Some News for Tue Sep 14, 2010
STARTERS - THE MO & PREKI SHOW
The owners of Toronto FC feel the urgency and today fire general manager Mo Johnston, and head coach Preki. Wow. Johnston earned it, Preki probably didn't.
-Here is the official press release and a video of the entire press conference.
-Asst Nick Dasovic will be the interim head coach as the team desperately tries to make the playoffs, and advance out of the group stage in the CONCACAF Champions League.
Some TFC fans during last Saturday's nightmare loss to last place DC started singing Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It.
Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun reports on the firings.
Gareth Wheeler of the Sun who has been an almost over-the-top Preki critic since day one, says Dasovic had been forced out by Preki in recent weeks.
Daniel Girard of the Toronto Star with his report of the story.
Paul Attfield of the Toronto Globe & Mail with the story.
Paul James of the Globe & Mail on the team's slide. (Posted before the news broke, but showing exactly where things were headed for the team.)
Jason de Vos of the CBC on a new dawn at TFC.
STORY OF THE DAY
Good News First:
MLS has announced that they will keep the same schedule format for next season, with everyone playing each other home and way once. Meaning that with 2 new teams joining next season the total number of games will increase by 4 to 34.
Bad News Next:
There will be no breaks in games for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, or any other FIFA international dates.
Details Last:
The 2011 regular season will kick off on Sat Mar 19 and conclude on Sat Oct 22.
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Round Three of the Group Stage will be played Sep 14-16. Including Seattle's trip to the Purple Monster!
dN
The set up has 4 groups of 4 with everyone playing the others in their group home and away for a total of 6 games. At the end, the top 2 from each group will advance to the quarterfinals etc, which will also be home and away.
dN
Don Ruiz of The Olympian previews the Sounders trip to Costa Rica.
dN
Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch tells about the Crew's new forward Andres Mendoza, and the match tonight against Joe Public.
dN
Matches & Scores:
Round Three
-Tue Sep 14
Columbus Crew v Joe Public - 7pm on FSC
Monterrey v Marathon - 7pm on Telefutura
Municipal v Santos Laguna
Saprissa v Seattle Sounders - 9pm on FSC & Telefutura
-Wed Sep 15
Toluca v Puerto Rico Islanders - 7pm on Telefutura
Arabe Unido v Cruz Azul
Real Salt Lake v Toronto FC - 9pm on FSC
-Thu Sep 16
Olimpia v FAS - 7pm on Galavision
dN
GROUP STANDINGS (2 rounds played):
Group A
3 Real Salt Lake (USA) (0)
3 Arabe Unido (Panama) (0)
3 Toronto (Canada) (0)
3 Cruz Azul (Mexico) (0)
Group B
6 Santos Laguna (Mexico) (+4)
3 Columbus Crew (USA) (0)
1 Municipal (Guatemala) (-1)
1 Joe Public (Trinidad & Tobago) (-3)
Group C
6 Monterrey (Mexico) (+3)
3 Saprissa (Costa Rica) (+2)
3 Marathon (Honduras) (-2)
0 Seattle Sounders (USA) (-3)
Group D
4 Toluca (Mexico) (+4)
4 Puerto Rico Islanders (Puerto Rico) (+3)
1 FAS (El Salvador) (-3)
1 Olimpia (Honduras) (-4)
dN
Round 4 will be played Sep 21, 22 & 23.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
The Group Stage is here!
Match Day 1 (of 6 Group Stage games)
-Tue Sep 14
Twente v Inter
Bremen v Tottenham
Lyon v Schalke
Benfica v H Tel-Aviv
Manchester United v Rangers
Bursaspor v Valencia
Barcelona v Panathinaikos
Kobenhavn v Rubin
-Wed Sep 15
Bayern v Roma
CFR Cluj v Basel
Marseille v Spartak Moskva
Zilina v Chelsea
Real Madrid v Ajax
Milan v Auxerre
Arsenal v Braga
Shakhtar Donetsk v Partizan
QUESTION OF THE DAY
"Coverage lacks any passion. They love the stats above everything. They don’t know anything else from basketball and (American) football. Every assist gets recorded, every percentage point of saved attempts as well – and so on."
-Thierry Henry talking to press in Austria (for whatever reason) about the majority of press coverage of soccer America.
MLS WEEK 25
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Sep 15
San Jose Eartquakes v Philadelphia Union - 9:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
-Thu Sep 16
FC Dallas v New York Red Bulls - 8:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frixco TX
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Nick Green of the Daily Breeze basically declares the David Beckham era of MLS to be OVER!!
-Green even takes a great pot shot at the pathetic coverage of the Galaxy by the LA Times and their old tired windbag report Grahame Jones.
dN
Another long time New York player is hanging it up after this season - Seth Stammler will sign off when the season ends.
-He seems waaaay too young to be retiring.
