Some News for Tue Aug 3, 2010
STARTERS
One time USA potential-megastar Clint Mathis has decided to hang it up. He will play one last game, a friendly with Los Angeles against Real Madrid on Aug 7. Cleetus was a force to be reckoned with in 2000-04 racking up great goals for the USA and his various club teams.
dN
The BBC has posted the video highlights of the USA U20 teams Milk Cup championship win 3-0 over Northern Ireland.
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
The Preliminary Round of the knock out stage starts now. 16 teams are paired to play home and away for 8 spots in the Group Stage.
dN
For years when ever I read the name Metapan, it registers in my mind at Meatpan, which is way cooler. As a matter of fact, if I ever get rich I just might buy the team and rename them Meatpan, just for laughs.
dN
Toronto and Seattle are both on the road tonight with 1-0 leads.
dN
Don Ruiz of the Tacoma News Tribune previews Seattle at Metapan.
dN
Daniel Girard of the Toronto Star previews TFC's trip to Motagua.
dN
Steven Sandor of the Toronto Sun looks at TFC's opponent Motagua.
dN
Preliminary Round Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg
-Tue Aug 3
Motagua (Honduras) v Toronto FC (Canada) (0-1)
Cruz Azul (Mexico) v San Francisco (Panama) (3-2)
Isidro Metapan (El Salvador) v Seattle Sounders (USA) (0-1)
-Wed Aug 4
Santos Laguna (Mexico) v San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad & Tobago) (1-0)
Puerto Rico Islanders (Puerto Rico) v Los Angeles Galaxy (USA) (4-1)
Marathon (Honduras) v Tauro FC (Panama) (3-0)
-Thu Aug 5
Joe Public (Trinidad & Tobago) v Brujas (Costa Rica) (2-2)
Xelaju (Guatemala) v CD FAS (El Salvador) (1-1)
COPA LIBERTADORES
Matches & Scores - Semifinals:
2nd Leg
-Tue Aug 3
Universidad de Chile v Guadalajara Chivas (1-1)
-Thu Aug 5
Sao Paulo FC v Internacional (0-1)
Away goals is the tie breaker.
Superliga 2010
Semifinals Matches & Scores:
-Wed Aug 4
New England Revolution v Puebla FC
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
-Thu Aug 5
Houston Dynamo v CA Monarcas Morelia
Venue: Robertson Stadium – Houston TX
dN
Final
-TBD: Aug 24, 25 or 26
TEAM USA
Turns out we won't learn the USA roster until Wednesday.
Friendly Match & Score:
-Tue Aug 10
USA v Brazil
Venue: New Giants Stadium - East Rutherford NJ
STORY OF THE DAY
Yesterday I noted the background of the top 2 guys behind the return of the New York Cosmos, but I missed a very important player: Terry Byrne, Director of Soccer, is David Beckham's bobo. Yes, the guy who AEG let run roughshod over the organization and infamously hired Ruud Gullit as the Galaxy head coach.
Brian Strauss of Fanhouse picks up on more of the story.
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
Another win in the courts for the players on the 2006 Trinidad & Tobago World Cup team!!!
-Warner offered them $5600 each, while the court is ordering $1.8 Million each.
-And some say the payout should be more than twice that.
The T&T Express has the full run of what is going down:
-On the latest ruling by that countries courts forcing Jack Warner and the federation to pay the players their bonuses that were promised.
-On the politics of it all.
-Reaction from players involved.
-On the long slog its been by the players to get whats owed them.
I hope these players aren't getting to excited to see their money any time soon though. You know old Jack has several more bullets in his weapon.
(Thanks to Joe for the heads up on this new chapter.)
WHY NOT!
Reuters reports that the Swedish federation is considering using an extra official watching a TV monitor to assist the referee on the field.
