Some News for Fri Oct 15, 2010
Before you get started I want to apologize. I had some more really great stuff today, but I had a huge computer malfunction and some how lost hours of work. Dammit.
STARTERS
US Soccer announced today that they have pulled their bid for the 2018 World Cup off the table, and will focus on 2022 only. This was expected as a favor to European countries bidding for 2018 in exchange for their support in 2022. Read the full press release here.
-The other candidates for 2022 are Australia, Japan, South Korea & Qatar. Which to me means Australia and Qatar seeing as the other two just hosted the WC 8 years ago.
USSF DIVISION 2 PLAYOFFS
Playoff Matches & Scores:
Semifinal
Leg 1
-Thu Oct 14
Puerto Rico Islanders 0-0 Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Montreal Impact 1-0 Carolina RailHawks - MI goal by Leonardo Dilorenzo
Leg 2
-Sun Oct 17
Vancouver Whitecaps FC v Puerto Rico Islanders (0-0)
Carolina RailHawks v Montreal Impact (0-1)
dN
NOTE: series winners are determined by total goals. There is NO away goals tie breaker.
TELENOVELA HIGADO PISCINA
The sale of Liverpool FC saga continues, and will continue for quite some time. That is the only part of the story that I am convinced about.
Where it stands: The current American owners have dropped their injunction on the LFC board of directors to keep them from selling the team out from under them, but they now vowing to keep fighting. The Liverpool board then announced that the sale of the team to investors from New England Sports Venture is complete, and the club is moving forward. Giant lawsuits will commence soon.
I have said it before and I will say it again - If you think two businessmen will walk away with a$140 Million loss on this deal, then you are delusional. They will fight till the end.
-I wrote above that the current owners are set to lose $140 Million if the deal go through. That number is incorrect its actually 140 Million British Pounds - considerably more at $224 Million!
The Associated Pres article on the dropping of the Texas court injunction.
The Liverpool Echo has the most complete coverage.
The Echo reports that the sale is done.
This is the image that was on the front of the Liverpool site today:
And here is the official statement from the club, on the sale.
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE
Next week we finish up the groups stage with Round 6, which will be played Oct 19-21.
dN
3 teams - Salt Lake, Cruz Azul and Monterrey have advanced to the knock out rounds.
5 teams - FAS, Joe Public, Toronto, Arabe and Seattle in the eliminated pile.
TEAM USA
Mike Woitalla of Soccer America tells us about other foreign players with American passports that came before Jermaine Jones, and pulled on the USA shirt.
dN
Steve Davis of Sports Illustrated looks at the depth of the USA roster right now.
STORY OF THE DAY
Phillip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune with a great article on the final days of Brian McBride's career. He will play his last Fire home game Friday night, and retire after their last game of the season one week later.
BIG EUROPEAN CLUB MATCHES COMING UP THIS WEEKEND
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 16
Barcelona v Valencia - first place Valencia will get their biggest test of the season.
Fulham v Tottenham - a lesser London Derby.
Wolverhampton v West Ham - #19 v #20 aka The Shitter Derby.
Atletico Madrid v Getafe - a small but genuine Madrid derby.
-Sun Oct 17
Everton v Liverpool - there will be a lot of emotion riding on this game.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Next group stage games (Matchday 3) coming up Tue Oct 19 & Wed Oct 20.
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
No matter what order the teams finish in, this will be the strongest MLS playoffs ever. All 8 teams are really good. I can't wait for the playoffs to start. Can we ditch the last 2 rounds of the regular season and launch into it right now?!?!
IF THE PLAYOFFS STARTED TODAY
Here would be the match ups for the first round:
1W Los Angeles v 4W Seattle
2W Salt Lake v 3W Dallas
1E New York v 4E Colorado
2E Columbus v 3E San Jose
I think that's right.
MLS WEEK 29
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Oct 12
Chicago Fire SC 0-2 Kansas City Wizards - KCW goals by Davy Arnaud & Teal Bunbury.