-Stammler has already enrolled in college at the University of Chicago. Wow.
dN
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America does a Q & A with one of the up and comers - Brek Shea of FC Dallas.
-Great quote: "You have to know Spanish to play on this team." Wait until you read the sentence after that one!
dN
Steve Hunt of Fox Sports Southwest sees three MVP candidates on FC Dallas.
dN
Tobias Lopez of Sports Illustrated on the growing Brazilian influence on MLS. Brazil is now the biggest exporter of players to the league.
dN
Craig Stouffer of the Examiner talks to DC centerback Julius James who has had a long slog this season to break into the starting line up.
dN
Jack Bell of the New York Times tells us more than most of us ever knew about Colorado fullback Kosuke Kimura.
dN
Guillermo Rivera of Chicago Now wonders if the Fire will fill their 2 empty roster spots before the deadline.
dN
Jose de Jesus Ortiz of the Houston Chronicle also wonders a similar thing about the Dynamo, will they make any roster moves.
MLS PLAYER MOVEMENT
MLS rosters will be locked for the rest of the season at the end of the business day on Wed Sep 15.
-Tomorrow could see some more interesting moves go down.
dN
New York sent forward Macoumba Kandji to Colorado in exchange for midfield playmaker Mehdi Ballouchy. Interesting move for NY. Strange move by CO.
-Brian Lewis of the New York Post with words from Ballouchy and the Red Bulls brain staff.
-The rapid development of young Juan Agudelo allowed NY to move Kandji.
dN
DC has signed 33 year old Spanish midfielder Carlos Varela from Swiss team Neuchatel Xamax (top division.)
MLS EXHIBITIONS
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Sep 14
CD Chivas USA v Guadalajara (Mexico)
Venue: PETCO Park, San Diego CA
USA U17 TEAM
The U17's are in Spain Sep 6-18 for training, and will play 4 friendlies while they are there.
dN
They have split the first 2 games, against club teams.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Sep 8
USA 0-1 Real Madrid youth
-Thu Sep 9
USA 2-1 Rayo Vallecano youth - USA goals both by Kellen Gulley.
-Tue Sep 14
USA v Spain U-17
-Thu Sep 16
USA v Spain U-17
dN
Roster:
G:
Kendall McIntosh - Mustang Academy - Santa Rosa CA
Fernando Pina - Houston Dynamo - Houston TX
D:
Kellyn Acosta - FC Dallas - Plano TX
Mobi Fehr - Tokyo Verdy - Tokyo Japan
Alessandro Mion - Kendall SC - Miami FL
Cole Nagy - RSL-AZ - Scottsdale AZ
Tarik Salkicic - Strictly Soccer - Pinellas Park FL
Nathan Smith - Cal Odyssey - Clovis CA
Andrew Souders - Crew Soccer Academy - Amherst OH
Danny Zaid - Camp Elite - Guatemala City Guatemala
M:
Ricardo Aldape - Lemont Raiders - Chicago Heights IL
Joe Amon - South Carolina United FC - Summerville SC
Matthew Dunn - FC Cologne - Dallas TX
Ruben Duran - Las Vegas Premier - Las Vegas NV
Patrick Foss - DC United - South Riding VA
Alejandro Guido - Aztecs Premier - Chula Vista CA
Nico Melo - Florida Rush - Kissimmee FL
Marc Pelosi - De Anza Force - Sunnyvale CA
Esteban Rodriguez - Cosmos Academy West - Palmdale CA
Dillon Serna - Colorado Rapids - Brighton CO
F:
Daniel Flores - Cal Odyssey - Fresno CA
Kellen Gulley - MS Chicago Fire Juniors - Clinton MS
Andrew Oliver - Westside United - Indianapolis IN
Mario Rodriguez - Central Aztecs - North Hollywood CA
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Coming Up: (all possible players are listed)
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - Group Stage
Maurice Edu - Rangers - Tue Sep 14 at Manchester United
Jermaine Jones - Schalke - Tue Sep 14 at Lyon
**Oguchi Onyewu - Milan - not on tourney roster
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - Group Stage
Jozy Altidore - Villarreal - Thu Sep 16 at Dinamo Zagreb
Sacha Kljestan - Anderlecht - Thu Sep 16 v Zenit St Petersburg
**Freddie Adu - Aris - not on tourney roster
EUROPE
Maradona has expressed interest in coaching the Portugal national team.
-And much like mine and Bob Bradley's mutual interest in coaching Aston Villa, I too am interested in coaching Portugal. Drop me an email guys.
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE
Matchday 1 - Thu Sep 16. Matches & Scores here.
AFRICA
The Associated Press with a story on a FAKE Togo national team that played a friendly in Bahrain last week. Wow. Via USA Today.
