feature story on Sacha Kljestan.
Part 5
Part 4
Part 3
Part 2
Part 1
dN
Oguchi Onyewu gets all GQ on us. Words and pictures.
dN
Kelly Whiteside of USA Today on the team's unity.
-Whiteside also reports that this is a relatively young squad.
dN
USA Today asks Alexi Lalas, Abby Wambach, Michael Lewis and Jeff Agoos their World Cup expectations and predictions.
dN
Eric Beard from A Football Report does an interview with Clint Dempsey.
dN
Jason de Vos of the CBC on Oguchi Onyewu.
dN
Jere Longman of the New York Times on DaMarcus Beasley.
dN
Ives Galarcep of Soccer By Ives predicts his 23 players.
dN
The Newark Star Ledger on Alejandro Bedoya - the one we know the least about.
dN
Jose de Jesus Ortiz of the Houston Chronicle on Brian Ching.
dN
Yanks Abroad continues their series of articles on the players in camp:
-Alejandro Bedoya
-Michael Bradley
-Jay DeMerit
dN
Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports on Tim Howard.
-We also get a video report from training camp.
dN
Ron Blum of the Associated Press on the USA cut down to 23 players. Via Yahoo.
dN
Nick Green of the Daily Breeze tries to read the roster tea-leaves.
dN
Brian Strauss of Fanhouse on what the USA really needs to sort out tonight - defense.
dN
Brian Lewis at the NY Post on the other hand is staring at the offense to ask his questions.
dN
- - - - -
Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
dN
USA OPPONENTS:
England
-The Guardian with a review of their performance against Mexico on Monday. (Never mind the headline about Chelsea players, they are only in the opening sentence or two, then have nothing to do with the article.)
-Who will be England's goalkeeper? Yesterday saw Robert Green play the first half and Joe Hart the second. And then there is David James.
-Patrick Barclay of the Times sees England's fullback as vital to the teams success.
-James Lawton of the Independent sees Steven Gerrard as ready to contribute.
Algeria
-Starting midfielder Mourad Meghni from Lazio has not recovered from a knee injury and will be left off the team.
-Head coach Rabah Saadane is the only African coaching at this World Cup. All the other African teams have foreign coaches (South Africa - Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazil / Cameroon - Paul Le Guen, France / Ghana - Milovan Rajevac, Serbia / Ivory Coast - Sven Goren Eriksson, Sweden)
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FC Dallas will be hosting huge outdoor USA World Cup viewing parties in central Dallas. Check it out.
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Michael Lewis of the NY Daily News on the souvenirish shirt trading players do after games.
HONDURAS WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Honduras has had a disastrous start to their training as their original camp in Germany is flooded, and they are scrambling to get set up in Austria. Not good.
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Nigel Reed of the CBC looks at Honduras without star forward Carlos Costly.
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Paul Fletcher of the BBC looks at politics and football in Honduras.
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
Jonathan Wilson at Sports Illustrated oddly sees Spain having both Fernando Torres and David Villa as a burden.
dN
There is a new documentary film out called World Cup Soccer in Africa - Who Really Wins. It examines all the money coming and going around this massive tournament, and where it will end up with the games are over. See the trailer here.
-Available now through all regular video outlets like Amazon and Netflix.
dN
The New York Times reports that the country of South Africa is still struggling to make this World Cup their own.
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Tim Vickery at the CBC sees Maradona as getting everything right for Argentina against Canada yesterday.
-And I was wrong about them only playing 3 in the back, they converted an outside midfielder, Jonas Gutierrez, to fullback.
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Jay Weiner of MinnPost with an article on the host country, including the connection of NSC Minnesota Star winger Two-Boys Guamede. Thanks to Brian for the link.
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Reuters with an article on Japan's struggle to find their best as the big games get close.
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FIFA.com has a Q & A with Ghana's Kevin Prince Boateng.
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Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
Cameroon 0-0 Georgia
Greece 2-2 North Korea - Gre goals by Kostas Katsouranis & Angelos Charisteas. NK goals both by Jong Tae-Se.
Nigeria 0-0 Saudi Arabia
Ireland 2-1 Paraguay - Ire goals by Kevin Doyle & Liam Lawrence. Par goal by Lucas Barrios.
USA v Czech Republic
-Wed May 26
Chile v Zambia
France v Costa Rica
Mexico v Netherlands
Uruguay v Israel
-Thu May 27
Denmark v Senegal
Honduras v Belarus
South Africa v Colombia
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Football business organization Leaders In Football give opinions on 2 future World Cup bids - Qatar - and - Russia.
WHY NOT!
Brian Strauss of Fanhouse does a Q & A with Daily Show correspondent John Oliver, on football.
MLS WEEK 10
-Thu May 27
Chicago Fire v FC Dallas - 7PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
-Sat May 29
DC United v Chivas USA - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Crew Stadium - Columbus OH
New England Revolution v New York Red Bulls - 7PM Central on Galavision
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Houston Dynamo v Philadelphia Union - 7:30PM Central on FSC
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
Colorado Rapids v Seattle Sounders FC - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park - Commerce City CO
Real Salt Lake v Kansas City Wizards - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
San Jose Earthquakes v Toronto FC - 9PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Columbus Crew forward Emilio Renteria was named Player Of The Week.
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Jack Bell of the New York Times talks to Red Bulls coach Hans Backe who says the team is in need of the upcoming World Cup break in the schedule. And a few other MLS notes.
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Paul James of the Toronto Globe & Mail likes the new attitude that TFC is showing.
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Tim Booth of the Associated Press sees this year as Seattle's "expansion year", full of stumbling and bumbling. Via USA Today.
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Steve Hunt of Fox Sports Southwest with multiple notes on FC Dallas.
MLS INJURY REPORT
Word on the street today is that Seattle centerback Jhon Kennedy Hurtado will not be out the 6 weeks we initially thought, due to a knee ligament injury, but more likely the ENTIRE SEASON. Let's hope its not that bad.
MLS/SUM BUSINESS
Brian Lewis of the NY Post talks to MLS exec Todd Durbin about "DPs, reserve league and rules changes."
NSC MINNESOTA STARS
The Stars have signed 2 new midfielders:
-Geison Moura - 23 year old from Sao Paulo Brazil
-Lucas Rodriguez - 24 year old from Buenos Aires Argentina
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune sees Claudio Reyna's job of shaping the youth of our country as an enormous task.
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The New Orleans Times Picayune tells us how we need to move soccer forward in America.
AMERICANS TRAVELING TO SOUTH AFRICA
Are you one of the lucky few headed to the World Cup in person? Well, US Soccer has put together a most helpful travel guide featuring the following categories:
Planning and Preparation
Travel Checklist
Travel and Transportation
Transportation in South Africa
Travel Times
Once You Arrive
Tickets
Schedule & Stadium Information
Local Attractions
Safety
Communication
U.S. Embassy
About South Africa
USA WORLD CUP 2018/22 BID
Joseph D'Hippolito of USA Today on the chances of the USA getting to host the World Cup again.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE - RUMORS
Soccer 365 with some juicy Euro rumors for Heath Pearce, David Yelldell and Steve Cherundolo, among other things.
CONCACAF
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
USA v Czech Republic - in East Hartford CT at Rentschler Field
-Wed May 26
Netherlands v Mexico in Freiburg, Germany
-Thu May 27
Honduras v Belarus in Villach, Austria
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial Field
Venezuela v Canada - in Merida, Venezuela
-Sun May 30
Gambia v Mexico - in Bayreuth, Germany
-Tue Jun 1
Switzerland v Costa Rica - in Sion, Switzerland
-Wed Jun 2
Honduras v Azerbaijan in Zell Am See, Austria
-Thu Jun 3
Italy v Mexico - in Brussels, Belgium
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - in Roodepoort, South Africa at Ruimsig Stadium
Honduras v Romania in St. Veit An Der Glan, Austria
Slovakia v Costa Rica in Bratislava, Slovakia
MEXICO
Club America has hired Manuel Lapuente to be their new head coach, for the third time.
SPAIN
Sid Lowe of the Guardian with his La Liga season review and awards.
FRANCE
Jean Tigana has been hired as the new coach of Bordeaux.
ITALY
Gabriele Marcotti of the Wall Street Journal looks at how Inter had the huge successes they did this season.
dN
I have to admit that I found this video touching - Inter coach Jose Mourihno says good bye to Marco Materazzi (not one of my favorite people) after the Champions League final in Madrid. Via Gazzetta.