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
Attendance: 12,230
-Fri Oct 15
Seattle Sounders FC v CD Chivas USA - 10:00pm Central on ESPN2
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
-Sat Oct 16
Chicago Fire SC v DC United - 3:00pm Central on Telefutura
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
Toronto FC v Columbus Crew - 3:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: BMO Field - Toronto ON
Philadelphia Union v New York Red Bulls - 5:00pm Central on FSC
Venue: PPL Park - Chester PA
New England Revolution v Kansas City Wizards - 7:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Real Salt Lake v FC Dallas - 8:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
San Jose Earthquakes v Houston Dynamo - 9:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
Los Angeles Galaxy v Colorado Rapids - 9:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: The Home Depot Center - Carson CA
MLS PLAYOFF RACE
Colorado and Kansas City are the only two teams left to fight for the last playoff spot.
-Due to Colorado's 6 point lead its not much of a fight.
-Any earning of points by Colorado or loss of points by Kansas City will end the chase.
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
General News
Jeff Rusnak of the Sun Sentinel sees the high quality in the 8 teams that will make the playoffs.
-Good to hear from Rusnak again, we have not linked to him in a long time.
COLORADO RAPIDS
One point, any point, will get it done.
dN
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America looks at the Raps collapse the past two seasons, as they try to avoid that scenario this year.
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS
100% must-win-weekend, and then its still not even close to being in the bag.
dN
Pete Grathoff of the Star is already looking ahead to next season. (Hint: Omar Bravo)
-I will continue my campaign to have assistant coach Octavio Zambrano given a promotion to head coach.
LOS ANGELES GALAXY
With a win on Saturday the Galaxy can claim the supporters shield.
dN
Phil Collin of the Daily News with an article on ailing centerback Gregg Berhalter.
-Later in the day, the Galaxy announce that Berhalter is ready to go and will be on the game roster.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
Its pretty much a done deal that forward Juan Pablo Angel will not be offered a new contract by the team for next season. Insane.
-I really really really hope he decides to stay in MLS.
dN
Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer says that Chris Albright should be up for Comeback Player of the Year.
-And he should win it too. Or is there someone else?
REAL SALT LAKE
James Edward of the Deseret News sees this weekend's RSL game against Dallas as a really big one.
-RSL has a 24 game unbeaten streak at home.
-FCD has a 19 game unbeaten streak overall.
dN
Michael C Lewis of the Tribune talks to head coach Jason Kreis who says a lot of good things about a player he dump as soon as the took the job in charge - Jeff Cunningham.
Lewis also tells us that RSL is lining up to break some defensive records.
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES
With a little time to look back at all of the league's big name summer signings, I find it hard to argue that the one who has contributed the most to his team has been Geovanni.
Add him to three mid-season pickups that have added strength and depth to the team:
-Tim Ward
-Sam Cronin
-Khari Stephenson
You have to give GM John Doyle and HC Frank Yallop a lot of credit. And here I thought they would probably be gone after this season. Silly me.
TORONTO FC
Gareth Wheeler of the Toronto Sun attends the first of a series of "town hall meetings" that TFC held with fans last night and says it came off well, not a typical sports team dog and pony show.
dN
John Molinaro of the CBC tries to get to the root of TFC's issues.
-I can tell you what is wrong with TFC - 1) The day I heard MLSE was going to own the team I knew they were in trouble on the field, just look at their track record with the Maple Leafs for proof. I will keep saying this until they prove me wrong. And 2) Their first hire was Mo frickin Johnston and they kept him around for 4 frickin years.