The owners of Toronto FC feel the urgency and today fire general manager Mo Johnston, and head coach Preki. Wow. Johnston earned it, Preki probably didn't.
-Here is the official press release and a video of the entire press conference.
-Asst Nick Dasovic will be the interim head coach as the team desperately tries to make the playoffs, and advance out of the group stage in the CONCACAF Champions League.
Some TFC fans during last Saturday's nightmare loss to last place DC started singing Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It.
Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun reports on the firings.
Gareth Wheeler of the Sun who has been an almost over-the-top Preki critic since day one, says Dasovic had been forced out by Preki in recent weeks.
Daniel Girard of the Toronto Star with his report of the story.
Paul Attfield of the Toronto Globe & Mail with the story.
Paul James of the Globe & Mail on the team's slide. (Posted before the news broke, but showing exactly where things were headed for the team.)
Jason de Vos of the CBC on a new dawn at TFC.
STORY OF THE DAY
Good News First:
MLS has announced that they will keep the same schedule format for next season, with everyone playing each other home and way once. Meaning that with 2 new teams joining next season the total number of games will increase by 4 to 34.
Bad News Next:
There will be no breaks in games for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, or any other FIFA international dates.
Details Last:
The 2011 regular season will kick off on Sat Mar 19 and conclude on Sat Oct 22.
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Round Three of the Group Stage will be played Sep 14-16. Including Seattle's trip to the Purple Monster!
dN
The set up has 4 groups of 4 with everyone playing the others in their group home and away for a total of 6 games. At the end, the top 2 from each group will advance to the quarterfinals etc, which will also be home and away.
dN
Don Ruiz of The Olympian previews the Sounders trip to Costa Rica.
dN
Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch tells about the Crew's new forward Andres Mendoza, and the match tonight against Joe Public.
dN
Matches & Scores:
Round Three
-Tue Sep 14
Columbus Crew v Joe Public - 7pm on FSC
Monterrey v Marathon - 7pm on Telefutura
Municipal v Santos Laguna
Saprissa v Seattle Sounders - 9pm on FSC & Telefutura
-Wed Sep 15
Toluca v Puerto Rico Islanders - 7pm on Telefutura
Arabe Unido v Cruz Azul
Real Salt Lake v Toronto FC - 9pm on FSC
-Thu Sep 16
Olimpia v FAS - 7pm on Galavision
dN
GROUP STANDINGS (2 rounds played):
Group A
3 Real Salt Lake (USA) (0)
3 Arabe Unido (Panama) (0)
3 Toronto (Canada) (0)
3 Cruz Azul (Mexico) (0)
Group B
6 Santos Laguna (Mexico) (+4)
3 Columbus Crew (USA) (0)
1 Municipal (Guatemala) (-1)
1 Joe Public (Trinidad & Tobago) (-3)
Group C
6 Monterrey (Mexico) (+3)
3 Saprissa (Costa Rica) (+2)
3 Marathon (Honduras) (-2)
0 Seattle Sounders (USA) (-3)
Group D
4 Toluca (Mexico) (+4)
4 Puerto Rico Islanders (Puerto Rico) (+3)
1 FAS (El Salvador) (-3)
1 Olimpia (Honduras) (-4)
dN
Round 4 will be played Sep 21, 22 & 23.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
The Group Stage is here!
Match Day 1 (of 6 Group Stage games)
-Tue Sep 14
Twente v Inter
Bremen v Tottenham
Lyon v Schalke
Benfica v H Tel-Aviv
Manchester United v Rangers
Bursaspor v Valencia
Barcelona v Panathinaikos
Kobenhavn v Rubin
-Wed Sep 15
Bayern v Roma
CFR Cluj v Basel
Marseille v Spartak Moskva
Zilina v Chelsea
Real Madrid v Ajax
Milan v Auxerre
Arsenal v Braga
Shakhtar Donetsk v Partizan
QUESTION OF THE DAY
"Coverage lacks any passion. They love the stats above everything. They don’t know anything else from basketball and (American) football. Every assist gets recorded, every percentage point of saved attempts as well – and so on."
-Thierry Henry talking to press in Austria (for whatever reason) about the majority of press coverage of soccer America.
MLS WEEK 25
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Sep 15
San Jose Eartquakes v Philadelphia Union - 9:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
-Thu Sep 16
FC Dallas v New York Red Bulls - 8:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Pizza Hut Park - Frixco TX
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
Nick Green of the Daily Breeze basically declares the David Beckham era of MLS to be OVER!!
-Green even takes a great pot shot at the pathetic coverage of the Galaxy by the LA Times and their old tired windbag report Grahame Jones.
dN
Another long time New York player is hanging it up after this season - Seth Stammler will sign off when the season ends.
-He seems waaaay too young to be retiring.
-Stammler has already enrolled in college at the University of Chicago. Wow.
dN
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America does a Q & A with one of the up and comers - Brek Shea of FC Dallas.