SCOTLAND
Rangers head coach Walter Smith has signed a contract to run the team again next season.
USA coach Bob Bradley will introduce his final 23 player World Cup roster live on ESPN Sports Center at 12 noon Central tomorrow - Wed May 26.
Get on board our Twitter train: @dunord
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Today's Match & Score:
-Tue May 25
USA V Czech Republic - 7pm Central on ESPN
Venue: Rentschler Field - East Hartford CT
Czechia roster:
G:
Petr Cech - Chelsea
Jaroslav Drobny - Hertha Berlin
Jan Lastuvka - Dnipro
D:
Tomas Hubschman - Shakhtar Donetsk
David Limbersky - Plzen
Ondrej Kusnir - Sparta Prague
Ondrej Mazuch - Anderlecht
Jan Rajnoch - Ankaragucu
Tomas Sivok - Besiktas
M:
Jaroslav Cerny - Slavia Prague
Milan Cerny - Slavia Prague
Mario Holek - Dnipro
Jan Moravek - Schalke
Jaroslav Plasil - Bordeaux
Jan Polak - Anderlecht
Daniel Pudil - Genk
Libor Sionko - Sparta Prague
Rudolf Skacel - Larissa
F:
Martin Fenin - Eintracht Frankfurt
David Lafata - Liberec
Tomas Necid - CSKA Moscow
Tomas Pekhart - Jablonec
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Tons of pre-game notes from US Soccer.
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Kieran’s Pub in Minneapolis has become an official US Soccer Bar! Great job!
-But that still leaves them years behind the Sweetwater when it comes to supporting US Soccer!!!
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How cool is it that the man I call the greatest basketball player of all time shows up at Team USA training! Bill Russell. 13 years in the NBA and 11 Championships. He even won 2 NBA titles as a coach. Before that 2 years in a row as NCAA Champ at San Francisco. And even an Olympic gold medal winner. He is a pure through and through winner! Not to mention his amazing stand on civil rights!
At 6'9" he regularly shut down the famous Wilt Chamberlin who stood 7'1" (and won only 2 NBA titles).
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Adam Spangler of This Is American Soccer with a 5 Part feature story on Sacha Kljestan.
Part 5
Part 4
Part 3
Part 2
Part 1
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Oguchi Onyewu gets all GQ on us. Words and pictures.
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Kelly Whiteside of USA Today on the team's unity.
-Whiteside also reports that this is a relatively young squad.
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USA Today asks Alexi Lalas, Abby Wambach, Michael Lewis and Jeff Agoos their World Cup expectations and predictions.
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Eric Beard from A Football Report does an interview with Clint Dempsey.
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Jason de Vos of the CBC on Oguchi Onyewu.
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Jere Longman of the New York Times on DaMarcus Beasley.
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Ives Galarcep of Soccer By Ives predicts his 23 players.
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The Newark Star Ledger on Alejandro Bedoya - the one we know the least about.
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Jose de Jesus Ortiz of the Houston Chronicle on Brian Ching.
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Yanks Abroad continues their series of articles on the players in camp:
-Alejandro Bedoya
-Michael Bradley
-Jay DeMerit
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Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports on Tim Howard.
-We also get a video report from training camp.
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Ron Blum of the Associated Press on the USA cut down to 23 players. Via Yahoo.
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Nick Green of the Daily Breeze tries to read the roster tea-leaves.
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Brian Strauss of Fanhouse on what the USA really needs to sort out tonight - defense.
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Brian Lewis at the NY Post on the other hand is staring at the offense to ask his questions.
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Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
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USA OPPONENTS:
England
-The Guardian with a review of their performance against Mexico on Monday. (Never mind the headline about Chelsea players, they are only in the opening sentence or two, then have nothing to do with the article.)
-Who will be England's goalkeeper? Yesterday saw Robert Green play the first half and Joe Hart the second. And then there is David James.
-Patrick Barclay of the Times sees England's fullback as vital to the teams success.
-James Lawton of the Independent sees Steven Gerrard as ready to contribute.
Algeria
-Starting midfielder Mourad Meghni from Lazio has not recovered from a knee injury and will be left off the team.
-Head coach Rabah Saadane is the only African coaching at this World Cup. All the other African teams have foreign coaches (South Africa - Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazil / Cameroon - Paul Le Guen, France / Ghana - Milovan Rajevac, Serbia / Ivory Coast - Sven Goren Eriksson, Sweden)
dN
FC Dallas will be hosting huge outdoor USA World Cup viewing parties in central Dallas. Check it out.
dN
Michael Lewis of the NY Daily News on the souvenirish shirt trading players do after games.
HONDURAS WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
Honduras has had a disastrous start to their training as their original camp in Germany is flooded, and they are scrambling to get set up in Austria. Not good.
dN
Nigel Reed of the CBC looks at Honduras without star forward Carlos Costly.
dN
Paul Fletcher of the BBC looks at politics and football in Honduras.
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
Jonathan Wilson at Sports Illustrated oddly sees Spain having both Fernando Torres and David Villa as a burden.
dN
There is a new documentary film out called World Cup Soccer in Africa - Who Really Wins. It examines all the money coming and going around this massive tournament, and where it will end up with the games are over. See the trailer here.
-Available now through all regular video outlets like Amazon and Netflix.
dN
The New York Times reports that the country of South Africa is still struggling to make this World Cup their own.
dN
Tim Vickery at the CBC sees Maradona as getting everything right for Argentina against Canada yesterday.
-And I was wrong about them only playing 3 in the back, they converted an outside midfielder, Jonas Gutierrez, to fullback.
dN
Jay Weiner of MinnPost with an article on the host country, including the connection of NSC Minnesota Star winger Two-Boys Guamede. Thanks to Brian for the link.
dN
Reuters with an article on Japan's struggle to find their best as the big games get close.
dN
FIFA.com has a Q & A with Ghana's Kevin Prince Boateng.
dN
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
Cameroon 0-0 Georgia
Greece 2-2 North Korea - Gre goals by Kostas Katsouranis & Angelos Charisteas. NK goals both by Jong Tae-Se.
Nigeria 0-0 Saudi Arabia
Ireland 2-1 Paraguay - Ire goals by Kevin Doyle & Liam Lawrence. Par goal by Lucas Barrios.
USA v Czech Republic
-Wed May 26
Chile v Zambia
France v Costa Rica
Mexico v Netherlands
Uruguay v Israel
-Thu May 27
Denmark v Senegal
Honduras v Belarus
South Africa v Colombia
dN
Football business organization Leaders In Football give opinions on 2 future World Cup bids - Qatar - and - Russia.
WHY NOT!
Brian Strauss of Fanhouse does a Q & A with Daily Show correspondent John Oliver, on football.
MLS WEEK 10
-Thu May 27
Chicago Fire v FC Dallas - 7PM Central on ESPN2
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
-Sat May 29
DC United v Chivas USA - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: RFK Stadium - Washington DC
Columbus Crew v Los Angeles Galaxy - 6:30PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Crew Stadium - Columbus OH
New England Revolution v New York Red Bulls - 7PM Central on Galavision
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Houston Dynamo v Philadelphia Union - 7:30PM Central on FSC
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
Colorado Rapids v Seattle Sounders FC - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park - Commerce City CO
Real Salt Lake v Kansas City Wizards - 8PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
San Jose Earthquakes v Toronto FC - 9PM Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Columbus Crew forward Emilio Renteria was named Player Of The Week.
dN
Jack Bell of the New York Times talks to Red Bulls coach Hans Backe who says the team is in need of the upcoming World Cup break in the schedule. And a few other MLS notes.
dN
Paul James of the Toronto Globe & Mail likes the new attitude that TFC is showing.
dN
Tim Booth of the Associated Press sees this year as Seattle's "expansion year", full of stumbling and bumbling. Via USA Today.
dN
Steve Hunt of Fox Sports Southwest with multiple notes on FC Dallas.
MLS INJURY REPORT
Word on the street today is that Seattle centerback Jhon Kennedy Hurtado will not be out the 6 weeks we initially thought, due to a knee ligament injury, but more likely the ENTIRE SEASON. Let's hope its not that bad.
MLS/SUM BUSINESS
Brian Lewis of the NY Post talks to MLS exec Todd Durbin about "DPs, reserve league and rules changes."
NSC MINNESOTA STARS
The Stars have signed 2 new midfielders:
-Geison Moura - 23 year old from Sao Paulo Brazil
-Lucas Rodriguez - 24 year old from Buenos Aires Argentina
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune sees Claudio Reyna's job of shaping the youth of our country as an enormous task.
dN
The New Orleans Times Picayune tells us how we need to move soccer forward in America.