IF MLS HAD SINGLE TABLE STANDINGS
As of Tue Oct 12
Pts - Team - Games - Max Pts Poss
IN-56 Los Angeles - 28 (62)
IN-52 Salt Lake - 28 (58)
IN-50 Dallas - 28 (56)
IN-48 New York - 28 (54)
IN-46 Columbus - 28 (52)
IN-45 Seattle - 28 (51)
IN-43 San Jose - 27 (52)
42 Colorado - 28 (48)
- - - - - - - - - - - -
36 Kansas City - 28 (42)
OUT-32 Chicago - 28 (38)
OUT-31 Toronto - 28 (37)
OUT-29 New England - 28 (35)
OUT-28 Chivas - 27 (37)
OUT-28 Philadelphia - 28 (34)
OUT-27 Houston - 28 (33)
OUT-21 DC - 28 (27)
MLS EXPANSION
The league has announced that the expansion draft for Vancouver and Portland will be held on Wed Nov 24. Vancouver has the first pick. Both teams can select up to 10 players. No existing team can lose more than 2 players. Here is the full list of rules for who is eligible to be chosen.
dN
Marc Weber of the Vancouver Province says the Whitecaps are busy assessing their current roster for inclusion next season.
dN
Geoffrey Arnold of the Oregonian talks to Timbers brass and players about next season.
NSC MINNESOTA STARS
My Stars have posted the first of a 4 part series of videos reviewing the 2010 season. Lets get started shall we.
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Michael Lewis of the US Soccer Players Assoc talks to former USA & MLS great goalkeeper Tony Meola.
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Digicel Caribbean Cup 2010
Group Stage Matches & Scores:
-Fri Oct 15
British Virgin Islands v Dominica
Netherlands Antilles v Guyana
Suriname v St. Lucia
-Sun Oct 17
Dominican Republic v Dominica
St. Lucia v Netherlands Antilles
Suriname v Guyana
BIDDING TO HOST WORLD CUP 2018 & 2022
Qatar are bidding for the 2022 WC, and they have some seriously cool plans to build the most amazing stadiums you have ever seen. They won't get the bid, but I am glad they got someone to draw up these pictures for us to see. Like this magnificent beauty:
dN
My apologies to Brian Strauss at Fanhouse, cuz I stole the link to these images right out of his article today.
STARTERS
US Soccer announced today that they have pulled their bid for the 2018 World Cup off the table, and will focus on 2022 only. This was expected as a favor to European countries bidding for 2018 in exchange for their support in 2022. Read the full press release here.
-The other candidates for 2022 are Australia, Japan, South Korea & Qatar. Which to me means Australia and Qatar seeing as the other two just hosted the WC 8 years ago.
USSF DIVISION 2 PLAYOFFS
Playoff Matches & Scores:
Semifinal
Leg 1
-Thu Oct 14
Puerto Rico Islanders 0-0 Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Montreal Impact 1-0 Carolina RailHawks - MI goal by Leonardo Dilorenzo
Leg 2
-Sun Oct 17
Vancouver Whitecaps FC v Puerto Rico Islanders (0-0)
Carolina RailHawks v Montreal Impact (0-1)
dN
NOTE: series winners are determined by total goals. There is NO away goals tie breaker.
TELENOVELA HIGADO PISCINA
The sale of Liverpool FC saga continues, and will continue for quite some time. That is the only part of the story that I am convinced about.
Where it stands: The current American owners have dropped their injunction on the LFC board of directors to keep them from selling the team out from under them, but they now vowing to keep fighting. The Liverpool board then announced that the sale of the team to investors from New England Sports Venture is complete, and the club is moving forward. Giant lawsuits will commence soon.
I have said it before and I will say it again - If you think two businessmen will walk away with a
-I wrote above that the current owners are set to lose $140 Million if the deal go through. That number is incorrect its actually 140 Million British Pounds - considerably more at $224 Million!
The Associated Pres article on the dropping of the Texas court injunction.
The Liverpool Echo has the most complete coverage.
The Echo reports that the sale is done.
This is the image that was on the front of the Liverpool site today:
And here is the official statement from the club, on the sale.
CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE
Next week we finish up the groups stage with Round 6, which will be played Oct 19-21.
dN
3 teams - Salt Lake, Cruz Azul and Monterrey have advanced to the knock out rounds.