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Brian Sciaretta of Yanks Abroad talks to LA centerback Omar Gonzalez about his future.
dN
Joshua Mayers of the Seattle Times does a Q & A with Sounders GM Adrian Hannouer.
dN
Charles Gooch of the Kansas City Star examines the Wizards chances of qualifying for the playoffs.
dN
Marc Narducci of the Philadelphia Inquirer on the Union's dreams of making the playoffs.
dN
Michael C Lewis of the Salt Lake Tribune looks at how RSL plans to deal with 2 road games in 4 days coming up.
dN
The Sun has quotes from Freddie Ljungberg on his move to the Chicago Fire.
dN
The Telegraph of London on Thierry Henry's goal of big success with the Red Bulls.
MLS INJURY REPORT
Center Line Soccer tells us about injuries to 2 San Jose players that will both require surgery to repair broken bones. centerback Ike Opara broke his left foot and will be out for approx 4-6 weeks. Fullback Steven Beitashour broke his right hand and will miss approx 4 weeks.
MLS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR CANDIDATES
Who are the candidates for the leagues top rookie award? We rank em as we see em.
Tier 1:
Teal Bunbury - Kansas City
Blair Gavin - Chivas
Jordan Graye - DC
Danny Mwanga - Philadelphia
Andy Najar - DC United
Ike Opara - San Jose
Tim Ream - New York
Zach Schilawski - New England
Michael Stephens - Los Angeles
Ben Zemanski - Chivas
Tier 2:
Zak Boggs - New England
Zach Loyd - Dallas
Jack McInerny - Philadelphia
Seth Sinovic - New England
Tony Tchani - New York
Collen Warner - Salt Lake
Tier 3:
Korede Aiyegbusi - Kansas City
Eric Alexander - Dallas
Steven Beitashour - San Jose
Corben Bone - Chicago
Conor Chinn - New York
David Estrada - Seattle
Shaun Francis - Columbus
Bill Hamid - DC
Omar Jasseh - San Jose
Sean Johnson - Chicago
Steve Kinney - Chicago
Ross LaBauex - Colorado
Kyle Nakazawa - Philadelphia
Joseph Nane - Toronto
Amobi Okugo - Philadelphia
Mike Seamon - Seattle
Kwame Watson-Siriboe - Chicago
dN
Who did we miss, should anyone here be re-tiered, or who should be dropped?
MLS RUMORS
Charles Gooch of the Kansas City Star tries to help us find out why Omar Bravo is not in a Wizards uniform right now.
dN
Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch on the Twitter feed today: "F Andres Mendoza expected to sign incentive-laden deal with The Crew today or Wednesday."
-Mendoza is from Peru and played last season for Diyarbakırspor in Turkley.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
Over 60,000 tickets have been sold for the LA Galaxy v Real Madrid match.
-Nick Green of the Daily Breeze looks ahead to that game on Saturday.
SOCCER IN AMERICA
The US Soccer Hall of Fame will induct several new members in a ceremony at the USA v Brazil friendly next Tuesday. Those who will be honored are:
-Thomas Dooley
-Preki
-Kyle Rote Jr
-Bruce Arena
-Paul Gardner
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Sacha Kljestan and Anderlecht have advanced to the next round of the UEFA Champions League.
dN
The Washington Post has a Q & A with Oguchi Onyewu.
dN
Brian Sciaretta of Yanks Abroad talks to fullback Danny Williams ofnewly promoted nearly relegated Freiburg. [CORRECTED]
dN
With both Hunter Freeman and Clarence Goodson out of the lineup Start got creamed 8-1 at Valerenga. Oh my.
dN
Game Action: (only those that played are listed)
SWEDEN - Allsvenskan Liga
Alejandro Bedoya - Orebro - Mon Aug 2 - started and went 82 minutes as they won 0-2 at Atvidaberg.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - Third Qualifying Round 2nd Leg
Sacha Kljestan - Anderlecht - Tue Aug 3 - started and went 73 minutes, setting up the first goal as they won 3-0 at home against TNS, giving them a 6-1 aggregate win.
dN
Coming Up: (all possible players are listed)
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - Third Qualifying Round 2nd Leg
Dominic Cervi - Celtic - Wed Aug 4 - v Braga (0-3)
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - Third Qualifying Round 2nd Leg
Daniel Antunez - Inter Turku - Thu Aug 5 - at Genk trailing 1-5
Michael Parkhurst - Nordsjaelland - Thu Aug 5 - at Sporting trailing 0-1
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Coming Up:
COPA LIBERTADORES - Semifinals 2nd Leg
Miguel Ponce - Guadalajara - Tue Aug 3 - at Universidad de Chile with series tied 1-1.