AMERICANS TRAVELING TO SOUTH AFRICA
Are you one of the lucky few headed to the World Cup in person? Well, US Soccer has put together a most helpful travel guide featuring the following categories:
Planning and Preparation
Travel Checklist
Travel and Transportation
Transportation in South Africa
Travel Times
Once You Arrive
Tickets
Schedule & Stadium Information
Local Attractions
Safety
Communication
U.S. Embassy
About South Africa
USA WORLD CUP 2018/22 BID
Joseph D'Hippolito of USA Today on the chances of the USA getting to host the World Cup again.
AMERICANS IN EUROPE - RUMORS
Soccer 365 with some juicy Euro rumors for Heath Pearce, David Yelldell and Steve Cherundolo, among other things.
CONCACAF
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
USA v Czech Republic - in East Hartford CT at Rentschler Field
-Wed May 26
Netherlands v Mexico in Freiburg, Germany
-Thu May 27
Honduras v Belarus in Villach, Austria
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial Field
Venezuela v Canada - in Merida, Venezuela
-Sun May 30
Gambia v Mexico - in Bayreuth, Germany
-Tue Jun 1
Switzerland v Costa Rica - in Sion, Switzerland
-Wed Jun 2
Honduras v Azerbaijan in Zell Am See, Austria
-Thu Jun 3
Italy v Mexico - in Brussels, Belgium
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - in Roodepoort, South Africa at Ruimsig Stadium
Honduras v Romania in St. Veit An Der Glan, Austria
Slovakia v Costa Rica in Bratislava, Slovakia
MEXICO
Club America has hired Manuel Lapuente to be their new head coach, for the third time.
SPAIN
Sid Lowe of the Guardian with his La Liga season review and awards.
FRANCE
Jean Tigana has been hired as the new coach of Bordeaux.
ITALY
Gabriele Marcotti of the Wall Street Journal looks at how Inter had the huge successes they did this season.
dN
I have to admit that I found this video touching - Inter coach Jose Mourihno says good bye to Marco Materazzi (not one of my favorite people) after the Champions League final in Madrid. Via Gazzetta.
SCOTLAND
Rangers head coach Walter Smith has signed a contract to run the team again next season.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Some News for Mon May 24, 2010
STARTERS
After a hugely successful Spring season at Puebla in Mexico for Herculez Gomez, he has been snapped up by Pachuca. He will join his fellow American Jose Torres. Not bad!
dN
Toluca are Mexican Clausura Champions! Hooray Dos Equis!
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As you can read from the headline in Marca on Sunday, Jose Mourinho is headed to Real Madrid.
-Daniele De Rossi of Roma, Douglas Maicon of Inter and Steven Gerrard of Liverpool are reportedly all headed to Real Madrid as well.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Inter Milan have won the big European club championship for the first time since the back-to-back seasons of 63/64 and 64/65. Hooray Bruce!
dN
Diego Milito was the hero of the game scoring both goals on brilliant moves that left defenders and goalkeeper baffled as to how to stop him. Glorious performance.
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The Grand Finale!
-Sat May 22
Football Club Internazionale Milano 2-0 Fussball-Club Bayern Munchen - Int goals both by Diego Milito.
Venue: Estadio Santiago Bernabeu - Madrid, Spain
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I only really need to see one article after the game:
Jonathan Wilson at Sports Illustrated on Inter's deserved win.
OK, two:
Gabriele Marcotti of The Times on the historical meanings of Inter's huge win.
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The final was game #700 in an Inter uniform for Javier Zanetti! And after a season like this one, you get to cry!
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7 of the 14 players Bayern used were German.
Only 1 of the 14 players Inter used was Italian.
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Inter gives us photos from the big celebration on Sunday back in Milan.
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The two teams were both hoping to win the coveted triple - that's the three main trophies in one season: League, League Cup and European Cup. Both have already won the first 2 but now is the one that achieved that huge goal.
Inter:
*Serie A - won the league championship on Sun May 16.
*Coppa Italia - won the league Cup 1-0 over Roma on Wed May 5.
*Champions League - won the final 2-0 on Sat May 22 over Bayern Munich.
Bayern:
*Bundesliga - won the league championship on Sat May 8.
*DFB Pokal - won the league cup 4-0 over Werder Bremen on Sat May 15.
Champions League - lost in the final 0-2 on Sat May 22 to Inter Milan.
UEFA CHAMPIONS IN AMERICA THIS SUMMER
As was announced last week, Inter Milan will be in America as part of their pre-season training, with a game against Manchester City announced on Sat Jul 31 in Baltimore at M&T Bank Stadium.
Now you can add to that Sat Aug 7 in Los Angeles at the Home Depot Center against the Galaxy. Hoooohooo.
And also a game against FC Dallas on Thu Aug 5 at Pizza Hut Park.
-Gee, first week of August.... the temp should only be about 104 that day!
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
It was revealed over the weekend that Carlos Bocanegra had hernia surgery on May 5. The procedure was done in Germany by the doctor who developed the less intrusive and quick recovery style repair.
dN
Kelly Whiteside of the USA Today does an enlightening Q & A with Landon Donovan.
-Also in a side are gambling odds for who will win the World Cup. The USA is sitting at at typical 75-1. But I have to admit that I am surprised to see these 3 ahead our team:
Chile 60:1
Paraguay 60:1
Serbia 70:1
-Our group opponents are at:
England 7:1
Slovenia 275:1
Algeria 400:1
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The Trentonian on the teams training at Princeton.
-The paper reports that the team will visit the White House on Thursday.
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Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated says that Tuesday's game against the Czechs will be the only chance some guys will get to earn a roster spot. Who does Wahl think those 23 will be?
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Wahl also hears from coach Bob Bradley on the importance of Princeton University on his life.
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Steve Davis on his blog Daily Soccer Fix with a great article - the improbable rise of US candidate Herculez Gomez.
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Jere Longman of the New York Times with the saga of the American goalkeeper in the English leagues.
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Franco Panizo of Soccer By Ives on Steve Cherundolo and his leadership qualities.
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Yanks Abroad with articles on 3 players:
-Herculez Gomez
-Brad Guzan
-Oguchi Onyewu
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Brian Lewis of the NY Post with focus on the USA defensive corp.
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Adam Spangler of This Is American Soccer with Part 1-4 of 5 of his feature story on Sacha Kljestan.
Part 4
Part 3
Part 2
Part 1
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Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
- - - - -
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USA OPPONENTS
Algeria
-The BBC digs a little deeper into our 3rd opponent.
dN
Turkey and the Czech Rep warmed up for their games against the USA by battling each other on Saturday night in New Jersey at Red Bull Arena. The Turks won it 2-1 on goals by Arda Turan & Nihat Kahvec. CR got their single goal from Milan Cerny.
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28,000 tickets have been sold for Tuesday nights game. Capacity is about 40,000.
Pre-World Cup Warm Up Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
USA V Czech Republic - 7pm Central on ESPN
Venue: Rentschler Field - East Hartford CT
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Czechia roster:
G:
Petr Cech - Chelsea
Jaroslav Drobny - Hertha Berlin
Jan Lastuvka - Dnipro
D:
Tomas Hubschman - Shakhtar Donetsk
David Limbersky - Plzen
Ondrej Kusnir - Sparta Prague
Ondrej Mazuch - Anderlecht
Jan Rajnoch - Ankaragucu
Tomas Sivok - Besiktas
M:
Jaroslav Cerny - Slavia Prague
Milan Cerny - Slavia Prague
Mario Holek - Dnipro
Jan Moravek - Schalke
Jaroslav Plasil - Bordeaux
Jan Polak - Anderlecht
Daniel Pudil - Genk
Libor Sionko - Sparta Prague
Rudolf Skacel - Larissa
F:
Martin Fenin - Eintracht Frankfurt
David Lafata - Liberec
Tomas Necid - CSKA Moscow
Tomas Pekhart - Jablonec
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
Sirius Satellite radio will again broadcast all 64 World Cup games in American. Their lead announcers will be JP Dellacamera and Tommy Smyth.
Portugal got off to a poor start today in a scoreless draw against the Cape Verdes Islands.
On the other hand Argentina handed Canada their lunch in a wet leaky back winning 5-0.
-But is Maradona really going to line up in a 3-5-2?
Owen Gibson of the Guardian sees England's win today over Mexico as inconsistent.