5 teams - FAS, Joe Public, Toronto, Arabe and Seattle in the eliminated pile.
TEAM USA
Mike Woitalla of Soccer America tells us about other foreign players with American passports that came before Jermaine Jones, and pulled on the USA shirt.
dN
Steve Davis of Sports Illustrated looks at the depth of the USA roster right now.
STORY OF THE DAY
Phillip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune with a great article on the final days of Brian McBride's career. He will play his last Fire home game Friday night, and retire after their last game of the season one week later.
BIG EUROPEAN CLUB MATCHES COMING UP THIS WEEKEND
Matches & Scores:
-Sat Oct 16
Barcelona v Valencia - first place Valencia will get their biggest test of the season.
Fulham v Tottenham - a lesser London Derby.
Wolverhampton v West Ham - #19 v #20 aka The Shitter Derby.
Atletico Madrid v Getafe - a small but genuine Madrid derby.
-Sun Oct 17
Everton v Liverpool - there will be a lot of emotion riding on this game.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Next group stage games (Matchday 3) coming up Tue Oct 19 & Wed Oct 20.
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
No matter what order the teams finish in, this will be the strongest MLS playoffs ever. All 8 teams are really good. I can't wait for the playoffs to start. Can we ditch the last 2 rounds of the regular season and launch into it right now?!?!
IF THE PLAYOFFS STARTED TODAY
Here would be the match ups for the first round:
1W Los Angeles v 4W Seattle
2W Salt Lake v 3W Dallas
1E New York v 4E Colorado
2E Columbus v 3E San Jose
I think that's right.
MLS WEEK 29
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Oct 12
Chicago Fire SC 0-2 Kansas City Wizards - KCW goals by Davy Arnaud & Teal Bunbury.
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
Attendance: 12,230
-Fri Oct 15
Seattle Sounders FC v CD Chivas USA - 10:00pm Central on ESPN2
Venue: Qwest Field - Seattle WA
-Sat Oct 16
Chicago Fire SC v DC United - 3:00pm Central on Telefutura
Venue: Toyota Park - Bridgeview IL
Toronto FC v Columbus Crew - 3:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: BMO Field - Toronto ON
Philadelphia Union v New York Red Bulls - 5:00pm Central on FSC
Venue: PPL Park - Chester PA
New England Revolution v Kansas City Wizards - 7:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Gillette Stadium - Foxborough MA
Real Salt Lake v FC Dallas - 8:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium - Sandy UT
San Jose Earthquakes v Houston Dynamo - 9:00pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: Buck Shaw Stadium - Santa Clara CA
Los Angeles Galaxy v Colorado Rapids - 9:30pm Central on Direct Kick
Venue: The Home Depot Center - Carson CA
MLS PLAYOFF RACE
Colorado and Kansas City are the only two teams left to fight for the last playoff spot.
-Due to Colorado's 6 point lead its not much of a fight.
-Any earning of points by Colorado or loss of points by Kansas City will end the chase.
MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS
General News
Jeff Rusnak of the Sun Sentinel sees the high quality in the 8 teams that will make the playoffs.
-Good to hear from Rusnak again, we have not linked to him in a long time.
COLORADO RAPIDS
One point, any point, will get it done.
dN
Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America looks at the Raps collapse the past two seasons, as they try to avoid that scenario this year.
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS
100% must-win-weekend, and then its still not even close to being in the bag.
dN
Pete Grathoff of the Star is already looking ahead to next season. (Hint: Omar Bravo)
-I will continue my campaign to have assistant coach Octavio Zambrano given a promotion to head coach.
LOS ANGELES GALAXY
With a win on Saturday the Galaxy can claim the supporters shield.
dN
Phil Collin of the Daily News with an article on ailing centerback Gregg Berhalter.
-Later in the day, the Galaxy announce that Berhalter is ready to go and will be on the game roster.
NEW YORK RED BULLS
Its pretty much a done deal that forward Juan Pablo Angel will not be offered a new contract by the team for next season. Insane.