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Honduras - Liga Nacional - season starts Sat Aug 7
dN
Guatemala - Liga Nacional - started 2 weeks ago
dN
Costa Rica - Primera Division - started 2 weeks ago
ENGLAND
David Bond of the BBC tells us who is trying to buy Liverpool FC.
THE GUARDIAN: PREMIER LEAGUE 2010 PREVIEWS
Arsenal
Arsenal
Aston Villa
Birmingham
Blackburn
Blackpool
Bolton
Chelsea
Everton
Fulham
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United
Newcastle
Stoke
Sunderland
Tottenham
West Brom
West Ham
Wigan
Wolverhampton
FRANCE
Ligue 1 kicks off this Saturday, Aug 7. Are you ready?
GERMANY
Arjen Robben will miss the first 6 weeks or so of Bayern Munich's season due to a torn hamstring that he suffered in training for World Cup.
dN
DFL Super Cup
-Fri Aug 6
Bayern Munchen v Schalke
BRAZIL
Tim Vickery of the BBC looks at the great derbys of South America, especially Classico Dos Milhoes aka The Classic Of The Multitudes, aka Flamengo v Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro.
One time USA potential-megastar Clint Mathis has decided to hang it up. He will play one last game, a friendly with Los Angeles against Real Madrid on Aug 7. Cleetus was a force to be reckoned with in 2000-04 racking up great goals for the USA and his various club teams.
dN
The BBC has posted the video highlights of the USA U20 teams Milk Cup championship win 3-0 over Northern Ireland.
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
The Preliminary Round of the knock out stage starts now. 16 teams are paired to play home and away for 8 spots in the Group Stage.
dN
For years when ever I read the name Metapan, it registers in my mind at Meatpan, which is way cooler. As a matter of fact, if I ever get rich I just might buy the team and rename them Meatpan, just for laughs.
dN
Toronto and Seattle are both on the road tonight with 1-0 leads.
dN
Don Ruiz of the Tacoma News Tribune previews Seattle at Metapan.
dN
Daniel Girard of the Toronto Star previews TFC's trip to Motagua.
dN
Steven Sandor of the Toronto Sun looks at TFC's opponent Motagua.
dN
Preliminary Round Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg
-Tue Aug 3
Motagua (Honduras) v Toronto FC (Canada) (0-1)
Cruz Azul (Mexico) v San Francisco (Panama) (3-2)
Isidro Metapan (El Salvador) v Seattle Sounders (USA) (0-1)
-Wed Aug 4
Santos Laguna (Mexico) v San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad & Tobago) (1-0)
Puerto Rico Islanders (Puerto Rico) v Los Angeles Galaxy (USA) (4-1)
Marathon (Honduras) v Tauro FC (Panama) (3-0)
-Thu Aug 5
Joe Public (Trinidad & Tobago) v Brujas (Costa Rica) (2-2)
Xelaju (Guatemala) v CD FAS (El Salvador) (1-1)
COPA LIBERTADORES
Matches & Scores - Semifinals:
2nd Leg
-Tue Aug 3
Universidad de Chile v Guadalajara Chivas (1-1)
-Thu Aug 5
Sao Paulo FC v Internacional (0-1)
Away goals is the tie breaker.
Superliga 2010
Semifinals Matches & Scores:
-Wed Aug 4
New England Revolution v Puebla FC
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
-Thu Aug 5
Houston Dynamo v CA Monarcas Morelia
Venue: Robertson Stadium – Houston TX
dN
Final
-TBD: Aug 24, 25 or 26
TEAM USA
Turns out we won't learn the USA roster until Wednesday.