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Mon May 24
Argentina 5-0 Canada - Arg goals by Maxi Rodriguez(2), Angel Di Maria, Carlos Tevez & Kun Aguero.
Australia 2-1 New Zealand - Aus goals by Dario Vidosic & Brett Holman. NZ goal by Chris Killen.
England 3-1 Mexico - Eng goals by Ledley King, Peter Crouch & Gus Johnson. Mex goal by Guillermo Franco.
Japan 0-2 South Korea - SK goals by Ji-Sung Park & Chu-Young Park(PK).
Portugal 0-0 Cape Verdes Islands
South Africa 1-1 Bulgaria - SF goal by Siyabonga Sangweni. Bul goal by Valeri Bojinov.
-Tue May 25
Cameroon v Georgia
Greece v North Korea
Nigeria v Saudi Arabia
Paraguay v Ireland
USA v Czech Republic
-Wed May 26
Chile v Zambia
France v Costa Rica
Mexico v Netherlands
Uruguay v Israel
dN
FIFA.com has a Q & A with Mexico's Andrew Guardado.
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James Lawton of the Independent sees potential gold in the offing for Maradona and Argentina.
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France named their final 23 today, and are in action on Wednesday:
G:
Cedric Carrasso - Bordeaux
Hugo Lloris - Lyon
Steve Mandanda - Marseille
D:
Eric Abidal - Barcelona
Gael Clichy - Arsenal
Patrice Evra - Manchester United
William Gallas - Arsenal
Marc Planus - Bordeaux
Anthony Reveillere - Lyon
Bacary Sagna - Arsenal
Sebastien Squillaci - Sevilla
M:
Abou Diaby - Arsenal
Alou Diarra - Bordeaux
Yoann Gourcuff - Bordeaux
Florent Malouda - Chelsea
Jeremy Toulalan - Lyon
Mathieu Valbuena - Marseille
F:
Nicolas Anelka - Chelsea
Djibril Cisse - Panathinaikos
Andre-Pierre Gignac - Toulouse
Sidney Govou - Lyon
Thierry Henry - Barcelona
Franck Ribery - Bayern Munich
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The Glasgow Times talks to New England head coach Steve Nicol and they look back at the 1986 World Cup, which he played in with Scotland.
FACT OF THE DAY
I want this shirt. XXL please. Thanks.
STORY OF THE DAY
Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports gives us his 2009/10 best 11 European players.
-What do ya think? Who did he miss, and who should they replace on his list?
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
The Union of Philadelphia has posted a video preview of the nearly completed stadium PPL Park. WOWOWOWOW!
MLS WEEK 9
-Thu May 20
New York Red Bulls 1-3 Columbus Crew - NYRB goal by Tony Tchani. CC goals by Eddie Gaven, Andy Iro & Emilio Renteria.
Venue: Red Bull Arena - Harrison NJ
Attendance: 11,940
FC Dallas 0-1 Los Angeles Galaxy - LAG goal by Mike Magee.
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frisco TX
Attendance: 10,947
-Sat May 22
Toronto FC 1-0 New England Revolution - TFC goal by Chad Barrett.
Venue: BMO Field - Toronto ON
Attendance: 20,672
Seattle Sounders FC 0-1 San Jose Earthquakes - SJE goal by Chris Wondolowski.
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
Attendance: 35,953
Houston Dynamo 2-0 DC United - HD goals by Danny Cruz & Dominic Oduro.
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
Attendance: 24,471
Chivas USA 1-2 Real Salt Lake - CUSA goal by Justin Braun. RSL goals by Chris Wingert & Fabian Espindola.
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
Attendance: 14,287
-Sun May 23
Kansas City Wizards 0-1 Columbus Crew - CC goal by Emilio Renteria.
Venue: CommunityAmerica Ballpark - Kansas City KS
Attendance: 10,385
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Steve Davis of Sports Illustrated gives us five things to take away from Week 9.
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Kyle Mccarthy of Goal.com with his Monday Morning Breakdown - here come's RSL, and the rest of the weekend in review.
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Frank Dell'Apa of the Boston Globe informs us that along with Shalrie Joseph entering the league's Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health program he was also give a 5 game suspension. But no reason was given for the suspension.
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Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America looks at Seattle's struggle to score goals and earn points.
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Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer hips us to another unknown kid with the Red Bulls harboring lots of talent, Irving Garcia, who showed it in the team's friendly against Juventus.
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Nigel Reed of the CBC says the key to a big season for Toronto is their defense.
-I like Reed a lot but, NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!! Did he just figure this out?
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Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch in his Crew match report looks at the teams road "style".
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James Edward of the Deseret News with an article on one of those in a seemingly endless stream of players that has a lot of potential but will he make it in MLS - Salt Lake midfielder Jean Alexandre.
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Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America with an article on RSL's biggest off season find so far this year is Alvaro Saborio. With some good insider stuff here.
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Charles Gooch at the Kansas City Star with his thoughts on ways KC can get their machine rolling - not all are on field specific!
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Joshua Mayer of the Seattle Times does short Q & A's with Sounder coach Sigi Schmid and general manager Adrian Hanauer.
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The Houston Press on the up-tick in performance by highly paid Dynamo forward Luis Landin.
MLS INJURY REPORT
Seattle's top rate centerback Jhon Kennedy Hurtado will be out the next 6-8 weeks due to a torn left anterior cruciate ligament.
DU NORD PLAYER OF THE WEEK
How can it not be San Jose midfielder Bobby Convey! He is finally seems completely out of his own personal goo goo much and tearing down the left side of the field again. Its fantastic to see someone with so much promise turn it all back around again.
MY THOUGHTS
21,154 was the average attendance for the 5 games on Saturday & Sunday, and could have been higher if the KC max capacity was bigger.
San Jose has now gone 4 games without giving up a goal. 3 wins and 1 loss, with 6 goals scored too.
And Chris Wondolowski is just tearing it up for the Earthquakes in front of goal. He has played in 6 games and nabbed 5 goals. Is this his year?
Houston's yo-yo season was back up!
20 year old Danny Cruz got his first ever MLS start and goal for Houston!
Tally Hall also got his first league start and got the shut out for Houston.
There is a chance we might see KC's Craig Rocastle further punished by the league for the vicious kick he put on Columbus's Renteria while laying on the ground. The ref gave him a yellow card, but it was red worthy.
And how about Renteria making two sub appearances this week and bagging big goals in each of them! Nicely done!
Great to see Shalrie Joseph back on the field for New England this weekend.
But the Revolution team are seriously running on all flat tires right now as they have not won in the past 7 league games - 2 ties and 5 losses - oof!
Preki is doing his thing for Toronto, no doubt about it. Just like at Chivas for 3 seasons. It's not pretty, but there are no points for looks either.
Chad Barrett did his damnedest to keep his role on the team as "the Vasectomy" missing 2 primo chances, but finally got his head on one and won the game. Great job.
Fuad Ibrahim from right here in my Twin Cities got a rate start for TFC. He is looking grown up these days.
Another Twin Citian Teal Bunbury got his first MLS start with Kansas City on Sunday.
I feel bad about this, but from all the years of my team have a fierce rivalry with Seattle I cannot help but derive a bit of glee every time Seattle loses. I know that makes me petty, then again I am petty.
How bad is the foot injury for RSL's Kyle Beckerman? He was subbed off in the 20th min. I guess we are supposed to know on Tuesday.
Chivas USA committed that old sin of not giving up goals at the ends of halves - one goal at the end of half 1, and another at the end of half 2, at home no less, doomed them against Salt Lake.
MLS/SUM BUSINESS
How about this one - MLS is opening a development academy for Ticket Sales Reps. Yes, you read that right. And for some reason they are staring it right here in my Twin Cities, in connection with our second division team NSC Minnesota Stars. Why not with one of their own teams? Weird, weird, weird!
MLS STADIUM BUILDING
Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com talks to Union head-cheese Nick Sakiewicz about building a stadium for New York and now Philadelphia.
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MSNBC's SportsBiz page on the new wave and style of stadiums being built in America, like Red Bull Arena.
MLS RUMORS
Spanish forward Nacho Novo has reportedly turned down an offer from DC United. He has left Rangers and signed with Sporting Gijon.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
The Fire finished last in their own tournament, with Red Star of Belgrade, Serbia taking home the Cup!
Sister Cities International Cup
-Wed May 19
Chicago Fire 0-1 Paris Saint-Germain (France)
Legia Warsaw (Poland) 0-1 Red Star Belgrade(Serbia)
-Sat May 22
Paris Saint-Germain 1-1 Red Star Belgrade - Red Star win 7-6 in Penalty Kick Shootout.