-I really really really hope he decides to stay in MLS.
dN
Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer says that Chris Albright should be up for Comeback Player of the Year.
-And he should win it too. Or is there someone else?
REAL SALT LAKE
James Edward of the Deseret News sees this weekend's RSL game against Dallas as a really big one.
-RSL has a 24 game unbeaten streak at home.
-FCD has a 19 game unbeaten streak overall.
dN
Michael C Lewis of the Tribune talks to head coach Jason Kreis who says a lot of good things about a player he dump as soon as the took the job in charge - Jeff Cunningham.
Lewis also tells us that RSL is lining up to break some defensive records.
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES
With a little time to look back at all of the league's big name summer signings, I find it hard to argue that the one who has contributed the most to his team has been Geovanni.
Add him to three mid-season pickups that have added strength and depth to the team:
-Tim Ward
-Sam Cronin
-Khari Stephenson
You have to give GM John Doyle and HC Frank Yallop a lot of credit. And here I thought they would probably be gone after this season. Silly me.
TORONTO FC
Gareth Wheeler of the Toronto Sun attends the first of a series of "town hall meetings" that TFC held with fans last night and says it came off well, not a typical sports team dog and pony show.
dN
John Molinaro of the CBC tries to get to the root of TFC's issues.
-I can tell you what is wrong with TFC - 1) The day I heard MLSE was going to own the team I knew they were in trouble on the field, just look at their track record with the Maple Leafs for proof. I will keep saying this until they prove me wrong. And 2) Their first hire was Mo frickin Johnston and they kept him around for 4 frickin years.
IF MLS HAD SINGLE TABLE STANDINGS
As of Tue Oct 12
Pts - Team - Games - Max Pts Poss
IN-56 Los Angeles - 28 (62)
IN-52 Salt Lake - 28 (58)
IN-50 Dallas - 28 (56)
IN-48 New York - 28 (54)
IN-46 Columbus - 28 (52)
IN-45 Seattle - 28 (51)
IN-43 San Jose - 27 (52)
42 Colorado - 28 (48)
- - - - - - - - - - - -
36 Kansas City - 28 (42)
OUT-32 Chicago - 28 (38)
OUT-31 Toronto - 28 (37)
OUT-29 New England - 28 (35)
OUT-28 Chivas - 27 (37)
OUT-28 Philadelphia - 28 (34)
OUT-27 Houston - 28 (33)
OUT-21 DC - 28 (27)
MLS EXPANSION
The league has announced that the expansion draft for Vancouver and Portland will be held on Wed Nov 24. Vancouver has the first pick. Both teams can select up to 10 players. No existing team can lose more than 2 players. Here is the full list of rules for who is eligible to be chosen.
dN
Marc Weber of the Vancouver Province says the Whitecaps are busy assessing their current roster for inclusion next season.
dN
Geoffrey Arnold of the Oregonian talks to Timbers brass and players about next season.
NSC MINNESOTA STARS
My Stars have posted the first of a 4 part series of videos reviewing the 2010 season. Lets get started shall we.
SOCCER IN AMERICA
Michael Lewis of the US Soccer Players Assoc talks to former USA & MLS great goalkeeper Tony Meola.
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Digicel Caribbean Cup 2010
Group Stage Matches & Scores:
-Fri Oct 15
British Virgin Islands v Dominica
Netherlands Antilles v Guyana
Suriname v St. Lucia
-Sun Oct 17
Dominican Republic v Dominica
St. Lucia v Netherlands Antilles
Suriname v Guyana
BIDDING TO HOST WORLD CUP 2018 & 2022
Qatar are bidding for the 2022 WC, and they have some seriously cool plans to build the most amazing stadiums you have ever seen. They won't get the bid, but I am glad they got someone to draw up these pictures for us to see. Like this magnificent beauty:
dN
My apologies to Brian Strauss at Fanhouse, cuz I stole the link to these images right out of his article today.
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