Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Some News for Tue Feb 1, 2011

STORY OF THE DAY

Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America considers the Adidas influence on MLS.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“One day we went to Maradona’s assistant’s house for a barbeque, and we all played some soccer. That was so cool to meet Maradona. He was a lot different than I thought he’d be. He was kinda like….I dunno…he was kinda like a mafia dude. I seriously felt like I was hanging out with the mafia. There were all these super gnarly dudes and everyone was smoking cigars."
-Robbie Rogers of the Columbus Crew spent some off season time in Argentina.

Read much more in Steve Sirk's Columbus Crew notebook in the Crew section below.

MLS/USA & RELATED RUMORS

Charlie Davies to DC United???????

MLS TEAM & PLAYER NEWS

General News

The 2011 All Star game will be played in Harrison New Jersey at Red Bull Arena on Wed Jul 27!

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Nigel Reed of the CBC on the new relationship between MLS and the Canadian Soccer Association.
-With 3 Canadian teams in MLS in 2012 these two need to form a solid working partnership.

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The Phoenix Business Journal on all the MLS team's that spending part of their preseason in Arizona. (10 in total.)

COLORADO RAPIDS

John Meyer of the Denver Post on the Raps return to work as defending champs.

COLUMBUS CREW

Steve Sirk gets the Crew season off on the right foot with his first batch of high quality insider notes of 2011.

Shawn Mitchell of the Dispatch with a few Crew notes.

FC DALLAS

Maykel Galindo is getting a look from Dallas.

HOUSTON DYNAMO

Jose de Jesus Ortiz of the Chronicle on the team's masterplan for goalscoring this season.

LA GALAXY

Nick Green of the Daily Breeze on Bruce Arena's complete control of his team.

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION

Frank Dell'Apa of the Globe on the beginning of Revs camp without the Captain Shalrie Joseph.

Dell'Apa later confirmed that Joseph was at Tuesday training.

PORTLAND TIMBERS

Kip Kesgard of the Oregonian gives us some insight on the intensity of Timbers preseason training.

Kesgard takes us inside the construction zone of PGE Park's rebuilding process.

And then lays a whole bunch of photos on us from both training and the stadium.

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES

Robert Jonas of Center Line Soccer on the first few days of Quakes camp.

Elliott Almond of the Mercury News on the same subject.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS

Joshua Mayers of the Times rounds up plenty of quotes from coach Sigi Schmid.

Our old Seattle Times pal Jose Romero reports on Sounders training in Arizona.

TORONTO FC

Gareth Wheeler of the Sun brings us words from goalkeeper Sebastien Frei from Turkey where the team has begun their 2011 training.

The Canadian Press on the opening of preseason in Antalya Turkey. Via the Globe & Mail.

The team has their first game of the new year on Wednesday when they take on Partizan.

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC

Marc Weber of the Province on the first preseason game of the year. A 2-1 win over Salt Lake.

Bruce Constantineau of the Sun on the team's veteran, but MLS debutante, headcoach Teitur (pronounced tater) Thordarson.

Constantineau also writes about midfielder Shea Salinas.

USA U20 TEAM

Noah Davis at MLSsoccer.com does a little Q & A with Alex Zahavi.

USA U17 TEAM

The CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying tournament begins on Wed Feb 14.

AMERICANS IN EUROPE

Game Action:

ENGLAND - Premier League
Brad Friedel - Aston Villa - Tue Feb 1 - in goal for a 3-1 loss at Manchester United.
Tim Howard - Everton - Tue Feb 1 - in goal and collected yellow card in a 2-1 loss at Arsenal.

ENGLAND - Championship League
Conor Doyle - Derby County - Tue Feb 1 - on the bench for a 1-2 loss v Ipswich.
Brad Guzan - Hull City - Tue Feb 1 - in goal for a 2-2 tie v Leeds.
Zak Whitbread - Norwich - Tue Feb 1 - on the bench for a 2-1 win v Millwall.

ENGLAND - League One
Anton Peterlin - Plymouth Argyle - Tue Feb 1 - sat on the bench as they lost 1-0 at Yeovil Town.
Frank Simek - Carlisle United - Tue Feb 1 - went the distance but lost 2-0 at Huddersfield Town.

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Coming Up:

ENGLAND - Premier League
Clint Dempsey - Fulham - Wed Feb 2 v Newcastle
Marcus Hahnemann - Wolverhampton - Wed Feb 2 at Bolton
Stuart Holden - Bolton - Wed Feb 2 v Wolverhampton
Jermaine Jones - Blackburn - Wed Feb 2 v Tottenham
Jonathan Spector - West Ham - Wed Feb 2 at Blackpool

ENGLAND

A full round of Premier League games on tap for Tue and Wed.

Man U, Arse and Chelsea all won today.

Top of the Table:
54 Man United - Tue Feb 1 W 3-1 v Aston Villa (24 GP)
49 Arsenal - Tue Feb 1 W 2-1 v Everton (24 GP)
45 Man City - Wed Feb 2 at Birmingham (24 GP)
44 Chelsea - Tue Feb 1 W 2-4 at Sunderland (24 GP)
38 Tottenham - Wed Feb 2 at Blackburn (23 GP)

SPAIN

Sid Lowe of the Guardian on another Real Madrid pratfall and the rest of the weekend's games in La Liga.

dN

COPA DEL REY

Semifinals
2nd Leg
-Wed Feb 2
Almeria V Barcelona (0-5)
Real Madrid v Sevilla (1-0)

FRANCE

COUPE DE FRANCE
Round of 16
Matches & Scores
-Wed Feb 2
Nancy v Le Mans
Lorient v Metz
Martigues v PSG
Stade Rennes v Reims
Lille v Nantes
Angers v Strasbourg
Drancy v Nice
Chambery v Sochaux

GERMANY

Raphael Honigstein of the Guardian on the rebel club St Pauli where financial growth is battling long standing tradition, and the rest of the weekend in the Bundesliga.

ITALY

Paolo Bandini of the Guardian on the stunning debut of Giampaolo Pazzini at Inter and the rest of the weekend's games in Serie A.

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A full compliment of mid-week games are on the way.

Milan and Lazio played to a scoreless draw today.

Top of the Table: (22 GP)
48 Milan - Tue Feb 1 - D 0-0 v Lazio (23 GP)
43 Napoli - Wed Feb 2 at Chievo
41 Lazio - Tue Feb 1 - D 0-0 at Milan (23 GP)
38 Inter - Thu Feb 3 at Bari
38 Roma - Wed Feb 2 v Brescia
36 Udinese - Wed Feb 2 at Palermo
35 Juventus - Wed Feb 2 v Bologna

COPA LIBERTADORES

Intial Round (to fill the final 6 spots in the Group Stage)
Matches & Scores:
2nd Leg
-Tue Feb 1
#5 Quito (Ecuador) v Independiente (Argentina) (0-2)
#2 Chiapas Jaguares (Mexico) v Alianza (Peru) (2-0)
-Wed Feb 2
#1 Tolima (Colombia) v Corinthians(Brazil) (0-0)
#4 Union Espanola (Chile) v Bolívar (Bolivia) (1-0)
#6 Gremio (Brazil) v Liverpool (Uruguay) (2-2)
-Thu Feb 3
#3 Petare (Venezuela) v Cerro Porteno (Paraguay) (0-1)

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