Chicago Fire 0-3 Legia Warsaw - for the pride
Match report by Len Ziehm of the Chicago Sun Times.
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
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New York stomped a Juventus team that featured regulars Grosso, Salihamidzic, Zebina, Diego, Trezeguet, Amauri and Del Piero. Juve got their only goal in 2nd half stoppage time. Not bad guys, not bad at all.
If you go to the official Juve website you will see articles about the team arriving in New York, and then it skips right to the big welcome they got in Toronto for a Tuesday game against Sampdoria. Oops. A couple players make mention of the hammering in passing, otherwise you would definitely not know it happened.
The MLS Insider got video of this Juve fan go off on his sorry team.
And in LA the young academy trainee Tristan Bowen gets his first professional Galaxy goal as they beat Boca Juniors. Bowen will certainly get a lot more chances over the next 6 weeks if Edson Buddle makes the USA World Cup team.
-Sun May 23
New York Red Bulls 3-1 Juventus (Italy) - NYRB goals by Jeremy Hall, Conor Chinn & Juan Pablo Angel. Juv goal by Amauri.
Venue: Red Bull Arena
Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 Boca Juniors (Argentina) - LAG goal by Tristan Bowen.
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
-Wed May 26
DC United v AC Milan (Italy)
Venue: RFK Stadium
Seattle Sounders v Boca Juniors (Argentina)
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
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Newly added:
-Thu Aug 5
FC Dallas v Inter Milan (Italy)
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frisco TX
-Sat Aug 7
Los Angeles Galaxy v Inter Milan (Italy)
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
US OPEN CUP
MLS - Play-In Round with the winner advancing to the Round of 16:
-Wed May 26
New York Red Bulls v Colorado Rapids
Venue: Red Bull Arena - Harrison NJ
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All the best Open Cup info can be found right here at The Cup.
USSF DIVISION 2
Travis Clark of Soccer By Ives with a round up from the weekend.
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Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 22
Crystal Palace Baltimore 1-0 Portland Timbers
Miami FC Blues 0-1 NSC Minnesota Stars
AC St Louis 0-3 Tampa Bay Rowdies
Vancouver Whitecaps 2-0 Rochester Rhinos
-Wed May 26
Miami FC Blues v Austin Aztex
Puerto Rico Islanders v Carolina RailHawks
-Thu May 27
Tampa Bay Rowdies v NSC Minnesota Stars
-Sat May 29
Rochester Rhinos v Vancouver Whitecaps
Crystal Palace Baltimore v Austin Aztex
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Puerto Rico Islanders
NSC Minnesota Stars v AC St Louis
-Sun May 30
Montreal Impact v Carolina RailHawks
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Standings (As of Sun May 23):
14 Austin - 7 played
12 Vancouver - 7 played
12 Tampa Bay - 7 played
11 Montreal - 6 played
11 Rochester - 8 played
11 Portland - 8 played
10 Baltimore - 8 played
8 Miami - 6 played
7 Minnesota - 9 played
6 Puerto Rico - 3 played
5 Carolina - 5 played
4 St Louis - 8 played
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Standings base on Points Per Game:
2.00 Puerto Rico
2.00 Austin
1.83 Montreal
1.71 Tampa Bay
1.71 Vancouver
1.38 Portland
1.38 Rochester
1.33 Miami
1.25 Baltimore
1.00 Carolina
0.78 Minnesota
0.50 St Louis
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Brian Quarstad of Inside Minnesota Soccer reports on a Reunion game played last Saturday in El Paso TX featuring members of USA & Mexico World Cup teams of days gone by.
-Approx 20,000 in attendance?!?! Wow.
-Brian and I talked about how nice it would be if any of us knew about this BEFORE it happened.
-Here is a match report from the El Paso Times.
USA U20 TEAM
The USA U20's were in the Cor Groenewegen Tournamentin Netherlands and finished 8th out of 12 teams.
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Official USA Matches & Scores:
USA 2-1 Japan
USA 0-0 Atl Mineiro
USA 1-0 Lokeren
USA 0-0 Utrecht
USA 1-0 Heerenveen
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7th Place game:
USA 0-1 Senegal
Championship:
Japan v South Korea
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Group A Standings
12 FC Twente (Netherlands)
12 South Korea
10 Cruz Azul (Mexico)
7 Senegal
3 FC Uitgeest (Netherlands - host team)
0 Canada
Group B Standings
11 Atletico Mineiro (Brazil)
10 Japan
8 FC Utrecht (Netherlands)
8 USA
4 SC Heerenveen (Netherlands)
0 Sporting Lokeren (Netherlands)
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USA Roster:
G:
Samir Badr - Porto
Cody Cropper - Ipswich Town
D:
Gale Agbossoumonde - Braga
Chad Barson - Akron
Bryan De La Fuente - Chivas USA
Perry Kitchen - Akron
Kofi Sarkodie - Akron
Zarek Valentin - Akron
Parker Walsh - 1860 Munich
M:
Erik Benjaminsen - Stabaek
Lester Dewee - Olympique Marseille
Bryan Dominguez - Miami FC
Alex Molano - Dinamo Zagreb
Amobi Okugo - Philadelphia Union
Moises Orozco - Real So Cal
George Pantelic - RAD Belgrade
Cesar Zamora - Chivas USA
F:
Juan Agudelo - New York Red Bulls
Jack McInerney - Philadelphia Union
Bobby Wood - 1860 Munich
CONCACAF
Not a good day for our regional cousins.
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Mon May 24
Argentina 5-0 Canada in Buenos Aires, Argentina
England 3-1 Mexico in London at Wembley Stadium
-Tue May 25
USA v Czech Republic - in East Hartford CT at Rentschler Field
-Wed May 26
Netherlands v Mexico in Freiburg, Germany
-Thu May 27
Honduras v Belarus in Villach, Austria
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial Field
Venezuela v Canada - in Merida, Venezuela
-Sun May 30
Gambia v Mexico - in Bayreuth, Germany
-Tue Jun 1
Switzerland v Costa Rica - in Sion, Switzerland
-Wed Jun 2
Honduras v Azerbaijan in Zell Am See, Austria
-Thu Jun 3
Italy v Mexico - in Brussels, Belgium
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - in Roodepoort, South Africa at Ruimsig Stadium
Honduras v Romania in St. Veit An Der Glan, Austria
Slovakia v Costa Rica in Bratislava, Slovakia
MEXICO
Toluca are Mexican Champions! Hooray Dos Equis!
Santos could have won the title but twice they missed the entire goal with PKs.
Clausura 2010 playoffs:
Matches & Scores - Final:
2nd Leg
-Sun May 23
Toluca 0-0 Santos Laguna - series ends tied 2-2, with Toluca then winning 4-3 in a Penalty Kick shootout.
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Isidro Metapan is the El Salvador Primera Division Clausura Championship!
Final Match & Score:
-Sun May 23
Aguila 1-3 Isidro Metapan
ENGLAND
Blackpool becomes the 3rd and final Championship division team promoted to the Premier League for next season.
Two Championship division teams played-off for the one last promotion spot to the Premier League:
Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 22
Cardiff City 2-3 Blackpool
Venue: Wembley Arena
SPAIN
Bloomberg with an article on the unprofitability of top flight soccer in Spain.
-Only 4 teams in La Primera Division turned a profit in 09.
GERMANY
Franck Ribery has signed a new contract at Bayern Munich that runs to the end of the 2014/15 season. This does not mean he is staying for 5 more years, just that his pricetag to leave has gone UP.
EUROPE
Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune looks at the chances of Turkey hosting the European Championship in 2016.
COPA LIBERTADORES
The tournament will not resume until over 2 weeks after the World Cup has finished.
Matches & Scores - Semifinals:
1st Leg
-Wed Jul 28
Internacional v Sao Paulo
Guadalajara v Universidad de Chile
2nd Leg
-Wed Aug 4
Universidad de Chile v Guadalajara
Sao Paulo v Internacional
ENDERS
The 2nd Annual Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival is about to get underway in New York City. Running Tue Jun 1 to Sat Jun 5, the line up looks pretty fantastic again this year.