Friendly Match & Score:
-Tue Aug 10
USA v Brazil
Venue: New Giants Stadium - East Rutherford NJ
STORY OF THE DAY
Yesterday I noted the background of the top 2 guys behind the return of the New York Cosmos, but I missed a very important player: Terry Byrne, Director of Soccer, is David Beckham's bobo. Yes, the guy who AEG let run roughshod over the organization and infamously hired Ruud Gullit as the Galaxy head coach.
Brian Strauss of Fanhouse picks up on more of the story.
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
Another win in the courts for the players on the 2006 Trinidad & Tobago World Cup team!!!
-Warner offered them $5600 each, while the court is ordering $1.8 Million each.
-And some say the payout should be more than twice that.
The T&T Express has the full run of what is going down:
-On the latest ruling by that countries courts forcing Jack Warner and the federation to pay the players their bonuses that were promised.
-On the politics of it all.
-Reaction from players involved.
-On the long slog its been by the players to get whats owed them.
I hope these players aren't getting to excited to see their money any time soon though. You know old Jack has several more bullets in his weapon.
(Thanks to Joe for the heads up on this new chapter.)
WHY NOT!
Reuters reports that the Swedish federation is considering using an extra official watching a TV monitor to assist the referee on the field.
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Brian Sciaretta of Yanks Abroad talks to LA centerback Omar Gonzalez about his future.
dN
Joshua Mayers of the Seattle Times does a Q & A with Sounders GM Adrian Hannouer.
dN
Charles Gooch of the Kansas City Star examines the Wizards chances of qualifying for the playoffs.
dN
Marc Narducci of the Philadelphia Inquirer on the Union's dreams of making the playoffs.
dN
Michael C Lewis of the Salt Lake Tribune looks at how RSL plans to deal with 2 road games in 4 days coming up.
dN
The Sun has quotes from Freddie Ljungberg on his move to the Chicago Fire.
dN
The Telegraph of London on Thierry Henry's goal of big success with the Red Bulls.
MLS INJURY REPORT
Center Line Soccer tells us about injuries to 2 San Jose players that will both require surgery to repair broken bones. centerback Ike Opara broke his left foot and will be out for approx 4-6 weeks. Fullback Steven Beitashour broke his right hand and will miss approx 4 weeks.
MLS ROOKIE OF THE YEAR CANDIDATES
Who are the candidates for the leagues top rookie award? We rank em as we see em.
Tier 1:
Teal Bunbury - Kansas City
Blair Gavin - Chivas
Jordan Graye - DC
Danny Mwanga - Philadelphia
Andy Najar - DC United
Ike Opara - San Jose
Tim Ream - New York
Zach Schilawski - New England
Michael Stephens - Los Angeles
Ben Zemanski - Chivas
Tier 2:
Zak Boggs - New England
Zach Loyd - Dallas
Jack McInerny - Philadelphia
Seth Sinovic - New England
Tony Tchani - New York
Collen Warner - Salt Lake
Tier 3:
Korede Aiyegbusi - Kansas City
Eric Alexander - Dallas
Steven Beitashour - San Jose
Corben Bone - Chicago
Conor Chinn - New York
David Estrada - Seattle
Shaun Francis - Columbus
Bill Hamid - DC
Omar Jasseh - San Jose
Sean Johnson - Chicago
Steve Kinney - Chicago
Ross LaBauex - Colorado
Kyle Nakazawa - Philadelphia
Joseph Nane - Toronto
Amobi Okugo - Philadelphia
Mike Seamon - Seattle
Kwame Watson-Siriboe - Chicago
dN
Who did we miss, should anyone here be re-tiered, or who should be dropped?
MLS RUMORS
Charles Gooch of the Kansas City Star tries to help us find out why Omar Bravo is not in a Wizards uniform right now.
dN
Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch on the Twitter feed today: "F Andres Mendoza expected to sign incentive-laden deal with The Crew today or Wednesday."
-Mendoza is from Peru and played last season for Diyarbakırspor in Turkley.
MLS EXHIBITIONS
Over 60,000 tickets have been sold for the LA Galaxy v Real Madrid match.
-Nick Green of the Daily Breeze looks ahead to that game on Saturday.