-Great quote: "You have to know Spanish to play on this team." Wait until you read the sentence after that one!
dN
Steve Hunt of Fox Sports Southwest sees three MVP candidates on FC Dallas.
dN
Tobias Lopez of Sports Illustrated on the growing Brazilian influence on MLS. Brazil is now the biggest exporter of players to the league.
dN
Craig Stouffer of the Examiner talks to DC centerback Julius James who has had a long slog this season to break into the starting line up.
dN
Jack Bell of the New York Times tells us more than most of us ever knew about Colorado fullback Kosuke Kimura.
dN
Guillermo Rivera of Chicago Now wonders if the Fire will fill their 2 empty roster spots before the deadline.
dN
Jose de Jesus Ortiz of the Houston Chronicle also wonders a similar thing about the Dynamo, will they make any roster moves.
MLS PLAYER MOVEMENT
MLS rosters will be locked for the rest of the season at the end of the business day on Wed Sep 15.
-Tomorrow could see some more interesting moves go down.
dN
New York sent forward Macoumba Kandji to Colorado in exchange for midfield playmaker Mehdi Ballouchy. Interesting move for NY. Strange move by CO.
-Brian Lewis of the New York Post with words from Ballouchy and the Red Bulls brain staff.
-The rapid development of young Juan Agudelo allowed NY to move Kandji.
dN
DC has signed 33 year old Spanish midfielder Carlos Varela from Swiss team Neuchatel Xamax (top division.)
MLS EXHIBITIONS
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Sep 14
CD Chivas USA v Guadalajara (Mexico)
Venue: PETCO Park, San Diego CA
USA U17 TEAM
The U17's are in Spain Sep 6-18 for training, and will play 4 friendlies while they are there.
dN
They have split the first 2 games, against club teams.
dN
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Sep 8
USA 0-1 Real Madrid youth
-Thu Sep 9
USA 2-1 Rayo Vallecano youth - USA goals both by Kellen Gulley.
-Tue Sep 14
USA v Spain U-17
-Thu Sep 16
USA v Spain U-17
dN
Roster:
G:
Kendall McIntosh - Mustang Academy - Santa Rosa CA
Fernando Pina - Houston Dynamo - Houston TX
D:
Kellyn Acosta - FC Dallas - Plano TX
Mobi Fehr - Tokyo Verdy - Tokyo Japan
Alessandro Mion - Kendall SC - Miami FL
Cole Nagy - RSL-AZ - Scottsdale AZ
Tarik Salkicic - Strictly Soccer - Pinellas Park FL
Nathan Smith - Cal Odyssey - Clovis CA
Andrew Souders - Crew Soccer Academy - Amherst OH
Danny Zaid - Camp Elite - Guatemala City Guatemala
M:
Ricardo Aldape - Lemont Raiders - Chicago Heights IL
Joe Amon - South Carolina United FC - Summerville SC
Matthew Dunn - FC Cologne - Dallas TX
Ruben Duran - Las Vegas Premier - Las Vegas NV
Patrick Foss - DC United - South Riding VA
Alejandro Guido - Aztecs Premier - Chula Vista CA
Nico Melo - Florida Rush - Kissimmee FL
Marc Pelosi - De Anza Force - Sunnyvale CA
Esteban Rodriguez - Cosmos Academy West - Palmdale CA
Dillon Serna - Colorado Rapids - Brighton CO
F:
Daniel Flores - Cal Odyssey - Fresno CA
Kellen Gulley - MS Chicago Fire Juniors - Clinton MS
Andrew Oliver - Westside United - Indianapolis IN
Mario Rodriguez - Central Aztecs - North Hollywood CA
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Coming Up: (all possible players are listed)
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - Group Stage
Maurice Edu - Rangers - Tue Sep 14 at Manchester United
Jermaine Jones - Schalke - Tue Sep 14 at Lyon
**Oguchi Onyewu - Milan - not on tourney roster
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - Group Stage
Jozy Altidore - Villarreal - Thu Sep 16 at Dinamo Zagreb
Sacha Kljestan - Anderlecht - Thu Sep 16 v Zenit St Petersburg
**Freddie Adu - Aris - not on tourney roster
EUROPE
Maradona has expressed interest in coaching the Portugal national team.
-And much like mine and Bob Bradley's mutual interest in coaching Aston Villa, I too am interested in coaching Portugal. Drop me an email guys.
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE
Matchday 1 - Thu Sep 16. Matches & Scores here.
AFRICA
The Associated Press with a story on a FAKE Togo national team that played a friendly in Bahrain last week. Wow. Via USA Today.
posted by brucio at 17:06
1 Comments:
That's a spectacular quote from Henry, and I wonder how it would have been received had it come from Beckham's lips. Not that he would ever say it.
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