Here is the official lineup:
-Tue Jun 1: "THE 12TH MAN"
Fifteen Minutes that Shook the World - directed by David Kirby
Because There Are Things You Never Forget - directed by Lucas Figueroa
Loucos de Futebol (Beyond Soccer) - directed by Halder Gomes
-Wed Jun 2: "WAR AND FOOTBALL"
The Last Yugoslavian Football Team - directed by Vuk Janic
Ana’s Playground - directed by Eric Howell
-Thu Jun 3: "THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE"
El Arbitro (The Ref) - directed by Justin Webster and Eriz Zapiriain
L’Arbitro (The Referee) - directed by Paolo Zucca
-Fri Jun 4: "THE POWER OF THE GAME"
Eine Andere Liga (Another League) - directed by Buket Alakus
-Sat Jun 5: "TO AFRICA, WITH LOVE"
The Game of Their Lives - directed by Daniel Gordon
Africa 10 - directed by Victor Buhler
After each night showings there will be an expert panel on hand to discuss the films and related topics. Panelists include: Simon Kuper, Vuk Janic, Eric Howell, Justin Webster, Adrian Healy, Ethan Zohn, Daniel Gordon and more.
Get all the details at the Kicking & Screening website.
After a hugely successful Spring season at Puebla in Mexico for Herculez Gomez, he has been snapped up by Pachuca. He will join his fellow American Jose Torres. Not bad!
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Toluca are Mexican Clausura Champions! Hooray Dos Equis!
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As you can read from the headline in Marca on Sunday, Jose Mourinho is headed to Real Madrid.
-Daniele De Rossi of Roma, Douglas Maicon of Inter and Steven Gerrard of Liverpool are reportedly all headed to Real Madrid as well.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Inter Milan have won the big European club championship for the first time since the back-to-back seasons of 63/64 and 64/65. Hooray Bruce!
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Diego Milito was the hero of the game scoring both goals on brilliant moves that left defenders and goalkeeper baffled as to how to stop him. Glorious performance.
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The Grand Finale!
-Sat May 22
Football Club Internazionale Milano 2-0 Fussball-Club Bayern Munchen - Int goals both by Diego Milito.
Venue: Estadio Santiago Bernabeu - Madrid, Spain
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I only really need to see one article after the game:
Jonathan Wilson at Sports Illustrated on Inter's deserved win.
OK, two:
Gabriele Marcotti of The Times on the historical meanings of Inter's huge win.
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The final was game #700 in an Inter uniform for Javier Zanetti! And after a season like this one, you get to cry!
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7 of the 14 players Bayern used were German.
Only 1 of the 14 players Inter used was Italian.
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Inter gives us photos from the big celebration on Sunday back in Milan.
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The two teams were both hoping to win the coveted triple - that's the three main trophies in one season: League, League Cup and European Cup. Both have already won the first 2 but now is the one that achieved that huge goal.
Inter:
*Serie A - won the league championship on Sun May 16.
*Coppa Italia - won the league Cup 1-0 over Roma on Wed May 5.
*Champions League - won the final 2-0 on Sat May 22 over Bayern Munich.
Bayern:
*Bundesliga - won the league championship on Sat May 8.
*DFB Pokal - won the league cup 4-0 over Werder Bremen on Sat May 15.
Champions League - lost in the final 0-2 on Sat May 22 to Inter Milan.
UEFA CHAMPIONS IN AMERICA THIS SUMMER
As was announced last week, Inter Milan will be in America as part of their pre-season training, with a game against Manchester City announced on Sat Jul 31 in Baltimore at M&T Bank Stadium.
Now you can add to that Sat Aug 7 in Los Angeles at the Home Depot Center against the Galaxy. Hoooohooo.
And also a game against FC Dallas on Thu Aug 5 at Pizza Hut Park.
-Gee, first week of August.... the temp should only be about 104 that day!
USA WORLD CUP 2010 SOUTH AFRICA
It was revealed over the weekend that Carlos Bocanegra had hernia surgery on May 5. The procedure was done in Germany by the doctor who developed the less intrusive and quick recovery style repair.
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Kelly Whiteside of the USA Today does an enlightening Q & A with Landon Donovan.
-Also in a side are gambling odds for who will win the World Cup. The USA is sitting at at typical 75-1. But I have to admit that I am surprised to see these 3 ahead our team:
Chile 60:1
Paraguay 60:1
Serbia 70:1
-Our group opponents are at:
England 7:1
Slovenia 275:1
Algeria 400:1
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The Trentonian on the teams training at Princeton.
-The paper reports that the team will visit the White House on Thursday.
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Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated says that Tuesday's game against the Czechs will be the only chance some guys will get to earn a roster spot. Who does Wahl think those 23 will be?
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Wahl also hears from coach Bob Bradley on the importance of Princeton University on his life.
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Steve Davis on his blog Daily Soccer Fix with a great article - the improbable rise of US candidate Herculez Gomez.
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Jere Longman of the New York Times with the saga of the American goalkeeper in the English leagues.
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Franco Panizo of Soccer By Ives on Steve Cherundolo and his leadership qualities.
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Yanks Abroad with articles on 3 players:
-Herculez Gomez
-Brad Guzan
-Oguchi Onyewu
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Brian Lewis of the NY Post with focus on the USA defensive corp.
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Adam Spangler of This Is American Soccer with Part 1-4 of 5 of his feature story on Sacha Kljestan.
Part 4
Part 3
Part 2
Part 1
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Official Team Blog
The US Soccer video page at You Tube. Fantastic stuff!
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USA OPPONENTS
Algeria
-The BBC digs a little deeper into our 3rd opponent.
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Turkey and the Czech Rep warmed up for their games against the USA by battling each other on Saturday night in New Jersey at Red Bull Arena. The Turks won it 2-1 on goals by Arda Turan & Nihat Kahvec. CR got their single goal from Milan Cerny.
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28,000 tickets have been sold for Tuesday nights game. Capacity is about 40,000.
Pre-World Cup Warm Up Matches & Scores:
-Tue May 25
USA V Czech Republic - 7pm Central on ESPN
Venue: Rentschler Field - East Hartford CT
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Czechia roster:
G:
Petr Cech - Chelsea
Jaroslav Drobny - Hertha Berlin
Jan Lastuvka - Dnipro
D:
Tomas Hubschman - Shakhtar Donetsk
David Limbersky - Plzen
Ondrej Kusnir - Sparta Prague
Ondrej Mazuch - Anderlecht
Jan Rajnoch - Ankaragucu
Tomas Sivok - Besiktas
M:
Jaroslav Cerny - Slavia Prague
Milan Cerny - Slavia Prague
Mario Holek - Dnipro
Jan Moravek - Schalke
Jaroslav Plasil - Bordeaux
Jan Polak - Anderlecht
Daniel Pudil - Genk
Libor Sionko - Sparta Prague
Rudolf Skacel - Larissa
F:
Martin Fenin - Eintracht Frankfurt
David Lafata - Liberec
Tomas Necid - CSKA Moscow
Tomas Pekhart - Jablonec
WORLD CUP 2010 - SOUTH AFRICA
Sirius Satellite radio will again broadcast all 64 World Cup games in American. Their lead announcers will be JP Dellacamera and Tommy Smyth.
Portugal got off to a poor start today in a scoreless draw against the Cape Verdes Islands.
On the other hand Argentina handed Canada their lunch in a wet leaky back winning 5-0.
-But is Maradona really going to line up in a 3-5-2?
Owen Gibson of the Guardian sees England's win today over Mexico as inconsistent.
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Mon May 24
Argentina 5-0 Canada - Arg goals by Maxi Rodriguez(2), Angel Di Maria, Carlos Tevez & Kun Aguero.
Australia 2-1 New Zealand - Aus goals by Dario Vidosic & Brett Holman. NZ goal by Chris Killen.
England 3-1 Mexico - Eng goals by Ledley King, Peter Crouch & Gus Johnson. Mex goal by Guillermo Franco.
Japan 0-2 South Korea - SK goals by Ji-Sung Park & Chu-Young Park(PK).
Portugal 0-0 Cape Verdes Islands
South Africa 1-1 Bulgaria - SF goal by Siyabonga Sangweni. Bul goal by Valeri Bojinov.
-Tue May 25
Cameroon v Georgia
Greece v North Korea
Nigeria v Saudi Arabia
Paraguay v Ireland
USA v Czech Republic
-Wed May 26
Chile v Zambia
France v Costa Rica
Mexico v Netherlands
Uruguay v Israel
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FIFA.com has a Q & A with Mexico's Andrew Guardado.
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James Lawton of the Independent sees potential gold in the offing for Maradona and Argentina.