SOCCER IN AMERICA
The US Soccer Hall of Fame will induct several new members in a ceremony at the USA v Brazil friendly next Tuesday. Those who will be honored are:
-Thomas Dooley
-Preki
-Kyle Rote Jr
-Bruce Arena
-Paul Gardner
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Sacha Kljestan and Anderlecht have advanced to the next round of the UEFA Champions League.
dN
The Washington Post has a Q & A with Oguchi Onyewu.
dN
Brian Sciaretta of Yanks Abroad talks to fullback Danny Williams of
dN
With both Hunter Freeman and Clarence Goodson out of the lineup Start got creamed 8-1 at Valerenga. Oh my.
dN
Game Action: (only those that played are listed)
SWEDEN - Allsvenskan Liga
Alejandro Bedoya - Orebro - Mon Aug 2 - started and went 82 minutes as they won 0-2 at Atvidaberg.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - Third Qualifying Round 2nd Leg
Sacha Kljestan - Anderlecht - Tue Aug 3 - started and went 73 minutes, setting up the first goal as they won 3-0 at home against TNS, giving them a 6-1 aggregate win.
dN
Coming Up: (all possible players are listed)
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - Third Qualifying Round 2nd Leg
Dominic Cervi - Celtic - Wed Aug 4 - v Braga (0-3)
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - Third Qualifying Round 2nd Leg
Daniel Antunez - Inter Turku - Thu Aug 5 - at Genk trailing 1-5
Michael Parkhurst - Nordsjaelland - Thu Aug 5 - at Sporting trailing 0-1
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
Coming Up:
COPA LIBERTADORES - Semifinals 2nd Leg
Miguel Ponce - Guadalajara - Tue Aug 3 - at Universidad de Chile with series tied 1-1.
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Honduras - Liga Nacional - season starts Sat Aug 7
dN
Guatemala - Liga Nacional - started 2 weeks ago
dN
Costa Rica - Primera Division - started 2 weeks ago
ENGLAND
David Bond of the BBC tells us who is trying to buy Liverpool FC.
THE GUARDIAN: PREMIER LEAGUE 2010 PREVIEWS
Arsenal
Arsenal
Aston Villa
Birmingham
Blackburn
Blackpool
Bolton
Chelsea
Everton
Fulham
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United
Newcastle
Stoke
Sunderland
Tottenham
West Brom
West Ham
Wigan
Wolverhampton
FRANCE
Ligue 1 kicks off this Saturday, Aug 7. Are you ready?
GERMANY
Arjen Robben will miss the first 6 weeks or so of Bayern Munich's season due to a torn hamstring that he suffered in training for World Cup.
dN
DFL Super Cup
-Fri Aug 6
Bayern Munchen v Schalke
BRAZIL
Tim Vickery of the BBC looks at the great derbys of South America, especially Classico Dos Milhoes aka The Classic Of The Multitudes, aka Flamengo v Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro.
posted by brucio at 16:45
7 Comments:
Jordan Graye has looked pretty bad the 2 or 3 times I've seen him play. Am I missing something, or are the 2nd and 3rd tier rookies that much worse?
I have seen the name Conor Chinn a lot recently, with RBNY during the NY Challenge. That's the only tier 3 player ringing a bell. I believe he scored a goal in one of those friendlies.
Hey Bruce, Frieburg are not newly promoted, I got to see Danny play last season, they barely made not getting relegated. He not bad but still young and raw, hopefully he can break the starting 11 and get plenty of playing time.
It's Stoke City, not Stoke.
"It's Stoke City, not Stoke."
right, right
i got it confused with all the other teams from stoke, and it sounds like you didnt want to be confused either
and i have to remember to type out the full name of all the other teams like birmingham city and newcastle united and west ham united so we dont get confused with the other teams with the words birmingham, newcastle and west ham in their name either
thanks anonymous
You are correct about Freiburg. I forgot that they were the team in the Bundesliga that had to play a team from the 2nd division in the promotion/relegation playoff and stayed up, not the other way around. always appreciate the good knowledge.
Tchani probably deserves to be in the top tier.
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