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France named their final 23 today, and are in action on Wednesday:
G:
Cedric Carrasso - Bordeaux
Hugo Lloris - Lyon
Steve Mandanda - Marseille
D:
Eric Abidal - Barcelona
Gael Clichy - Arsenal
Patrice Evra - Manchester United
William Gallas - Arsenal
Marc Planus - Bordeaux
Anthony Reveillere - Lyon
Bacary Sagna - Arsenal
Sebastien Squillaci - Sevilla
M:
Abou Diaby - Arsenal
Alou Diarra - Bordeaux
Yoann Gourcuff - Bordeaux
Florent Malouda - Chelsea
Jeremy Toulalan - Lyon
Mathieu Valbuena - Marseille
F:
Nicolas Anelka - Chelsea
Djibril Cisse - Panathinaikos
Andre-Pierre Gignac - Toulouse
Sidney Govou - Lyon
Thierry Henry - Barcelona
Franck Ribery - Bayern Munich
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The Glasgow Times talks to New England head coach Steve Nicol and they look back at the 1986 World Cup, which he played in with Scotland.
FACT OF THE DAY
I want this shirt. XXL please. Thanks.
STORY OF THE DAY
Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports gives us his 2009/10 best 11 European players.
-What do ya think? Who did he miss, and who should they replace on his list?
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
The Union of Philadelphia has posted a video preview of the nearly completed stadium PPL Park. WOWOWOWOW!
MLS WEEK 9
-Thu May 20
New York Red Bulls 1-3 Columbus Crew - NYRB goal by Tony Tchani. CC goals by Eddie Gaven, Andy Iro & Emilio Renteria.
Venue: Red Bull Arena - Harrison NJ
Attendance: 11,940
FC Dallas 0-1 Los Angeles Galaxy - LAG goal by Mike Magee.
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frisco TX
Attendance: 10,947
-Sat May 22
Toronto FC 1-0 New England Revolution - TFC goal by Chad Barrett.
Venue: BMO Field - Toronto ON
Attendance: 20,672
Seattle Sounders FC 0-1 San Jose Earthquakes - SJE goal by Chris Wondolowski.
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
Attendance: 35,953
Houston Dynamo 2-0 DC United - HD goals by Danny Cruz & Dominic Oduro.
Venue: Robertson Stadium - Houston TX
Attendance: 24,471
Chivas USA 1-2 Real Salt Lake - CUSA goal by Justin Braun. RSL goals by Chris Wingert & Fabian Espindola.
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
Attendance: 14,287
-Sun May 23
Kansas City Wizards 0-1 Columbus Crew - CC goal by Emilio Renteria.
Venue: CommunityAmerica Ballpark - Kansas City KS
Attendance: 10,385
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Steve Davis of Sports Illustrated gives us five things to take away from Week 9.
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Kyle Mccarthy of Goal.com with his Monday Morning Breakdown - here come's RSL, and the rest of the weekend in review.
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Frank Dell'Apa of the Boston Globe informs us that along with Shalrie Joseph entering the league's Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health program he was also give a 5 game suspension. But no reason was given for the suspension.
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Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America looks at Seattle's struggle to score goals and earn points.
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Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer hips us to another unknown kid with the Red Bulls harboring lots of talent, Irving Garcia, who showed it in the team's friendly against Juventus.
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Nigel Reed of the CBC says the key to a big season for Toronto is their defense.
-I like Reed a lot but, NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!! Did he just figure this out?
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Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch in his Crew match report looks at the teams road "style".
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James Edward of the Deseret News with an article on one of those in a seemingly endless stream of players that has a lot of potential but will he make it in MLS - Salt Lake midfielder Jean Alexandre.
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Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America with an article on RSL's biggest off season find so far this year is Alvaro Saborio. With some good insider stuff here.
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Charles Gooch at the Kansas City Star with his thoughts on ways KC can get their machine rolling - not all are on field specific!
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Joshua Mayer of the Seattle Times does short Q & A's with Sounder coach Sigi Schmid and general manager Adrian Hanauer.
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The Houston Press on the up-tick in performance by highly paid Dynamo forward Luis Landin.
MLS INJURY REPORT
Seattle's top rate centerback Jhon Kennedy Hurtado will be out the next 6-8 weeks due to a torn left anterior cruciate ligament.
DU NORD PLAYER OF THE WEEK
How can it not be San Jose midfielder Bobby Convey! He is finally seems completely out of his own personal goo goo much and tearing down the left side of the field again. Its fantastic to see someone with so much promise turn it all back around again.
MY THOUGHTS
21,154 was the average attendance for the 5 games on Saturday & Sunday, and could have been higher if the KC max capacity was bigger.
San Jose has now gone 4 games without giving up a goal. 3 wins and 1 loss, with 6 goals scored too.
And Chris Wondolowski is just tearing it up for the Earthquakes in front of goal. He has played in 6 games and nabbed 5 goals. Is this his year?
Houston's yo-yo season was back up!
20 year old Danny Cruz got his first ever MLS start and goal for Houston!
Tally Hall also got his first league start and got the shut out for Houston.
There is a chance we might see KC's Craig Rocastle further punished by the league for the vicious kick he put on Columbus's Renteria while laying on the ground. The ref gave him a yellow card, but it was red worthy.
And how about Renteria making two sub appearances this week and bagging big goals in each of them! Nicely done!
Great to see Shalrie Joseph back on the field for New England this weekend.
But the Revolution team are seriously running on all flat tires right now as they have not won in the past 7 league games - 2 ties and 5 losses - oof!
Preki is doing his thing for Toronto, no doubt about it. Just like at Chivas for 3 seasons. It's not pretty, but there are no points for looks either.
Chad Barrett did his damnedest to keep his role on the team as "the Vasectomy" missing 2 primo chances, but finally got his head on one and won the game. Great job.
Fuad Ibrahim from right here in my Twin Cities got a rate start for TFC. He is looking grown up these days.
Another Twin Citian Teal Bunbury got his first MLS start with Kansas City on Sunday.
I feel bad about this, but from all the years of my team have a fierce rivalry with Seattle I cannot help but derive a bit of glee every time Seattle loses. I know that makes me petty, then again I am petty.
How bad is the foot injury for RSL's Kyle Beckerman? He was subbed off in the 20th min. I guess we are supposed to know on Tuesday.
Chivas USA committed that old sin of not giving up goals at the ends of halves - one goal at the end of half 1, and another at the end of half 2, at home no less, doomed them against Salt Lake.
MLS/SUM BUSINESS
How about this one - MLS is opening a development academy for Ticket Sales Reps. Yes, you read that right. And for some reason they are staring it right here in my Twin Cities, in connection with our second division team NSC Minnesota Stars. Why not with one of their own teams? Weird, weird, weird!
MLS STADIUM BUILDING
Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com talks to Union head-cheese Nick Sakiewicz about building a stadium for New York and now Philadelphia.
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MSNBC's SportsBiz page on the new wave and style of stadiums being built in America, like Red Bull Arena.
MLS RUMORS
Spanish forward Nacho Novo has reportedly turned down an offer from DC United. He has left Rangers and signed with Sporting Gijon.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
The Fire finished last in their own tournament, with Red Star of Belgrade, Serbia taking home the Cup!
Sister Cities International Cup
-Wed May 19
Chicago Fire 0-1 Paris Saint-Germain (France)
Legia Warsaw (Poland) 0-1 Red Star Belgrade(Serbia)
-Sat May 22
Paris Saint-Germain 1-1 Red Star Belgrade - Red Star win 7-6 in Penalty Kick Shootout.
Chicago Fire 0-3 Legia Warsaw - for the pride
Match report by Len Ziehm of the Chicago Sun Times.
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
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New York stomped a Juventus team that featured regulars Grosso, Salihamidzic, Zebina, Diego, Trezeguet, Amauri and Del Piero. Juve got their only goal in 2nd half stoppage time. Not bad guys, not bad at all.
If you go to the official Juve website you will see articles about the team arriving in New York, and then it skips right to the big welcome they got in Toronto for a Tuesday game against Sampdoria. Oops. A couple players make mention of the hammering in passing, otherwise you would definitely not know it happened.
The MLS Insider got video of this Juve fan go off on his sorry team.
And in LA the young academy trainee Tristan Bowen gets his first professional Galaxy goal as they beat Boca Juniors. Bowen will certainly get a lot more chances over the next 6 weeks if Edson Buddle makes the USA World Cup team.
-Sun May 23
New York Red Bulls 3-1 Juventus (Italy) - NYRB goals by Jeremy Hall, Conor Chinn & Juan Pablo Angel. Juv goal by Amauri.
Venue: Red Bull Arena
Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 Boca Juniors (Argentina) - LAG goal by Tristan Bowen.
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
-Wed May 26
DC United v AC Milan (Italy)
Venue: RFK Stadium
Seattle Sounders v Boca Juniors (Argentina)
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
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Newly added:
-Thu Aug 5
FC Dallas v Inter Milan (Italy)
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frisco TX
-Sat Aug 7
Los Angeles Galaxy v Inter Milan (Italy)
Venue: Home Depot Center - Carson CA
US OPEN CUP
MLS - Play-In Round with the winner advancing to the Round of 16:
-Wed May 26
New York Red Bulls v Colorado Rapids
Venue: Red Bull Arena - Harrison NJ
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All the best Open Cup info can be found right here at The Cup.
USSF DIVISION 2
Travis Clark of Soccer By Ives with a round up from the weekend.
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Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 22
Crystal Palace Baltimore 1-0 Portland Timbers
Miami FC Blues 0-1 NSC Minnesota Stars
AC St Louis 0-3 Tampa Bay Rowdies
Vancouver Whitecaps 2-0 Rochester Rhinos
-Wed May 26
Miami FC Blues v Austin Aztex
Puerto Rico Islanders v Carolina RailHawks
-Thu May 27
Tampa Bay Rowdies v NSC Minnesota Stars
-Sat May 29
Rochester Rhinos v Vancouver Whitecaps
Crystal Palace Baltimore v Austin Aztex
Tampa Bay Rowdies v Puerto Rico Islanders
NSC Minnesota Stars v AC St Louis
-Sun May 30
Montreal Impact v Carolina RailHawks
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Standings (As of Sun May 23):
14 Austin - 7 played
12 Vancouver - 7 played
12 Tampa Bay - 7 played
11 Montreal - 6 played
11 Rochester - 8 played
11 Portland - 8 played
10 Baltimore - 8 played
8 Miami - 6 played
7 Minnesota - 9 played
6 Puerto Rico - 3 played
5 Carolina - 5 played
4 St Louis - 8 played
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Standings base on Points Per Game:
2.00 Puerto Rico
2.00 Austin
1.83 Montreal
1.71 Tampa Bay
1.71 Vancouver
1.38 Portland
1.38 Rochester
1.33 Miami
1.25 Baltimore
1.00 Carolina
0.78 Minnesota
0.50 St Louis
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Brian Quarstad of Inside Minnesota Soccer reports on a Reunion game played last Saturday in El Paso TX featuring members of USA & Mexico World Cup teams of days gone by.
-Approx 20,000 in attendance?!?! Wow.
-Brian and I talked about how nice it would be if any of us knew about this BEFORE it happened.
-Here is a match report from the El Paso Times.
USA U20 TEAM
The USA U20's were in the Cor Groenewegen Tournamentin Netherlands and finished 8th out of 12 teams.
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Official USA Matches & Scores:
USA 2-1 Japan
USA 0-0 Atl Mineiro
USA 1-0 Lokeren
USA 0-0 Utrecht
USA 1-0 Heerenveen
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7th Place game:
USA 0-1 Senegal
Championship:
Japan v South Korea
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Group A Standings
12 FC Twente (Netherlands)
12 South Korea
10 Cruz Azul (Mexico)
7 Senegal
3 FC Uitgeest (Netherlands - host team)
0 Canada
Group B Standings
11 Atletico Mineiro (Brazil)
10 Japan
8 FC Utrecht (Netherlands)
8 USA
4 SC Heerenveen (Netherlands)
0 Sporting Lokeren (Netherlands)
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USA Roster:
G:
Samir Badr - Porto
Cody Cropper - Ipswich Town
D:
Gale Agbossoumonde - Braga
Chad Barson - Akron
Bryan De La Fuente - Chivas USA
Perry Kitchen - Akron
Kofi Sarkodie - Akron
Zarek Valentin - Akron
Parker Walsh - 1860 Munich
M:
Erik Benjaminsen - Stabaek
Lester Dewee - Olympique Marseille
Bryan Dominguez - Miami FC
Alex Molano - Dinamo Zagreb
Amobi Okugo - Philadelphia Union
Moises Orozco - Real So Cal
George Pantelic - RAD Belgrade
Cesar Zamora - Chivas USA
F:
Juan Agudelo - New York Red Bulls
Jack McInerney - Philadelphia Union
Bobby Wood - 1860 Munich
CONCACAF
Not a good day for our regional cousins.
Friendly Matches & Scores:
-Mon May 24
Argentina 5-0 Canada in Buenos Aires, Argentina
England 3-1 Mexico in London at Wembley Stadium
-Tue May 25
USA v Czech Republic - in East Hartford CT at Rentschler Field
-Wed May 26
Netherlands v Mexico in Freiburg, Germany
-Thu May 27
Honduras v Belarus in Villach, Austria
-Sat May 29
USA v Turkey - in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial Field
Venezuela v Canada - in Merida, Venezuela
-Sun May 30
Gambia v Mexico - in Bayreuth, Germany
-Tue Jun 1
Switzerland v Costa Rica - in Sion, Switzerland
-Wed Jun 2
Honduras v Azerbaijan in Zell Am See, Austria
-Thu Jun 3
Italy v Mexico - in Brussels, Belgium
-Sat Jun 5
USA v Australia - in Roodepoort, South Africa at Ruimsig Stadium
Honduras v Romania in St. Veit An Der Glan, Austria
Slovakia v Costa Rica in Bratislava, Slovakia
MEXICO
Toluca are Mexican Champions! Hooray Dos Equis!
Santos could have won the title but twice they missed the entire goal with PKs.
Clausura 2010 playoffs:
Matches & Scores - Final:
2nd Leg
-Sun May 23
Toluca 0-0 Santos Laguna - series ends tied 2-2, with Toluca then winning 4-3 in a Penalty Kick shootout.
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Isidro Metapan is the El Salvador Primera Division Clausura Championship!
Final Match & Score:
-Sun May 23
Aguila 1-3 Isidro Metapan
ENGLAND
Blackpool becomes the 3rd and final Championship division team promoted to the Premier League for next season.
Two Championship division teams played-off for the one last promotion spot to the Premier League:
Matches & Scores:
-Sat May 22
Cardiff City 2-3 Blackpool
Venue: Wembley Arena
SPAIN
Bloomberg with an article on the unprofitability of top flight soccer in Spain.
-Only 4 teams in La Primera Division turned a profit in 09.
GERMANY
Franck Ribery has signed a new contract at Bayern Munich that runs to the end of the 2014/15 season. This does not mean he is staying for 5 more years, just that his pricetag to leave has gone UP.
EUROPE
Rob Hughes of the International Herald Tribune looks at the chances of Turkey hosting the European Championship in 2016.
COPA LIBERTADORES
The tournament will not resume until over 2 weeks after the World Cup has finished.
Matches & Scores - Semifinals:
1st Leg
-Wed Jul 28
Internacional v Sao Paulo
Guadalajara v Universidad de Chile
2nd Leg
-Wed Aug 4
Universidad de Chile v Guadalajara
Sao Paulo v Internacional
ENDERS
The 2nd Annual Kicking & Screening Soccer Film Festival is about to get underway in New York City. Running Tue Jun 1 to Sat Jun 5, the line up looks pretty fantastic again this year.
Here is the official lineup:
-Tue Jun 1: "THE 12TH MAN"
Fifteen Minutes that Shook the World - directed by David Kirby
Because There Are Things You Never Forget - directed by Lucas Figueroa
Loucos de Futebol (Beyond Soccer) - directed by Halder Gomes
-Wed Jun 2: "WAR AND FOOTBALL"
The Last Yugoslavian Football Team - directed by Vuk Janic
Ana’s Playground - directed by Eric Howell
-Thu Jun 3: "THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE"
El Arbitro (The Ref) - directed by Justin Webster and Eriz Zapiriain
L’Arbitro (The Referee) - directed by Paolo Zucca
-Fri Jun 4: "THE POWER OF THE GAME"
Eine Andere Liga (Another League) - directed by Buket Alakus
-Sat Jun 5: "TO AFRICA, WITH LOVE"
The Game of Their Lives - directed by Daniel Gordon
Africa 10 - directed by Victor Buhler
After each night showings there will be an expert panel on hand to discuss the films and related topics. Panelists include: Simon Kuper, Vuk Janic, Eric Howell, Justin Webster, Adrian Healy, Ethan Zohn, Daniel Gordon and more.
Get all the details at the Kicking & Screening website.
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